Maciunas' Learning Machines — Vice Versa Verlag / Silverman Fluxus Collection, Berlin, c. 2003

Original publisher's postcard / announcement card for Maciunas' Learning Machines: From Art History to a Chronology of Fluxus, edited by Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt. Vice Versa Verlag / The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, Berlin, c. 2003. Cover image to recto; publisher details and ISBN to verso. 15 × 10.5 cm. ISBN 3-932809-39-4.

A clean piece of Fluxus-adjacent printed matter that sits somewhere between postcard, mailer, and bibliographic trace. The front reproduces the book cover, with Maciunas' charts and diagrams staged as both image and argument — which is the point of the publication itself. Schmidt-Burkhardt's study focuses on George Maciunas's diagrams, maps, and chronologies of art, politics, and culture, tracing how his systems of visual organisation fed directly into Fluxus thinking.

Seen now, the card works as a small administrative object from the afterlife of Fluxus: not an artwork by Maciunas, but a compact carrier of the logic around him — charts, networks, distribution, printed support, the traffic between archive and publication. It is also exactly the kind of object Fluxus leaves behind so well: modest, informational, and unexpectedly complete.

Condition: Very good; light handling wear and minor age toning consistent with storage.
Shipping: Ships flat in a protective sleeve with backing board.