Fax Play
Faxes is an ongoing project playing with communications technology, and started in the early nineties as a sister project to Stickers. Anonymous faxes were sent to large corporations anonymously every Friday afternoon to encourage people to stop working and discover a sense of play and wonder.
The fax numbers were sent to offices where friends worked. The friends acted as ‘spies’ and would report back on the reactions of the people in the office. Slowly as the weeks went by, more and more people would gather around the fax machine to wait for the mysterious fax to arrive at 3pm. The companies included in the original round of Fax Play included Mitsubishi, Sharp, and Siemens. The faxes included a collage of embroidery, poetry, ink drawings, photographs and photocopies of the stickers with questions and a hotmail address.
Image of an A4 paper that was faxed. It has an image of a Hamburger store with the sign LOVE and a long text story.
A collection of faxes were faxed to the office of the first Osaka Art Biennale. After a few phonecalls explaining that the faxes they received ARE the original artworks, the faxes were exhibited at Osaka Museum under the artist name Imaginary Life.
