Hugo Ball - Gadji Beri Bimba - sound poem

http://youtu.be/N8i13r0HzlE

Hans Richter - Ghosts for Breakfast

http://youtu.be/oeosT_6vG7g

Marcel Duchamp - Anemic Cinema

http://youtu.be/upvYAAh8RuU

Top row: Bernard Faÿ, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupalt, Serge Charchoune
Bottom row: Man Ray, Paul Éluard, Jacques Rigaut, Céline Arnauld, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes

Stacy Alford- Dada

Founders of the Dada Movement:

Jean Arp, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, and Raoul Hausmann.

Designers in the Dada Movement:

Zurich, Switzerland- Jean Arp, Richard Hülsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, and Emmy Hennings.

United States (New York)- Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Morton Schamberg, and Francis Picabia.

Berlin, Germany- Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, George Grosz, Johannes Baader, Hülsenbeck, Otto Schmalhausen, and Wieland Herzfelde and his brother John Heartfield (formerly Helmut Herzfelde, but Anglicized as a protest against German patriotism).

Cologne, Germany- Max Ernst, Johannes Baargeld, and Kurt Schwitters of Hannover.

Paris, France- Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Louis Aragon, Philippe Soupault, Paul Éluard, and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (pamphlet writers)

Historical Events:

World War I

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

The RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic during its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912

The Panama Canal is completed in 1914

Prohibition in the United States began January 16, 1919

Economic boom ended by “Black Tuesday” (October 29, 1929); the stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression.