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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Futurists"”.
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A slap in the face of public taste: the Russian Futurists' aesthetics of revolution
… focuses on the most well-known group of Russian Futurists, Hylaea (sometimes also called the Cubo-Futurists), because its members developed unconventional aesthetics of revolution to spread their plan to the Russian public from the time of its founding in 1910 until the outbreak of the Great War …
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The plastic dynamism of the human aesthetic : employing futurist methodologies in the cross-disciplinary design of social robot morphologies
… comparing the sculptural work of the Italian Futurists (1900–1916) with contemporary social robot morphologies illuminates remarkable similarities and a prevailing ‘futuristic’ aesthetic developed by the Futurists that is still largely present in contemporary social robots. By consciously …
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Musings from the Margins of a Polychrome Future
… my initial desire was to hold a convening of futurists, artist, planners, and architects to discuss how we meld our fields to imagine futures that are inclusive not just in physicality but in the values, interests, and needs that hold primacy with which we imagine them. Th en the conference …
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Futurist Aeropainting: Extended Women and the Kingdom of the Machine
<p>A major theme in works by later Italian Futurists of the 1930s was what was called aero-aesthetics in which the artists drew their inspiration from the act and fantasy of aviation. Focusing on the perception of aeropainting, or a eropittura, within both Futurism and Fascism, I am concerned in …
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The Effect of Technology on Social Interaction in Local Community Organizations
… of the day's newest technology. Self-proclaimed futurists for centuries have attempted to foretell the impact of technology on society with varied success. The goal of this research project is to study the effect of computer network technology on the social interactions of the local community …
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An international study of curricular organizers for the study of technology
… (5) anthropologists of technology, (6) futurists, (7) industrialists/business leaders. A Thurstone and Chave Method of Equal Appearing Intervals was used to assign scale and Q values to each item ranked in the Q sort. An 80th centile was used for an item to achieve a consensus. The …
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Fragments of times and spaces : collage in the theatre of Vs. E. Meyerhold, 1906-1926
The (re)discovery of collage by the Cubists and futurists was one of the most significant artistic developments of the last century. Collage practice was embraced by artists and intellectuals as more than a formal process involving the combination of image fragments using glue. From Pablo Picasso …
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In London, Around 1914
… their talk of machines from that of the Futurists. By interacting with popular culture the Vorticists embraced an avant-garde aesthetic, even as they resisted certain kinds of avant-garde activity that they perceived to have been cheapened by their success and ubiquity. Chapter four …
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Contemporary Art and Food: An Examination of Three Case Studies Using Anthropology and Diaspora as Key.
… art was introduced in the 1930s by the Italian Futurists’ banquets, which celebrated modernity and technology underlying social and political commentary. It continued throughout the 1960s with performance art, conceptual art, and happenings, and in the 1970s with the Fluxus movement’s …
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Future vehicle types and characteristics : reducing fuel consumption through shifts in vehicle segments and operating characteristics
… vehicle controls has long been imagined by futurists and tested in various forms by automotive manufacturers since the 1950s, but recent developments stemming from a series of competitions sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency between 2007 and 2011 suggest that …