Bob Jon Liikala

Perry High School

Class of 1956

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Bob Jon Liikala - Class of 1956 - Perry High School

First Name	Bob Jon
Last Name	Liikala
Graduation Year	Class of 1956
Gender	Male
Current Location	City, Santa Cruz, Cal.
Hometown	South Perry, Ohio
Relationship Status	Single
About Me	Finnish-American, Ohio Farm boy with a "N.Y.State of mind" Army Engineer and Visual Aids specialist. Self-taught artist first.Fluxus artist since 1963, in NYC, "Lower East Side",and. Group 212 Inter-media Arts-science residental project I founded1966-69 pix above, details in personal info. still is what I'm about, now environmntal Arts curator and placement consultant on-call, NYC part-time base as curator, Engine 27, 173 Franklin St.Tri-becca, 10013. There Feb.2011 for College Art Association Conference. Fluxus artist since 1964 with Fluxus E site on E. 3rd St., now setting up internet exchange site "Fluxusnews" (Fluxus N.E.W.S.) for international communication about installations, events etc. "outside the box". Also curator for Woodstock Museum, Saugerties, N.Y. concentrating on Inter-Media at Group 212, Clarence Schmidt and related Fluxus artists of the 60's. Art-technology museum curator 30+ years. Innovative Inter-Media Associate Prof. I'm an Ohio country boy with a "New York state of mind". Real "Lower East Side" 60's hi-creative with my own galleries and theaters. Showed lunar landscape paintings in 1964 at Waddell on 57th St. (one 16'X16" painting flat on floor" for the first "moon walks) founded Group 212 Inrer-Media residential workshop with cutting ege N.Y.Artists. Associate Curator Woodstock Museum. Board member Engine 27 cutting edge Sound-light museum, NYC. Media Curator Moffit Aero Space Museum, Member of Aero Space + consulting team "Space for Progress". Founder of 2 Experiments in Technology (EAT) Galleries in N.Y.State FLUXUS N.E.W.S. (international music-arts internet website)founder Visiting presenter about the vital 60's art=film scene, NYC-Cal.. Extrovert, nice guy with nothing to prove. Enjoy good friends and finding new ones. Dancing fool. Was in Miami in May checking out art scene, not impressed, I may go back for Art Basel if I can find a few sharp creatives to hang with. Know any? Fall of 2012 I plan to return to NYC and Woodsock to see friends and do a bit of curating and events along Fluxus lines.p.s. along "Occupy Wall St. lines", in 2010 I did an installation on Wall St. "Artists put the money managers on trial", originally started in Los Angeles earlier that year. Web site in the works <Robert John Liikala.com> Book in progress due out by dec.2012 "HITCH HIKERS GUIDE ON THE ROAD 1960's ART SCENE + BED-BATH & FAR OUT" Mexico City-Lower...(read more)