Futurism

Futurism: From modernism to cuteness

by Giancarlo Carpi

published in Uusi taide: Nopeus, vaara, uhma : Italian futurismi 1909-1944 = A new art: speed, danger, defiance : Italian futurism 1909-1944 / [EMMA, Espoon modernin taiteen museo], EMMA, Espoo, 2012, pp. 8-11.

Horses and Other Herbivores. Modernist Traces and Disputed Identities in Contemporary Italian Art 1969-2010

by Michele Dantini

in: History and Theory, Bezalel, Issue No. 19. Future's Past:The Italian Futurism and its Influence, January 2011_versione italiana del saggio, Cavalli e altri erbivori. Orazioni moderniste e controverse identitarie @ http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/saggi/cavalli-e-altri-erbivori

An unusually numerous population of horses, donkeys and zebras has crossed the plains of Italian art in the last... more An unusually numerous population of horses, donkeys and zebras has crossed the plains of Italian art in the last fifteen years, coinciding with a widespread (and perplexed) reflection on the characters and specificities of national art. In several ways - this is the thesis of the present essay - the population of herbivores epitomizes the debate over the “current relevance or non-relevance” of the avant-gardist model, and constitutes a sardonic metaphor of the journalistic debate on the Italian “decline,” dealt with extensively by the major national newspapers.

Engineering love

by Brian Earp

Savulescu, J. and Sandberg, A. (2012). Love machine: Engineering lifelong romance. New Scientist, 2864, 28-29.

Essay partially adapted from Earp, B. D., Sandberg, A., and Savulescu, J. (2012). Natural selection, childrearing, and the ethics of marriage (and divorce): Building a case for the neuroenhancement of human relationships. Philosophy & Technology, forthcoming [see "profile" box in article].

Available at the New Scientist website: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428646.200-love-machine-engineering-lifelong-romance.html

New Scientist BIG IDEA section, May 2012.

With break-up and divorce a major part of modern life, it looks... more New Scientist BIG IDEA section, May 2012.

With break-up and divorce a major part of modern life, it looks like we may be outliving our inborn capacity to love. But there could be a way to outwit evolution and make love last.

Also available at New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428646.200-love-machine-engineering-lifelong-romance.html.

Realtà bruta. Una polemica tra Papini e Boccioni “

by Alessandro Del Puppo

Draft version. "Prospettiva", n. 72, 2000, p. 82-94.

“Vital Theater: Pirandello, Marinetti, and Lebensphilosophie"

by Michael Subialka

PSA: The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, XXIII (2010); pp. 11-43.

Global Citizenship in 2040: Six Scenarios

by Vahid V. Motlagh

1- Placeless Brains Triumph, 2-Planetary Second Life, 3-Multicultural City Islands, 4-Cherished Mental Model, 5-Lagging Global Education, 6-Tribal Towers Tremble

After listening to a presentation that reviewed the scientific discoveries and technological developments,... more After listening to a presentation that reviewed the scientific discoveries and technological developments, participants in the workshop titled Global Placeless Brains at the conference Reconciling Babel – Education for cosmopolitanism were directed in a brief method based scenario planning exercise that was designed and run by the author.They were encouraged to do some “disciplined imagination” about the alternative futures of the global citizenship in 2040. One week after the workshop was concluded their written inputs were analyzed and subsequently six scenarios were developed and named. For more detail about how the tacit knowledge of the participants was tapped and thus documented as explicit knowledge see the Method section below

"An Art That Won't Behave": Film and the Seven Arts, 1907-1921

by Michael Devine

American Literature 84.1 (March 2012): 89-117

In the first two decades of the twentieth century, American artists connected to the journal the Seven Arts sought to... more In the first two decades of the twentieth century, American artists connected to the journal the Seven Arts sought to transform the cinema into an indigenous art free from European influence. Precisely because the cinema was “an art that won't behave,” as the journal's first essay on film put it, it depended on the arts as tutor texts in the effort to restrain sensory disorder and reinvigorate communal life. Wholly absent from critical treatments that see film as a model for the most kinetic modernist practices, the journal provides entry to a richly interdisciplinary history of American cinema: in the critical writings and poetry of the journal's contributors, including James Oppenheim, Waldo Frank, Vachel Lindsay, Stephen Vincent Benét, and Babette Deutsch, and in the works of artists close to the journal—John Sloan's painting Movies, Five Cents (1907) and Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler's abstract film Manhatta (1921). Imagined as a shelter from the most dispiriting forces of urban-industrial modernity, the cinema was at once embraced, challenged, and idealized by these artists who practiced what Wanda Corn has called a “transcendent modernism.”

