Fluxus Links
These Fluxus Links begin the project of Flux Documentation online and will continue indefinitely.
Suggest a link.
macewan @ assemblagist.com
http://www.artnotart.com/fluxus/kfriedman-fourtyyears.html
…The computer-generated images presented today as computer art or the fractal images of chaos studies are simplistic presentations of an idea. They are laboratory exercises or displays of technical virtuosity, designed to test and demonstrate the media and the technology. They are the intellectual and artistic equivalent of the paint samples that interior designers use to plan out larger projects. They may be interesting and useful in some way, but only people shopping for paint find them relevant.
In contrast, Fluxus suggested approaches that are simple rather than simplistic.
The level of complexity in any given work was determined by philosophical paradigms and not by available technology. This is an important difference a technological age…
–Ken Friedman
FluxMuseum website, A Wing of the Ontological Museum
“…Therefore,… the conception of the Avant Garde
is discarded as a general movement forward toward
a utopian external and is reoriented to a general movement inward…”
from “Avant Garde?” as seen in the Post-Dogmatist Quarterly
Doug Tanoury – but his link is no longer valid. Tanoury was in the Dead Mule at one time, if I remember correctly. Anyone know where he is and why?
Critical Snips – read more… it’s full of stuff like: Each person’s crap-detector is embedded in their value system; if you want to teach the art of crap-detecting, you must help students become aware of their values. After all, Vice President, Spiro Agnew, or his writers, know as much about semantics as anyone in this room. What he is lacking has very little to do with technique, and almost everything to do with values.
Failbetter linkage – a most enjoyable place where once we visited. I remember you well.
Allan Bukoff – a fluxus resource on PhD level
Naim June Paik – He makes technology ridiculous. He is “the father of video art” — really he is.
No Fluxus Linkage Listing would be complete without Yoko Ono.
Willem de Ridder – The Netherlands creates great flux. His Fluxus Slideshow.
Massurealism – “Massurrealism is the marriage of mass media subjects and techniques to the surreal, which are individually expressed by each artist.”
*ahhhhh, quiz here – who coined the term “mosaic mesh”?
Neil Postman, a vsionary: “…goes further than other critics in demonstrating that television represents a hostile attack on literate culture.” Objective of teaching should be: to “…distinguish useful talk from bullshit”
