Sentences with phrase «human gesture as»

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As Tutu encouraged people to tell their stories and ask their questions in Facing the Truth, a phrase or gesture would trigger in me a memory of another story of deep human loss in Ireland, and then another.

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

Berger's suggestion is that we ponder what he calls «prototypical human gestures» as an appropriate place to begin our theologizing: the argument from ordering, from play, from humor, from terror and from hope.

According to Peter Berger, moral outrage in the face of evil, courage in defiance of death, and trust in an underlying cosmic order are among the «prototypical human gestures» which can be interpreted as «signals of transcendence».

One could say that Luther was struggling to free himself from the arid Western conceptualism which could not adequately describe either the gesture as a human rite or the spiritual theology needed to interpret it, let alone the simple Greek text based on the Aramaic words that went with the original gestures.

This means when he puts on his costume and starts to amaze as Spider - Man, it's a gesture of defiance towards those cool kids who looked down on him when he's in his human guise.

All three species increased their use of symbols, as opposed to gestures, as they grew older, but this change was far more pronounced for the human child.

It seems dogs naturally match human gestures in a phenomenon known as automatic imitation.

The idea evolved into developing robots to talk, gesture, and interact with children as human therapists would.

In the late 1990s as an undergraduate, Hare documented the ability of dogs to follow the gestures and gaze of humans to find hidden food.

Although human faces were unique in some ways, they also bore some striking similarities to those of other species: «He who will look at a dog preparing to attack another dog or a man, and at the same animal when caressing his master, or will watch the countenance of a monkey when insulted, and when fondled by his keeper, will be forced to admit that the movements of their features and their gestures are almost as expressive as those of man.»

Within Studio 2, sensors detect human activity, such as a change in the position of an occupant of the room, speech, gesture, and head movement.

Of course, gesture as the basis for language remains speculative, says Pollick, and it may prove that other animals, such as dolphins, employ a language of gestures humans simply have not been able to detect.

Human bodies and gestures re-imagined as objects of art.

Yet, even with new forms of resistance ushered in by technological innovation, the stiff - gestured ideology of neoliberalism has arched towards a state of «human exceptionalism» where all of humanity is now supposed to feel free to exploit at will the relations between nature and society any way that it chooses, as long as profits can be squeezed out.

Long before humans began speaking to each other, our gestures and facial expressions served as ways of transmitting knowledge and expressing experiences, emotions and wisdom.

«We set fire to all mattress,» he boasted, thumbs up, as if this gesture were the jewel in the crown of human achievement.

Dr. Clive Wynne will be discussing all aspects of the research being carried at the Canine Science Collaboratory, including research in social reinforcement, odor discrimination in learning and the effects of odor on behavior, as well as gesture studies Canine cognition, domestic dogs and human gestures, domestic dogs, human speech and more.

While this is not a kiss in the same way that a human mother might kiss her baby, it is still a gesture that carries affection even as it serves a more mundane purpose, like grooming.

If they talked as much as they gestured (including marking their territory and their humans), the odds are good that you'd wish they'd just shut up.

The exhibition, organized by the High Museum of Art in collaboration with Los Angeles — based conceptual artist Glenn Kaino, considers the historic gesture of gold medal sprinter Tommie Smith as he raised a fist at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico to protest abuse of human rights around the world and in response to the struggle for civil rights in the United States.

This body of work is created as a gesture of honesty through abstracted realism, seeking to illustrate and decipher experiential details of human individuality and uniformity.

Human gestures are so specific as to have been caught at 1/125 of a second.

Though large in scale, her work is intimate in nature — and the grand gesture of this mural should touch pedestrians and those passing in cars in deeply personal ways, as the work points to the complex layers of all human experience.

The works on view at the exhibition evokes conversations between abstract forms and a variety of human or animal protagonists, as locations strike up to have a conversation with the people, recognizable images chat with paint smears while looping gestures address spectators within his imageries.

Giving attention to the daily rituals such as making a bed, folding or tidying stuff, Tomasko invites us to engage with and to look squarely at small gestures that make us human.

Beneath these responses, however, lurks an understanding that this gesture disguises violence as benevolence and suggests a symmetry between the power that humans wield over other life forms and the power they wield over one another.

