EN THE TRANSPORTATION WAS NOT WIDELY AVAILABLE SO EVERYTHING HAD TO BE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE.
TODAY, MORE THAN HALF OF THE POPULATION IN THE WORLD LIVE IN AN URBAN AREA. BY MID-CENTURY, THIS WILL INCREASE TO 70%. HOW HAVE WE REACHED SUCH A HIGH DEGREE OF URBANIZATION WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR OUR FUTURE?
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IN MANY WAYS, CITIES CAN BE COMPARED WITH LIVING ORGANISMS. THERE ARE INITIAL REASONS THAT THEY COME INTO BEING, KEY INGREDIENTS CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR GROWTH, AND OCCASIONALLY CITIES MEET THEIR DEMISE.
WHEN PEOPLE WAS ABLE TO DEVELOP INFRASTRUCTURE TO OVERCOME THESE LIMITATIONS. UNTIL THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, WHEN NEW TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYED ON A MASS SCALE ALLOWED CITIES TO EXPAND AND INTEGRATE FURTHER.
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CONTENTS STATEMENT past FUTURISM FORMALITY AI APPLICATION
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STATEMENT The term Futurism has evolved throughout the years. How can futurism evolve in the next decade? How can architecture engage with Artificial Intelligent to generate a new form of language on exploring futurism? The thesis is about defining the 2020 futurism with AI. Being a Futurist in the early 20th was about being modern, young, and the maker of industrial modernity city. This doesn’t mean revitalizing the traditional view of the future, but the invention of a new dimension of language flexible enough to express the range of experience open to people in the drawing century of speed, mobility, and unprecedented scientific advance. After 100 years, futurism transforms into ideologization and conception. The invention of AI bringing a new conversation of how do we vision the future? Where are these visions come from? The initial idea of AI was about automation of cognitions like recommendation engines. How can AI play an important role in visioning the culture of future architecture? How can AI automate the processes of aesthetic creation and aesthetic choices? We use AI in recommending kinds of music, apps, or movies by letting it learn our browser histories. What if I select contents from a larger collection on futurism and let it generate images based purely on aesthetic. Billions of people around the world use digital tools and media to create and share visions and ideas. At the same, futurism is a term into the identities of a global generation connected by a common value, cultural sensibilities, and visual aesthetics. My thesis is an experiment to see how we can combine traditional “qualitative” approaches of futurism with the quantitative analysis with AI and computational methods. The automatic adjust the aesthetics of captured media to fit certain criteria. This development raises big questions about the future. Will automation leads to a decrease in the aesthetic diversity of the future over time? Are we starting to grow a similar vision toward the future?
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ITALIAN FUTURISM Fortunato Depero Skyscrapers and Tunnels 1930
TECHNOLOGY ----> PERSPECTIVE
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Italian Futurism was officially launched in 1909 when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian intellectual, published his “Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” . Marinetti’s continuous leadership ensured the movement’s cohesion for three and half decades, until his death in 1944. To be a Futurist in the Italy of the early 20th century was to be modern, young, and insurgent. Inspired by the markers of modernity—the industrial city, machines, speed, and flight—Futurism’s adherents exalted the new and the disruptive.
(LEFT)BUILDING TULLIO CRALI 1920S (RIGHT)GIACOMO BALLA BALBO AND THE FLYERS 1931
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“THE BUILDINGS SEEMED TO BE A VERTICAL SAIL, SCINTILLATING AND VERY LIGHT, A LUXURIOUS BACKDROP, SUSPENDED IN THE DARK SKY TO DAZZLE, DISTRACT AND HYPNOTIZE” BY METROPOLIS DIRECTOR FRITZ LANG THESIS PREP
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(LEFT) TULLIO CRALI BEFORE THE PARACHUTE OPENS 1939
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UMBERTO BOCCIONI MATERIA 1912
“GLOBALIZATION OVER NATIONALISM . THE COMMON GOOD OVER INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY “
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Atkinson+CO Inspired by the drawing of Antonio Sant’Elia
NEW ARCHITECTURE FORM INSPIRED BY THE DRAWINGS OF ANTONIO SANT’ELIA (1888-1916), THESE IMAGES WERE DEVELOPED FROM A DESIRE TO BRING HIS EVOCATIVE IDEAS TO LIFE. CONCEIVED A LITTLE OVER A CENTURY AGO, HIS WORK REMINDS US OF A TIME WHEN TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY WERE VIEWED WITH AN OPTIMISTIC SENSE OF THRILL AND EXCITEMENT. THE HOPE IS THAT THESE RECREATIONSPORTRAYSOMEOFTHATAWEANDWONDER.
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15 Atkinson+CO Inspired by the drawings of Antonio Sant’Elia
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RUSSIAN FUTURISM Vladimirovich Mayakovsky SOVIET POET 1893 - 1930
FUTURISM WITH LITERATURE
All Russian Union of Poetsv 1925
Four Phonetic Novels 1927
Tiflis 1926
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Russian Futurism was a movement of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Filippo Marinetti’s “Manifesto of Futurism,” which espoused the rejection of the past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth, industry, destruction of academies, museums, and urbanism. It also advocated the modernization and cultural rejuvenation. The Manifesto celebrated the “beauty of speed” and the machine as the new aesthetic.
(LEFT)EL LISSITZKY VICTORY OVER THE SUN 1912 (RIGHT)GIACOMO BALLA BALBO AND THE FLYERS 1931
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RETROFUTURISM RETROFUTURISM IS FIRST AND FOREMOST BASED ON MODERN BUT CHANGING NOTIONS OF “THE FUTURE”.
