Besides the fact that Hugh is a killer cartoonist, he has helped traditional entrepreneurs turn tailored suits, and now wine,
into social objects.
Gowda's use of unconventional materials is a highly evocative element of her practice, where the tactile qualities of thread, hair, traditional dyes, pattern and weaving, bring the viewer's attention to a meaning that transposes these elements
into social objects and practices located within a network of production and distribution, framed in relation to India's socio - political legacy.
His current work on trying to turn ebooks
into social objects for discussion and debate is very interesting.
How do you turn a product
into a Social Object?
-LSB-...] and by the way, at conferences we turn our lunches
into a Social Object — HT to Nancy White for posting this gem of an idea.
Investing resources (time, people, money) to make your business more remarkable (literally worth talking about), is an investment to transform your business
into a social object.
is an icebreaker because it turns the store
into a social object.
Not exact matches
It also includes LEGO BOOST — a building and coding set that lets children turn their brick creations
into moving
objects — and will explore developing a joint
social network for children in China.
and, humans being human, we can turn it around — that young man will probably quickly realise that that «girl who's
into not just Saul Bellow, but also
into bowling and cellphones and Star Wars and swish Charity Balls» is really, really cute, no matter what the first impression
Social objects in common make relationships.
A more powerful marketing strategy it seems to me, is to create an
object worthy enough to be introduced
into already agreed upon
social construct.
I'm gonna have to go
into your archives and dig up some posts about
social objects now that you've provided this intro.
«You're kinda cool... I'm kinda cool...» i.e. a
social object that expresses the idea, «I'm
into the same things you're
into.»
Running counter to this first mainstream are the works of Duchamp, John Cage, and Picasso: expressing beauty transformed, ugliness, startling juxtaposition of images, primitive power, the subconscious of Freud, art as idea, art as found
object, art as part of everyday life, non-art transmuted
into art, and often an emphasis on
social and political issues.
Glassford is fascinated by
objects that have links to
social commentary, and the dichotomies of feminine and masculine, function and dysfunction, are incorporated
into his art practice, alongside larger themes that emerge from these starting points.
Serving as conversational hubs, these
social objects are personified by the pictures we publish to Flickr, the videos we upload on YouTube, the events posted in Upcoming.org, the wall posts shared in Facebook, the tweets that fly across Twitter, the links bookmarked in Delicious, the votes cast in Digg, the places we check
into on Foursquare, the documents published in Docstoc, reviews posted in Yelp, communities built around themes in Ning, a thought shared in a blog post or a blog comment, etc..
I'll start by jotting down a few notes on questions that might be useful to ask when evaluating the potential of something to be turned
into an online
social object.
El - Sherbini's playful interdisciplinary practice often appropriates familiar
objects and
social events, which engages people
into questioning
social and political systems of power and influence.
She explores the possibilities of performance art as a way to continue her research on the relationship between people and
objects, and to further investigate the commoditization of culture, assimilation, and how cultural meaning is transformed in the multicultural urban environment and is absorbed
into new
social contexts.
Embodying a history of dysfunction, rejection, and abandonment, her massive accumulations of commonly discarded
objects are transformed
into dazzling constructions ripe with powerful emotional and
social commentary.
Although they both turn to this medium to examine physical properties as well as
social functions, Beasley's sculptural tendencies result in sturdy
objects that consist of clothing melded to foam and resin, and Smith's patterned textiles are precisely shaped
into collages.
First and foremost Mariana Castillo Deball is a biographer of
objects... [She] burrows deep
into the history of a thing, meticulously examining, testing and scrutinising its origins, its shifting significance, like some sort of
social archaeologist - turned - artist.
Using the Utopian rhetoric typical of twentieth - century avant - gardes, he wrote of a desire to escape the bounds of a
social system that rewards conformity and limits experience, and argued, in stridently Marxist terms, that this system forces artists
into producing bourgeois
objects for an art market that requires the stability of the assembly line.
In recent years, Rodriguez - Diaz has experimented with aspects of installation, using found
objects and injecting a more direct
social content
into his work.
At a time when abstract art was dominant, it was Neo-Dada that reintroduced the ordinary
object and the figurative image, bringing back a
social meaning
into art.
In both pieces, Ward endeavors to bring the experience of living in a community surveilled by the police
into the gallery, using everyday
objects that create a tangible link to the reality of our current political and
social climate.
By reducing paintings to mere signs of themselves, McCollum turned the gallery and the museum setting
into a kind of theater, highlighting the drama of presenting, displaying, buying and selling, exchanging, photographing, assessing, criticising, choosing, and writing about the works; the
object - paintings at the center of the action were purposely rendered moot, in order to turn one's attention to the supplementary devices and
social practices that, in the end, bestow the value on the work.
To this end, Picture Industry includes images and
objects from a number of historical moments and
social arenas arranged
into a cohesive but varied array of historical positions, which prefigure our complex contemporary image world.
