61. University Of Delaware: THE FUTURISM COLLECTION futurism, a twentiethcentury movement founded by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), embraced literature, painting, sculpture, http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/futurism.htm

Special Collections Department The Futurism Collection Manuscript Collection Number Accessioned Extent 26 items Content Notes, clippings, manuscripts, typescripts Access The collection is open for research. Processed April 1991, by W. Van Wyck for reference assistance email Special Collections or contact: Special Collections, University of Delaware Library Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Table of Contents Historical Note Scope and Contents Note Contents List Historical Note Futurism, a twentieth-century movement founded by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), embraced literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and music. The Futurist movement was known for its manifestos which provided practical information about the implementation of futurist principles. The first Futurist Manifesto was written by Marinetti and published in Le Figaro in 1909. Marinetti called for a new art form that would reflect contemporary living conditions and break with the aesthetic traditions of the nineteenth century. Futurist artists attempted to apply Marinetti's principles by glorifying speed and movement in their works. In 1939, writers Luigi Scrivo and P. Bellanova began compiling notes, clippings, and drafts of chapters for a proposed definitive history of the Futurist Movement. The proposed book, entitled "Volgarizzazione del Futurismo," was never completed. Some of the material collected by Scrivo and Bellanova appears in a similar work, "Sintesi del Futurismo: Storia E Documenti," published by Scrivo in 1968.

62. Foresight And Futurism Futurists get asked, “Where are the Flying Cars?” all the time so I’ll put in my two cents. The October 2007 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine had a one http://www.escottanderson.com/blog/fafblog.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=19833454"); Foresight and Futurism A Futurist's Perspective On Our Rapidly Changing World Home Blog Articles About ... Contact Sunday, October 07, 2007 Where are the Flying Cars? I’m about to risk any credibility that I might have by talking about this, but I’m going to do it anyway. Futurists get asked, “Where are the Flying Cars?” all the time so I’ll put in my two cents. The October 2007 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine had a one page article giving the latest progress on the flying car, so I feel compelled to talk about it. I bought the magazine while I was camping in my in-law’s RV. This thing is something like 30 feet long, has 3 slide-outs to expand the interior room, has automatic leveling gear that descends from under the vehicle, and too many other features to name. It’s probably even more advanced than most of our permanent homes. For instance, the refrigerator can run on propane or electricity. Can yours do that? Mine can’t. In any case, my point is that we can build very sophisticated vehicles. So why don’t we have flying cars? Short answer – they’re just not practical. Think about it, do you really want your average person zipping around overhead? I know I don’t want cars driving over my house anymore than I want the present cars driving through my yard. I have enough air traffic from the small airplanes and helicopters that are already in the air. Therefore, flying cars would have to stay on designated paths (i.e. roads). We would probably just use the same pathways we have now. If this is the case we wouldn’t get anywhere any faster than we already do. Sure, a flying car might be able to achieve higher speeds than a wheeled car, but the cars we drive now are capable of higher speeds than we are allowed to or can safely drive. Another thing that makes a flying car impractical is that it would require more energy to stay suspended in the air than to sit on the ground. With the energy situation being as it is flying cars aren’t the prudent choice unless there is an advantage of great magnitude which I have yet to see.

63. UbuWeb Sound - F.T. Marinetti The poet and guiding light of futurism carried out some of the most important It is interesting to note that for Thibaudet the futurist words at liberty http://www.ubu.com/sound/marinetti.html

UbuWeb Sound UbuWeb F.T. Marinetti Battaglia, Peso + Odore, view the score (4,5: voice: Luigi Pennone, Arrigo Lora-Totino) from the LP Futura Poesia Sonora (Cramps Records) Recorded in 1976 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti UbuWeb Sound UbuWeb PennSound GreyLodge ... WFMU

64. Futurism: Blogs, Photos, Videos And More On Technorati Five months ago I wrote a futurism essay about a possible technology which would change picture taking forever Capturing a perfect moment. http://technorati.com/posts/tag/futurism

