Semaphore in the Future. Reprint edition

"Semaphore in the Future" - the organ of the Association of Panfuturists (Aspanfut) - is one of the brightest Ukrainian literary and artistic publications of the early 20s of the 20th century. Along with other first press prints of Ukrainian pan-futurists - "Heart of Art" (Kyiv, 1922) and "Gong of Communcult" (Kyiv-Kharkiv, 1924) - "Semaphore in the Future" stunned and shocked the contemporary reader with its non-standard artistic design, multilingualism and decadent direction. After all, in this magazine, Ukrainian pan-futurists introduced their pan-futuristic alphabet: Ukrainian letters were replaced by Latin letters, but with a pan-futuristic spelling of some of them, such as: "Ż = ж, W = ш, Х = х, Q = х, ' = ь ", and also published articles and manifestos in many languages - Ukrainian (Cyrillic and Latin letters), Russian, English, German and French.
An unexpected and non-standard layout for a periodical was the work of Mykhailo Semenko - the poem-painting "Kablepoem for the Ocean", published immediately behind the cover on eight cards in two colors - black and red, and the program of the magazine was already submitted after them. Semenkov's poem still impresses and surprises today with the alternation of colors, the play of fonts and the change in their size and configuration.
It is not surprising that the literary critic and active participant in the literary process of the time Oleksiy Poltoratskyi considered the magazine "Semaphore in the Future" (1922) and the book "Meeting of Three at the Intersection Station" (1927) to be masterpieces of the printing technology of that time, and the "left" eccentric, unusual for polygraphic the traditions of those times, the montage of pages, the play of fonts, the lines that cut the page into separate parts, short lines of poems, devoid of the usual rhythm and rhyme, extravagant images - all this, in his opinion, "could not fail to amaze at that time" (Poltoratskyi O Mykhailo Semenko and "New Generation" // Fatherland. 1966. No. 11. P. 195).
Under the signatures of Geo Shkurupia, Mykhailo Semenko, Yulian Shpol (Mikhail Yalovy), Oleksa Slisarenko, Myroslav Irchan, Mark Tereshchenko, a kind of declaration of Ukrainian pan-futurists, who claimed that art is a relic of the past, futurization of art is the death of art, and pan-futurism is the liquidation of art, the death of art.