European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 15, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 3 fascinating new medium Chicago apr artists arc expressing themselves in a new Way with Modem technology but Treyve got to get their fax right. A artists love new toys to Experiment to look for new visual results Quot said Karen indeck co curator of the University of Illinois Fayart exhibit. A visual Art is about images and its an incredible use of a new technology to create these  co sponsored by the University of Illinois school of Art and the Chicago school of the Art Institute Fayart features the work of their alumni and other artists worldwide. It is entirely composed of work transmitted by facsimile machine. On july 2, a fax machine was activated at gallery 400, an old Bra and Girdle factory converted into a gallery. Ever since the phone has been ringing with entries. Some artists have had to dial for More than five hours before getting through. Beyond its Novelty another Appeal of fax Art to artists is its Short lived Quality. Evanston artist Judith Kitzes submitted a piece consisting Only of the words Quot learn to live with  the computer generated sentence is repeated 108 times on 10 sheets of paper. A i like the idea that 1 wrote one sentence repeated it the original in the computer does not exist the original on paper i destroyed after faxing it and the work of Art a the fax a will fade Quot she said. A a it a a contradiction of what we expect Art to be a a this precious thing. It really Isnit. That a something that appeals to my sense of the bizarre self destructive Art a Kitzes added. The transient informal nature of the medium also appealed to Indyck and co curator Mary min who have been busily pinning and taping landscapes abstracts and portraits to the Walls and columns at gallery 400. Since indeck and min plugged in a donated fax machine and loaded the first Roll of paper about 900 artworks have been received. The show is the first major exhibit featuring Only fax Art its curators said. David Hockney a 144-Sheet Tennis match faxed from California to a gallery in Saltaire England last november is one of the first fax Art pieces Ever exhibited. So far indeck and min have used 1,600 pushpins and countless Rolls of double sided tape to hang about 300 works some from As far away As Spain and the Netherlands. The rest lie in piles on the floor on Friday a just hours before the exhibit was to open to the Public a an uninterrupted Stream of works still flowed from the fax machine while an assistant sorted and filed the entries. Min said the Challenge of creating images that would have an Impact even after being faxed a and the Speed by which those images could be transmitted worldwide a sparked her curiosity. A you finish something you Send it out and you exhibit co curator Karen indeck uses a ladder Friday to plaster a column with faxed artworks. Get a response a its an artists dream Quot said min a Chicago based Neon artist. A and when the shows Over poof its  images created on the Thermal paper that is used in fax machines last about six months a less if they re exposed to sunlight or Bright artificial illumination. Fax Art can be carefully preserved by do acidify ing the paper but not the works exhibited at Fayart. Min said the pieces will be recycled when the show closes aug. 17. So when talk arose about whether to put the artwork up for Sale it really was just in jest. Said Chicago artist Julie Richman a How would you sell this would someone with a fax machine say a i want to buy this a and then i would fax it a n jumps fire lines Tri s in size by the associated press a wildfire in Central Oregon that firefighters thought they had surrounded jumped fire lines and tripled in size. But firefighters elsewhere had better Success with summer blazes in California a Brush fire ignited by a teen Ager playing with a toy rocket was contained Friday and Crews in Yellowstone National Park battled flames with help from air tankers dropping fire retardant. The Oregon fire was thought to have been contained late thursday after blackening 600 acres of Tim Borland. However wind blew embers past a fire line and new flames quickly spread Friday according to an Oregon department of forestry spokesman John Boro. A it had ballooned to 1,800 acres by Early saturday and threatened to expand further Boro said. Reinforcements were called in to bolster a Force of 100 firefighters. The fire was touched off tuesday night in a lightning storm that swept Over the Cascade Range. After soldering for two Days the fire grew rapidly thursday moving through Brush and Pine forests on private lands near Tuumalo Reservoir about six Miles Southeast of Sisters Ore. No structures were under immediate threat Early saturday but firefighters closely watched the blazers Progress toward a ranch in its path officials said. Lightning storms during the week started about 300 fires in Oregon. Most have been doused or encircled by fire lines officials said. Humidity helped firefighters contain a 6,500-Acrc Brush fire in California that was sparked by a toy rocket. A. A Quot a. A a at this Point its not going anywhere. If weather conditions stay the same it looks pretty Good Quot said Orange county fire department spokeswoman Maria Sobol. A Lack of wind As Well As moisture in the air aided 700 firefighters. A 15-year-old boy from Yorba Linda calif., was questioned for investigation of unlawful use of a Model rocket. It is illegal for a minor to use such rockets without supervision. The teen Ager released to his family told officials that the rocket had malfunctioned and crashed into dry Brush. He tried to stamp the fire out suffering minor Burns to his leg and then called the emergency number 911. In Washington state . Forest service spokesman Ron Dehart said most of the 55 Small lightning fires in the mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest have either been put out or brought under control. In Wyoming on Friday More than 80 firefighters battled Yellowstone a 12th fire of the year. Derelicts to be removed from . Subway trains Ravenna Mich. Apr when a Young Sailor wrote a letter to his parents during the Vietnam War he forgot to include the zip code. That might have made it a Little late but it does no to account for years of delay the . Postal service says. Bert Budai wrote his parents a 2 for Page letter filled with typical adventures of a Young Sailor during the War. He returned Home in 1969, and his parents later died. The Post office delivered the letter tuesday to Budaiy a former Home in Ravenna just across the Road from where he now lives. A i was quite shocked a said Budai now 44, married and Stepfather of two children. Quot my sister lives in my fathers House now and it came to that address and she brought it Over to me. The letter is postmarked oct. 17, 1966 a the same Day Budai penned it aboard the Valley forge an amphibious assault ship stationed off the Philippines. The envelope with an 8-cent airmail stamp included Budaiy a shipboard return address in care of the san Francisco Post office. The mailing address lacked the Ravenna zip code but Joseph l. Johnson communications manager for the grand rapids division of the postal service does no to think that made much difference. A if you done to include a zip code it might delay it a couple of Days but certainly not 23 years a Johnson said. A of course we apologize for the late  new York apr the City transit authority is making a new push to get rid of derelicts and drifters who use the country a biggest subway system As a place to sleep. Beginning sunday police will Force All passengers to get off the a train when it arrives at the Northern end of its 30-mile route which includes the entire length of Manhattan. Anyone who balks will be physically removed officials said. The a train trip takes about i a i hours making it especially attractive to people who use the subways which run 24 hours a Day As a place to sleep. A a there a really no problem with sleeping on the trains but we can to allow people to sprawl out and take up several seats a said Jared Lebpw a transit authority spokesman. He said a worse problem is the behaviour of some homeless people when they Are awakened at the final Stop a station where subway cars arc cleaned and made ready for the return trip. A some of them get pretty upset when the workers try to get them to move. Some of our people have been hit kicked and even spit on a Lebow said. The new Effort will be extended next month to another of the City a subway routes the e train. The transit authority said workers from outreach programs will assist any homeless people who want to go to shelters. As with an earlier Campaign to displace the displaced from grand Central and Penn stations the latest move prompted a Sharp reaction from advocates for the homeless. A when Are they going to learn moving homeless people from one area to another accomplishes nothing a said Mary Brosnahan director of the coalition for the homeless. A when is somebody going to Stop playing the Shell game and work on real solutions to the problem Quot