User talk:FluxusMidwest

January 2023
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The current entry has almost no value as a contribution to knowledge, so I would like to expand it and make it more valuable. No one is compensating me for this. Neither I nor any of the people involved in the activities and organizations referenced below are trying to sell anything through Wilipedia. I am trying very hard to provide neutral, well-referenced information that tells a story about the efforts of me and many other people over the last 40 years to continue to explore and create Fluxus art. I understand the need to avoid crass or exaggerated promotion, and I have drafted a larger wikipedia entry (see below) that I hope does that as well as provide worthwhile public information -- about me and a variety of public activities that have also involved many other artists. Here is the current draft of the entry I would like to make (I would appreciate any feedback and help in achieving compliance):
 * Allen Bukoff – proposed Wikipedia entry         Jan 2023
 * Allen Bukoff,1,2 PhD3 (b. 1951), is a social psychologist who has focused on human creativity. Allen started creating under the banners of New Wave Psychology4 (1980 – 1985) and Fluxus Midwest5 (1980 - ) while finishing his PhD in Psychology at Kent State University and while participating in the Akron and Kent, Ohio, new wave music and art scene (1978 – 1984).6,7  Two major influences and inspirations for Allen’s creative work at this time were a group of former Kent State art students, DEVO8, and one of Allen’s graduate school roommates, Chris Butler9, musician and songwriter who created and led The Waitresses10.
 * In 1995 with the help of Dick Higgins11 – one of the original founders of Fluxus 12,13 – and several others Allen helped launch and administer FLUXLIST, 14,15 the first Fluxus-focused email Listserv16 discussion group on the internet. Over the last thirty years this forum has evolved from an email discussion group (FLUXLIST17) to a community blog (Fluxlist Blog18) to a Facebook Group.19 These forums have spread information about Fluxus as well as provided a place where new Fluxus fans and artists can interact and where new Fluxus work can be shared.20  From this new network of Fluxus-oriented artists a variety of public events and festivals have emerged such as the annual Chicago Fluxfests,21,22 organized and produced by Keith Buchholz,23 festivals in which Allen participated from 2010 to 2018. 24
 * Over the last four decades, with the help of many collaborators, Allen Bukoff has continued to explore Fluxus25 with a variety of internet activities, projects, and performances which are well documented online, including:
 * • The New Wave Psychology Newsletter (1980-1985)26
 * • Fluxus Midwest (1980 - present)27
 * • Fluxus Indian Museum (1999 – 2017)28,29,30,31,32
 * • Saint Sparky Society (2001 - 2019)33
 * • Fluxus Housework (1997-2000)34
 * • Klondike – International Fluxus Group Show, California Institute of the Arts (1999, 2005)35
 * • Artcite Participation (1987 – 2011) 36,37
 * • New Fluxus Symbol Set (2011)38,39
 * • Camp Fluxus (2014 – present)40
 * • Fluxus Midwest Annual Reports (1993, 2020,2021,2022)41
 * 1 https://allenbukoff.com
 * 2 https://allenbukoff.com/AllenBukoff-resume-Jan2023.pdf
 * 3 https://allenbukoff.com/AllenBukoffPhDDiploma1984.jpg
 * 4 https://allenbukoff.com/newwavepsychology/
 * 5 http://fluxus.org/FluxusMidwest/
 * 6 https://allenbukoff.com/newwave/newwave.html
 * 7 https://allenbukoff.com/FluxusMidwest/documents/1993b.html
 * 8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo
 * 9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Butler_(musician)
 * 10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waitresses
 * 11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Higgins
 * 12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus
 * 13 https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/f/fluxus
 * 14 https://www.digitalsalon.com/fluxlist-lists-links-social-media/
 * 15 https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluxlist/about
 * 16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV
 * 17 https://www.digitalsalon.com/the-fluxlist-blog/
 * 18 https://fluxlist.blogspot.com/
 * 19 https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluxlist
 * 20 “The rise of the Internet in the 1990s enabled a vibrant post-Fluxus community to emerge online. After some of the original Fluxus artists from the 1960s and 1970s including Higgins, created online communities such as the Fluxlist, following their departure, younger artists, writers, musicians, and performers have attempted to continue their work in cyberspace.”
