The Future of Futurism

At exactly 100 years after its birth, Futurism is revisited in terms of the new potentialities offered by Digital Photography (via “Painting with Light”). It is discussed how Futurism aimed at depicting “dynamism ” and why Digital Photography, generating variations of the same basic ideas, can offer a “Future to Futurism”. From the “Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting”: “All things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears”. 1. Futurism In 1909 (exactly one hundred years ago) in Milano, Italy, the “Futurists ” had a new artistic vision. They wanted to create imagery that contained and expressed movement. They saw the world with cars, bicycles, trains and people rushing down the streets as a world in motion. Traditional Art had all but ignored movement in its depictions, but now the Futurists wanted to make it central to their work. The “Futurist Manifesto ” was published by the Italian Poet and Editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti for the first time on February 5, 1909, in the “Cronache Letterarie ” of the daily newspaper “La Gazzetta dell’Emilia”, and retake