Gallery: The Brilliant, Forgotten Futurist Who Predicted the Kindle
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Don ZanFagna was probably the most interesting technological soothsayer you've never heard of. The artist/engineer/designer make drawings, collages and prototypes of future-thinking ideas like the Kindle.
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This collage in his Cyborg series warns against the mixing of human and machines. "At the core was/is a serious intent to produce works of art that are also signals….warnings, which were not propaganda, but showed in part, things going wrong," he wrote in his notebook.
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This sketch and collage is part of his *Manhattan Project* series. The artist had a fascination with the city as an island.
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ZanFagna started the Infra/Ultra Architectural Foundation, a think tank where he explored the idea of growing our homes. This collage is an artistic representation of a Pulse Dome, ZanFagna's idea for a grown home with a stretched chlorophyll membrane.
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Another image from the *Cyborg* series. ZanFagna dropped out of the gallery/art market scene so he could focus on teaching and exploring futurist ideas.
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A drawing of Manhattan.
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ZanFagna was fascinated by the Twin Towers. In this piece he eerily predicts something would go awry.
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