Hannah B Higgins is a University Professor in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where she has been teaching Intermedia and Avant-Garde Art and Culture since 1994. She is also the founding Program Director of the interdisciplinary IDEAS program which is modeled on the experimental pedagogies of Black Mountain College and Cal Arts. In addition to articles on the historic and neo-avant-gardes, Higgins has written the books Fluxus Experience (University of California Press, 2002) and The Grid Book (MIT, 2009); with Douglas Kahn, she co-edited the anthology Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of Digital Art (University of California Press, 2012). Select articles
include: “Fluxus with Tools” (2021), “Intermedial Perception Or, Fluxing Across the Sensory” (2021), “John Baldessari’s Guessing Game,” (2019), “Reading Art and Objecthood While Thinking about Containers,” (2018) and “The Eyes Have Ears: Sound in WJT Mitchell’s Pictures,” (2017). Higgins has received many fellowships including a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), a Getty Center Collections and Resources Research Grant, and a Philips Collection Fellowship. She is co-executor of the estate of Dick Higgins and Something Else Press.
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