Joining the big Lichtenstein in the opening space, for instance, are other modernists such as Robert Rauschenberg, sculptors Donald Judd (a sleek and lovely minimalist gesture) and Duane Hanson (the slumped and stolid «Dishwasher,» a fine example of his psychologically disorienting hyperrealistic human figures), but also some splendid Danish silver pieces from the Georg Jensen firm.

The Figure: Movement and Gesture focuses on the movement of transformation from figuration into abstraction and the complex ways that de Kooning depicted motion as he rendered the human figure.

His work reflects upon the limitations and awe - inspiring possibilities of man as machine, where subtle «imperfections» in the final drawings reveal the intervention of human presence in an otherwise mathematically precise choreographic gesture.

Considering the production of affect, the contradictions faced by hired bodies, and the dynamics of using or being used as a human resource, the project stages situations in which a heightened demand for communication drives the outsourcing of personal investment to readymade gestures and protocols.

Related to the artist's neon work (Human Sexual Experience from 1985) Untitled considers how a seemingly simple gesture can also serve as an entry to reveal underlying meanings and systems of communication.

The human impetus to create self - prints can be as simple as a child's finger painting, and as poignant and poetic an assertion of one's presence in the world as the stenciled, silhouetted outlines of human hands found in prehistoric cave paintings — both gestures seeming to declare: «I was here.»

During this season of light, Tichy's work takes advantage of extended darkness to allow light to perform as a gesture of human will and power to make the invisible visible and vice versa.

Drawn from different animal species, Tim brings his subjects into such close focus that we begin to read their poses and gestures as we would the body language of a human figure, face or hand.

Through recent installations that include filmed performances, where projections of the «ghosted» human body wash over sculptural elements, the artist attempts to create an alienating / disorienting illusory effect that reflects an increasing loss of the corporeal gesture in the every day, the infinite attempt at calibrating the body to technology, as well as the entrapment of the human psyche within it; manipulating and playing with memory, space and time.

Marina Abramović and Ulay's Breathing In / Breathing Out, 1977, and Patty Chang's referential work Untitled (for Abramović, Love Cocteau), 2000, strip kissing from its emotional state and re-introduce it as an equally transcendental and bizarre gesture, a tool to provoke social dynamics, the human body, and the art world.

Like Calder, whose abstract stabiles make playful allusions to the natural and animal realm, Joel Shapiro explores the metamorphic possibilities of geometric figures and forms, referencing the human body, spirit and gesture as he merges figuration with abstraction.

As in dreams, these phantoms seem intent on communicating knowledge and human emotion through symbols and their pantomime of cryptic gestures.

Indeed, all the narrative that was being developed in front of me had almost nothing to do with the human body itself or its gestures as signs of a non verbal communication system.

Just as the human hand can not repeat its own gesture.

Titled «Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver,» it was certainly powerful in ways that his great work would be, with its operatic, Verdian largeness of gesture, its sense for light as both specific and cosmic, and its piercing, unembarrassable instinct for human emotion.

In addition, she is strongly drawn to the study of human facial expression and physical gesture, as well as the alluring if elusive force of yearning.

The artist's subjects stem entirely from her imagination, yet even as composites of her mental archive of gestures, postures, and gazes, they exhibit a human depth and confidence that is enigmatic and engaging.

Most recently, her large - scale paintings and glass - and 3D - printed sculptures articulate the relationship between natural forms such as the wave, the vortex, and the helix, with planes of sight and human gesture.

Obviously, such unprecedented findings are of note to biologists in that they help to shed light on the role birds play in spreading plant - life, but it's hard not to interpret the Bowerbird's newly discovered courtship gesture as a shot across the bow to aspiring romantics of the human variety.

Prof. Kahol observes that as we move toward a world where human - computer interaction is based on various body movements that are not well documented or studied, we face «serious and grave risk» of creating technology and systems that may lead to musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), and that many of today's multitouch systems give no consideration to eliminating gestures already known to lead to MSD injuries, or to eliminating gestures that are symptomatic of a patient population.

The default will be gray, but users will be able to choose from a variety of skin tones for the emojis that look like humans and hand gestures, such as the middle finger.