On an Airfield in Montichiari, near Brescia. Staging rivalry through technology: Marinetti and D’Annunzio

by Pierpaolo Antonello

Stanford Humanities Review, 7.1 (1999), 88-100

How did Sun Ra’s ‘Space is the Place’ influence the Afro-American diaspora and Afrofuturist counterculture?

by Aaron Sandhu

Submitted to University of Sussex, June 2011.

“Sun Ra deemed ‘Space is the place’ for the discovery of a self liberated from the earthly weight of prejudices and... more “Sun Ra deemed ‘Space is the place’ for the discovery of a self liberated from the earthly weight of prejudices and carnal inequities.” Norment, C. (2007), Pathways to Unknown Worlds, p.23. In this is essay, Aaron Sandhu has analysed and critically evaluated the influence Sun Ra had on the afrodiapsora and the philosophical ideologies of afrofuturism through his seminal work, ‘Space Is The Place’, within the framework of modernity and counterculture society.

Differentiating Catalan and Italian Futurisms

by David W. Bird

“Differentiating Catalan and Italian Futurisms.” Romance Quarterly 55.1 (Winter 2008). 13-27.

Violamammola e allegro giustiziere. Aggressività e vitalismo in Ardengo Soffici.

by Daniela Mangione

published in «Sincronie», 2002, VI, 12, Roma, Vecchiarelli, pp. 111-120.

Future Forward

by Zeta Zirogianni

A futuristic magazine created for my major project on my PG Cert Fashion in Fashion & Lifestyle Journalism

Targeted market: Dazed & Confused magazine.

IMPORTANT NOTE: DAZED & CONFUSED HAS NOTHING TO DO... more Targeted market: Dazed & Confused magazine.

IMPORTANT NOTE: DAZED & CONFUSED HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH 'FUTURE FORWARD'. MY MAGAZINE HASN'T BEEN CREATED FOR ADVERTISING REASONS BUT FOR MY MAJOR PROJECT INSTEAD. DAZED & CONFUSED IS ONLY USED AS THE HYPOTHETICAL, TARGETED MARKET.

Being Online: How the Internet is Changing Research for Consumers

by Ekant Veer

The last ten years have seen significant change in consumers’ lives; changes that are too numerous to document in one... more The last ten years have seen significant change in consumers’ lives; changes that are too numerous to document in one article. However, one change that has made, and continues to make, a difference to consumers’ behaviour is their interaction with the Internet and Social Media. In this article I discuss the role that the Internet has played in consumers’ lives as well as the importance of understanding consumers’ interactions online. By being online, consumers are able to live experiences that are far different from their offline interactions. I close with some predictions for consumer welfare and online interaction as well as a look to the future of Research for Consumers.

Dicker Futural Cocktail for Further Fluxing

by Barnaby Dicker

A Transnational Bohemia: Dandyism and the Dance in the Futurist Art of Gino Severini, 1909-1914

