Correspondence

This collection documents the activities of the Digital Art Exchange (DAX) group from 1978 to 1991. It also includes administrative papers and miscellaneous correspondence as well as a few early papers by founding member Bruce Breland.

Most of the documents in that collection are related to and artifacts of specific exhibitions, performances and exchanges of art. A more thorough description of most of the projects can be found in "Review of DAX group activity 1982-1990" (Box 4 Folder 63) and in "Network Highlights and Initiatives" (Box 4 Folder 61). There is also material on educational activities, including DAX seminars and classes organized at CMU and the creation of the International Artists’ Network.

Types of material include: laser-, dot-matrix- and color-thermal-printouts of electronic mail messages and digitally-created images, telefax art; approximately 72 hours of videotape (primarily of slowscan television exchanges; some documentary footage of art events); approximately 15 hours of audiotape (primarily of conversations); 294 color 35mm slides; 142 4 x 5-inch transparencies (primarily of slowscan television images); 88 black and white 4 x 5-inch negatives, and some 35 mm negatives and positives (primarily of telefaxes); photographs; correspondence and other papers; publications and theses; exhibition posters and catalogs.