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.