Notes on Intermedia-What is it?

1. blending different artistic media

2. art as experience

Roots in FLUXUS: conceptual/experiential/time

work in a participatory manner to create & experience avant-garde, multi-disciplinary art.

FLUX/Intermedia has associations with Dada, Duchamp, Situationiste, Futurism & Surrealism.

Avoids limiting art theories, spurns pure aesthetic objectives.

FLUXUS produced mixed-media works:

found poems, mail art, silent orchestras, collages of readily available materials (scavanged posters, newspapers, and other ephemera). Experiemental films, installations, happenings, situations and events (including performances, guerilla or street theater, concerts of electronic music.)

George Maciunas (Lithuanian-American, 1931-1978) coined the name Fluxus. He described it as "a fusion of Spike Jones, gags, games, Vaudeville, Cage and Duchamp." He co-ordinated and edited numerous Fluxus publications.

Artist:

Fluxists include Joseph Beuys, George Brecht (German, 1926-), John Cage (American, 1912-1992), Robert Filliou (French, 1926-1987), Henry Flynt (American, 1940-), Ken Friedman, Al Hansen (1927-1995), Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins (American, 1938-), Ray Johnson (American, 1927-1995), Alison Knowles (American, 1933-), George Maciunas, Jackson MacLow (American, 1922-), Larry Miller (American), Charlotte Moorman (American, 1940-1994), Yoko Ono (Japanese-American, 1933- ; married to the "Beatle" John Lennon), Nam Jun Paik (Korean-American, 1932-), Daniel Spoerri (Swiss, 1930-), Benjamin Vautier (French, 1935-), Wolf Vostell (German, 1932-), Robert Watts, Emmett Williams (American, 1925-), and La Monte Young (American, 1935-), among many others.