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Dick Higgins (15 March 1938 – 25 October 1998) was an American artist, composer, art theorist, poet, publisher, printmaker, and a co-founder of the Fluxus international artistic movement (and community). [ 1] Inspired by John Cage, Higgins was an early pioneer of electronic correspondence. [ 2] Higgins coined the word intermedia [ 3][ 4] to ...
Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers, and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. [1][2] Fluxus is known for experimental contributions to different artistic media and disciplines and for ...
Jon Hendricks (born 1939) is an American artist, curator and political activist. Since 2008, he has served as the Fluxus Consulting Curator of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). [1][2][3] Hendricks' art career began in the late 1950s. He moved to Paris in 1959 and studied at Atelier 17 with Stanley ...
Fluxus (programming environment) Fluxus is a live coding environment for 3D graphics, music and games. [1] It uses the programming language Racket (a dialect of Scheme / Lisp) to work with a games engine with built-in 3D graphics, physics simulation and sound synthesis. All programming is done on-the-fly, where the code editor appears on top of ...
In the collection of essays Work Ethic edited by Helen Molesworth on art of the 1960s, Make a Salad is described as Knowles's successful translation of 'domestic labor into a performance context' while the score's 'radical brevity suggests that anyone can play the score'. The phrase 'Make a Salad' is also described as being reminiscent of the ...
Wolf Vostell was born in Leverkusen, Germany, and put his artistic ideas into practice from 1950 onwards. In 1953, he began an apprenticeship as a lithographer and studied at the Academy of Applied Art in Wuppertal. Vostell created his first Dé-coll/age in 1954. In 1955–1956, he studied at the École Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts in ...
Cut Piece is an event score composed by Yoko Ono first performed in 1964 and is one of her best known works and is considered an early example of performance art. She has performed the piece a total of six times. Part of the intention behind her event scores is that the work may be performed by anyone and Cut Piece has been performed by many ...
Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...