For a long time, I've been comparing the situation with the science -
fictional scenarios of world - wide disaster I grew up with.
For his second solo exhibition at angels barcelona and in Spain, Harun Farocki presents his last work Serious Games composed by 4 video - installations: Immersion (2009), Watson is Down, Three Dead and A Sun with no Shadow (2010), he explores the connection between virtual reality and the military — how
the fictional scenarios of computer games are used both in the training of US troops prior to their deployment in combat zones, and in psychological care for soldiers suffering battlefield trauma upon their return.
To help illustrate the point, here is
a fictional scenario of a couple using starve and stack to pay off their student loans.
The paper creates
the fictional scenario of a studio visit with Warhol, including hypothetical conversations between 16 students and Warhol about his work and his relationship with soup.
Not exact matches
Set in a
fictional future where a single company looms, Big Brother — like, over all
of Internet commerce and connection, the book presents an absolute worst - case
scenario for our current mass - experiment in living online.
The Lonely Arcade may remain a
fictional scenario — a story
of an unrealized tomorrow.
Using Amazon Mechanical Turks, the research team tested out a variety
of fictional bragging
scenarios, such as touting your skills and being proven right, being modest and then excelling, or overselling your actual performance, etc..
As with any transfer
scenario, there is a lot
of gray area in this
fictional move.
These won't be
fictional scenarios in just a couple
of years» time.
And they'd be unlikely stop criticizing him in the event
of the «
fictional scenario»
of him calling the special elections, according to Susan Lerner, executive director
of the good - government group Common Cause.
And, finally, states are legally required to maintain Medicaid benefits — which is to say, Westen's
scenario of fictional cuts to state budget resulting in the decimating
of Medicaid could not happen even if it were real.
Take a look at this
fictional scenario: You increase your intake
of raw food or cut out certain things like processed sugar, processed starch, and / or meat and dairy.
While based on true events, 5 Days
of War contains blatant
fictional elements which stick out like a sore thumb, including Hollywood - style split - second timing and other contrived
scenarios that damage the film's integrity.
The various Mercedes - Benz SUVs and vans are part
of the theme park's fleet, and appear in various
scenarios through the jungles
of the
fictional island where the park is located, Isla Nublar.
It's interesting for me because I've written things
of varying levels
of «true» to me: a poetry memoir, the same memoir remixed with myth, stories that were essentially creative nonfiction, stories that were essentially me in
fictional scenarios, vice-versa, and stories that had little to do with me at all.
Deal with the disintegration
of the European Union, the expansion
of Islamic State, the aftermath
of World War III and many other real and
fictional scenarios.
Starting life as a Half - life mod and developed by Minh «Gooseman» Le and Jess Cliffe, the highly successful multiplayer game was presented as a battle between terrorists and counter-terrorists, although this
scenario only goes about as deep as children playing cowboys and Indians, which is to say, it provides the excuse for fighting with guns rather than offering play focussed upon the events and contents
of a
fictional world, as with CRPGs.
If you are still on the fence though, there is a demo on PSN / Steam which allows you to play out a
fictional scenario (this isn't in the main game, it's been created to introduce you to the mechanics and the gameplay
of the series):
Console owning fans
of turn - based strategy games, specifically the late, lamented Advance Wars and similar military themed titles set in
fictional scenarios really haven't had too much to cheer about (well, other than still having the ability to go back and replay those older games whenever they like).
For a 2011 project commissioned by the British public art association Artangel, Gander created «Locked Room
Scenario,» a group show
of inaccessible, partly visible artworks by
fictional artists that forced viewers to adopt what the artist describes as a «detective's mentality» in attempting to piece together the fragmentary information they encountered.
In his new series
of paintings, Dalwood explores several death
scenarios from public figures, some real and some
fictional.
Anicka Yi — Ming Lin considers the work
of Seoul - born, New York - based artist Anicka Yi, whose olfactory works take the form
of fictional scenarios that probe the human psyche.
García's pieces often involve staging unscripted
scenarios that elicit doubt as to the
fictional or spontaneous nature
of a given situation.
The video works in this program use natural and man - made anomalies as a vehicle for
fictional narratives, exploring hypothetical
scenarios of unease or maybe alternate types
of co-existence.
Instead
of standard realism he favors a strategy that abstracts everyday actions and statements into theatrical gestures, in which archival footage is re-edited or re-staged, real people perform
fictional scenarios based on their own lives and historical observations intermesh with contemporary narratives.
Locked Room
Scenario was an immersive group show
of fictional artists in a Hoxton warehouse, which invited the viewer to adopt a detective's mentality.
-- What's the mean avg growth in global CO2 and CO2e last year and over the prior ~ 5 years — What's the current global surface temperature anomaly in the last year and in prior ~ 5 years — project that mean avg growth in CO2 / CO2e ppm increasing at the same rate for another decade, and then to 2050 and to 2075 (or some other set
of years)-- then using the best available latest GCM / s (pick and stick) for each year or quarter update and calculate the «likely» global surface temperature anomaly into the out years — all things being equal and not assuming any «
fictional»
scenarios in any RCPs or Paris accord
of some massive shift in projected FF / Cement use until such times as they are a reality and actually operating and actually seen slowing CO2 ppm growth.
The Greenhouse Effect creates by another interesting sleight
of hand the illusion
of «backradiation
of longwave infrared», by including real world measurements
of the direct longwave infrared from the Sun, aka Heat energy, but which they have totally eliminated from their
fictional world
scenario.
After that, in time, all this new range «the
fictional» one at that point it will be cut down slowly but surely, when there are left the very few and the most ridiculous
scenarios to consider and the very
scenario of the con itself.
That means global economic growth
of 2.94 per cent per year, in contrast to three per cent growth in a
fictional future where there is no climate change (known as a baseline
scenario), according to the IPCC's calculations.
However what the Board has provided are not case examples representative
of a WSIB adjudicator's caseload but
fictional scenarios typical
of the stories that are being told to set the public stage for cutbacks in injured worker benefits.
The chapters include characters and
scenarios (a combination
of real people I have encountered in my 35 years
of practice, and hypothetical /
fictional situations), plus worksheets for personal reflection, together intended to raise readers» awareness about what causes relationships to disintegrate, what keeps people stuck in their battles, and the pain and suffering that can occur in the throes
of divorce and its aftermath.
Wordplay on Plex, a
fictional realm
of the game, and DayDream are used to entice users into a mysterious hunt for answers in different
scenarios.
The twenty
scenarios were designed to be stages
of a
fictional storyline in which the participant was approached by a classmate, whom he or she did not yet know well, who invited them on a week - long vacation during an academic break.