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1984 If futurism is sometimes called a “science” bent on anticipating what will come, retrofuturism is the remembering of that anticipation. Characterized by a blend of old-fashioned “retro styles” with futuristic technology, retrofuturism explores the themes of tension between past and future, and between the alienating and empowering effects of technology. Primarily reflected in artistic creations and modified technologies that realize the imagined artifacts of its parallel reality, retrofuturism can be seen as “an animating perspective on the world”. Retrofuturism is first and foremost based on modern but changing notions of “the future”.
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AFROFUTURISM Makoko Canal Olalekan Jeyifous 2018
CULTURE AND AESTHETICS
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1993 BY MARK DERY “Afrofuturism” as a term was coined by Mark Dery in his 1993 essay “Black to the Future”, but its ideas and aesthetics sprang from jazz, black music, literature and the radical black identity movements of the 1960s and 1970s. It was a reaction to ghettoisation and to white society encoding African-American aspirations. The movement is about “finds a way to bridge the cultural aspects of the ancient African traditions with the potential of the future”
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SINOFUTURISM AI AND FUTURISM
SINO FUTURISM LAWRENCE LEK 2018
Sinofuturism is an invisible movement. A specter already embedded in a trillion industrial products, a billion individuals, and a million veiled narratives. It is a movement, not based on individuals, but on multiple overlapping flows. Flows of populations, of products, and of processes. Because Sinofuturism has arisen without conscious intention or authorship, it is often mistaken for contemporary China. But it is not. It is a science fiction that already exists.
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2016 BY LAWRENCE LEK COMPUTING COPY STUDY GAMING ------> GAMBLE LABOR
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FUTURISM PAST FUTURISM
PAST VISIONS OF THE FU
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FUTURE OF WHAT IF
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“WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS TO BREAK DOWN THE MYSTERIOUS DOORS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, THE DETERMINATION TO REACH AS WIDE AN AUDIENCE AS POSSIBLE IS THE KEY TO FUTUREISM.”
It characterizes both the movement’s most daring and stimulating experimentation and its most infuriating excesses of bombast. Above all, it explains why Martinetti, as leader of the movement, put such tremendous energy into expanding the boundaries of what could be termed ‘culture’ beyound all recognition. This meant not just the revitalizing of the traditional arts of painting. sculpture, poetry, music and architecture, but the invention of a new dimension of language flexible enough to express the range of experience open to man in the drawing century of speed, mobility and unprecedented scientific advance. Futurism is grounded in the complete renewal of human sensibility brought soubt by the great discoveries of science.
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FUTURIST LIFE WAS ESSENTIALLY URBAN THE CURRENT FUTURISM -> THE PAST OF THE FUTURE
A TIME MARK?
A STYLE?
A GROUP VALUE?
A COMMON VALUE?
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“WE NAVIGATE THE SOCIAL AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD ON THE BASIS OF AESTHETIC VALUES… THIS IS AN INESCAPEABLE FACT OF OUR HUMAN CONDITION… WE AS DESIGNERS HAVE TO ENGAGE WITH THIS FACT OF LIFE.”
Millions of people around the world today use digital tools and platforms to create and share sophisticated cultural artifacts. This book focuses on one such platform: Instagram. It places Instagram image culture within a rich cultural and historical context, including histories of photography, cinema, graphic design, as well as contemporary social media, design trends, music video, and k-pop. At the same it uses Instagram as a window into the identities of a young global generation connected by common social media platforms, cultural sensibilities, and visual aesthetics. My book is an experiment to see how we can combine traditional “qualitative” approaches of media theory and art history with quantitative analysis that uses “big cultural data” and computational methods. Our Instagram analysis suggests that the subjects and styles of photographs are strongly influenced by social, cultural, and aesthetic values of a given location or demographic.
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31 lev manovich Zooming into an Instagram City
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How do we explore people’s common visual ON FUTURISM which contains billions of photographs shared by hundreds of millions of contributors? What types of insights can we gain from analyzing this massive visual universe? how people understand and use this medium, how they implicitly follow conventions of photo culture or define their styles in opposition to these conventions, how they construct their self-representations, and how aesthetics, subjects, and techniques function together to communicate meanings and to create emotional effects and bonds between authors of photos and their followers.
AESTHETIC VALUES MODERNITY
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TRENDS SURPRISE PHENOMENON ATTENTION CATCHER SYMBOLIC POPULAR CLICHES
CULTURE LITERACY MOVIES TV SHOWS ART PHOTOS
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Futurism began as a literary avant-garde, and the printed word was vital for this group. In the early 1900s, a group of young and rebellious Italian writers and artists emerged determined to celebrate industrialization. But the Futurists quickly embraced the visual and performing arts, politics, and even advertising. Futurist artists experimented with the fragmentation of form, the collapsing of time and space, the depiction of dynamic motion, and dizzying perspectives.
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THE STYLE STUDY AFROFUTURISM
The original images of New York City. The goal is to let AI study the form of the city and the Afrofuturism art by various artists.
Colors of art dominated the majority result of the images
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THE FORM OF CURRENT CITY NEW YORK CITY
THE MODERN CITY HAD BEEN THE BATTERY OF HUMAN AND MECHANICAL ENERGY
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THE FORM OF IMAGIN CITY IMAGES FROM BEHANCE
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Hybrid dark solitary semi-social cluster. Built by: a duet of nephila edulis — six weeks, a quintet of cyrtophora citricola — eight weeks
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AI would allow us to look at contemporary culture in a new way by providing new concepts for thinking about global digital culture. but in the case of automatically selections, we still know that the computer does not really understand what is it selecting and editing together. If all creative and knowledge work the domain of AI, what will be left for humans? What will be the purpose of our existence?
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