> >Hey on another matter I am writing an essay on fluxus as a part of a >"prehistory of the internet" and I was wondering if any of you had any >thought as to how or in what ways fluxus work, activities or ideas are >related to (or presage) our current >internet age? Not did they do any work on or for the internet but as a >pretechnological approach - for example I am proposing that fluxus as it >challenges and undermines traditional skill based notions of art is >parallel to the opensource movement >of today, or that as it is global or international it operated as a >network of conceptual connected but geographically dispersed participants. well, I have some suggestions about that, partly included into the article I had submitted for Perfomance Research, but I haven't developped them further yet, than those quick intuitions you've already read. However, I think it's a seminal angle and I look forward reading your essay (BTW, is it to be written for a certain symposium we know?) "Bon courage"
Bertrand