FLUXUS

It was a movement started in 1962 that defined a people, body of works, groups, and thoughts. The goal of Fluxus was to get rid of the division of art and life. I read an essay once that said that because we as a society describe our lives somtimes as if from scenes in movies, therefore we see and live our lives as works of art.

The definitions from fluxus.

1. Globalism: embraces the idea that we live on a single world, a world in which the boundaries of political states are not identical with the boundaries of nature or of culture.
2. Unity of Art and Life: when Fluxus was established, the conscious goal was to erase the boundaries between art and life, the sort of language appropriate to the time of pop art and of happening.
3. Intermedia: idea that Fluxus was an art form appropriate to people who say there can be no artificial boundaries between art and life. Without those boundaries, there can be no boundaries between art form and art form.
4. Experimentalism: trying new things and assessing the results. Experiments that yield useful results cease being experiments and become usable tools.
5. Research Orientation: applies not only to the experimental method, but to the ways in which research is conducted.
6. Chance: in the sense of aleatory or random chance, is a tradition with a legacy. Random chance, a way to break the bonds. Evolutionary chance engages a certain element of the random. Genetic changes occur as well in a process that is known as random selection.
7. Playfulness: the play of ideas, the playfulness of free experimentation, the playfulness of free association and the play of paradigm shifting that are as common to scientific experiment as to pranks.
8. Simplicity: refer to the relationship of truth and beauty, and related to the term elegance.
9. Parsimony: refer to the relationship of truth and beauty, and related to the term elegance.
10. Implicativeness: an ideal Fluxus work implies many works. This notion is close to and grows out of the notion of elegance and parsimony.
11. Exemplativism: the quality of a work exemplifying the theory and meaning of its construction.
12. Specificity: has to do with the tendency of a work to be specific, self contained, and to embody all its own parts.

Now an days its not as organized as it used to be but its still alive in music, such as scores, and in ideas.