Maxfield was also a friend of Terry Riley and participated in the publication Young and Jackson Mac Low's An Anthology of Chance Operations in 1963.
In 1967, Maxfield left his tape music, scores and equipment in the care of artist friend Walter de Maria.
[2] In 2017, art historian Gerald Hartnett finished a doctoral dissertation on Maxfield at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
First of all, writers Guy Debord and William Burroughs reinvented appropriation art practice as a means of critiquing retrograde mass media entertainments and reportage.
Third, author and playwright Samuel Beckett conjectured that ubiquitous recording might become problematic to the quality of experiential life in technologically mediated environments.