Futurist Manifesto:
I think it’s hard to describe the
tone of the Futurist Manifesto. The language used is very passionate,
descriptive, and aggressive. It paints a
very vivid picture, and I think once you step back and read this manifesto for
what it is, very interesting statements are made. I think the line that stood
out the most to me was the one that said “Art, in fact, can be nothing but
violence, cruelty, and injustice.” He talks about history in a negative light,
and how museums are damaging to art. I believe he’s saying that the past is
terrible, and a new way of thinking and going about life needs to be
enforced. Time goes by so quickly, so
the ways of the past become obsolete and it’s on to the next art form. I think
he is making the argument that why should people “worship” the past when you
can create the superior future.
Olia Lialina
This is a very interesting article about the
Internet in the 90’s as an “amateur web” and how the Internet is now this new
transformed thing of the future. One of
my choice paragraphs from this article is on page 3. This was two years later
from the previous statements she made about the web, and she states that the
relationship once to the web is obsolete. So many people are basically
invisible on the Internet, and using the Internet is nothing more than an
everyday task. The web is basically “accounts, profiles, journals, personal
spaces, channels, blogs, and more.” This relates a lot to our first project
because everyone is using and creating on the web for enjoyment and as even as
an escape from reality. Even if things get personal or intimate, the web will
still draw to some understanding of distance and disconnection from reality,
which is a thought-provoking thing to think about
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