[2] Higgins coined the word intermedia[3][4] to describe his artistic activities, defining it in a 1965 essay by the same name, published in the first number of the Something Else Newsletter.

His most notable audio contributions include Danger Music scores and the Intermedia concept to describe the ineffable inter-disciplinary activities that became prevalent in the 1960s.

As a boy, Higgins grew up and was educated in private boarding schools around the New England area, including Worcester, Massachusetts; Putney, Vermont; and Concord, New Hampshire.

Her twin sister, Jessica, is a New York based intermedia artist closely associated with seminal curator Lance Fung.

[14] He founded Something Else Press in 1963, which published many important texts including Gertrude Stein, Bern Porter, Marshall McLuhan, Cage, Merce Cunningham, Cage's teacher Henry Cowell, as well as his contemporaries such as artists Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Claes Oldenburg, and Ray Johnson as well as leading Fluxus members La Monte Young, George Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, Eric Andersen, Ken Friedman, Ben Patterson, and others.

[15] He was an early and ardent proponent and user of computers as a tool for art making, dating back to the mid-1960s,[2] when Alison Knowles and he created the first computer-generated literary texts.

Selected Writings by Dick Higgins edited by Steve Clay of Granary Books and Fluxus artist Ken Friedman.