What began as a playful mail-exchange by myself and Kristina Andersen emerged, two years later, as a broader reflection on our research field of human-computer interaction’s obsession with the new. Specifically, we began to turn to Fluxus, an avant-garde movement of the late 50’s and 60’s as a model for how we might productively question and critique the values of our field from within. This consisted of a reflection on our own Fluxus inspired correspondence, a workshop we hosted to understand how such approaches are taken up within HCI, and a collaborative activity by myself, Kristina Andersen, Daniela Rosner, Ron Wakkary and James Pierce where we wrote and exchanged “event” scores for attending to our relationships with technology.