[1][2][3] Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts, both key figures in the movement, originally met while they were students at Columbia University; though only together there for one year, soon after they both began teaching at Rutgers.
In the late 1950s, George Segal invited Allan Kaprow to go on a mushroom hunt with him and John Cage.
A discussion on the use of electronic sound recordings in art pieces led to Cage inviting Kaprow to his class.
George Brecht and Robert Watts would meet for lunch once a week at the Howard Johnson's in New Brunswick, they were occasionally joined by Geoffrey Hendricks.
In 1968, Dick Higgins shot sheets of orchestral paper with a machine gun to create One Thousand Symphonies, which was later performed by Philip Corner.
In 1999, Joan Marter published Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-1963, which featured an exhibit of the same name at the Newark Museum.
It won the International Association of Art Critics award for "Best Exhibition in a Museum Outside New York City."