Sentences with phrase «of mechanical objects»

August 8 through September 6 at Flashpoint is «Between Fact and Fiction,» a showcase of mechanical objects that artist Adam Hager has disassembled and reassembled in ways that flip their intended purpose.

Rauschenberg's exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery opened on May 14, 1951, and, as was standard for the time, remained on view for just three short weeks.36 The presentation consisted of thirteen easel - size oils in the smaller gallery while the larger main room featured works by Walter Tandy Murch, an artist known for his realistic depictions of mechanical objects and illustrations for such magazines as Forbes and Scientific American.

DeFeo was especially fascinated by the anthropomorphic potential of mechanical objects, presenting a photographed vacuum cleaner or tripod as an almost alive creature.

Not exact matches

The point of those analyses and «historical genealogies» that have become an object of derision among the liberals — oddly, from those who advocate a return to Madisonian principles — is certainly not to retreat to the comfort of the library or the coffee shop; nor is it to deny the contingencies of history by suggesting that 1968 follows upon 1776 with some kind of mechanical necessity.

The real reason why Birch and Cobb object to viewing DNA as a machine is that they understand it to have «patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).

It is important to make it abundantly clear at this point that the crucial problem is the spiritual problem, and we here mean by spiritual that area which is the object of attention in philosophy and theology as against that area in which the object of attention is mechanical contrivance.

He did not merely copy Democritus» physics, as was commonly thought, but introduced the idea of spontaneity into the movement of the atoms, and to the Democritus world of inanimate nature ruled by mechanical laws he added a world of animate nature in which the human will operated.9 Marx thus favours the views of Epicurus for two reasons: firstly, his emphasis on absolute autonomy of the human spirit has freed human beings from all superstitions of transcendent objects; secondly, the emphasis on «free individual self - consciousness» shows one way of going beyond the system of a «total philosophy».

The nineteenth - century predilection for picturable mechanical models has been thoroughly undermined by quantum physics which has shown that the atomic world is very unlike the world of familiar objects.

It elegantly embraces several stereotypically Guy Things: fire building, beast slaughtering, fiddling with grubby mechanical objects, expensive gear fetishes, afternoon - long beer drinking, and, of course, great heaps of greasy meat at the end of the day.

To test the idea, Alessandro Farnè of the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France, and colleagues asked 14 volunteers to use a mechanical grabber to pick up distant objects.

With many thousands of 3 - D fuzzy patches weighed statistically by a so - called sensor model, which is trained offline using calibrated example routes, the system is remarkably tolerant of poor sight, changes in lighting, movement of objects, mechanical inaccuracies and other perturbations.

Kuhn says the equivalent in physical objects is the mechanical tolerances used in manufacturing — one side of an object might be specified as 300 ± 1 millimetres, for example.

The result may lead to ultrasensitive force detectors and to ways of controlling an object's mechanical vibrations as deftly as we now control electricity and light.

The 4D printing approach here involves printing a 3D object with a hydrogel (water - containing gel) that changes shape over time when temperatures change, said Howon Lee, senior author of a new study and assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

Normally, you only see quantum - mechanical jiggling when you look at objects the size of atoms and molecules, but we are moving into a domain where we see the centers of mass of these big mirrors jiggle quantum - mechanically.

If the quality factor of the resonator is high, the mechanical energy will dissipate at a very low rate, and therefore the resonator will be extremely accurate at measuring or sensing objects thus enabling these systems to become very sensitive mass and force sensors, as well as exciting quantum systems.

Devices to harvest ambient mechanical energy to convert to electricity are widely used to power wearable electronics, biomedical devices and the so - called Internet of Things (IoT)-- everyday objects that wirelessly connect to the internet.

DURING HIS TIME IN GUANGZHOU, Leonhardt planned to work on the theory of Casimir forces, a strange pull or push between two closely spaced objects that arises because of quantum mechanical fluctuations in the vacuum of empty space.

In order to demonstrate the quantum mechanical nature of a massive object it has to be delocalized first.

«Not just the shape of the object, but its mechanical properties, its composition and how it evolves in time.»

Although different kinds of object, ranging from singly trapped atom to visibly large mechanical oscillator, have been successfully cooled by laser cooling, it is believed to be efficient only under demanding conditions.

To me, the middle ground «frontier» is how you maintain quantum mechanical behavior of an object as you bring it to a macroscopic scale.

Muscle contraction is pretty inefficient from a metabolic perspective, with around 50 % of the energy produced lost in the form of heat, instead of being used for moving an object (mechanical energy).

Aloy also has a sort of Detective Mode (like in Rocksteady's Batman Arkham franchise), which the game calls «Focus,» that allows her to see and analyze mechanical and electronic objects (including robots), as well as see the movement or patrol path of robots.

