3. What is Dada? How did it begin? The spread of Dada Art work examples Dada & logic? Influence of Dada

4. An art movement Involving: visual arts, literature, poetry, theatre In response to World War I

7. A cultural movement during World War I Artists (many from Romania) settled in neutral Zurich, Switzerland

9. A cultural movement during World War I Artists (many from Romania) settled in neutral Zurich, Switzerland They started discussing ways to counter the war They termed Dada – a movement to break away from old culture

11. Sculptures

13. Collages

15. Sculptures Collages Assemblages

17. Sculptures Collages Assemblages Avant-grade filmmaking PLAY

18. Dada is an anti-logic movement Dadaists viewed old world logic as flawed and unfair They wanted to create a cultural revolution to break away from this form of logic

19. However, there are some similarities to how we view logical thinking:  Logic is using abstraction to analyse problems  Dada used art as an abstraction to analyse what is wrong with society  Art via paradoxes  Used DREAM logic

20. Also: Dada was in response to cultural crisis, because old world culture had caused the war Logicians were in crisis after Russell’s Paradox. Old logic of Cantor, Hilbert, etc. Did not seem to work So just as Dada attempted to destroy old culture... New logic (Gödel, Turing, etc) destroyed old thinking and brought new fields of study with it: COMPUTER SCIENCE!

21. The grandfather of Surrealism Developed the idea of ready-made sculptors ready-made art (see: the Turner Prize) Made way for more radical postmodernist art movements (abstract expressionism, Pop art)