DaDa and Fluxus

DaDa was an informal international movement in Europe and North America. DaDa, or dadism, was a movement that was said to have began in Switzerland in 1916 and soon after spread to Berlin. However the height of the American DaDa was a year earlier, in New York. It was stated to have been brought on from the negative reactions of World War I. It was a rejection of the prevailing standards of the arts of the time by facilitating an anti-art movement of sorts that encompassed things like visual arts, art theory, and literature, to name a few. DaDa activities include public gatherings, demonstrations, and publications of art. Fluxus in latin means "flow" and was a group of artists and composers in the 1960's known for mixing different artistic media. Like DaDa, it developed as an "antit-art" movement.