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|name          = Henry Flynt
|image         = Henry Flynt photo.jpg
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|caption       = Henry Flynt at the [[Cafe Oto]] in October 2008.
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|birth_date    = 1940
|birth_place   = [[Greensboro, North Carolina]]
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|occupation    = Philosopher, musician, visual artist, activist
|movement = [[Anti-art]], [[conceptual art#Origins|concept art]], [[nihilism]], [[avant-garde music]], [[downtown music]]
|website       = {{URL|henryflynt.org
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| module             = {{Infobox musical artist
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| background          = musician
| years_active = 1960–1983, 2005–present
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| label               = Recorded, Locust, Superior Viaduct
| instrument          = Violin, guitar, voice
| associated_acts = [[Catherine Christer Hennix|C.C. Hennix]], [[Henry Flynt & the Insurrections]], Dharma Warriors, Nova'Billy, [[La Monte Young]], [[Walter De Maria]], [[the Velvet Underground]], [[Pran Nath (musician)|Pran Nath]]}}
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'''Henry Flynt''' (born 1940 in [[Greensboro, North Carolina]]) is an American philosopher, musician, writer, activist, and artist connected to the 1960s New York [[avant-garde]]. He coined the term "[[conceptual art#Origins|concept art]]" in the early 1960s, during which time he was associated with figures in the [[Fluxus]] scene.<ref>Wood, Paul, 2002. ''Conceptual Art'', London: Tate Publishing. Series: Movements in Modern Art, quoted in Schellekens, Elisabeth, "Conceptual Art", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/conceptual-art/.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Higgins |first=Hannah |url=http://archive.org/details/fluxusexperience0000higg |title=Fluxus experience |date=2002 |publisher=Berkeley : University of California Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-520-22866-5}}</ref> He later received attention for his [[anti-art]] demonstrations against New York [[cultural institution]]s in 1963 and 1964.

Since 1983, he has focused on philosophical writing related to [[nihilism]], science, [[mathematical logic]], [[post-capitalist]] economics, and [[personhood]]. A number of his archival musical recordings, which fuse [[hillbilly music]] with [[avant-garde]] techniques, were released in the 2000s. He has collaborated with artists such as [[C.C. Hennix]], [[La Monte Young]], [[George Maciunas]], and [[John Berndt]].