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus#Since_1978
 * 21 https://www.facebook.com/groups/743498655773423/about
 * 22 https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=AJOqlzW0bxxnIX4iBi-3JEnf2HYq2EaNVw:1673846196494&q=fluxfest+chicago&tbm=isch&source=univ&fir=lKvvq6ieFVvHxM%252CjFH7jje6I19iOM%252C_%253BNTJYJ7k2PYzorM%252Coj97E16Cuow8IM%252C_%253BXlYQ7L2ixnE0aM%252CbHx5KziYGkc2iM%252C_%253BewL642saq71ARM%252Csj-ahpMVMCaKiM%252C_%253BC389tu_W-tEizM%252CGEXtJNPnbjBJtM%252C_%253BljrggvTwJ-6kpM%252C_x1yTWfdSFij1M%252C_%253BQUqNOX7DSaf6FM%252CbHx5KziYGkc2iM%252C_%253BYba4dJa5auEkmM%252COjXs5Bd8K0vr5M%252C_%253ByTFdCDafg9MgdM%252CgPhiRfP8ABYQVM%252C_%253B6Gq58JXUmlVfGM%252Cde2xQWkItxQbsM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kRS6-egerfIuZ4QtiyezwnLT60qbw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikk83_qsv8AhXSnGoFHZe0CGkQjJkEegQIKBAC&biw=1920&bih=894&dpr=1
 * 23 https://www.facebook.com/keith.buchholz/
 * 24 https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=AJOqlzW0bxxnIX4iBi-3JEnf2HYq2EaNVw:1673846196494&q=fluxfest+chicago&tbm=isch&source=univ&fir=lKvvq6ieFVvHxM%252CjFH7jje6I19iOM%252C_%253BNTJYJ7k2PYzorM%252Coj97E16Cuow8IM%252C_%253BXlYQ7L2ixnE0aM%252CbHx5KziYGkc2iM%252C_%253BewL642saq71ARM%252Csj-ahpMVMCaKiM%252C_%253BC389tu_W-tEizM%252CGEXtJNPnbjBJtM%252C_%253BljrggvTwJ-6kpM%252C_x1yTWfdSFij1M%252C_%253BQUqNOX7DSaf6FM%252CbHx5KziYGkc2iM%252C_%253BYba4dJa5auEkmM%252COjXs5Bd8K0vr5M%252C_%253ByTFdCDafg9MgdM%252CgPhiRfP8ABYQVM%252C_%253B6Gq58JXUmlVfGM%252Cde2xQWkItxQbsM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kRS6-egerfIuZ4QtiyezwnLT60qbw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikk83_qsv8AhXSnGoFHZe0CGkQjJkEegQIKBAC&biw=1920&bih=894&dpr=1
 * 25 https://www.digitalsalon.com/allen-bukoff-on-fluxus/
 * 26 https://allenbukoff.com/NWPN/
 * 27 https://fluxus.org/FluxusMidwest/
 * 28 Fluxus Indian Museum  https://fluxus.org/museum/
 * 29 The Fluxus Indian Museum, located near Coon Rapids, Iowa, opened to the public in   1994 and closed its doors in 2017  https://fluxus.org/museum/museum.htm
 * 30 The Secret History of Western Technology and Culture, an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, January 27 - March 25, 1995 https://fluxus.org/museum/agw.htm
 * 31 Fluxus Indian Museum website was launched on December 21, 1995  https://fluxus.org/museum/
 * 32 “Cool Site of the Day,”January 2, 1996 https://web.archive.org/web/19961226195235/http://cool.infi.net/stillcool/still9601.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Site_of_the_Day
 * 33 https://saintsparky.org/
 * 34 https://fluxus.org/FluxusMidwest/housework/
 * 35 https://fluxus.org/FluxusMidwest/klondike/
 * 36 https://fluxus.org/FluxusMidwest/artcite25/history.html
 * 37 https://fluxus.org/FluxusMidwest/artcite25/
 * 38 https://www.artciteinc.ca/exhibitions/fluxussymbolset
 * 39 https://fluxus.org/symbolset/
 * 40 http://campfluxus.org/
 * 41 https://fluxus.org/FluxusMidwest/AnnualReports/
 * }} FluxusMidwest (talk) 05:08, 18 January 2023 (UTC)