Fluxus (from "to flow") is an art movement noted for the blending of different artistic disciplines, primarily visual art but also music and literature. Fluxus is often described as being Intermedia because it occurs when different media intersect. For example, poetry and visual art intersect in Visual Poetry, and concept, text, and performance intersect in Fluxus Event Scores. Fluxus traces its beginnings to John Cage's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition classes at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Many of his students were artists working in other media with little or no background in music. Cage's students included Fluxus founding members Jackson Mac Low, Al Hansen, George Brecht and Dick Higgins. Many other artists were invited by Cage to attend his classes unofficially at the New School. Marcel Duchamp and Allan Kaprow (who is credited as the creator of the first "happenings") were also influential to Fluxus. Fluxus was named and loosely organized in 1962 by George Maciunas (1931-78), a Lithuanian-born American artist. In its early days Fluxus artists were active in Europe (especially in Germany), and Japan as well as in the United States.

Fluxus encourages a DIY (do it yourself) esthetic, and values simplicity over complexity. Like Dada before it, Fluxus includes a strong current of anti-commercialism and an anti-art sensibility, disparaging the conventional market-driven art world in favor of an artist-centered creative practice. Fluxus artists prefer to work with whatever materials are at hand, and either create their own work or collaborate in the creation process with colleagues. Hiring assistants or outsourcing part of the creative process to commercial fabricators is not part of typical Fluxus practice. The small scale and personal nature of Mail Art is much more in keeping with Fluxus than the large scale sculptures of Jeff Koons, even though Koons might share an anti-art, Dadaist esthetic with Fluxus.

The art forms most closely associated with Fluxus are Event Scores and Fluxus Boxes. Fluxus Boxes (sometimes called Fluxkits or Fluxboxes) originated with George Maciunas who would gather collections of his printed cards, games, and ideas, and put them into small plastic boxes. Event Scores, such as George Brecht's Drip Music, are essentially performance scripts that are usually only a few lines long and consist of descriptions of actions to be performed rather than dialogue. Fluxus artists differentiate Event Scores from "happenings". Whereas Happenings were sometimes complicated, lengthy performances meant to blur the lines between performer and audience, performance and reality, Fluxus performances were usually brief and simple. The Event performances sought to elevate the banal, to be mindful of the mundane, and to simultaneously dissemble the high culture of academic and market-driven music and art. Other creative forms that have been adopted by Fluxus practitioners include collage, audio, music, video, and poetry — especially visual poetry and concrete poetry.

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@fruitea dada and fluxus. love the way everybody just did their own thing. :) things here seem a little boring sometimes.
statues (Clarissa) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:12:07 -0000
@fruitea dada and fluxus. love the way everybody just did their own thing. :) things here seem a little boring sometimes.
FLUXUS FOUNDER GEORGE MACIUNAS EXHIBITION AT STENDHAL GALLERY CHELSEA%-http://dragtotop.com/George_Maciunas
dragtotop (dragtotop) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:34:53 -0000
FLUXUS FOUNDER GEORGE MACIUNAS EXHIBITION AT STENDHAL GALLERY CHELSEA%-http://dragtotop.com/George_Maciunas
@nikhan i really enjoy Fluxus. at lease it makes me feel i can visualize some model pretty fast, without having to open up blender lol.
kijjaz (Kijjasak Triyanond) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:44:06 -0000
@nikhan i really enjoy Fluxus. at lease it makes me feel i can visualize some model pretty fast, without having to open up blender lol.
@nikhan oh hey i was playing around with Fluxus but has stopped for a year i guess. i was performing live 3D coding with Fluxus only once.
kijjaz (Kijjasak Triyanond) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:43:05 -0000
@nikhan oh hey i was playing around with Fluxus but has stopped for a year i guess. i was performing live 3D coding with Fluxus only once.
learning fluxus, scheme isn't so bad.
nikhan (Nik Hanselmann) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:42:09 -0000
learning fluxus, scheme isn't so bad.
#Fluxus is way cool! http://bit.ly/lcvjS
mikaelj (Mikael Jansson) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:01:17 -0000
#Fluxus is way cool! http://bit.ly/lcvjS

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