Reading Response to Fluxus

I found this reading to be somewhat interesting. What I got from it, was that Fluxus is basically about changes in the world and changes in the way that we see the world. I have always known that I see certain changes in the world but never actually put a term to this thought. Something I found specifically interesting was that it said Fax is transforming the way we send and receive messages. I really never put a thought to this before. Fax seems so old to me, but I guess not.

It was also interesting that it says the Elizabethan Age is just coming to a close and that a new age is starting to form. I knew this, as I know the world is constantly changing and trends form and dissipate and then this happens over again, I didn't really think about the fact that these "ages" don't really have a name until way after they form.

So basically, Fluxus has 12 main criteria, as written by Dick Higgins. They are: Globalism, Unity of Art and Life, Intermedia, Experimentalism, Research orientation, Chance, Playfulness, Simplicity, Implicativeness, Exemplativism, and Specificity. Each topic lends a certain thing to Fluxus and what it is all about or what Fluxus has done for us.