Hannah Higgins

Hannah Higgins (born 1964) is an American writer and academic living in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of the Fluxus artists, Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles.

She is the author of one of the most important histories of the Fluxus movement, "Fluxus Experience", published in 2002 by the University of California Press. The Grid Book, her interdisciplinary history of this defining form in Western culture, will be published by MIT Press in early 2009. With Douglas Kahn, she is co-editing an anthology of computer art (1960-1970) called Mainframe Experimentalism for the University of California Press.

Higgins is an associate professor in the department of art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her B.A. in 1988 from Oberlin College, her M.A. from University of Chicago in 1990, and graduated with her Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Chicago. Her twin sister, Jessica Higgins is a New York based intermedia artist; both performed and collaborated as a youth in original Fluxus related events.

External links

* [http://www.mouthtomouthmag.com/higgins.html Hannah Higgins interviewed]
* [http://www.artistorganizedart.org/commons/2004_06_01_artistorganizedart_archive.html Jessica Higgins documented by Artist Organized Art]
* [http://www.uic.edu/depts/arch/ah/facultyprofiles/higgins.htm Hannah Higgins CV]