CURATOR 策展人 : JOÃO RIBAS CURATOR (HK) 香港策展人 : ALVARO RODRIGUEZ FOMINAYA CO-ORGANIZERS 合辦 : ICI (INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL), NEW YORK THE DRAWING CENTER, NEW YORK GALLERY TALK
展覽導賞
: FEB-07-2010 SUN 14:30 PARA/SITE ART SPACE 二零一零年二月七日（星期日）， 下午二時半 PARA/SITE
藝術空間
FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, as well as architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers, to conceive of the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing. Although the technology for transmitting printed images and texts over distance dates from the nineteenth century — a machine by Scottish mechanic Alexander Bain patented in 1843 — it was the introduction of the modern fax through commercially available machines in the 1970s that turned facsimiles into a ubiquitous communications medium for international business. Artists readily exploited its immediate, graphic, and interactive character, making it an important part of the history of telecommunications art, nestled between the legacy of mail art and the nascent practices of new media. Faxes by nearly 100 artists sent to the initial showing of FAX at The Drawing Center will form the core of the exhibition, including seminal examples of early telecommunications art. Each institution on the tour will invite up to twenty additional artists to submit works, which will be presented at all successive venues. These works may be transmitted to each participating institution’s working fax line throughout the duration of the exhibition. The active accumulation of information — received in real time, in the exhibition space — will include drawings and texts, and even the inevitable junk faxes from telemarketers and local businesses as well. All the transmitted pages will be archived or displayed together with the active fax machine, which may produce new faxes from invited artists at any moment. The result — an ongoing cumulative project — is a show concerned with ideas of reproduction, obsolescence, distribution, and mediation. Here, reproducible yet erratic production via the fax machine displaces traditional notions of the hand‚ still commonly associated with the medium of drawing, and foregrounds the role of drawing as a generative process. The exhibition is curated by João Ribas, curator of The Drawing Center in New York, and is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue co-published by iCI and The Drawing Center. About the guest curator : João Ribas is curator at The Drawing Center in New York and an art critic. Among his recent projects are an exhibition of Matt Mullican’s work, 2008; New Economy, 2007; and Ryan Gander: Loose Associations, 2007. He has also created an online platform for experimental film and durational work called Expanded Cinema. Ribas teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. FAX 邀請不同年代的藝術家、建築師、設計師、科學家及電影製作人以傳真機這思想及繪畫工具作構想。 縱然 遙距圖文傳送技術早於 1843 年由蘇格蘭技工 Alexander Bain 取得專利，此技術於 1970 年代才隨著現代傳真 機的出現而被廣泛用於商業通訊上。藝術家一直以來已不斷開發利用傳真的即時、圖像及互動性質，令它成 為長途電訊藝術歷史上、處於郵寄藝術與新媒體藝術之間重要的一部份。 本展覽以 FAX 最初於 The Drawing Center 展出的接近 100 份傳真為主，當中包括早期長途電訊藝術著名的 作品。每一個參加巡迴的藝術團體都邀請了約 20 位藝術家加入展覽，而他們的作品亦將會於後隨的展覽場地 中出現。這些作品會於展期內被傳真至各參加團體。於展場即時接收，資訊不斷存積，當中有圖文，亦有不可 避免的商業垃圾傳真。所有傳真會被存檔或於展覽中與操作中的傳真機一同展示，期間可能接收到由來自受 邀藝術家的新傳真。此計劃把傳真得來的資訊不斷累積，探討複製、陳舊過時、散佈及中介傳遞等概念。圖文 傳真可複製卻無規律，本展覽以它取代傳統以手繪畫的創作生產方式，亦重新強調繪畫在創作中的角色。 本展覽由紐約 The Drawing Center 策展人 João Ribas 策展。展覽亦有由 iCI 及 The Drawing Center 出版、圖 文並茂的目錄冊。 關於策展人 : João Ribas 為紐約 The Drawing Center 策展人及藝評人。其近期展覽包括 Matt Mullican 作品 展 2008 、 New Economy ， 2007 以及 Ryan Gander : Loose Associations ， 2007。他亦創辦了探討實驗電 影的網上平臺 — Expanded Cinema。 Ribas 於紐約 School of Visual Arts 任教。
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