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Joseph Beuys, Leigh Bowery and Klaus Nomi

 Joseph Beuys was a German performance artist, sculptor, instillation, graphic artist, and art theorist. His work explored concepts of humanism, social philosophy, and anthroposophy. Joseph Beuys is now considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Beuys was a member of Fluxus and close with Nam June Paik and Marcel Duchamp. 

Leigh Bowery was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, pop star, model and fashion designer. Bowery is considered one of the most influential artists of the 1980s and 1990s. Some of Bowery's peices include "Ich Bin Kunst" and "I'll Have You All" and had even formed a band for a short time in 1993 called Raw Sewage. They performed nude with their faces blackened, wearing platform shoes and wigs. 

Klaus Nomi, born Klaus Sperber, was another German performance artist known for his performance art. He used make-up, costumes, and a signature hair style. His songs ranged from synthesized classical opera to pop. During his childhood Nomi he performed on stage at the Deutsche Oper in West Berlin where he sang on stage. Nomi gained popularity in the US in New York during his "New Wave Vaudeville" in 1978. 

Fluxus

The term Fluxus comes from a Latin word meaning "to flow." Fluxus is actually an international network of artists, composers, and designers who were known for bringing together different artisic media and disciplines in the sixties. The term came from an artist Dick Higgins in his famous 1966 essay. The artists part of this group were leaders in the Neo-Dada music, visual arts, literature, urban planning, architecture, and design.  Fluxus started with the composer John Cage and his experimental music of the fifties. Another important man for Fluxus is artist George Maciunas who organized the first Fluxus event in 1961 at New York's AG Gallery and the first Fluxus festival in Europe in 1962.Fluxus encouraged a "do-it-yourself"aesthetic and valued simplicity, Fluxus encouraged anti-commercialism and anti-art ideals. Fluxus artists worked with the materials they had at hand.

Bauhaus

Bauhaus was a school in Germany from 1919 to 1933 founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. Bauhaus students learned the arts and the school was known for their approach to design that was taught. In German "Bauhaus" means "House of Building" or "Building School." The school was founded on the idea of creating a total work of art in which all arts would be brought together. The Bauhaus style became one of the most influential leaders in modernist architecture and design and influenced many of the most popular types of art such as architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design and typography. The school was a popular forced until it was forced to close in 1933 due to pressure from the Nazi's.

History of TETRIS

Tetris was first created in 1984 by Alexey Pajitnov, along with Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov. “Tetris” was supposed to be a combination of ‘tetra’(the Greek prefix for four) and ‘tennis’.  He created the wonderful game while working for the Soviet Academy of Science on an Elektronika 60, which was a computer used by the Soviets.  It was made to be ported to the IBM PC.  From there the game made its way to Hungry where it was then discovered by a British software house by the name of Andromeda.  When they assumed they would secure the rights for the PC version from Pajitnov, they sold the rights to Spectrum HoloByte, who in 1986 released the game to the United States. It’s clear why everyone wanted a piece of this enormously popular game., Electronic Gaming Monthly’s 100^th issue awarded Tetris first place as the “Greatest Game of All Time”! In IGN’s “100 Greatest Video Games of All Time” gave Tetris second place twenty years after the game was released here in the US.  By 1987 Andromeda obtained the copyright license for the IBM PC version and any other home computer system.  Just one year later the Soviet government began to fight for the rights to Tetris through an organization they created dubbed Elektronorgtechnica aka Elorg. Andromeda continued to license and sub-license rights that they themselves didn’t own, and Elorg had yet to see a dime. And one year after that the rights to Tetris had been claimed by half a dozen companies.  Elorg maintained that they were the only one that could legally produce the game and signed the rights over to Atari Games and Nintendo for all non-Japanese console and handheld rights . Nintendo claimed Atari Games had stolen the rights. Atari Games sued Nintendo believing they had the rights. After about a month on the market the courts ruled in favor of Nintendo, but the lawsuits continued until 1993. In 1996 however the rights to the game were given back to the original creator Pajitnov from the Russian state. He founded The Tetris Company and claimed to hold copyrights for all Tetris products worldwide. It can be said that this is a game of epic porportions, in fact the largest recorded fully funtional game of Tetris came in 1995 some Dutch student at Delft University of Technology  that stood 15 stories high on the Electrical Engineering department.