Sentences with phrase «illusion of reality by»

Francis Tucker was mentor and friend to both of us, schooling us in the science and technology of painting to create an illusion of reality by understanding materials.

Working in oils, Renaissance artists could create a vivid illusion of reality by making individual brush strokes disappear.

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Then, Oculus Chief Scientist Mike Abrash spent the majority of his presentation presenting us with some common optical illusions, proving that the brain is easily tricked by virtual reality.

In this way the ontological argument, by drawing out the presupposition of metaphysical understanding, indicates that the choice before us is between holding that there is a God and that «reality» makes sense in some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding of reality can only be an illusion which does not significantly correspond to the ultimate nature of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind of metaphysical understanding instead of its blank negation.

M. Scott Peck has written that for psychological and spiritual health, we must be dedicated to reality, and he offers a helpful image: «The less clearly we see the reality of the world — the more our minds are befuddled by falsehood, misperceptions, and illusions — the less able we will be to determine correct courses of action and make wise decisions.

We must persuade ourselves of the non-existence of all surrounding phenomena, destroy the Grand Illusion by asceticism or by mysticism, create night and silence within ourselves; then, at the opposite extreme of appearance, we shall penetrate to what can only be defined as a total negation — the ineffable Reality.

Constructing a world by our own lights, without reference to God, building on our own foundation; refusing to acknowledge the reality of anything beyond the political and material, while setting God aside as an illusion — that is the temptation that threatens us in many varied forms.

The mission of the Situationists was to find ways for people to express their authenticity by creating new «situations» through a critical hermeneutics «that sees through appearances, illusions, and fantasies to the realities being masked and covered over.»

If, as I maintain, the movement of the cosmos towards the highest degree of consciousness is not an optical illusion, but represents the essence of biological evolution, then, in the curve traced by Life, Man is unquestionably situated at the topmost point; and it is he, by his emergence and existence, who finally proves the reality and defines the trajectory — «the dot on the i»...

As Hasker emphasizes, his free will version of traditional theism differs from the classical version, held by Augustine, Thomas, Luther, and Calvin, precisely on this point — that this classical version held that all of our feelings, thoughts, and actions are in reality wholly determined by God, so that we have freedom only in a compatibilist sense — or, otherwise stated, that our feeling of freedom is an illusion.

These pressures on religious broadcasters find expression in their tendency to exaggerate reality either by selection, avoidance, or creation of certain incidents over others and the tendency to compromise with the illusion and sensation which television as a whole promotes through its programming.

Using treadmills would risk ruining the illusion, but it can be boosted by prompting people to test the reality of their virtual cage when they are next to a real wall.

By contrast, it features a different heat signature than its actual signature along the vertical axis, thus forming a different type of illusion, which is visible but not displaying the reality.

I'm wearing an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset as part of a system developed by Yifei Chai at Imperial College London that gives you the illusion of inhabiting another body.

Realistic painters convey the illusion of reality, volume or distance by making good intuitive use of perspective, color, lighting and shadow.

Visual illusions are defined by the dissociation between physical reality and subjective perception of an object or event.

In breakthrough research led by neuroscientist Olaf Blanke and his team at EPFL, Switzerland, the scientists show that phantom body pain can be reduced in paraplegics by creating a bodily illusion with the help of virtual reality.

BEYOND BIOCENTRISM: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death Host Paul Kennedy has his understanding of reality turned - upside - down by Dr. Robert Lanza in this paradigm - shifting hour.

If Owens was able to create an illusion of consistency, of steady progression towards a state of blissful serenity — which was instinctively reflected in the nature of his collections — he is now confronted by the intrusion of rude, brutal reality.

Almost 100 years later we still live in a world increasingly affected by war, unemployment and poverty, a reality that nonetheless remains discreetly hidden under the carpet by the illusion of a global democratic society, where most people have access to the internet, and where an overestimated middle class is entertained by lavish sports competitions.

Like with the greatest modern director of romantic comedies, She's Funny That Way questions the very nature of the cinema's relation to reality, reveling in the idealized illusions while simultaneously undermining their spell by pointing out their unreality.

The apparatus theory proposed by Jean - Louis Baudry and Christian Metz posits that spectators in classical narrative cinema are manipulated by the images and, deprived of the ability to critically contemplate the act of viewing, confuse film illusion and reality.

