6 February – 10 April 2010
Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong)
Matt Sheridan Smith Untitled (contrast test) (detail)
2008 Black and white inkjet print
Courtesy the artist and Lisa Cooley Fine Art
With the spread of the fax machine in the 1970s, came the birth of telecommunications art. This traveling exhibition invites a multigenerational group of artists, architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers to use the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing. Faxes by nearly 100 artists sent to the first staging of FAX at The Drawing Center in New York form the core of the exhibition, which includes seminal examples of early telecommunications art. Each stop on the tour will invite up to 20 additional artists to submit works, which will be presented at all successive venues.
The 18 artists joining the Hong Kong staging: Nadim Abbas, Huang Xiaopeng, Rem Koolhaas, Lam Hoi Sin, MAP Office, Sanna Marander, Erkka Nissinen, Prachya Phinthong, The Propeller Group, Qiu Anxiong, Pedro Reyes, Rich Streitmatter-Tran, Nestor Torrens , Wan Qingli, Adrian Wong, Doris Wong, Magdalen Wong, Morgan Wong Wing-Fat.