The New Technological Renaissance

The debate on photography and cinema in the Twenties is considered in the light of Russian revolution as a moment in which the effort of avant-garde artists and thinkers to legitimate the new media collided with Stalinist political propaganda. With the fulfillment of the second Five-Years Plan in 1937 photographers gradually aligned to strict socialist realist canons causing the end of all the avant-gardist experimentations and a return to the painting. In this work, theoretical issues of space and time are explored in relation to painting, cinema and photograph in order to demonstrate as the change in our perception of space and in the structure of time, mainly due to the notion of dynamic/movement, has determined an epochal cultural change. Which has in turn affected both the form of arts and its structures and in this showing as the notion of New Technological Renaissance is a compelling one.