Re: FLUXLIST: Dick Higgins performance
On Dec 6, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Don Boyd wrote: Josh, was there any recordings or documentation made? Anything available to post to Fluxlist? To buy? I like his work a lot! -Don I made a recording of the performance when he was here in my area, but I haven't had a chance yet to go back and extract it from my digital audio recorder. Herb Levy was nice enough to invite me along to an after-concert dinner that included Jaap. I noticed then that he's quite different - shy and quiet - when he's not performing on stage. Rod
FLUXLIST: Dick Higgins and Something Else Press in new RAIN TAXI journal
Hello Everybody-- just found the new issue of RAIN TAXI journal--and there is a two page article re Dick Higgins and Something Else Press-- article is by Steven Clay, publisher of Granary Books-- several others and their books also mentioned -- Make the most of your family vacation with tips from the MSN Family Travel Guide!
Re: FLUXLIST: Dick Higgins and Something Else Press in new RAIN TAXI journal
Title: Re: FLUXLIST: Dick Higgins and Something Else Press in new RAIN TAXI journal O sorry, the search functions are so clumsy on this site (not my responsibility)-- go to http://mnartists.org, then type in VACUM as noted, w/ quote marks, in search box, then click on any of the people that come up, say Wojahn, and that will take you to the VACUM homepage. Alternatively, go to the site, then click on Organizations, and then find us from there. Sorry. AK On 6/24/04 7:20 PM, Ann Klefstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, just saw tooalso, the next issue of Rain Taxi (which is published in Minnesota) will feature the VACUM Attachment, an insert of writing on visual arts (issues, books, events) by the members of VACUM (Visual Arts Critics Union of Minnesota) , of which I am a charter member. Im doing a thing on nature photography from about 5 miles up. For more on VACUM, go to the website of which I am news and features editor, mnartists.org, and type in VACUM in search line. Youll see about half of our distinguished crew. I particularly like Mark Wojahn in avant garde orange. AK On 6/24/04 7:12 PM, David-Baptiste Chirot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everybody-- just found the new issue of RAIN TAXI journal--and there is a two page article re Dick Higgins and Something Else Press-- article is by Steven Clay, publisher of Granary Books-- several others and their books also mentioned -- Make the most of your family vacation with tips from the MSN Family Travel Guide! http://g.msn.com/8HMAENUS/2746??PS=47575
Re: FLUXLIST: dick
not to mentiont he great white hope artist hero, the ones stella admire
sooo much were the last of the angst ridden artist heros.
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FLUXLIST: Dick Higgins info
Here are a few links to interviews and essays by/about Dick Higgins: a) 1993 interview with Dick Higgins: http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/HSS/oldhss/cca/dhiggins.html b) INVENTORY OF THE DICK HIGGINS PAPERS, 1960-1994 at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities: http://www.getty.edu/gri/htmlfindingaids/higgins_m1.html c) A BOOK [an essay by Dick Higgins]: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/bookarts/1996/02/msg00116.html d) Life and Its Shadow: The Art/Life Dichotomy [an essay by Dick Higgins]: http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag97/higgin/sm-higgn.htm e) Fluxus History and Trans-History: Competing Strategies for Empowerment [essay by ? that mentions Higgins]: http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/atca/subjugated/one_2.htm -Josh Ronsen http://www.nd.org/jronsen --== Sent via Deja.com ==-- http://www.deja.com/
Re: FLUXLIST: Dick Higgins His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive tree ...
Hey, Can anyone attempt definitions of these various terms: intermedia multimedia interdisciplinary It is true, it seems that, most courses are either called multimedia - which these days seems to mean CDROM/interactive stuff. But there are others which offer 'interdisciplinary studies'. What did Higgins mean by intermedia? Is it different from interdisciplinary? At 05:58 03/06/00 +0200, you wrote: several hundred universities with intermedia departments, "Multimedia" ?
FLUXLIST: Dick Higgins His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall belike the olive tree ...
