Ken Friedman
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'''Ken Friedman''', born [[September 19]] [[1949]] in [[New London]], [[Connecticut]] is a seminal figure in [[Fluxus]], an international laboratory for experimental art, architecture, design, literature, and music. He had his first solo exhibition in [[New York]] in [[1966]]. He has also been involved with [[mail art]], and he has written extensively about Fluxus and [[Intermedia]]. Friedman has edited several Fluxus publications and has been widely published in peer reviewed academic journals as well as in popular and small press publications. He has worked closely with other Fluxus artists and composers such as [[George Maciunas]], [[Dick Higgins]], [[Nam June Paik]], [[John Cage]], and [[Joseph Beuys]]. He was the general manager of the Fluxus publisher, [[Something Else Press]] in the early 1970s.
Friedman received his [[Master of Arts (postgraduate)|Master of Arts]] degree in [[Interdisciplinary Studies]] in education, psychology and social science from [[San Francisco State University]] in [[1971]]. He received his doctorate in 1976 from the [[United States International University]]. In [[2007]], [[Loughborough University]] in the [[UK]] honored Friedman with the degree of [[Doctor of Science]], [[honoris causa]], for outstanding contributions to design research.
Friedman was professor in the Department of Culture, Communication, and Language at the [[Norwegian School of Management]] in [[Oslo]], and at the Design Research Center at [[Danmarks Designskole| Denmark's Design School]] in [[Copenhagen]]. In October 2007, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. In the 1970s he was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Contemporary Art, San Diego and during the mid 1980s he was President of the Art Economist Corporation in [[New York]].
Ken Friedman has done research in the [[philosophy of science]], the [[philosophy of design]], and doctoral education in design. He also works with national design policy projects in [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], and [[Wales]]. He continues to develop international research networks, and conferences for the design research community. He is an editor of the journal Artifact, and he is the book reviews editor of Design Research News. Friedman is also Communications Secretary of the [[Design Research Society]]. In 2000 He co-chaired the La Clusaz Conference on Doctoral Education in Design. He also co-chaired the 2006 conference of the [[European Academy of Management]] in Oslo, and the 2006 conference of the Design Research Society in [[Lisbon]].
Recent exhibitions of his work include Ken Friedman Art(net)worker Extraordinaire at the [[University of Iowa]] Museum of Art in 2000, and Twelve Structures at [[the Centre of Attention]], [[London]] in 2004. His work is represented in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the [[Tate Modern]] in London, the [[Hood Museum of Art]] at [[Dartmouth College]], and [[Stadtsgalerie Stuttgart]]. The University of Iowa Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts is the official repository of Friedman’s papers and research notes. Archiv Sohm at Stadtsgalerie Stuttgar,t and the Mandeville Department of Special Collections at the [[University of California]] also hold extensive collections of his work from the 1960s and 1970s.
== External links ==
* [http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/atca/subjugated/five_front.htm Ken Friedman Art(net)worker Extraordinaire]
* [http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/fluxus.html Twelve Structures]
* [http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/concert.html 2004 London Fluxus Concert by Ken Friedman]
* [http://www.artnotart.com/fluxus/kfriedman-fourtyyears.html Forty Years of Fluxus by Ken Friedman]
* [http://jas.faximum.com/library/tam/tam_40a.htm Interview Ken Friedman by Ruud Janssen]
* [http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/publicity/degree_days/2007/Summer/Friedman.html Professor Ken Friedman]
* [http://www.dkds.dk/forskning-og-kunstnerisk-virksomhed/Personer/Ken_Friedman Ken Friedman at Denmark's Design School]
* [http://www.dkds.dk/media/forskning/personer/Friedman%20V%202007%20CV%20.pdf Friedman Biography]
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