Keywords

jam session
Futurism/Futurist movement

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism (published in Le Figaro), 1908

Antonio Sant’Elia, The New City, 1914
Antonio Sant’Elia, Airport and Railway Station with Elevators and Funiculars over Three-Level Street, 1914

Marinetti, The New Religion-Morality of Speed, 1916
Anton Giulio and Arturo Bragaglia, Typist, 1911

Umberto Boccioni, Riot in the Galleria, 1910
Balilla Pratella, La Guerra, Three Dances for Orchestra, 1913

Viva la futurista (Life to/Long live the Futurist)
passéist
avant-garde

Marinetti, Zang Tumb Tumb (The Battle of Adrianopole), 1914
Francesco Cangiullo, Postcard, 1915
Marinetti, Stationary, 1939

Luigi Russolo, Dynamism of a Car, 1912-13
Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Greeting/The Slap/Double Print, 1911

Marcel Fabre (director), Love Afoot, 1914
Silvio Mix (music; originally performed live)

Russolo, Music, 1911
Russolo, L’art dei Rumori/The Art of Noises, 1913
J.J. Rousseau, The Rumorists, Futurist Music, n.d.
intonarumori (noise makers)
The “Intonarumori” at the London Colosseum, 1914
Russolo, Awakening of a City, 1914 (score and sound track)

Futurist Dances, La Vie Parisienne, 1921
Fortunato Depero, Futurist Dance Costumes
Marinetti, Manifesto of Futurist Dance, 1917
Shrapnel Dance
Machine-Gun Dance
Woman Pilot’s Dance (Dance of the Aviatrix)
Depero, Balli Plastici (Plastic Ballet), 1918
Machine of 3000 or the Love of Two Locomotives for the Station Master, 1925
Fedele Azari, aerial dances/aerial theatre

Giacomo Balla, Speeding Automobile, 1912
Balla, Abstract Speed, 1913
Balla, Abstract Speed and Noise, 1913-14
Balla, Dog on a Leash (and preparatory analysis), 1912
Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913
Balla, Swifts: Paths of Movement + Dynamic Sequences, 1913

Edweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 1887, plate 755 (chronograph of birds in flight)

simultaneity
dynamism
force lines

Futurist Synthetic Theatre, 1915
Bruno Corra and Emilio Settimelli, Sempronio’s Lunch, 1915
Mario Dessy, Waiting, 1919

The Clash, London Calling, 1979

Images of Speed:

• The Wonder Book of Speed (cover design), 1950
• Roy Lichtenstein, In the Car (painting), 1963
• Pulsar’s Digital Watch (digital technology), 1972
• Andreas Gursky, Hong Kong Stock Exchange (C-print), 1994
• David Cronenberg, Crash (film still), 1996
• Los Angeles Freeway (photograph), 1998
• Bullet Train, Japan (photograph), 1999