Our campers brought in objects from home that were no longer used and were more mechanical in nature (tearing apart an iPhone would not be as much fun, not only because it is hard to actually take apart, but also too much of the functionality is hidden from actual view).

Once they're comfortable with the way that one thinking routine has worked in their classroom, they can branch out and focus on different kinds of inquiry, like Here Now / There Then, which could be used in a civics class to help students understand how past perspectives change over time; or Parts, Purpose, Complexities, which encourages observation and understanding of art objects or mechanical systems.

The tax applies to «any coin - or token - operated game, machine, or device, which, as a result of depositing a coin, token, or other object, automatically or through some mechanical or electronic involving skill, chance, or a combination thereof, affords music, amusement, or entertainment without vending any merchandise.»

The machine world was the easiest: cold, mechanical textures using circuit bent synths, glitching and stretching, and metallic overtones that were achieved running percussive loops through impulse responses of iron and metal objects being struck.

The absence of an adjustable camera means that Dick Starspeed, Scarlet Nova, and Dick's faithful mechanical companion, Robot can become hidden behind solid objects.

Her brilliant stroke was to marry the handmade and the mechanical in photographs of architecturally - inspired mirrored objects built in her studio.

Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting begins with rarely seen examples of the artist's early paintings of the 1950s and their evolution into assemblages made in the 1960s, which integrated objects, mechanical elements, and modes of deconstruction.

The dimly lit, dungeon - like room is nearly empty, except for a pair of rusted and broken mechanical objects on a raised concrete slab.

Some of these electro - mechanical assemblages invite participants to activate a mechanism in order for the object to perform a certain function.

The subjects of Halvorson's works are often singular, overlooked objects — masked - over windows, weathered walls, defunct mechanical devices — that she paints in their original environments.

Camil specifically channels Frank Stella's Copper Paintings (1960 - 61), a series that presented his first use of tape to create repetitive striped patterns, a mechanical appearance inevitably pointing to the idea of painting as object.

The selection of new paintings on view features a repeating cup — an everyday object that is both domestic and mechanical in its production.

In place of a traditional, chronological approach, «Ghosts in the Machine» is conceived as an encyclopedic cabinet of wonders: bringing together an array of artworks and non-art objects to create an unsystematic archive of man's attempt to reconcile the organic and the mechanical.

Throughout his career, drawings have appeared in series that sometimes only consist of a few works: in the 1960s, representational and mechanical drawings from projected photographs; in the 1970s, abstract drawings; in the 1980s, drawings of people and objects; and in the 1990s, both figurative and abstract ink drawings.

Reassembled into a robot, these materials once used to protect fragile technological objects take the form of a mechanical creature that could destroy anything in its path.

Presented in dense groupings of individual works, the exhibition also subverts canonical notions of Minimalist seriality by playing with the anonymous, mechanical format of repeated objects.

The exhibition attempts to indirectly address the specificity of the camera and the mechanical process that produces an object which is separate yet tied to it.

From Stephen Fry and Tracey Emin's modest wooden pencils, to James Dyson's slickly designed mechanical gadget, Dave Eggers» labyrinthine nibbed tool and Paul Smith's jewel - like object worth # 3,000, each weird and wonderful pencil featured in the book becomes an accurate portrait of its owner, demonstrating that in the digital age the pencil is no longer just a simple work tool, but a much - loved totem of creativity.

Baghramian often challenges the limits of sculpture and molds, object, and signification, strength and fragility, organic and mechanical.

«Working Knowledge» will consider the construction, treatment and mechanical systems of an object in a complex unfolding of its surrounding landscape.

Composed from 16 mm film footage of the family possessions in her childhood home, Objection is equally concerned with the physical objects of the home, the memories attached to them, the sounds of family that never appear onscreen and the uncanny, eerie nature of the light - flares and mechanical abstractions inherent to the medium.

Utilizing cross sections between photography, painting, light, projection and sound, Asgary creates sculpted environments that are lit much like objects to be photographed — leaving the mechanical trace of the camera to the viewer's stance.

The paintings were particularly discouraging, since they were scale-less and utterly mechanical; clearly we were meant to recognize them as indicators of ideas rather than consider them as objects with intrinsic expressive properties.

Making his mark with visually seductive furniture - like acoustic objects such as the «Kaleidophonic Dog,» that recall the assemblages of Ed Kienholz, von Heune eventually turned his mechanical marvels towards their performative possibilities, involving his listener - viewers in the production of sound.

Next to the displays there are videos of Jeong's previous performances, where various objects have become homemade contraptions to be danced and wrestled with — mechanical, robotic, human, menacing and fragile all at once.

de la Mora's materials of choice are those often consider waste or residue: collected artifacts and antiques, obsolete mechanical and utilitarian objects, parts, corporeal matter, architectural scrap.