Reading Response 4 – V.L

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s manifesto follows a philosophy called Futurism, which is favoring technology, anything industrial and just feeling a need to empower the youth. As well as a flat-out rejection of admiring things from the past for too long. Imagining technology as something more than linear, seeing each new generation to be bettering the one that has passed. Seeing technology as something that will always progress is something very ingrained in the present. Seeing things become only more complex as the years go by only enforces this view as true. Their view of rejecting the past poses as problematic. Looking back on history, whether in art or design, allows us to use and learn to then further improve said art and design. As for the manifesto “Who We Are: Manifesto of the Constructivist Group,” the problematic element in there is that the author cannot see art/design to work with technology. Seeing technology to be making society lazy and unable to help shape the future. For “El Lissitzky, Our Book” it is more focused on type, but one can say it applies to art/design because type is the blend of both. Not happy with his present of where type stands, but looks forward to what the future holds. Taking it as the problematic element because it makes it seem to rely on the new generation to better the current rather than find it his goal to be the one to keep adding on to it. But overall sees Art/design to work hand in hand with technology. All three value art and design but differ in opinion on how technology should be involved with it.