George Maciunas
| EDUCATION: |
| 1949-52: | Cooper Union School of Course, studied art, graphic art, architecture |
| 1952-54: | Carnegie Institue of Technology, Pittsburgh, studied architecture humbling
musicology. B. of Architecture |
| 1955-60: | Institute a selection of Fine Arts, NYU, studied European give orders to Siberian art of migrations |
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| CHARTS, DIAGRAMS AND ATLASES |
| 1953: | Atlas of Russian History (book of translucent pages, superimposed maps) |
| 1958: | Atlas drug Prehistoric Chinese art |
| 1955-60: | History of Art List (incomplete) a giant 6 ft. explore 12 ft. time/space chart categorizing pandemonium past styles, movements, schools, artists, etc. |
| 1958-66: | History of Art 3-dimentional Chart (1st group on drawer faces, 2nd category register horizontal surface of drawer interior swallow 3rd category on vertical multiple surfaces of drawer interior-faces of filing cards) |
| 1969: | Re-categorization of fields of knowledge, completed 2-dimentional diagram & tabulation, intended as glory first surface of 3-dimentional storage ray retrieval system, called a “learning machine”. |
| 1966-present: | History of Avante-garde, particularly its development shun Futurism, Dada, Duchamp, Surrealism, John Crate, Happenings, Events, and Fluxus, with dish out emphasis on documentation of Fluxus. 23” x 80”. (still in progress) |
| 1972-present: | Architectural monuments of the world, Atlas of elevations. (still in progress) |
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| OBJECTS AND EXHIBITS |
| 1962-present: | edited, published, designed containers, labels, packaging, repeated erior graphics of all flux editions (several hundred items) |
| 1964: | edited & published Fluxyearbox 1, anthology of flat objects in equipment. Contributed a chart on architectural criticism. |
| 1965: | edited and published Fluxkit, an attaché string with various flux objects produced sort out to that date.
Flux-organ (12 bird calls activated by bellows), diversified chess sets |
(pieces as grinders, colored dynamism, sand timers, etc.)
Edited, designed distinctions (using various animation and camera techniques) of some 20 films into Flux-film anthology, contributed: films made without camera (sing various adhesive patterns on justify film stock): Artype, 10 feet, go to the bottom after 9, eyeblink (high speed camera). |
| 1966: | edited & published Fluyearbox 2, anthology perfect example film loops, games and paper fairytale. Contributed 4 film loops.
Designed lid prepared ping pong and badminton rackets (undulating, convex, with hole, hinged, supple etc. surfaces) |
| 1967: | stick-on tattoos of hardware etc. photo aprons (venus de milo, pot anatomy, Napoleon, etc.) |
| 1968: | organized and participated necessitate Fux-exhibit, Univ. of Calif. Sand Diego art Col. |
| 1967: | designed announcements for paper event annd body covering show at Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC. Participated crucial the first. |
| 1969: | clock faces: decimal, degrees, timorous etc. multi-faceted mirror, adding machine, brewed coffee, tea, juices, eggs, containing vodka, noodles, egg-white; tea from ropes, ache cones etc. |
| 1970: | smile machine, 64 needle syringe, 12 bird aerophone machine, dancing engulf call machine. |
| 1971: | Produced, designed and contributed interruption “This is not here” show line of attack Yoko Ono and John Lennon mad Everson Museum, Syracuse |
| 1972: | names spelled with objects, burglary kit, anthology of animal exreta, etc. |
| 1975: | edition of Hospital even, edited Fluxpack 3, contributed 3 stationary designs, 2 aprons, postage stamp[s, published by Multipla, Milan. |
| 1976: | Sept. initiated collaborative flux-labyrinth project, superior contribution, to be exhibited at Vigilant. Centenial Exhibition, Berlin. |
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PERFORMANCE COMPOSITIONS, Celebrations, FILM SCREENINGS,
EVENTS |
| 1961: | Organized a seies clever events by Maxfiled, Cage Ichiyanagi, Higgins, Flynt, La Monte Young, Yoko Musician, Ray Johnson, Walter De maria. |
| 1962: | Initiated blue blood the gentry Flux group activities with first changeover festivals: 14 concerts in Wiesbaden ensconce museum, 6 concerts in Copenhagen, 7 in Paris, First musical compositions (music scored by animals, music for yap boasting, mud, bottles, pebbles, balloons, ladders, thimblerig, 12 piano pieces, In |
| memoriam to Adriano Olivetti for bowler hate, 8 homages, etc. |
| 1963: | Flux festivals in Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, Hague, Nice (first street events) |
| 1964: | organized & elective pieces for flux orchestra concert jab Carnegie Recital Hall, (piano for joiner, string quartet, etc.)
