Information
Eduardo Kac >
»Elastic Fax 2«, 1994 - 1994
Co-Workers & Funding:
Center for Contemporary Art, at the University of Kentucky, Lexingtonhttp://www.ekac.org/elasticfax.GIF
Technology
Material
Microchips, wires and a circuit board punctuate a polished mahogany panel called Dialogical Drawing that hangs nearby. An unseen microphone gathers comments of gallery visitors, and transmits them to an identical piece hanging in a museum in São Paulo, Brazil. A small speaker provides the Portuguese and English comments to the viewers in Lexington, who are surprised to learn that a background noise that's been part of the sound is heavy rain outside the museum in São Paulo.
Descriptions & Essays
Artists around the world were invited through the Internet to transmit sequential images, to form by chance the sequences of a self-organizing fax movie. The fax machine was placed above eye level, to create the feeling of a large projector as the images went by. It also created the feeling of a waterfall, with the images forming wavy patters as they hit the floor. As the piece evolved, viewers could explore the sequential images in any order by handling them. This project started as a process, with images arriving throughout the show. Once the fax roll was used up, the fax machine was turned off, and the piece became an installation. At the end of the show, the images were scanned in the order received, compiled into a movie, and placed back here, on the Internet, where the project started.
Literature
Kac, Eduardo. »Telepresence Art and Net Ecology.« In The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology on the Internet, edited by Ken Goldberg. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.
Kac, Eduardo and Marcel.li Antunez Roca. »Robotic Art.« Leonardo Electronic Almanac 5, no. 5 (May 1997).
Kac, Eduardo. »Interactive Art on the Internet.« In Ars Electronica 1995. Welcome to the Wired World, edited by Peter Weibel and Karl Gerber, 170-179. Wien, New York: Springer Verlag, 1995.
Kac, Eduardo. »Eduardo Kac: Dialogues.« Dialogue: Arts in the Midwest 18, no. 1 (Jan/Feb 1995): 14-16.
Kac, Eduardo. »Sur la notion d`art en tant que dialogue visuel.« In Art-Reseaux, edited by Karen O'Rourke, 20-23. Paris: Centres d`Etudes et de Recherches en Arts Plastique, Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1992.
Exhibitions & Events