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Steve Acunto presents "Italian Futurism" at the Guggenheim

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Short film on the Movement of Futurism

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Modernism, Constructivism, Futurism The Bauhaus
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It was easy to become depressed after the lecture by Professor Leonardo Sonnoli at a conference marking the centenary of Futurism at Bezalel.

The first reason was what Sonnoli had to say about the need to be familiar with the history of your field, in order to become a better designer - an issue that frequently seems no interest at all to the local design audience.

The second reason was the examples Sonnoli presented when he spoke about the influence of Futurism on current typography and graphics. Nearly every aspect of today's typography, which seems so original and contemporary, has its source in a 100-year-old movement: double spreads in newspapers; typography that stretches the limits of readability and mixes top, bottom, left and right; the use of white space in order to break up text; different sizes, colors and types of letters on a single page, and so on.

This was done not only for aesthetic reasons, but rather in the name of the ideological message of Futurism and its founder, the poet Fillipo Marinetti. Marinetti wished to exalt aggression, violence and danger; considered speed fundamental to modernity; and was opposed to the past, its institutions and its art. Traditional typography did not suit his vision.

The interesting thing about Marinetti's manifestos is that they are about typography. In this respect, the Futurists were the first to understand the importance of typography in transmitting a message, something that is now studied by first-year design students.

They addressed how a page's size, color and weight contributes to the experience of reading, as well as book formats. As an example, Sonnoli brought books too large to fit onto a standard bookshelf, with folded pages of different sizes and shapes that related to space and limits in an innovative way for their time.

Sonnoli, 47 and a graduate of the Urbino Academy of Fine Arts, is a graphic designer who specializes in work for cultural institutions, exhibitions and publishing houses. He has won many prizes, and has exhibited in shows around the world. He lives in Rimini, northeastern Italy, and teaches typography and experimental book design in Venice and Urbino.

He says his interest in Futurism stems from a desire to seek out his roots.

"I always teach my students that our future is found in the past; maybe we don't know what will happen in the future, but we know what happened in the past. There are new topics to deal with and new technologies that make new things possible. The trick is to give your own interpretation.

"I know many designers who have read the same books and use the same sources, but their products are different, because we are different. I want to understand the history of where I live and to know what happened before me.

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One Arc Degree - Futurism (Psychill, 2014)

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Edgelands Futurism
Reportaje del proyecto sobre el futuro de Pepe Rojo, Christian Ziga y Ashley Eliza Smith.

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The biggest holding of concrete poetry in the world sits in a Miami duplex,gathered by a couple who initially didn't know what "concrete poetry" was.

All images courtesy of Perez Art Museum Miami, taken by Oriol Tarrides

In 1974, Marvin and Ruth Sackner began gathering works of concrete poetry," poems whose words and typography are arranged to convey meaning graphically. But they didnt know the genre was called concrete poetry until 1979. Coming across Emmett Williamss Anthology of Concrete Poetry in a book storewas a Eureka moment, says Marvin, a neurologist by trade. I exclaimed to Ruth, What weve been collecting has a name!

In the years since, they would help give a once-languishing art movement a home at the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami, an enormous and unparalleled collection of 250,000 workshoused not in a museum, but in a massive duplex overlooking the bay. Now, 300 choice pieces of theirs sit on display at the brand-new Prez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), whose concrete-poetry exhibit, A Human Document, was set to come down in May but has been extended and remains on view until August 2014.

The Sackners have built two other major art collections in the past 30 years. The first was of contemporary constructivist works. The second was of Russian avant garde and early 20th century avant garde movements (books, drawings, and paintings informed by dada, futurism, surrealism and the like). But it was the concrete and visual poetry collectionwhich includes artist books, assemblings, artist magazines, experimental calligraphy, typewriter art and poetry, and word-image worksthat would become the Sackners signature achievement.

That fact is due as much to circumstance as anything. As collectors, the Sackners could never afford to establish the early 20th-century avant garde art and book collection. But focusing on concrete poetry and letter arts was a different matter. The prices were within our means, and we related to the facile immediacy of the visual and linguistic communicability of concrete poetry, Marvin says. We gradually came to realize that it was possible to build the collection of concrete and visual poetry.

They certainly accomplished their mission, with hundreds of rarities, one-of-a-kinds, and limited-edition documentation. The earliest book in the Sackner collection is Rabanus Mauruss 1503 Liber de Laudibus Sanctae Crucis,produced in 1,000 copies and including 28 shaped poems. The collection continues to the present with the most recent book of experimental calligraphy by Francoise Mery dated April 2014.

The Sackners database encompasses more than 58,000 records with approximately 17,000 partially or not catalogued. The number of individual pieces is about 250,000. This is because artist books, print portfolios, and assemblings are recorded as one entry in the database although they may contain multiple prints and drawings.

A Human Document at the Perez Art Museum begins with Mallarmes first publication of Un Coup de Des in Cosmopolis (1897) and then provides examples of Dada, Russian avant garde, De Stijl, surrealism, futurism, lettrisme until World War II. Artist books and magazines, manuscripts, concrete and visual poems, correspondence art, typewriter poems and art are displayed in vitrines. Post-WWII word-image wall works are displayed from artists and poets worldwide.

