I connected the lecture this week to a movie I recently watched called Ex Machina. This movie is a british sci-fi about a programmer named Caleb who wins a trip to the home of the companies’ CEO. Caleb finds himself… Continue Reading →
Futurism marked a breaking point with earlier artistic traditions. Futurists tried to modify the reality in which they lived, to involve audiences in their artistic process. They wanted to change the world, to rebuild it. Any separation between the artist… Continue Reading →
Effeti Marinetti was the face and figurehead for the Futurist movement. Futurism is a movement with a strange ideology and many of its tenements seem a bit backwards to the outsider. He was very active in the public sphere and… Continue Reading →
I found it interesting during Tuesday night’s lecture to learn about the way that the futurists glorified war, and more significantly, glorified war veterans. The idea of wounds as superior and attractive and as an ultimate man were very interesting… Continue Reading →
Coming from a psych perspective, I’m wondering what types of personality traits these futurists may have had, and how their life experiences (successes, failures, etc) have shaped these new views. Where did they stand financially, emotionally, etc? Some of the… Continue Reading →
In 1910, in the limelight of Chiarella Theater of Turin, the first manifesto of futurists was unveiled. A notable characteristic of this fiesta was a shift in the interest of artists. Futurism does not permit artists, extending to us, regular… Continue Reading →
Futurism is the celebration of urbanization and technological advances. This is exemplified in the quote “The suffering of a man is of the same interest to us as the suffering of an electric lamp” (lecture). This movement denies the past… Continue Reading →
Gianluca did something really interesting at the start of his lecture, which was to recount and summarize all of the previous lectures, and direct their ideas towards the theme of his own lecture. In addition, I’m not sure if this… Continue Reading →
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