[spectre] FAX.NL project announcement + exhibition Numbers Only

[darko fritz]

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+ FAX.NL project announcement
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+ invitation for the exhibition Numbers Only . Arti et Amicitiae . Amsterdam
  26 . 09 - 12 . 10 . 2003 . opening Friday 26 . 09 . 18 - 20 h
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FAX.NL 

project by Darko Fritz


http://members.ams.chello.nl/fritzd/faxwrks/FAX.NL/index.htm



Project consists of series of fax actions, each considering different part
of the Netherlands' fine arts 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 sent
their feedback via fax or e-mail.


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: gallerys [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 [ ]
date: 08 - 09 . 11 . 2003
occasion: Museumnacht event . Open 24 Hours . De Balie . Amsterdam

... to be continued ...



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 [fax or e-mail], which is archived at the
web. There is open possibility to fax | print | copy | paste the graphics
from web site as well.

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.

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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+ invitation for the exhibition Numbers Only . Arti et Amicitiae . Amsterdam
  26 . 09 - 12 . 10 . 2003 . opening Friday 26 . 09 . 18 - 20 h
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Arti et Amicitiae . Rokin 112 . Amsterdam
fax: 020 . 6225206 . arti at arti.nl . http://www.arti.nl
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