Sentences with phrase «own ephemerality»

Ephemerality is the point: Unlike other social networks — where content lives forever, sometimes to the chagrin of users — Snapchat is all about the now.

Snapchat's ephemerality makes it too different.

At first sight materialism's sensitivity to life's ephemerality might seem to be a sufficient reason for our cherishing the biosphere.

The most influential work on the sublime stresses its ephemerality, describing it as a response to terror.

In the New Directions collection, Whitney Monaghan considers queer mash - up videos as sites reflecting the desire of fans to hold onto fleeing moments of screen queerness, positioning them as an archive of queer ephemerality.

Joan Didion has written, and better than no one else, about Miami as a transient metropolis, one that's been built in the image of so many Cuban cities, and one that seems like it will, if not exactly crumble, reveal its essential ephemerality when so many of its Cuban - born citizens feel like they finally have the license to return to their homeland.

But there's a deeper value here teased out in themes that few filmmakers, apart from Sweden's savage Roy Andersson, would dare: the ephemerality of existence, the need to emotionally invest in these fragile four - legged totems.

From the visually abstract meditations on mortality in Decasia (2002) to the haunting exploration of a historic natural disaster in The Great Flood (2012), his found - footage films are anchored by an abiding fascination with the ephemerality of physical media and the beauty of its disintegration.

Under scrutiny, The Florida Project holds up far better than this lilac - tinted neon extravaganza of ephemerality surely should, though no scrutiny, no cynicism is required to view it, nor encouraged.

And with the need for more velocity comes the need for more ephemerality: Each appearance by the celebrity on the smartphone screen must manage to be both instantly attention - grabbing and instantly forgettable, so as not to overtax the brain of the viewer while at the same time building up the «mental availability» that is crucial to selling brands, especially in highly fragmented, mass - market product categories like fragrances, mobile apps, and clothing where the Kardashians do especially well.

«By collecting it, or selling at high prices, as you do, these things that no longer have much use, does not that run counter to their very ephemerality — taking something intended to be transitory and short term and preserving it for eternity?

What I am saying though is that these games contain encompassing, pervasive themes of loss and ephemerality that, when spread across their modestly - sized maps and uncluttered plots, give the games a thematic focus and emotional potency that Link's more sprawling outings can't quite achieve.

«Okore's practice explores these subjects of ephemerality and transformation.

The strength of Tiravanija's work lies precisely in its ephemerality, and the slippery ways it escapes definition, the way it takes the material of the every - day and re-stages it, allowing the viewer a perspective at once banal and deeply profound about the quickly fleeting nature of life itself.

Your works at that time approach the limits of ephemerality; they push the definition of sculpture away from its mythical involvement with industrial production, away from the spectacular deployment of industrial materials and processes.

«There are multitudes of ways an individual can perceive this transitory existence, making the concept of ephemerality a relative one,» said Rogers.

This «line», striking for its humanly warmth, exposes the fruitlessness of drawing borders and boundaries with its ephemerality, and seems to foreshadow in some way his later «Boundless» thinking.

According to the press release, «Themes of whimsy and ephemerality connect the selected artworks on exhibit in «INCITE.»

Work by local artists will be in conversation with pieces that will be traveling from as far as Alaska and France for a truly transnational exploration of ephemerality.

Join us to discuss ephemerality, preservation and other challenging issues of exhibiting artworks.

These works, characteristically, are of extraordinary delicacy, their ephemerality possessing a fey distinctive beauty that seems on the verge of transformation.

The curators of Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen discuss lost languages and the politics of ephemerality in this exhibition walkthrough.

The assemblage includes several mirrors, perhaps prompting the viewer to assess their own complicity, as well as a grenade, a reminder of the ephemerality of prosperity.

I'm really interested in your use of materials, which for me seem to play with notions of weight and weightlessness, ephemerality and permanence.

Instead, the careful selection of artists and works included in the exhibition encourage the visitor to reconsider the unique properties of the medium - primarily its ephemerality, and the ease with which it can be transformed into a variety of different objects - and, in doing so, Paper sheds a new light on this medium as both a raw material and a vehicle for artistic expression.

The materials chosen by Oderbolz often fluctuate between stability and ephemerality and have a particular influence on the viewer's physical and mental experience of a space.

