Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)
1909
Manifesto of Futurism Published by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Marinetti’s manifesto called for artists to embrace the aesthetic language of technology and industrialization in their practice. Frank Popper considered Futurism (in addition to Dadaism and Constructivism) the most influential movement in the first quarter of the twentieth century on electronic art. Popper elaborates: “Futurism, besides its exaltation of dynamism and speed, attempted to find abstract equivalents for all the forms and elements in the universe and advocate the fusion of art and science.”
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
- Popper, Frank. Art of the Electronic Age, 11. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997.
People
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Frank Popper
Movements
Futurism
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- Ideas
- abstraction, art and science, dynamism, Futurism, industrialization, manifestos, speed, technology
- People
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Frank Popper
- Works
- Electronic Art, Manifesto of Futurism
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