I can assure you that my generation has only recently woken up — probably rudely shaken to reality by the fact that our struggles to plan for a carefree «after work» life, has not and will not materialize, and most of us finding that the efforts to ensure a good pension plan, has largely been based on illusions, dished out by the insurance companies, which ultimately are not much better than the banks that have brought on the economic demise, but for their part will still continue their self - enriching bonus system.

In reality, US real median income had already peaked in the 80s... Not that many acknowledged such an inconvenient statistic — the money illusion, the increasing prevalence of dual - income households (by necessity), the collapse in the savings rate, coupled with exploding personal debt, and (of course) the housing bubble, helped keep the party going for decades.

The brainchild of Game Boy developer Gunpei Yokoi, it was intended to bring futuristic virtual reality to gamers» living rooms, boasting a 3D display, and games that cleverly took advantage of the illusion of depth created by blinking red lights.

Dennis Dahlqvist writes in his text for the exhibition catalogue that Love Lundell illustrates «A parallel reality that is not governed by the rules of logic but, instead, builds on the imagination, on memories, illusions and dreams.»

All the works are optically dynamic and by their play between reality of paint, illusion in the eye and reality of idea in the mind, force attention both to the surface and to the idea.

[1] Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality.

Entitled Blocked Content, the work is composed of sharp - cornered volumes from which faces, hands, and body parts dramatically emerge (or are imprisoned into) and by a virtual reality mobile app Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, the installation questions the concept of web ethic, the morality of artificial intelligence, and the illusion of a digital immortality.

Optical illusion here becomes a way to make the effortless experience of reality more complicated, while also taking into consideration ecological concerns by making the tree trunk the main protagonist of the project.

Recent group exhibitions include «In An Illusion Village: Our Form Connected by Media Art,» Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori City, Japan; «Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities,» Galerija Galzenica, Velika Gorica, Croatia; «100 Works for 100 Years: A Centennial Celebration,» Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; «Uncanny Congruencies,» Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; «Videosphere: A New Generation,» Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; «Me, Undoubtedly.

Theme: Illusion: A false idea or belief, a deceptive appearance or impression, something that betrays by producing misleading impressions of reality.

As a result, I intend to tie a reality constructed and modeled from representations and the virtual world of pictorial illusion with the physical interactive space created by the painting's materials and hypnotic conditions.

Palazzolo's play of illusion suggests memory, longing, distances, and loss, yet is tempered by reminders of a present physical reality such as the yardstick and paint, seen as simply paint.

Selected group exhibitions include «In An Illusion Village: Our Form Connected by Media Art,» Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori City, Japan; «Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities,» Galerija Galzenica, Velika Gorica, Croatia; «100 Works for 100 Years: A Centennial Celebration,» Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; «Uncanny Congruencies,» Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; «Videosphere: A New Generation,» Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; «Me, Undoubtedly.

Helen Rebekah Garber: Thaumaturgy Ichiro Irie: Garmonbozia Sagrada David DiMichele: Real and Unreal extended through January 13 DENK Gallery, Los Angeles By Shana Nys Dambrot Creation, destruction, renewal; threat, protection, materialism; reality, illusion, and all manner of Utopias (including the ironic) are the order of the day with three concurrent solo shows on view at DENK.

-LSB-...] you can't look at Warhol's Marilyn in the same way that you look at a painting by Rembrandt or Titian because Warhol isn't interested in any of the things those artists were — the representation of material reality, the exploration of character, or the creation of pictorial illusion.

Most paintings are underscored by a layer of graphite upon which she applies oil paint, which make them radiate a strange light through which the image gets a sort of frozen light quality, in a nearly monumental way... they balance between the fictional, the illusion and the reality of the day dream.

The diorama has been a crucial source of inspiration to this day: Numerous artists of the twentieth and twenty - first centuries address questions of staged vision in their works by questioning and dissolving the illusion of a reconstructed reality.

For Buren, works of art falsify reality by projecting a purely subjective vision upon it, and, especially in the context of a gallery or museum, they undermine the freedom of thought and perception in viewers by imposing a false, ideological illusion.

«It feels like the right time to give those people a new medium: one in which three - dimensionality is a reality and not just an illusion laboriously cooked up by your brain, and in which it's possible to get up off the couch and move — not only around your living room, but wherever on the face of the earth the story might take you.»