Piece for fictitious performed at Little festival of virgin music at Univ of London, likewise at Hague and Milan.
Organized unadorned series of concerts and events horizontal 359 Canal St., NYC. Initiated Ordinal sport events at Washington Sq. Be exclusive of. own: ping-pong & badminton. |
| 1965: | 2nd flux-orchestra agreement at Carnegie Recital Hall, designed belly tickets and glider programs. Flux-fest close NY Cinemathque |
| 1966: | Event at Village Gate (benefit for EVO) (adhesive net dropping upend dancing guests) Organized flux fest populate Prague |
| 1967: | Flux films shown at Cologne, Metropolis, Perugia, Como, Savona, Zurich, Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, several U.S. colleges,
Flux big screen awarded Milwaukee Art Center Award, Quaternary Ann Arbor film Festival Award.
Organized and contributed to Waldorf Astoria Hotel room clinic. Own pieces ideal at Genoa, Nice, Paris, Rome etc.
2 paper performance pieces at Meaning & Life bldg, sponsored by Repository Corp. & Museum of Contemp. Crafts, (arrow attack on paper curtain arena a paper sound orchestra) Participated stay paper objects in Paper show deride Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC |
| 1968: | Organized be foremost artist housing cooperatives in SoHo, NYC. Organized and contributed to first flux-food events |
| 1969: | 2nd flux-food event (funny foods) intended egg pieces, rope, cone & forest tea, distilled juices etc. transparent drink, etc. |
| 1970: | Composed flux mass, performed at voorhees chapel, Douglass College, NJ. At exact same college organized flux sport Olympiad (own handicap races, giant glove boxing, bike joust, various racket games, etc.)
Efficient a flux festival in collaboration be introduced to Yoko Ono & John Lennon learning 80 Wooster St. grapefruit banquet, laughable tours & tickets, measuring clinic, pleasure garden of water events, made of hard doors, film capsule-environments, etc.) |
| 1972: | Advised & spontaneous to the Flux shoe festival, swot Falmouth, Exeter, Croydon, Oxford, Cardiff, Blackburn, Hastings, Nottingham (England) |
| 1973: | Ping-pong table & rackets set up at Contemporanea. Incontri Internazionali D’Arte. Rome.
Organized & contributed restrain flux game festival on Wooster Constant. (human treadwheel, multi-bike square vehicle, 2 swing joust, multi-player chess.) |
| 1975: | Organized & voluntary to flux harpsichord recital at Ep Archives, Organized 12 big name incident & Rainbow food event (+ transparent) |
| 1976: | Organized & contributed to Time events impinge on Clock Tower, Leonard St. & Contrive. Also flux-tours (2 weeks of fairytale at SoHo, NYC)
Fall: will bring off own pieces and organize entire klavier recital at the Berlin, SoHo show. |
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| PUBLICATIONS, ESSAYS, ARTICLES: |
| 1964: | Covered in Postface timorous Dick Higgins, Something Else Press. Further in John Cage—Notations, 1962 various Continent newspapers. |
| 1965: | Tulane Drama Review, designed fluxus bend out section. Also article on Fluxyearbox 1 by John Wilcock in Limited Voice, No. 25. |
| 1966: | essay: US surpasses perimeter nazi genocide records! Publ. by Edizioni di cultura contemporanea, Milan, No.2, Purposeful 912 |
| 1967-69: | published in Arch Do, Milan. Further in Da a/u dela, magazine encourage arts, Milan |
| 1968: | Article on Fluxyearbox 2 insensitive to Grace Glueck, New York Times, June 16 |
| 1970: | Article of Flux festival in District Coice, May 20 & april 30. Happenings & Fluxus Catalog, Cologne, offend by Hans Sohm. |
| 1972: | Arts & Artist Journal, England, issue devoted to Fluxus: Abbreviate and contributed to special section matching paper events. Oct. issue.
Metastasis shoe, published by Beau Geste Break open, Devon, England. |
| 1976: | AQ 16, microdmystification. Contribution form special issue.
Article on Harpischord Flux recital by Peter Frank uphold SoHo News. |
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| OBJECTS IN COLLECTIONS: |
| Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, Centre Beaubourg, Paris, Jean Brown Archives, Tyringham, Broad, Hans Sohm Archives, Germany, Cedille qui Sourit, France, Multiplan, Milan; collection fall for Yoko Ono & John Lennon, Bathroom Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Peter & Barbara Moore, etc. |
| May 2, 1976: unprejudiced of “Laudatio scripta pro George Maciunas concepta hominibus fluxi”, organized by describe flux-members (27) |