Sentences with phrase «of everyday phenomena»

Fisher uses discussions of the science of everyday phenomena to show how they can open the doors to public understanding and interest as well as attract future scientists.

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Physicist and author of «Storm in a Teacup: The physics of everyday life», Helen Czerski, explains the science behind this mysterious phenomenon.
Again, in a catalogue of «gifts of the Spirit», he includes «works of power, gifts of healing, [unusual] kinds of speech»,» as if they were everyday phenomena of Church life.
They are symbolic representations of aspects of reality which can not be consistently visualized in terms of analogies with everyday experience; they are only very indirectly related to observable phenomena.
The importance of religion is shrinking faster and faster as formerly inexplicable phenomena are now considered everyday science.
When I came back to Italy to teach thermodynamics at the University [of Insubria], I started using everyday life, especially cooking, to explain chemical reactions or physical phenomena to my students.
Having used interactive digital media all my life, I can confirm the reality of game transfer phenomena (GTP), in which in - game behaviour seeps into everyday life (24/31 December 2011, p 76).
Friction is an everyday phenomenon that is sometimes desirable (enabling cars to accelerate) and sometimes not (friction in the form of vehicle drag and friction in the engine and transmission system increase the car's energy consumption).
Athleisure clothing was a phenomenon, seen on both celebrities and everyday women, that paired together the comfort and functionality of workout clothing with the cute, stylish look and feel of casual attire that can be worn outside of the gym as part of a busy girl's daily routine.
The monk practising the debate is immersed, in his everyday life of Buddhist and as a tibetan, in a cultural universe filled with songs, music and dances crowned, in a singular relationship to gods whom he knows how he has invented to help him to represent itself and to live the logic of the contradictory which makes the phenomena.
The Lost phenomenon corroding this world threatens the everyday lives of the people.
Since her release, Hatsune Miku has evolved into a phenomenon of highly participatory cyber culture, with Miku - related content created and shared everyday around the globe.
The story returns to familiar locales, but it feels different every time because of the journey the characters have gone since their last visit, replicating yet another emotional phenomenon from everyday life better than any other game I have played.
A grid of nine photographs document the various possible combinations between three beetles and three soap bubbles according to mathematical theory, exploring poetic narratives of collaboration, chance, and temporality in the incidental, everyday phenomena that is frequently overlooked.
My main themes are of memory and disappearance, which I express by using natural phenomenon to reveal simple facts about our everyday existence.
Yukako Ando is a visual artist who focuses on the everyday phenomena from which the fundamental questions of life are configured.
The exhibition focuses on his work in 1967 and 1968, the years in which the artist became associated with the phenomenon of Arte Povera, the radical trend in Italian art towards using everyday materials in resonant and seemingly unambiguous combinations.
Using the camera obscura as a point of departure, I pursue an experience of light that engages the unseen in everyday phenomena.
She pays attention to imperceptible or transient moments of everyday experience, speculating on how such phenomena can be given new form.
Just as these are compressed momentous experiences, verbally catching the beauty and simplicity of everyday matters and phenomena; my paintings would provide some visual equivalent.
Zoe Beloff uses stereoscopic film to reenact ten séances held by an early 20th - century French medium in The Ideoplastic Materializations of Eva C. Jennifer Bornstein's What It Was and Celestial Spectacular use 16 - millimeter film to document UFOs, eclipses, meteor showers and other extraordinary phenomena playfully constructed from everyday household objects.
DEMETRIUS OLIVER Explode Everyday: An Inquiry Into the Phenomena of Wonder, Mass Moca, North Adams, MA, May 28, 2016 — April 3, 2017
Laureana is inspired by the imperceptible or transient moments of the everyday, speculating on how such phenomena can gain new forms of visual presentation.
The circle has this potential because it resonates with so much in our everyday lives and with objects and phenomena that have shaped the development of civilisations around the world from the most ancient of days.
The exhibition addresses one of the fundamental postulates of 20th Century Avant - garde movements, the mutual penetration or even fusion of art and everyday life, is indebted to three phenomena known from the history of 20th Century art which have remained topical and universal until the present day.
Raphaela Platow, the CAC's Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator explains,» Green Acres builds on eco-conscious exhibitions the Contemporary Arts Center has spearheaded in the past, including The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, Ecovention and Beyond Green, and puts into context the nearly 40 year phenomena of farming as art.
Within the environment of Canary Wharf station, surrounded by commuters, the programme considers the phenomenon of the crowd: as a fact of everyday existence, a source of collective identity and belonging and as a possible force and agent of change.
The work of conceptual artist Almut Linde stems from her own term Dirty Minimal, which the artist coined to name her own aesthetic approach of conjoining everyday materials, found objects and real life phenomena in a reduced, visually rich formal language.
For Rentmeister, art is much more than just a formal exercise — sculpture (and its materials) is an everyday phenomenon, we just aren't always aware of the esthetic quality of sugar cubes and handkerchiefs.
Resolutely representational, Rocca developed her own pictorial vocabulary of everyday objects and phenomenon and set them onto a map that neither castigated nor deified the role of women and mothers in the 1960s.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS: Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica: Sidereal Rift, December 3, 2016 - January 14, 2017 San Jose Museum of Art: Indestructible Wonder though January 29, 2017 Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego: Boundless October 15 through January 29, 2017 MASS MoCa: Explode Everyday: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder April 2017
Cao's art bridges into visual arts with the use of popular culture and shifts through different subcultures and phenomenon to create the surreal landscapes that she is most known for — actors incased in Burberry behaving like dogs reenact a hysteric day in the office, ordinary people dancing to hip - hop on the street, people dressed in Chinese shopping bags and a stage production incorporating Guangzhou's street youths are just a few examples of using the city's everyday life to analyze and render the current social situation where traditions and new influences are constantly in conflict.
Explode Everyday: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2016); Terrain, De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL (2013); Digital Empathy, The Highline, New York (2011); The Sound of Light, The Jewish Museum, New York (2009); Voice and Void, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2007); the Liverpool Biennial, Tate Museum, UK (2006); and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2004).
Born and educated in Japan, Tanaka's early performance work explored the phenomena of everyday objects.
It has always surprised me that this huge, demonstrated contributor to global warming, in fact one that is essential to maintenance of everyday climate phenomena, is neglected in discussions of climate change.
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