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Poster to Festum Fluxorum Fluxus 1963. George Maciunas (English: / m ə ˈ tʃ uː n ə s /; Lithuanian: Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 Kaunas – May 9, 1978 Boston, Massachusetts) was a Lithuanian American artist, art historian, and art organizer who was the founding member and central coordinator of Fluxus, [1] an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers.
Fluxus Manifesto, 1963, by George Maciunas Poster to Festum Fluxorum Fluxus 1963. 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.
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]
Brecht was born George Ellis MacDiarmid in New York, August 27, 1926. [7] His father, also George Ellis MacDiarmid, [1] was a professional flautist who had toured with John Philip Sousa's marching band before settling in New York to play bass flute for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the NBC Symphony Orchestra. [6]
He was a member of Fluxus, a movement that originated on an artists' collective around George Maciunas. He was the father of Andy Warhol protégé Bibbe Hansen [2] and the grandfather and artistic mentor of rock musician Beck and artist Channing Hansen. Bibbe and Channing continue his legacy by performing some of his most iconic works. [3]
At Bauermeister's atelier, Patterson also met Nam June Paik, through whom he met Fluxus founder George Maciunas and came to play an integral role in organizing the early European Fluxus festivals. [5] Patterson was a founding member of Fluxus [6] and participated in the first Fluxus Festival in Wiesbaden (1962). [7]
Something Else was an early publisher of Concrete poetry and other works by Fluxus artists throughout the 1960s. During the 1960s in New York City some of the artists who worked at the Something Else Press included Editor-in-Chief Emmett Williams, artist Alison Knowles, poet Larry Freifeld, [1] [2] [3] novelist Mary Flanagan, artist Ronnie Landfield, [4] [5] and publisher/founder Dick Higgins.
Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts, both key figures in the movement, originally met while they were students at Columbia University; though only together there for one year, soon after they both began teaching at Rutgers. George Brecht was working in New Brunswick, New Jersey when he saw the work of Robert Watts on display at the university. He was ...