by Zoë Marie Jones

Unpublished Dissertation

My dissertation studies the intersection of popular entertainment and the visual arts in Paris during the first... more My dissertation studies the intersection of popular entertainment and the visual arts in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century and the dialogue that formed between this subculture and the avant-garde factions of Paris and Italy. While this project focuses on the Italian Futurist Gino Severini (1883-1966), it is not conceived of as a monograph. Instead I will use Severini as a case study to help make sense of a complicated world in which the boundaries between bohemia and the bourgeoisie, masculinity and femininity, and art and popular culture are transgressed and blurred. Severini is particularly well suited to this discussion because nearly all of the 170 paintings, sketches, and pastels that he produced between the time that he arrived in Paris in 1906 and the outbreak of the First World War take as their subject a prime example of Parisian popular culture—Montmartre’s dance-halls. My study will address how form and content interrelate in these works, analyzing the ongoing evolution of his style and the manner in which he developed his imagery to cater to both commercial and avant-garde audiences. In order to make sense of his artistic career and to divine the importance of his life and work to the greater political and cultural environment of early twentieth-century Europe, I will also explore Severini’s actual participation in dance-hall culture, his self-fashioning as a dandy and a foreigner, and his attempt to find a niche for himself in Paris while still maintaining a foothold in the Italian avant-garde. Gino Severini’s unique posturing within the culture of Bohemian Paris and the rich visual record that he left behind provide a perfect platform from which to deepen our understanding of the multitude of factors influencing the Parisian avant-garde and its subsequent impact on avant-gardes throughout the rest of the Western world.

Man-Machine

by Avi Rosen

Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art.
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA, 1993.

Man machune interacrion in art from Futurism to Andy Warhol and new media art Man machune interacrion in art from Futurism to Andy Warhol and new media art

Dada en Italie ou l’enfant mutilé du futurisme

by Tania Collani

« Dada en Italie ou l’enfant mutilé du futurisme », in Dada, circuit total, sous la direction de Henri Béhar et Catherine Dufour, Lausanne, L’Âge d’Homme, « Cahier H », 2005, p. 279-286, ISBN 2825119067

La naissance de Dada à Zurich est souvent considérée comme un surgissement ex nihilo. Toutefois, le dadaïsme de Tzara... more La naissance de Dada à Zurich est souvent considérée comme un surgissement ex nihilo. Toutefois, le dadaïsme de Tzara est redevable des expériences futuristes, surtout si l’on envisage le mouvement dans ses rapports avec l’Italie voisine, où les manifestations d’un pré-dadaïsme italien sont nombreuses, comme le démontrent plusieurs auteurs (Francesco Meriano, Julius Evola, Maria d’Arezzo et les futuristes) et plusieurs critiques littéraires et critiques d’art (Giovanni Lista, Enrico Crispolti, Francesco Flora, Luigi Baldacci, Fausto Curi). Dada en Italie maintient un double rapport avec le futurisme : un rapport de filiation et d’enrichissement, et un rapport de mutilation. Le premier cas nous permet de saisir des manifestations dada ante litteram parmi les rangs hétérogènes du futurisme et de constater les collaborations entre les deux mouvements. Le deuxième cas s’oppose à la pénétration de dada sur le territoire italien, un courant qui présente trop de ressemblances au champ d’action du maître de maison.

Automatisme et contrainte créative de Marinetti à Breton

by Tania Collani

« Automatisme et contrainte créative de Marinetti à Breton », Hypnos. Esthétique, littérature et inconscient en Europe. Hypnos. images et inconscients en Europe (1900/1949), sous la direction de Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre et Nicolas Surlapierre, Paris, L’Improviste, 2009, p. 171-190, ISBN 978-2-913764-42-2

L’automatisme psychologique est au centre des études de nombreux psychiatres et médecins à partir de la deuxième... more L’automatisme psychologique est au centre des études de nombreux psychiatres et médecins à partir de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle : Jean Martin Charcot, Pierre Janet et Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault s’interrogent sur les raisons, le contexte et les conséquences de ce phénomène considéré comme pathologique, et qui se situe généralement au niveau du subconscient humain. Sans rentrer dans le mérite d’une étude sur la valeur de l’œuvre des psychiatres cités, nous voudrions souligner l’importance que le phénomène de l’automatisme assume dans la période qui précède et qui accompagne l’évolution des avant-gardes européennes. Avec des connotations différentes, en effet, les mouvements littéraires et artistiques du futurisme et du surréalisme s’approprient de cette notion, en la posant à la base d’une poétique de la création.

“The ‘roar of London’: The Futurist Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North (1932)”

by Michael Waldron

Back to the Futurists: Avant-gardes 1909 – 2009, Queen Mary, University of London, 4 July 2009

“Widening ‘the roar of London ’: The Futurist Moment of To the North”

by Michael Waldron

Elizabeth Bowen: Visions and Revisions, University College Cork, 7 November 2009