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65. Gravestmor » Moebius Futurism : : Architectural Ephemera 4 Responses to “Moebius futurism”. mr.snow Says October 18th, 2006 at 915 pm. dont know if you realised this but moebius also worked on alien ( 1979 http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2006/10/15/moebius-futurism/

gravestmor about projects Flickr ... Sydney Architecture Talks etc: WORTHY: Archidose Archinect Archlog BLDGBLOG ... Moebius Futurism October 15th, 2006 + del.icio.us +digg The Long Tomorrow is a short, twelve page, comic produced in 1956-76 which tells the noir story of a private detective hired to pick up a parcel for a sultry dame. It has a stock noir plot and the writing is pretty terrible. cites it as an influence in the germination of cyberpunk and the future imperfect: William Gibson Take a look at the entire comic here mr.snow Says: October 18th, 2006 at 9:15 pm dont know if you realised this but moebius also worked on alien ( 1979 ) under ridley scott . giger darrow . he lacks the elegance of moebius, but intensifies the details . detail is what i think characterises bladerunner marcus Says: October 26th, 2006 at 8:44 am I remember reading that Moebius worked on the uniforms for the crew of the Nostromo. Yagur Says: December 5th, 2006 at 3:11 am Michael Says: February 6th, 2007 at 10:08 pm Nice Blog!I like YOur post.And i hope your blog became better and better!Thanks.Welcome to my Blog: http://kashiwabarhxbk.blogspot.com

66. Futurism Art No other Modern Art faction in the annals of art history has been so bold and aggressive as the futurism movement that rose out of the heart of Italy. http://www.virtualology.com/virtualmuseumofart/hallofartmovements/futurismart.co

You are in: Museum of Art Hall of Art Movements Futurism Art Citation: Website address (ie benjaminfranklin.org ), edited by Stanley L. Klos and volunteer editor's name, if any, listed at bottom - Carnegie, PA 1999-2006. We rely on volunteers to edit the sites on a continual basis. If you would like to edit this site please submit edits and  biographies in text form Futurism Art Italy By Neal McLaughlin " The pen is mightier than the sword! " At one time or another we have all been exposed to this statement and have felt the strength contained in these 7 little words. We understand that the written word, when used with authority, can cut us deeper than the keenest edge of the sharpest rapier When applied to the art world this cliché can also be adapted to hold true that the brush is mightier than the sword. Alone, the written word is an extremely powerful form of communicating our thoughts, ideas, likes and dislikes. But when one combines script with the philosophies and styles of the visual arts the two become a combustible material that may very well explode into a movement guaranteed to send concussion waves throughout the entire world. Art movements are born out of the need for people to express their reactions to social, political and religious changes. Whether they accept them or openly disdain them the goals are equal in velocity: To promote their perspective of current changes.

67. U B U W E B :: Futurism And Musical Notes Discussions of Futurist music have been incorrect and misleading because after the period, musicians and critics have known only a concept of the music, http://www.ubuweb.com/papers/lombardi.html

UbuWeb UbuWeb Papers Futurism and Musical Notes Daniele Lombardi (Artforum, translated by Meg Shore) Discussions of Futurist music have been incorrect and misleading because after the period, musicians and critics have known only a concept of the music, which has been modified by subsequent theorizing and interpretation. Everything that does not fit into the theories has been regarded with suspicion, considered not to be music, and "relegated'' to the domain of the visual arts or theater. History needs to be reevaluated in terms of avant-garde movements such as Futurism so that those attempts that have opened the path to later artistic activity may be distinguishable from those which have fallen back on themselves, and have therefore failed to connect with the evolution of artistic thought. Early in the 20th century the Italian musical world was characterized by the persistence of the late Romantic tradition, The curtain had already come down many times on Parsifal and on "program music'' but the "season" continued (with inferior imitations). During this time one figure stands out as the initiator of a new musical concept (one that can be located at the root of Futurism and other avant-garde movernents) Ferruccio Busoni, who was also one of the greatest pianists of his time. Seeds of all the ideas that were later enthusiastically expressed by the Futurists Balilla Pratella and Luigi Russolo can be found in Busoni's essay, Entwurf einer neuen Astetik der Tonkunst (Sketch of a New Esthetic of the Art of Sound), 1907, published in Trieste by Schmidl.

