Jessica Palmieri established ItalianFuturism.org in order to encourage the exchange of ideas and disseminate information pertaining to Italian Futurism. It has since become the premier source for news on all events, exhibitions, and scholarship on the subject.
She received an M.S. in the Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture, as well as a certificate in Museum Studies from Pratt Institute. Her thesis focused on Italian Futurist Marionette Theater.
Her work experience at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Italian National Library in Florence, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Jeff Koons Studio has complemented her interest in Italian Futurism, a topic which has captivated her since her undergraduate studies in both Art History and Italian.
She currently works at the Brooklyn Museum and lives in Brooklyn, New York and may be reached via email.
Gent. Jessica Palmieri,
Vorrei segnalare agli studiosi di futurismo la raccolta di opere digitalizzate della Collezione ’900 Sergio Reggi, che è pubblicata sul nostro sito del Centro Apice (Archivi della Parola, dell’Immagine e della Comunicazione editoriale) dell’Università degli Studi di Milano. Si tratta di circa 5000 pagine consultabili tra periodici, opuscoli e manifesti futuristi.
Ringraziandola per l’attenzione, invio cordiali saluti,
Valentina Zanchin
Still the nicest site about Futurism. Maybe you could add a section where people could upload documents about Futurism. I have a mountain of unpublished pages of FTM. Best to you. Jean-Pierre de Villers
There was an exhibition of Futurist work at the Getty Museum (Malibu, CA) a few years ago. They exhibited a print that portrayed an orchestra warming up; the audience; the sounds. I contacted the museum, but they said since it was not part of their permanent collection, they could not research the name/artist of the print. Does this print sound familiar to anyone?
This must have been the show? Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists [August 1, 2006–January 7, 2007 at the Getty Center]
Yes, that was the show. I called the Museum regarding a catalog that listed all the prints, and they told me one wasn’t available; that the catalog they had only listed a portion of the prints on display.
Dear Jessica
Futurism and Umberto Boccioni’s sculpture has influenced my own visual experiments using digital animation. It’s wonderful to see such a well produced website on the subject. As a view to exchanging ideas, in a visual way, I hope the recent work I’ve created will be of interest to those visiting your website. http://www.uniqueforms.net
Based on one old photograph, and my experience of building a digital version of Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, I have created a digital 3d version of his first sculpture an Abstract Head. It is available as a 3d print, http://www.uniqueforms.net. I hope to build on this work. If anyone has more information, photos of the lost works of Boccioni I’d love to hear from them. matt@uniqueforms.net