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<\/p>\nPhoto: Left\/Right, Ben Vautier, \u201cTheatre D\u2019Art Total,\u201d 1967, Center, Milan Kn\u00ed\u017e\u00e1k, \u201cAktual Provo Fluxus,\u201d 1965<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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April 7, 2015\u2014We are pleased to announce the launch of The Fluxus Digital Collection. \u00a0This online collection gathers an eclectic range of artworks by one of the most important movements of the twentieth century. Global in scope, Fluxus members moved between the USA, Europe, East Asia, and elsewhere. They worked across and between traditional media, opting for ephemeral materials, participatory approaches, and playful humor.<\/p>\n
The collection includes digital tools that make interactive objects and text-based works available to viewers\u2014many of which\u00a0have\u00a0not been read,\u00a0seen,\u00a0or heard outside\u00a0of select archives. With technical tools that include 3D modeling, digital scanning, photography, and film, the Fluxus Digital Collection gives worldwide access to scholars, teachers, students, and art-lovers.<\/p>\n
\u201cVideo pioneer Nam June Paik organized the first art exhibition on the World Wide Web in 1994,\u201d explains Fluxus artist and collection donor Ken Friedman. \u201cSince then, Fluxus artists and composers have had a durable presence of event scores, images, documents, web sites, exhibitions, publications, and more. Some vanished when links broke and web sites disappeared. Others continue to overcome the limits of fragile artifacts that museums preserve by protecting them from people. The Fluxus Digital Collection brings works back to life, returning them to the world where they belong with a future as lively as the past.\u201d<\/p>\n
The University of Iowa Special Collections houses a trove of yet-to-be processed Fluxus art, writing, and correspondence. The Fluxus Digital Collection will continue to grow as we add new content.<\/p>\n
Artists featured in the collection include: John Cage, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Ken Friedman, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Milan Kn\u00ed\u017e\u00e1k, Ben Vautier, Nam June Paik, Frank Zappa, Robert Filliou, Mieko Shiomi, Shigeko \u00a0Kubota, Ben Patterson, Dieter Roth, Eric Andersen, Takehisa Kosugi, Ay-O, and others.<\/p>\n
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Supporting Partners<\/p>\n
The University of Iowa<\/p>\n
Digital Studio for Public Arts & Humanities<\/p>\n
UI Library Digital Research & Publishing<\/p>\n
Special Collections<\/p>\n
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