68. The Winnipeg Art Gallery - Futurism And After: David Burliuk, 1882-1967 David Burliuk, the father of Russian and Ukrainian futurism, inspired and promoted the earliest avantgarde exhibitions and publications in the Russian http://www.wag.mb.ca/htmlfiles/EXHIBITIONS/CURRENT_/burliuk.asp

FUTURISM AND AFTER: DAVID BURLIUK, 1882-1967 April 25 to July 20, 2008 Guest curated by Myroslav Shkandrij, Professor and Acting Head, Dept. German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba David Burliuk, the "father of Russian and Ukrainian Futurism," inspired and promoted the earliest avant-garde exhibitions and publications in the Russian empire. His later career is less well-known. Although recent interest has led to exhibitions in the Russian cities of Ufa and St. Petersburg, the dispersal of his works over three continents has made a full account of his evolution difficult. Drawing on the extensive collection of his granddaughter Mary Clare Burliuk, who now resides in Canada, the WAG exhibition provides an overview of the most important periods of his life: his early years in Ukraine and Russia (1907-18), his travels through Siberia (1918-20), his time in Vladivostok (1919-20) and Japan (1920-22), and his life in the USA in both New York (1922-41) and Hampton Bays, Long Island (1941-67). This is the first major show of his art in North America since 1962. During the Revolution and Civil War from 1917 to 1920, Burliuk travelled across Siberia giving Futurist concerts and selling his art. He then spent two years in Japan organizing numerous exhibitions and promoting Futurism. In 1922 he emigrated to the United States, living among East European immigrants in New York's Lower East Side before moving to Long Island in 1940. In later life he travelled around the globe, painting constantly. Throughout his long career, Burliuk experimented with various styles: Impressionism, Surrealism, a "radio style" that he declared in 1925; "naïve" art, and a manner that has been dubbed "ethnographic realism." The WAG exhibition brings together examples of each style, and explores the constants in the painter's art.

69. Futurism Period, Fururist History, Futurism Pictures, Futurism Posters, Futurism The futurism movement, ranging from 1909 to 1944, originated in Italy as an avantgarde movement that took technology, speed and modernity as its http://www.arthistoryguide.com/Futurism.aspx

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70. Aryan Futurism Aryan futurism. Aryan metapolitics New Right culture politics and homosexuality It is fundamental to Aryan Futurist ideology; an ideology that will http://aryanfuturism.blogspot.com/

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=24899271"); Aryan Futurism Aryan metapolitics New Right culture politics and homosexuality Thursday, January 10, 2008 To Infinity...and Beyond II Our race, culture and vision of limitless expansion in space and time has no future under the current global materialist status quo. Indeed, with inertia and the continuance of business-as-usual, the survival of the whole human race and other species is moot. If one day our descendants are reaching into inter-galactic space – then it is US that they will remember, and thank for our perseverance and loyalty to a higher order. It is US who are living at the critical junction in history, with unparalleled consequences for the Aryan race and the planet more generally. It is within our lifetimes that the fate of the planet for possibly millions of years will be decided. We must view our destiny clearly. Whether we face a future amongst the stars, or final annihilation and extinction, the end of the experiment of advancing intellect and spirituality across the cosmos, is a decision for our current generation. The urge towards further space exploration is an essential quality of the Aryan psyche, as recognized by Norman Lowell amongst others. It is fundamental to Aryan Futurist ideology; an ideology that will spread through successful propaganda.

71. What Is Futurism futurism was an Italian movement that came to the forefront of European art in 1909 when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the Founding and Manifesto of http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/arts/scultpureplastic/SculptureHistory/Europ

What is Futurism "Futurism was a far-reaching Italian movement that included poetry, literature, painting, graphics, typography, sculpture, product design, architecture, photography, cinema and the performing arts and focused on the dynamic, energetic and violent character of changing 20th century life, especially city life. It particularly emphasized the power, force and motion of machinery combined with the contemporary fascination with speed while at the same time denouncing the 'static' art of the past and the passéist or old-fashioned establishment. On the downside it also glorified war, apparently denigrated women, initially favoured Fascism and vilified artistic tradition wanting to ' destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind '." http://www.futurism.org.uk/futurism.htm Futurism was an Italian movement that came to the forefront of European art in 1909 when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the Founding and Manifesto of Futurism.

72. Futurism - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Futurism Hutchinson encyclopedia article about futurism. futurism. Information about futurism in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Futurism

Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='Futurism';WordListHost='w3.thefreedictionary.com' Printer Friendly 921,093,675 visitors served. TheFreeDictionary Google Word / Article Starts with Ends with Text Dictionary/ thesaurus Medical dictionary Legal dictionary Financial dictionary Acronyms Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia encyclopedia Futurism playV2('en/US/d7/d7dsssssstssdnsosfgk');playV2('en/UK/d7/d7dsssssstssdnsosfgk') Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus Encyclopedia Wikipedia 0.06 sec. ad_channel="2085469577"; AdsNum=3; OriginalURL="http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Futurism"; google_page_url=OriginalURL; google_language = "en"; google_max_num_ads = '20'; google_num_radlinks = '10'; google_max_radlink_len = '17'; window.onerror=myerror; google_kw ="Futurism"; kw = google_kw; g_kw=1; google_encoding="utf-8"; google_ad_channel=ad_channel; write_ads(AdsNum, 0) Futurism Avant-garde art movement founded in 1909 that celebrated the dynamism of the modern world. It was chiefly an Italian movement and was mainly expressed in painting, but it also embraced other arts, including literature and music, and it had extensive influence outside Italy, particularly in Russia. In Italy the movement virtually died out during World War I, but in Russia it continued to flourish into the 1920s. Futurism was founded by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti when he published a manifesto attacking established cultural values in the Parisian newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909. Marinetti came from a wealthy family, so he had the financial means to stage effective publicity. He also had a flamboyant temperament, which gained attention for Futurism everywhere he went. Like many Italians of the time, he thought that his country and his country's art had become stagnant, and he called for a new art glorifying modern technology, machines, noise, pollution, cities, energy, and violence. Futurism was a refreshing contrast to the sentimentality of Romanticism. It embraced all things modern - the exciting new world - using new techniques and technology in its work. Futurism was therefore very unusual among art movements in that it started with a name and idea, with the works of art expressing that idea coming afterwards.

73. Modern & Contemporary Design Magazine / Futurism & Sport Design/ Products / DESI futurism was the first cultural and artistic movement of the twentieth century to examine the the futurism Sport Design project aims to understand the http://www.designspotter.com/weblog/archives/2007/11/futurism_sport.php

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75. About Afrofuturism The Afrofuturism listserv will explore futurist themes in black cultural production and the ways in which technological innovation is changing the face of http://www.afrofuturism.net/text/about.html

Afrofuturism is affiliated with the nomadic listserv of the same name, now installed on Yahoo! To change your subscription settings if you are already a subscriber visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afrofuturism Once upon a time, in the not so distant past, music writers and cultural critics like Mark Dery, Greg Tate, Mark Sinker and Tricia Rose brought science fiction themes in the works of important and innovative cultural producers to our attention. They claimed that these works simultaneously referenced a past of abduction, displacement and alien-nation, and inspired technical and creative innovations in the work of such artists as Lee "Scratch" Perry, George Clinton and Sun Ra. Science fiction was a recurring motif in the music of these artists, they argued, because it was an apt metaphor for black life and history. Now a new generation of AfroFuturists are exploring these themes in a variety of genres: DJs Spooky and Singe in music and digital culture, Fatimah Tuggar and Keith Piper in the visual arts, Kodwo Eshun in music criticism, McLean Greaves in cyberspace, and Nalo Hopkinson in speculative fiction. The AfroFuturism listserv will explore futurist themes in black cultural production and the ways in which technological innovation is changing the face of black art and culture. The discussion is open to all relevant topics but some questions to consider are: Are recurring futurist themes in these different genres just coincidences? Are they aesthetic a/effects of our millennial moment? Or have futurism and science fiction become the most effective way to talk about black experiences? How do these themes refer to the history of the African diaspora, yet imagine possible futures, futures that enable a broad range of cultural expression and an ever-widening definition of "blackness?" Do they change that definition according to technological imperatives, and if so, how so? Do these examples provide evidence of distinctly "black" uses of technology?

76. Futurism futurism is meaningless. http://www.podval.org/~sds/acf.html

: I guess my views were too pessimistic, so I have decided to withdraw this text. Automatic Filtering appears much more real now than it did 4 years ago. The following are my thoughts inspired by discussions with Alexander Chislenko and his paper Automated Collaborative Filtering in late 1996. Forecasts - relevance and reliability It is wrong to even try to decode the signal when the noise is stronger than the signal. This is more or less the case with the future. The noise increases exponentially with time, while the interesting signals usually decline. It is especially wrong to try to predict the behavior of a white noise. This would be gladly agreed upon by everyone, the problem is that not everyone agrees upon whether the signal in question is white noise or not. My major statement is that the quantitative development is a (more or less) predictable signal, while qualitative It is quite easy to say: "Look, the newspapers are all but obsolete now: we can download the news from the Internet and then print it on our laser printer; similar to this, in 10 years (or in a couple or years, depending on the degree of optimistic intoxication of the speaker) we will download furniture and print it out instead of having it delivered to the door by a truck". My answer is simple: one has to know some physics to understand the complexity of the problem. I am yet to hear an optimistic opinion on the issue from a professional (although I do have a PhD in Math, I do not claim to be a specialist in the subject).

