Fluxus

Fluxus is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They varied in performance, Neo-Dada noise music and visual art, urban planning, architecture, design, as well as literature. Fluxus has a strong current of anti-commercial and anti-art sensibility. Fluxus is sometimes described as intermedia. Fluxus was heavily influenced by the ideas of John Cage, who believed that one should embark on the piece without having a conception of the eventual end. It was the process of creating that was important, not the finished product. Another main influence was Marcel Duchamp, a French artist who had originally been active within Dada whose 'readymades' were influential to Fluxus. George Maciunas, the founder, coined the name Fluxus in 1961 as the title of a proposed magazine.

History to 1965

Origins

The origins of Fluxus lie in many of the concepts explored by composer John Cage in his experimental music of the 1950s. Cage taught a series of Experimental Composition classes, run between 1957 and 1959 at the New School for Social Research in New York City which explored notions of indeterminacy in art. These classes—later taught by Richard Maxfield—were attended by many artists and musicians who would become involved in Fluxus, including Jackson Mac Low, La Monte Young, George Brecht, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins and, later, George Maciunas.

Fluxus (festival)

Fluxus is not just a festival it's a celebration.

Fluxus is a name taken from a Latin word meaning "flow, flux" (noun); "flowing, fluid", it got its name with a philosophy of positivity that a flowing fluid possesses. It is the annual techno-cultural festival of Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Fluxus is 3-day event and generally held in the month of February. Started in 2011, Fluxus is the largest college festival of central India. Fluxus is a college festival managed entirely by the students of IIT Indore.

Events

Pro-Shows

Fluxus has been very popular for its pro-shows.

Fluxus 2012 was graced by the famous rock band Indus Creed.

Fluxus 2013 adorned EDM night with DJ Dualist Enquiry and bollywood singer Sona Mohapatra.

Fluxus 2014 featured an interactive session with roadies fame Raghu Ram. The Pro-Nites featured the fusion band Advaita and Bollywood singer Aditi Singh Sharma along with her band "Groove Adda".

Fluxus 2015 showcased Miss Diva as flagship event which was gateway for Miss Universe in Central India. The EDM night featured Sunburn Campus with DJ Julia Bliss and COD3D. The event ended with a stellar performance from Farhan Akhtar Live who was performing for the first time in central India.

Fluxus (programming environment)

Fluxus is a live coding environment for 3D graphics, music and games. It uses the programming language Racket (a dialect of Scheme/Lisp) to work with a games engine with built-in 3D graphics, physics simulation and sound synthesis. All programming is done on-the-fly, where the code editor appears on top of the graphics that the code is generating. It is an important reference for research and practice in exploratory programming, pedagogy, live performance and games programming.

Fluxus is known for hosting some of the most cutting-edge live coding research systems by its author Dave Griffiths, such as the BetaBlocker language inspired by Core War, the Al-Jazari music environment based on interacting robots, the Daisy Chain music environment based on the Petri net model of computation, and the SchemeBricks visual interface for Scheme.

References

Nikos

Nikos (Νίκος) is a Greek common given name. It originates from Greek Nikolaos, which means "victor of people". Although used as a proper first name, Nikos is also a popular nickname of the original Nikolaos (Greek) or Nicholas (English).

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References

Nikos the Impaler

Nikos the Impaler is a b-grade splatter film directed by and starring German arteur Andreas Schnaas. It follows a reincarnated Romanian barbarian (Schnaas) as he wreaks havoc on modern day New York City. It is was released in some territories as Violent Shit 4.

Synopsis

College professor Frank Heller (Joe Zaso) and his girlfriend Sandra (Felissa Rose) lead a ragtag group of museum patrons in a race for their lives. After a botched robbery attempt spills blood on the ancient mask of Nikos a lu Unziceanu (Schnaas), the barbarian returns to kill off virtually anyone who crosses his path. After wiping out the denizens of the art museum, the maniac turns his sights on a health club, gay bar, movie theater, and video store.

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