Sentences with phrase «gives ordinary objects»

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BlackBerry wants to push beyond communications into mobile computing, and eventually play a leading role in the «Internet of Things,» the term for a predicted revolution in which many ordinary objects will be given computing power.

21 In his James Lectures at Harvard in 1940, he abandoned the term «particulars» for «universals» or «qualities» that, based on the examples he cites, functioned somewhat like Whiteheadian «eternal objects»: that is, ordinary macroscopic objects or experiences are to be conceived as a particular togetherness of these qualia at a given locus in spacetime.22

Given this art, a case can be made that the wand in the original story was not a wand at all but an ordinary stirrer that ultimately came to be drawn as a magical object rather than an everyday kitchen utensil.

Known for his thought - provoking images, Magritte used such ordinary objects as green apples, bowler hats and pipes in unfamiliar contexts, giving new meaning to familiar things and challenging the viewer's perception of reality.

Felix Gonzalez - Torres lived and worked resolutely according to his own idealistic principles, combining elements of Conceptual art, Minimalism, political activism, and poetic beauty in an ever - expanding arsenal of media, including public billboards, give - away piles of candy and posters, and ordinary objects — clocks, mirrors, light fixtures — used to startling effect.

«This is in some ways the most Platonic work that Jeff Koons has ever made — taking this mundane, ordinary object and giving it a presence or dimension that makes it more real than the real thing.»

Combining and amending these materials, Wurtz began to cast the familiar in a new light while preserving the integrity of the used objects: «I thought if I used really, really ordinary, overlooked stuff that tends to be ignored, it gave me more of an opportunity to add something to it....

When they are combined, seemingly ordinary objects and moments caught by the Birmingham - based artist's lens often give way to extraordinary stories.

Saturday 3 September, 2 — 5 pm Anne Wagner & Haegue Yang Professor Anne Wagner, The Henry Moore Foundation Research Curator at Tate, gives a lecture on Haegue Yang's practice focusing on the status of the ordinary object in Yang's sculpture.

Steinbach presents objects, ranging from the natural to the ordinary, the artistic to the ethnographic, giving form to art works that underscore their identity and inherent meanings.

Each artist presents a way of seeing and thus giving meaning to ordinary, everyday objects.

If the wording is unclear, consideration should be given to factors such as object and purpose in order to understand the ordinary meaning of the BIT and provisions therein.

The 1947 Convention had to be interpreted in accordance with the principles codified in Arts 31 — 33 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969, which required that a treaty be interpreted in good faith, in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in the light of the treaty's object and purpose.

If they would not give evidence, dangerous criminals would walk free and both society and the administration of justice would suffer; (ii) it was settled law that the paramount object had always been to do justice and that if, in order to do justice, some adaptation of ordinary procedure was called for, it should be made, so long as the overall fairness of the trial was not compromised; (iii) recent case law supported the adoption of protective measures; (iv) the Strasbourg jurisprudence, properly understood, did not condemn the use of protective measures; and (v) the defendant was protected from the risk of unfairness by the prosecutor's duty of disclosure.

[the Committee thus recommends to the US to:] Interpret the Covenant in good faith, in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to its terms in their context, including subsequent practice, and in the light of its object and purpose and review its legal position so as to acknowledge the extraterritorial application of the Covenant under certain circumstances, as outlined inter alia in the Committee's general comment No. 31 (2004) on the nature of the general legal obligation imposed on States parties to the Covenant;