In detailed, large - scale drawings, installations, sculptures and
objects, Avery forms a bizarre imaginary reality out of diverse philosophical ideas and concepts: Fabulous creatures, deities, tourists and adventurers are embedded in a complex
social structure, merging
into an entire cosmos that ranges between pure fantasy and theoretical reflection.more
When in the context of a
social energy or dynamic, ie the
social or collective energy surrounding a piece of art because it is well known and referenced etc - would then push the communication
object into a «community or
social» sphere resulting in a more
social - ized dynamic energy.
One approach that came
into my mind is to clearly establish the context first and then to surface
social objects which are already producing results for the people who share that specific context.
He transforms mundane
objects into powerful
social commentary with the intent of creating dialogue among his audience.
[9] However, it assumed a different meaning when employed by Joseph Kosuth and by the English Art and Language group, who discarded the conventional art
object in favour of a documented critical inquiry
into the artist's
social, philosophical and psychological status.
Working with sound, film, performance, and
objects, Kapwani Kiwanga (born in Canada, based in Paris) relies on extensive research to transform raw information
into investigations of historical narratives and their impact on political,
social, and community formation.
Working with sound, film, performance, and
objects, Kiwanga relies on extensive research to transform raw information
into investigations of historical narratives and their impact on political,
social, and community formation.
This immersive exhibition attempts to make sculptural the absurdity of a life spent staring
into a screen and the
social anxiety induced by «smart»
objects via an alternative sci - fi stage set comprising of a landscape of
objects, sound and projection.
Since Duchamp, artists have been compelled to continue an investigation
into the nature of the art
object and analyze the degree to which a work of art is inextricably linked to the
social structures that surround it.
By incorporating a selection of memorabilia and design
objects into the works that reinterpret the Interlocking Sculptures, the project expands this notion and approximates new aspects in which the formal becomes historical, whilst the exhibition itself becomes a sort of stage linking the aesthetic to the
social and political.
I appropriate familiar
objects and
social events, which are universally recognisable within specific cultural contexts (games, souvenirs), to invite audiences to take a look at the society that they live in, often revealing underlying belief systems, drawing audiences
into a series of questions that ask «how do we come to know what it is that we know» — Yara El - Sherbini, 2015
At the time, while I recognized in the installations in which Tonoshiki threw together and brought
into dynamic coexistence waste lumber from demolished houses, driftage from the ocean, abandoned televisions and other domestic waste, and scrapped vehicles on the one hand and natural outdoor settings or orderly exhibition rooms in art museums on the other, a common spirit with the cyber-punk-like junk aesthetic that was then reaching its peak (see the work of Seiko Mikami, for example), the only thing I sensed Tonoshiki was stressing — particularly given that he had been influenced by the
social sculpture of Joseph Beuys — was probably that the concept of «reversal» could be found in the act of almost violently recycling useless
objects that had served their function and were merely waiting to be disposed.
Through varied media and a cornucopia of
objects Cornaro presents a precise analysis of the political and
social threads imperceptibly woven
into Western material culture.
Continuing his investigation
into what he terms «
social geometry» — the intersection of physical space with human thought and behavior — Lionni trains his eye on seemingly banal images,
objects, and substances, filtering them through a variety of meticulous processes in order to focus our attention on their oft - overlooked
The emphasis this film places on the seemingly mundane ritual of cleaning shoes transforms the artist's own footwear
into another contemporary
object of worship deserving of meticulous attention and care, the modern equivalent to the traditional artistic «attribute» (an
object conventionally associated with a particular figure from classical mythology or Christian hagiography): the
social signifier.
A drive to purchase one's way
into a certain
social caste, a longing to share (if momentarily) in the risks of bohemian life or art's intellectual adventure, a belief in art as a kind of religion (its icons compelling sacrifice), a need to cushion one's surroundings with
objects of beauty or significance — who can say what complex motives go
into the acquisition of works of art?
Combining and reconfiguring familiar
objects into new material forms, Wermers addresses the structures of ritualised
social relations and the material
objects through which these associations are communicated.
I refer to the introduction of an event or
object as the information divide, the difference between the moment information is introduced
into the
social web and the time it takes to verify its accuracy.
These activities serve as
social objects and as such, they reveal information that can transform activities
into relevant content and experiences that are presented to us in the near future.
Through five rooms, the Jamaica - born Ward creates fictional experiences for the viewer by skewing found material, photography, collage, video,
social documentation, and sculpture
into art
objects.
Add some identifying information — the speaker's name, the event and date, an URL and a Twitter ID — and you're ready to release your sketchnote
into the wild as a
social object.
I really like your posts and talks about
Social objects it fits well
into a lot of themes I'm working on.
Stage 3 is getting these 3D
objects into AR,» says Facebook's creative director for
social VR, Ocean Quigley.