Futurism Videos

A two-day symposium with participants including G nter Berghaus, Marjorie Perloff, Claudia Salaris, Barbara Spackman, and Paolo Valesio, among others.

The cap and trade legislation has been put off until well after the Copenhagen summit in December. It s pushed into spring, 2010, if then.  If you want to read some better bills than cap and trade, which should be called Cap and RAID, you can check out all the other bills that intend to mitigate [...]

In 1918, the Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero premiered his Balli Plastici, a puppet show performed by geometric, fantastical multicolored marionettes. Building an immersive world through set design, music, and puppets, Depero transcended the traditional divide between actors, audiences, and sets, and created an environment completely distinct from ordinary life. Today, the technologists at the Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) have adapted the shapes, colors, and music of the Balli Plastici for the digital age. For Performa ?09, ETC and MAD premiere an animated version of Balli Plastici set to a score re-constructed from original notes.

Gary continues his biblical analysis of the eschatology flaws of William Lane Craig.

Gary debates the futurist position of the second coming, and the written eschatological works of William Lane Craig.

Only 3% of the world is on broadband today, and it's neither cheap, fast or mobile enough. This will change in the next 2-3 years, and the implications are huge: everyone shares, everyone networks with strangers-like-me, everyone co-creates, everything is connected. A video by Futurist and Author Gerd Leonhard. More information at the MediaFuturist blog.

Sketching freehand in 3d using a stylus and tablet in Google Sketchup and then animating the 3d result while changing the style continually. The music was composed in the freeware programme "Easy Music Composer" by Shuta Miyawaki which allows you to specify parameters for computer-generated music and then outputs the result as a midi file which can be played by plugins in VSThost. In this case the music is performed by the excellent "StringZ 2" plugin along with the Takim plugin on percussion.

A short clip about the gorgeous futuristic fashion of the 1960's from designers like Pierre Cardin, André Courrèges, Paco Rabanne etc. Most of the scenes are from the German TV-Show Paris Aktuell . The music is DEJA VU from Mort Garson's Ataraxia The Unexplained (1975).