MACIUNAS’ LEARNING MACHINES — Vice Versa Verlag / Silverman Fluxus Collection, Berlin, c. 2003

Vice Versa Verlag / The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, Berlin, c. 2003. Publisher’s postcard, 15 × 10.5 cm. Cover image to recto; publisher details and ISBN (3-932809-39-4) to verso.

Announcement card for Maciunas’ Learning Machines: From Art History to a Chronology of Fluxus, edited by Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt. 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.

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. Original period item.