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technohuman machinations
Machina lirica

In 1909 the Futurists would proclaim the advent of a new form of art, the manifestation of the new Beauty brought about by human imagination and new machines.
Noise, speed, movement, iron, concrete...
It was a new chapter in our relation with technology, images were the testament of that love.
"I explain,
in a new way,
the world
unknown to
you"
futurisms
The Image is the meeting place of technology and human imaginations

They attest to human ingenuity and powerful dreams but carry in them a unique flavor, the spirit of the technological

The nature of this symbiosis was best revealed with the advent of the Technical Image: the invention of photography marked a definitive turn: the Worlds was first revealed in its wholeness, humans became a family

The technical image brought about an even greater power: the ability of not only narrating our presents, reals or not, it also offered us the possibility of imagining the future

The birth of Photography in late 19 century was the birth of what philosopher Vílem Flússer has called Technical Images.

Bathed in alchemies, Photography revealed itself as the quintessential image: "the mirror of the world"
IMAGES IN MOTION
IMAGES OF TIME

The pace and ethos of the industrial revolution were the drivers of new images beyond, appearances, we were for now able to capture the flow of time.

This moment came with as an astounding revelation: the unveiling of human's technological essence:

LA MACHINE ANIMALE
COLLAGES
the technological sensibility manifested in radical ways: COLLAGES were broken worlds-as-machines, objects, words, images as parts to be endlessly recombined into ever new real techno-realities
"A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing"...
ELECTRONIC IMAGES
DIGITAL UNIVERSES

Early experiments in electronic art pioneered by FLUXUS artist and wizard Nam June Paik were the predecessors of the new era to come
the new sciences:
a mechanical image of the world
broken
languages
what is a technical image?
what is the social and cultural relevance of technical images?
what was the relevance of photography to the xx century?
what is the relation between images humans and technology?
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