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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.

Two mini-lectures by two experts in the Futurist avant-garde?composer, performer, and musicologist Luciano Chessa, who is a leading intonarumori (Futurist noise machine) scholar, and York University professor John Picchione, who has extensive knowledge of Futurist film, literature and poetry. These two mini-lectures will be followed by a brief discussion between these two luminaries, with an introduction for the event provided by Performa Director RoseLee Goldberg.

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.