In 1971 Nixon announced the departure of the dollar from the gold standard effectively nullifying the post war Bretton Woods Agreement. Money was now free to accelerate and dematerialise echoing the vision of Filippo Marinetti whose Futurist manifesto of 1909 exalted technology war and speed.
It has been asserted that the digital image far from being a shiny futurist perfect replicant is a thing that like other things can suffer the imperfections of use, time, and manipulation.
This work inserts the 11 points of the futurist manifesto into the code of jpeg images representing the Bretton Woods agreement. The code of the manifesto operates upon the code of the image. The resulting image is transformed by Marinetti's ideas.
It has been asserted that the digital image far from being a shiny futurist perfect replicant is a thing that like other things can suffer the imperfections of use, time, and manipulation.
This work inserts the 11 points of the futurist manifesto into the code of jpeg images representing the Bretton Woods agreement. The code of the manifesto operates upon the code of the image. The resulting image is transformed by Marinetti's ideas.
