Il Manifesto 1985: dal testo critico alla sua traduzione in video. Riflessioni sul recupero del manifesto programmatico nell’ambito della computer art italiana.

Manifesto 1985, conceived by the critic Enrico Cocuccioni, is an almost five minutes video devoted to computer art. Born as a critical text with a deeply allegorical language, it was first translated into a storyboard and then it became a video, made with the same technology that it deals with. Realized in the most innovative Italian video production centre of the Eighties (SBP CGE), the video deals with the problem of the artistic representation in the landscape of mass communication and new media. The paper analyses the passage from written text to the dynamic language of video as well as the transformation of the manifesto as a literary genre by digital technologies. Through other examples, it also reflects on the rehabilitation of the programmatic manifesto, a kind of text extensively used by the avant-garde movements and very rare during the Eighties.