A complex and dis-unified field of activity
A history of experimental film and video - Rees 1999 (A book)
Activities whose output felt other contemporary or traditional forms of art or daily life were outdated.
In 1923 the combustion engine was invented by Samuel Brown allowing for industrial activities to be done with speed and in mass.
(Here we watched a documentary "the perfect suit" where about 50 minutes in the presenter gets very excited about the mass, and precise, production of suits in a factory)
Up until now there had been a smooth progression between different phases of human progression, 1836 - Theory of evolution, 1920 - Theory of relativity, 1914-18 - WW1. Modernism brought on a rejection of this smooth change to be replaced by the machine.
Bauhaus, part of the modernist movement, literally translated means "House of construction" as it was constantly being made by those students there, all cutlery, furniture, etc. was made by those who lived there. It was made in tandem with the first German republic, just after WW1.
Its manifesto held "Composite character of a building as an entity" and "no essential difference between artists and craftsmen" in its manifesto.
Important people to consider are Kandinsky and Lazlo Mohony (1923 joined bauhaus, considered the camera to take your eye somewhere the camera could not, art as a force for positive change and subversion of traditional boundaries)
Telimatic art
Used graph paper, Mohony used transition of data to a remote location, anticipating internet, printers and the pixelation. i.e. the digital age.
Futurists
Bertelli - At the same time as Baurhaus.
It had an 11 step agenda which can be read of you scroll down here: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html
Basically glorified war and speed. There was a complete and naive faith in technology as if it was a replacement for the recently disproven religion.
Take into account Brocconli and Tullio Crali
Avant Guarde Film (1920 - 1945)
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