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Project
consists of series of fax actions, each considering different part
of the Netherlands' fine arts and related bureaucratic network.
A computer placed at choosen site performing a pre-programmed
fax-modem communication. Over two days it automatically calls listed
fax numbers of choosen part of fine art network in the Netherlands.
Fax recepients can send their feedback via fax or e-mail.
Each telefax communication takes between three and six minutes,
depending on data-transfer speed. The telefax message consists
of three or four A4 pages bearing a typographic image which reads
choosen ' internet server's HTML error report. The received computer
graphics are free of charge and copyleft [i.e. no copyright], and
can be reproduced in any analogue or digital form. Fax recepients
can sent their feedback [by fax and e-mail], which is archived
at the web. There is a possibility to fax | print | copy | paste
the graphics from this website as well.
404 FILE NOT FOUND
sent from: artists initiative [artists' run space]
received by: fonds, governmental cultural departments, organisations,
visual arts centres, societies, institutes and foundations [total:
217]
date: 13 - 14 . 09 . 2003
occasion: exhibition opening . Willekeur en/of Het Goed Geproportioneerde
Lichaam . exhibition . Artis
. Den Bosch
406 NOT ACCEPTABLE
sent from: artists society
received by: galleries [total: 431]
date: 26 - 27 . 09 . 2003
occasion: exhibition opening . Numbers Only . Arti et
Amicitiae Society . Amsterdam
415 UNSUPPORTED MEDIA TYPE
sent from: cultural centre
received by: museums [total: 118]
date: 13 . 12 . 2003
occasion: Museumnacht event . D Nerve LAb
. Open 24 Hours . De
Balie . Amsterdam
Each database was made with use of several sources. Despite the
excellent access to information about the institutions in the Netherlands,
a lot of fax numbers were not listed. Addresses and telephone
numbers are common contacts, and occasionally e-mail addresses
appear, but fax numbers were the rarest data. It seems that real-time
printed communication has been replaced by digital medium.
Keywords: fine arts network from the Netherlands; fax art, database
art, spam art, mail art, communication art, computer graphic, typographic
image
Low-tech: action is automated, performed by computer Apple Macintosh
LC [model from 1990] and Global Village fax-modem. The starting
time of the communication is pre-programmed, and the fax software
dials all fax numbers automatically [if communication fails, the
number is repeated another nine times at 45-minute intervals]
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