Fax at the Carpenter Center, Harvard University. Curated by João Ribas

EXHIBITION: FAX
March 1—April 10, 2011

Matt Sheridan Smith, Untitled (contrast test) (detail), 2008.
Courtesy of the artist and Lisa Cooley Fine Art.

FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, architects, designers, scientists, filmmakers and writers to reconceive of the fax machine as a thinking and drawing tool. Participants transmit their fax-based work via the venues' working fax lines through the duration of the exhibition's tour. FAX was conceived by João Ribas, who curated its initial exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York. Faxes by nearly 100 participants were sent to the Drawing Center and these works form the core of the traveling exhibition. Each institution invites additional participants to submit works, which will then be archived with The Drawing Center's collection to create an evolving document of all participants. The accumulation of information-received in real time, in the exhibition space-includes drawings and texts, and the inevitable junk faxes and errors of transmission, creating an ongoing cumulative project.

The artists invited by the Carpenter Center to participate include:

Laylah Ali
Conrad Bakker
Kim Beck
Ashley Bickerton
Jennifer Bornstein
Matthew Brannon
Natalie Czech
Charles Goldman
Mathew Hale
Nate Heiges
William E. Jones
Matt Mullican
Nora Schultz
Amy Sillman
Mollly Springfield
Josef Strau
Megan Francis Sullivan
Andrew Witkin
Han Yu