77. Futurism And Futurist Practices futurism was an Italian movement started in the early part of the twentieth century that fed on the dynamic and rapidly changing social and political http://www.unc.edu/~jimlee/AaronYontzFuturism.htm

Futurism, Futurist Practices And Modern Futurism Aaron Yontz Comm 141 Futurism was an Italian movement started in the early part of the twentieth century that fed on the dynamic and rapidly changing social and political situations of twentieth century life. The movement encompassed all forms of art and performance including painting, literature, sculpture, theatre and the performing arts. However, this paper chooses to focus more on the Russian Futurist movement, whose roots were in Italian Futurism, and who focused more on the audio and performing arts aspects of Futurism, as they are more relevant. Futurism, as a movement, had its official start on February 20, 1909 when Filippo Marinetti published Founding and Manifesto of Futurism in a French newspaper. Marinetti was a poet and writer giving Futurism its start as a literary movement. For almost a year after the article was published Marinetti was the sole member of the Futurist revolution, but the following year Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini co-wrote and published The Manifesto of Futurist Painting giving Futurism a place in the arts as well.

78. THE FUTURIST Magazine In this optimistic imagineered future, an Israeli futurist examines the resilience of Jewish culture, economic success, and the sense of belonging to a http://www.wfs.org/futurist.htm

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79. Futurist&constructivist The Futurists rejected the past and wished to transform reality . Inspired by the writings of Marinetti, Russian Futurists sought to create a movement http://www.salisbury.edu/theatre/Futurist/futurist & constructivist.htm

Futurism and Constructivism Futurism Constructivism Main Timeline Theatre Homepage ... Bibliography Italian Futurists Back to Top Inspired by the glories of the new technological world and upset by the arts desire to continue to focus on "classical" works, the Italian Futurists sought to bring movement and chaos to the theatre world. Marinetti, the major proponent of the movement, sought to create a theatre a mechanization and movement - a theatre which captured the true spirit of the future. "The Futurists rejected the past and wished to transform reality ... [they] deplored the veneration of the past as a barrier to progress ... [and] glorified the energy and speed of the machine age." ( History , Brockett, 477) 1900 - Max Planck formulates quantum theory 1905 - First neon signs appear 1905 - Albert Einstein formulates Special Theory of Relativity 1912 -Titanic sinks on its maiden voyage 1912 - Carl Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious 1914 - World War I begins when Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated in Sarajevo 1917 - The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia 1917 - Freud's Introduction to Psychoanalysis published 1918 - World War I ends 1925 - Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf 1927 - Charles Lindberg flies the Atlantic alone 1929 - Stock Market Crashes in the United States 1932 - Amelia Earhart first woman to fly across the Atlantic alone 1933 - Philo Farnsworth develops electronic television 1945 - World War II ends with 55 million dead

80. WorldChanging: Tools, Models And Ideas For Building A Bright Green Future: Scien If even science fiction authors are finding it difficult to think about the near future, says futurist and author Jamais Cascio, it s a good sign that http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//001065.html

May 28, 08 About Stuff Shelter Cities ... Planet Science Fiction, Futurism and the Failure of the Will to Imagine Alex Steffen August 17, 2004 9:33 PM Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind? That's the question Popular Science asks this month. It's mainly an article about worldchanging allies Charlie Stross and Cory Doctorow (and we're happy to see 'em get the much-deserved press). But the frame within the story is set is a now-familiar one: "Awed at the pace of technological advances, a faction of geeky writers believes our world is about to change so radically that envisioning what comes next is nearly impossible." Been there, done that . Here's a draft of a piece I wrote for the New York Times Magazine in 2002, which got bumped by the appearance of a vaguely-similar piece in the Week In Review section: Who's afraid of the future? Science fiction writers, apparently. It seems a strange charge to level. After all, science fiction has been the genre of choice for writers who love to ponder the future, its possibilities and its dangers, ever since Mary Shelley mythologized both the expanding vistas of science and the perils of technological hubris in Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus almost 200 years ago. Nonetheless, a growing number of science fiction writers and critics contend that works which tackle the future with true originality are becoming something of an endangered species. "There's still plenty of space opera out there, with heroes running around in galactic Disneylands," says author Bruce Sterling, "but almost no one is addressing the nature of the 21st Century, or putting together, like, genuinely novel visions of life in the year 2050."

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