Dick Higgins | |
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 Dick Higgins | |
| Born | 15 March 1938 Cambridge, England |
| Died | 25 October 1998 (aged 60) Quebec City, Canada |
| Known for | Printmaking, Composing, Poetry |
| Movement | Fluxus |
Dick Higgins (15 March 1938 – 25 October 1998) was an American artist, composer, art theorist, poet, publisher, printmaker, and a co-founder of the Fluxus international artistic movement (and community).[1] Inspired by John Cage, Higgins was an early pioneer of electronic correspondence.[2] Higgins coined the word intermedia[3][4] to describe his artistic activities, defining it in a 1965 essay by the same name, published in the first number of the Something Else Newsletter. His most notable audio contributions include Danger Music scores and the Intermedia concept to describe the ineffable inter-disciplinary activities that became prevalent in the 1960s.[5]
- ^ Smith, Roberta (October 31, 1998). "Dick Higgins, 60, Innovator In the 1960s Avant-Garde". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2019-05-15. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, p. 239
- ^ Higgins, Dick. 1966. "Intermedia." Something Else Newsletter. Vol. 1, No. 1, February, pp. 1-3.
- ^ Hannah B Higgins,"The Computational Word Works of Eric Andersen and Dick Higgins", Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Digital Computing in the Experimental Arts, Hannah Higgins, & Douglas Kahn, eds., pp. 271-281
- ^ Higgins, Dick. 2001. "Intermedia" Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality. Randall Packer and Ken Jordan, eds. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., pp. 27–32.