  dick higgins (march 15, 1938 &ndash; october 25, 1998) was a composer, poet, printer, and early fluxus artist. higgins was born in cambridge, england, but raised in the united states in various parts of new england, including worcester, massachusetts, putney, vermont, and concord, new hampshire. he was the son of carter chapin higgins and katherine huntington bigelow. his younger brother mark huntington higgins was murdered in the congo in 1960. like other fluxus artists, higgins studied composition with john cage at the new school of social research in new york. he married fellow artist alison knowles in 1960. both took part in the wiesbaden, germany fluxus festival in 1962. he founded something else press in 1963, which published many important texts including gertrude stein, marshall mcluhan, artists john cage, merce cunningham, claes oldenburg, ray johnson, bern porter, leading fluxus members george brecht, wolf vostell, daniel spoerri, emmett williams, eric andersen, ken friedman, and others. his daughter, hannah higgins is the author of fluxus experience, an authoritative volume about the fluxus movement. her twin sister, jessica higgins, a new york based intermedia artist closely associated with seminal curator lance fung, late fluxus gallerist emily harvey and the artists museum's and construction in process, performed and collaborated as a youth in original fluxus related events. higgins coined the word intermediahannah b higgins,"the computational word works of eric andersen and dick higgins" in h. higgins, & d. kahn (eds.), mainframe experimentalism: early digital computing in the experimental arts, pp. 27-281 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 contributions include danger music scores and the intermedia concept to describe the ineffable inter-disciplinary activities that became prevalent in the 1960s. 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. his a book about love & war &
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