What’s your Art/Robot Manifesto?

Italian Futurism An Italian Art movement in favor of industrialized modern world; dynamism, speed, machine, violence, and misogyny influenced many other twentieth century art movements, including Art Deco, Constructivism, Surrealism and Dada. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913, By Umberto Boccioni, killed in WWI in 1916.

The Italian Futurist political moment Italian politics at the moment featured a long term corrupt Prime Minister named Giolitti (term: 1892 -1921) was the first long-term Italian Prime Minister in many years and was so because he mastered the political concept of trasformismo by manipulating, coercing and bribing officials to his side. In elections during Giolitti's government, voting fraud was common, and Giolitti helped improve voting only in well-off, more supportive areas, while attempting to isolate and intimidate poor areas where opposition was strong.[ In 1914, World War 1 began. There were so many casualties that every family lost someone to the war.

What’s a manifesto? A manifesto is a public declaration of intentions, opinions and motives. Futurists loved to write manifestos – they wrote them for painting, architecture, religion, clothing and cooking.

Intonamouri, Luigi Russolo Russolo invented a series of individual instruments Russolo presented his musical theories in a manifesto entitled 'L'arte dei rumori' (The Art of Noises) in 1913. The noise-generating instruments (hand-activated large scale boxes with megaphones attached) allowed the inclusion of 'noise' into musical composition. Russolo's first 'art-of-noises' concert for 18 'Intonarumori', caused a riot in Milan (1914).

High Points of the Italian Futurist Manifesto sing the love of danger, beauty of speed We want to glorify war — the only cure for the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman. they embraced WWI and the later fascist revolution. We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality and feminism we are issuing this manifesto of ruinous and incendiary violence Museums, libraries and academies are cemeteries of wasted effort and calvaries of crucified dreams.

LA Gioconda Museums [are] cemeteries To admire an old picture is to pour our sensibility into a funeral urn instead of casting it forward

A side trip through Dada Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I in 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), theatre, and graphic design, which concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Influenced by the Futurists in their love of anti –art gestures.

Fountain 1917 Marcel Duchamp

L.H.O.O.Q 1919 Marcel Duchamp

Manifesto #2: Fluxus an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines. ( 1960’s ) John Cage 18 Happenings in 6 parts Allan Kaprow 1959

1960’s radicalism Fluxus included a strong current of anti-commercialism and an anti-art sensibility, disparaging the conventional market-driven art world in favor of an artist-centered creative practice. Centered in New York, Germany, Japan Practitioners included George Marcuinius, Yoko Ono, John Cage, Nam June Paik Wanted art to happen in everyday spaces away from the institutions.

Highlights of Fluxus Manifesto by George Maciunas, 1963 (Lithuanian) Purge the world of dead art, europanism Flux is a state of flow, so make a revolutionary tide Promote a non-art realityto be grasped by all peoples

Nam Jun Paik with Magnet TV

Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, first performed in 1964 Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, first performed in 1964. A performance in which she wore her best outfit and sat on stage with a pair of scissors inviting the audience to approach and cut off bits of her outfit.

Tap and Touch Cinema, by Valie Export 1966 (Woman at left), a cinema for the hands, not the voyeuristic eyes. One imagines what the “viewer” experiences. ‘Public’ accessibility – restricted to 30 seconds per person. She writes that this is a projection space for male fantasies, an ironic transgression of the border between art and life.

Manifesto #3: Bread and Puppet Theater, 1984

Bread and Puppet are performing this week in Boston: The Boston Center for the Arts 539 Tremont Street, South End of Boston, January 24-30, 2011 The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland (for adults), 7 pm, Thursday 1/27 through Sunday 1/30 The Decapitalization Circus (for family audiences), 4 pm, Saturday 1/29 and Sunday 1/30

Highlights from Peter Schumann: The Cheap Art movement was launched in 1982 by the Bread and Puppet Theater in direct response to the business of art and its growing appropriation by the corporate sector. Cheap Art hopes to reestablish the appreciation of artistic creation by making it available to a wider audience and inspire anyone to revel in an art making process that is not subject to academic approval or curatorial acceptance. Why? “Because art is food…”,