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Dick Higgins was born on 15 March, 1938 in Cambridge, England, is an A 20th-century english poet. Discover Dick Higgins's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Born 15 March, 1938
Birthday 15 March
Birthplace Cambridge, England
Date of death 25 October, 1998
Died Place Quebec City, Canada
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1938

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).

Inspired by John Cage, Higgins was an early pioneer of electronic correspondence.

He was born in Cambridge, England in 1938 into a rather rich family, due to his father owning Worcester Pressed Steel in Worcester, Massachusetts.

He grew up with a brother and sister, Mark and Lisa.

1958

Higgins heard the John Cage Twenty-five-year Retrospective Concert in May 1958, and began studying with him that summer.

1960

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.

Dick Higgins was the son of Carter Chapin Higgins and Katherine Huntington Bigelow.

His younger brother Mark Huntington Higgins was murdered in the Congo in 1960.

As a boy, Higgins grew up and was educated in private boarding schools around the New England area, including Worcester, Massachusetts; Putney, Vermont; and Concord, New Hampshire.

When he got older, he spent a lot of time in school; he attended Yale University, Columbia University (1960), Manhattan School of Printing, and the New School.

He trained under many influential artists of this time, such as John Cage and Henry Cowell.

He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Columbia, and participated in John Cage's monumental music composition course at the New School.

In 1960, he wed Alison Knowles, a fellow artist, and four years later, they had their daughters, Hannah Higgins and Jessica Higgins.

They both grew up to continue the family Fluxus dynasty.

One daughter of Higgins and Knowles, Hannah Higgins, is the author of Fluxus Experience, an authoritative volume about the Fluxus movement.

Her twin sister, Jessica, is a New York based intermedia artist closely associated with seminal curator Lance Fung.

He was an early and ardent proponent and user of computers as a tool for art making, dating back to the mid-1960s, when Alison Knowles and he created the first computer-generated literary texts.

1962

Higgins and Alison Knowles both took part in the Wiesbaden, Germany Fluxus festival in 1962, that marked the founding of Fluxus activity.

1963

He founded Something Else Press in 1963, which published many important texts including Gertrude Stein, Bern Porter, Marshall McLuhan, Cage, Merce Cunningham, Cage's teacher Henry Cowell, as well as his contemporaries such as artists Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Claes Oldenburg, and Ray Johnson as well as leading Fluxus members La Monte Young, George Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, Eric Andersen, Ken Friedman, Ben Patterson, and others.

The Something Else Press series of "Great Bear Pamphlets," documented the earliest Fluxus performances.

1965

Higgins coined the word intermedia 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.

1970

Higgins and Knowles divorced in 1970 after 10 years of marriage and remarried in 1984.

Higgins died of a heart attack while staying at a private home in Quebec City.

1972

His A Book About Love & War & Death, a book-length aleatory poem published in 1972 included one of those.

In his introduction, Higgins states, having finished the first three parts of the poem throwing dice, he wrote a FORTRAN IV program to produce part (or Canto) four.

His work was published in 0 to 9 magazine, an avant-garde publication that experimented with language and meaning-making.

Higgins also created metadrama poems that were minimal emotional statements or narratives.

In 1972, Higgins founded Unpublished Editions (later renamed Printed Editions) to publish his short novel Amigo.

1976

Between 1976 and 1994 he collaborated with the Italian writer and visual artist Luciano Caruso through email correspondence.

Higgins wrote and edited forty-seven books, including George Herbert's Pattern Poems: In Their Tradition and On the Composition of Signs and Images, his edition of a Giordano Bruno text, which he annotated.

He saw Bruno's essay on the art of memory also as an early text on intermedia.

A Dialectic of Centuries: Notes towards a Theory of the New Arts collected many of his essays and theoretical works in 1976.

2018

In 2018, Siglio Press published a posthumous collection of Higgins's writings titled ''Fluxus, Intermedia and the Something Else Press.

Selected Writings by Dick Higgins'' edited by Steve Clay of Granary Books and Fluxus artist Ken Friedman.