This booklet was rubberstamped near the title page and back cover with Lamberto Pignotti's name and address - presumably his copy. Also, several addresses in this booklet are struck through with black ink but still readable. The booklet was printed in conjunction with the "Prima Rassegna Internazionale del Cinema Sperimentale" held in Florence Italy in February 1967. Several pages deal with the history of gruppo '70, viz., Gruppo '70 began officially in Florence in May 1963, with an international meeting about the subject "Art and Message." The group's name refers to the near future of the year 1970; it was composed of poets, painters and composers, who, aware of the phenomena of contemporary mass communications, tried to make art of the moment by placing their works in a technologic mass-society. Many theoretical problems of theirs were concerned with this aspect of the problem, and actually another international meeting, promoted by Gruppo '70 dealt with the theme "Art and Technology" (Florence, June 1964). Anceschi, Battisti, Bortolotto, Dorfles, Eco, Scalia, Vlad, were present at these two meetings that were held with festivals of poetry and music. Kagel, Cardew, Chiari, Bussotti, Rzewsky realized their musical graphics. "Technologis" was called the first show of Gruppo '70 and was held at the Quadrante Gallery of Florence in December 1963 with the participation of the painters A. Bueno, Silvio Loffredo, and Alberto Moretti. Their paintings related to neo-dada or Pop Art; the composers Sylvano Bussotti and Giuseppe Chiari exhibited visual music scores; the poets Eugenio Miccini and Lamberto Pignotti presented large visual poems hung on the walls. This first nucleus was joined by the painters Roberto Barni, Rino Di Coste, Franca Lastraioli, Roberto Malquori, Elio Marchegiani, Adolfo Natalini, Luciano Ori, Raffaele, Gianni Ruffi, Antonio Ximenes and the poets Lucia Marcucci, Luciano Ori, Achille Bonito Oliva, Felice Piemontese, G. Battista Nazzaro, and Antonino Russo. Poesie e no (Poetry and no-poetry was staged by Miccini and Pignotti, who were also the actors with Lucia Marcucci and Antonio Bueno: in this performance. Technologic poetry alternated and fused themselves with projection of slides of visual poetry, with poetical placards by Lucia Marcucci and with other extrapoetical material such as films, posters, readings from newspapers, paintings made on site. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. https://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/5/archival_objects/893296 Accessed February 27, 2025.