Of all the materials, typewriter art and poetry is the most fascinating. The genre began about 20 years after the commercial introduction of the typewriter and reached its flowering with the advent of concrete poetry in the 1950s and early 1960s, Marvin explained, adding that this method allowed an inexpensive but often very labor-intensive solution for widespread distribution of a new poetic form. Moreover, the ease of overstriking letters and text for new visual and kinetic effects would have been costly and difficult if the poems were typeset during that time.

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MONTREAL Deltron 3030, a hip-hop supergroup of sorts, will close out the 35th edition of the Montreal International Jazz Festival, organizers announced Wednesday.

The trio, made up of Montreal turntablist and producer Kid Koala, rapper Del the Funky Homosapien and producer Dan the Automator, will perform a free outdoor show at Place des Festivals July 6 at 9:30 p.m.

The group, which specializes in futuristic alt-rap sounds and concepts, released its self-titled debut album in 2000, then didnt release another until last years Event II. The group last played the jazz festival indoors, at Metropolis in 2012.

The festivals complete outdoor lineup will be announced June 3.

Earlier this week, organizers announced that veteran rapper Snoop Dogg will also perform during this summers edition of the festival. The 42-year-old MC from Long Beach, Calif. born Calvin Broadus Jr. will play Metropolis July 4 at 11 p.m.

Snoop Dogg burst onto the gangsta-rap scene in 1992 when he was featured on mentor Dr. Dres multiplatinum album The Chronic. Snoops own debut album, Doggystyle, was released the following year and has sold more than 4 million copies since.

His most recent release, 2013s reggae album Reincarnated, was released under the moniker Snoop Lion, which he has since dropped. He last performed in Montreal at the Osheaga Music & Arts Festival in 2012.

Tickets for Snoop Doggs Metropolis show cost $82 to $95.30 and go on sale Friday, May 9at noon via ticketmaster.ca.

For more information on the 35th edition of the Montreal International Jazz Festival, which runs from June 26 to July 6, visit montrealjazzfest.com.

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NEW YORK With a name like Astro Teller, youd better be ready to speak at length about the future.

As the captain of moonshots at Google X, the search giants secretive lab for ambitious technology solutions, Teller is someone who lives and breathes futurism. At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference today, he gave the audience a primer on what makes Google X tick and faced criticisms of Google Glass head-on.

With the verve of a Baptist preacher, Teller kicked things off by professing his love for anti-lock breaks a far cry the moonshot concepts hes normally associated with.

[ABS] is a wonderful technology moment, he said. We dont have to mess with it. We just say at a very high level this is what we want, and its taken care of.

When technology is invisible and vanishes into our lives, thats actually its ultimate goal, Teller added.

Thats ultimately what Google is aiming for with X. Its self-driving cars could save countless lives by making driving on-demand and computer controlled rather than something which requires us to spend hours learning and then spending the rest of our lives being constantly vigilant. For people with diabetes, the recently announced glucose-sensing contact lenses are a far better user experience than pricking themselves every day to test their blood sugar. And while Google Glass is far from mature, its a stab at making us less addicted to whipping out our phones at every buzz and beep.

Teller suggested that people working on new technology ask themselves: How could the thing Im working on take away a feature? How can the thing Im working on take away a user interface? How can the thing Im working on disappear into peoples lives?

He was also quick to dismiss some of the privacy concerns around Google Glass. This is the worlds worst spy camera, Teller said, while wearing a bright blue Glass unit on stage at Disrupt. He pointed out that there are far better spy cameras on the market, and that Glass owners often ask people for permission before taking pictures and video (something smartphone owners dont typically do).

For the foreseeable future, Glass will continue to be the worlds worst spy camera, he said.

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Can you really put a price on nostalgia? What if its really, really pretty nostalgia?

A company called Analogue Interactive is looking to make the original Nintendo Entertainment System cool again with a modern aluminum chassis makeover. Its called the Analogue Nt, and this lovely piece of retro futurism can be yours for just $499. Sure, you couldget an Xbox One for that price, but how are you supposed to play Duck Hunt on that?

The casing looks nothing like the boxy NES or the original Famicom unit, but the inside is all Nintendo. Unlike some other solutions that rely on software emulation or hardware tricks to play NES games, The Analgoue Nt packs the exact same Ricoh 20A3 and 2C02 microprocessors. The company didnt somehow make more of these 30 year-old 8-bit microprocessors it harvested them from old Famicom systems that were collecting dust.

This hardware swap likely has something to do with the high cost, but it also ensures compatibility with all the games and peripherals ever produced for the NES. It even works with the bizarre Famicom Computer Disk System, and even more rare Famicom 3D System. Yet, somehow Nintendo still went on to make the Virtual Boy.

The Analogue Interactive store is accepting pre-orders right now for the Analogue Nt, but the $499 price tag is only the beginning. You can have different color aluminum cases for an additional $49. Then theres the RGB to HDMI upscaling adapter (another $49). Need some controllers? Analogue Interactive will sell you new, unused NES controllers for $49, or a refurbished NES/Famicom controller for $29. At the end of the day, you could spend quite a hefty sum on this slice of nostalgia. Its expected to ship this summer.

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