It's a bit hard for me to swallow the gratuitious and mean-spirited note recently posted here against the late Dick Higgins. One must wonder what causes a man to see nothing in others but that which is small, crabbed or monstrous. When I observe this kind of behavior, I suspect that what he sees is little more than the projected reflection of his own character. I feel as George Free feels. It's nearly 35 years since I first wrote to Dick Higgins, and I, too, was thrilled when Dick engaged me in correspondence. No one was ever less characterized by the notion of an "unquestionable, overarching, prescribed agenda." Dick was deep, thorough, systematic. He thought things through. He changed his mind. He thought again. He welcomed others and he welcomed debate. Like all of us who travel about in a human body, Dick also got irritated from time to time, and he could be peevish or quirky. He was never mean-spirited or narrow. Few people known to me have lived their life in such profound spiritual or material generosity. He staked his fortune on what he believed in. He lost much of it, and he never complained that he was no longer rich. He was only sad that it was hard to find a regular, paying job in the arts along with the many art teachers and techno-geeks who do so well. I number one specific geek in that company. (It does still surprise me that not one of the several hundred universities with intermedia departments, intermedia program and intermedia degrees had a place for the man who theorized the concept of intermedia, coined the word and introduced it to the world.) Dick Higgins spent much of his life building platforms and forums for the work of other people, shaping networks, making introductions, publishing books, directing the attention of critics and curators to those whose work he admired. This is a sharp contrast to someone whose primary complaint seems be that the world fails to recognize his genius -- and whose primary career goal seems to be building ever more sites and projects to crank out his own work. My guess is that Saul Ostrow takes it as a great compliment to be compared with Dick Higgins. There are many lists where our distinguished colleague posts from time to time. Many of these are characterized by a back-channel network of those who send notes to each other with astonishment, irritation and a resolute determination neither to engage him nor to respond. Usually, I'd let this kind of thing go, but I still miss Dick and I am not in the mood to let such stupidity go unchallenged. David Ross speaks for many of us when he writes, Yeah Brad, well when I grow up and become a real, true radical artist like you, then maybe I can aspire to your level of accomplishment and contribution, and brutal, uplifting honesty. Gosh, you're terrific. Oh, I checked your on-line work...pretty spiffy. And so profound! Anyone care to guess who among these will be remembered, and how? "His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like that of Lebanon. They shall again live beneath my shadow, they shall flourish as a garden; they shall blossom like the vine, their fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon." -- Hosea 14: 6-7 -- Ken Friedman --
Re: FLUXLIST: Dick Higgins His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall belike the olive tree ...
I didn't catch the mean message to Dick Higgins either. Like him, I have certain people whose posts I never both with. I wrote to Higgins about five years ago and never received anything but warmth, encouragement, intelligence and generosity. We later kept up an email correspondance almost weekly until he died. To hear that there were slanderous remarks posted here only re-inforces my growing suspicion that this list is less about Fluxus than it is about lonely egomaniacs looking for a place to feel self-important. dd -Original Message- From: Ken Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fluxlist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 2, 2000 1:00 PM Subject: FLUXLIST: Dick Higgins "His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall belike the olive tree ..." It's a bit hard for me to swallow the gratuitious and mean-spirited note recently posted here against the late Dick Higgins. One must wonder what causes a man to see nothing in others but that which is small, crabbed or monstrous. When I observe this kind of behavior, I suspect that what he sees is little more than the projected reflection of his own character. I feel as George Free feels. It's nearly 35 years since I first wrote to Dick Higgins, and I, too, was thrilled when Dick engaged me in correspondence. No one was ever less characterized by the notion of an "unquestionable, overarching, prescribed agenda." Dick was deep, thorough, systematic. He thought things through. He changed his mind. He thought again. He welcomed others and he welcomed debate. Like all of us who travel about in a human body, Dick also got irritated from time to time, and he could be peevish or quirky. He was never mean-spirited or narrow. Few people known to me have lived their life in such profound spiritual or material generosity. He staked his fortune on what he believed in. He lost much of it, and he never complained that he was no longer rich. He was only sad that it was hard to find a regular, paying job in the arts along with the many art teachers and techno-geeks who do so well. I number one specific geek in that company. (It does still surprise me that not one of the several hundred universities with intermedia departments, intermedia program and intermedia degrees had a place for the man who theorized the concept of intermedia, coined the word and introduced it to the world.) Dick Higgins spent much of his life building platforms and forums for the work of other people, shaping networks, making introductions, publishing books, directing the attention of critics and curators to those whose work he admired. This is a sharp contrast to someone whose primary complaint seems be that the world fails to recognize his genius -- and whose primary career goal seems to be building ever more sites and projects to crank out his own work. My guess is that Saul Ostrow takes it as a great compliment to be compared with Dick Higgins. There are many lists where our distinguished colleague posts from time to time. Many of these are characterized by a back-channel network of those who send notes to each other with astonishment, irritation and a resolute determination neither to engage him nor to respond. Usually, I'd let this kind of thing go, but I still miss Dick and I am not in the mood to let such stupidity go unchallenged. David Ross speaks for many of us when he writes, Yeah Brad, well when I grow up and become a real, true radical artist like you, then maybe I can aspire to your level of accomplishment and contribution, and brutal, uplifting honesty. Gosh, you're terrific. Oh, I checked your on-line work...pretty spiffy. And so profound! Anyone care to guess who among these will be remembered, and how? "His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like that of Lebanon. They shall again live beneath my shadow, they shall flourish as a garden; they shall blossom like the vine, their fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon." -- Hosea 14: 6-7 -- Ken Friedman --
Re: FLUXLIST: Dick HigginsHis shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall belike the olive tree ...
is this a rare moment of humour? if so, hats off h. dd To hear that there were slanderous remarks posted here only re-inforces my growing suspicion that this list is less about Fluxus than it is about lonely egomaniacs looking for a place to feel self-important. I didn't say anything bad about the guy. Myke
Re: FLUXLIST: Dick Higgins His shoots shall spread out; his beautyshall be like the olive tree ...
several hundred universities with intermedia departments, "Multimedia" ?
