NMR 06. "Happenings" In the New York Scene

In Kaprow's Happenings, it becomes understood that the audience is no longer passive. Now, the audience is involved in this new participatory art. Therefore, the role of the artist in the creation of the work is lessened because the audience has an influence upon the work throughout the time of creation/performance. This idea presented by Kaprow in Happenings is the same idea that would be applied to human interaction with computers. Computers are functioning machines, however, without direct interaction with human command, it cannot work. Therefore, the computer and man are dependent upon one another in carrying out certain tasks/functions.