Somewhere along the way I became enchanted by the ephemerality and useless qualities of art works.

In her most recent work, she treats her own body as one might play with their online avatar, given the ephemerality and flexibility of its digital presentation.

In 1974 he founded, together with a group of artists, writers, film - makers, performance artists and musicians, the Laboratoire Agit» Art, whose aim was to transform the nature of artistic practice from a formalist, object - bound sensibility to practices based on experimentation and agitation, process rather than product, ephemerality rather than permanence.

This sensitivity to the malleability and ephemerality of paper amplifies the effect her tightly choreographed images have on the sheet.

Not sure what the press release means, exactly — it involves ephemerality versus materiality, interpellation versus interpolation — but it's about the Internet.

Drawing on ideas about ephemerality, the passage of time, and humankind's attempts to dominate the environment, his oeuvre incorporates extensive techniques and media, including photography, sculpture, video, intervention and installation.

Her work's ephemerality is pivotal to its content, which speaks to the presence of impermanence in everyday life and the possibility of responding to it with a sense of wonder and play rather than unease.

Since 2014, Yung Jake has developed a series of paintings that combine the permanence of steel with the ephemerality of new media.

The flat, flashbulb - lit paintings of Richard Phillips have always seemed more destined for magazine (or album) covers than for the gallery setting — in fact, they often make their way into glossies like Elle, Visionaire, and Vogue China — but beneath the shallow surfaces of his celebrity portrayals lurk a troubled consciousness musing on ideas of ephemerality, objectification, and the high cost of cheap fame.

The co-curators of Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen discuss lost languages and the politics of ephemerality in this exhibition walkthrough.

Albury uses analog materials to discuss ephemerality and invites spontaneous occurrences in everyday moments as a means to access the sublime.

Thick daubs of pigment and pasted - on sections of leaf - shaped paper articulate the tactile, fecund nature of the imagery, but long streaks of color also emphasize the blooms» ephemerality, as though their forms are dematerializing in front of the viewer's eyes.

expanding upon rhode's recurring use of visual and verbal puns, the exhibition juxtaposes the heritage of his home country with the ephemerality of his artistic practice.

[1] The conversation that constitutes a Tino Sehgal sale consists of his talking to the buyer (usually a representative from a museum) before a notary and witnesses, generally with about five legal stipulations of the purchase: that the work be installed only by someone whom Sehgal himself has authorized via training and prior collaboration; that the people enacting the piece be paid an agreed - upon minimum; that the work be shown over a minimum period of six weeks (in order to avoid allegations of ephemerality); that the piece not be photographed; and that if the buyer resells the concept, he does so with this same oral contract.

«With its disappearance and the ephemerality of the act, choreography has its own kind of economy,» stated Bokaer.

Kelly Akashi: Long Exposure 18/9/2017 -18 / 12/2017 Kelly Akashi is a Los Angeles - based artist working in sculpture and photography, often using materials like wax, glass, bronze, light, and air to emphasize time and ephemerality.

Kunitani's Spaceless Space in the back room explores the ephemerality of the viewer's relationship with artworks and space.

Bai's latest body of work, assembled for the exhibition Here Today, retains this paradoxical combination of fleeting ephemerality and concrete fixity.

NIMk's curator Petra Heck chose to exhibit works wherein the following elements circulate freely: the free floating of information on the Internet resulting in ephemerality, temporarility and performativity and on the other hand the hybrid of digital, analogue and 3D elements.

In her practice, she tests the boundaries of «human minimality» in terms of the fragility and ephemerality of our bodies and employs the experience of the uncanny as the catalyst for conversation, creating complex virtual identities.

Ephemerality is sometimes lacking in most gallery exhibitions due to the market pressure in our current commercial climate, so I felt my approach could rekindle aspects of 60's and 70's avant - garde performances as well as engage with the concept of sculpture as the medium, or starting point, for drawing.

The first iteration, Embodied Absence: Ephemerality and Collectivity in Chilean Art of the 1970s (Sep 2015 — Jan 2016), was organized by Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile with its substantial support in research and production of works, in collaboration with DRCLAS.

These works explore contemporary notions of beauty, ephemerality and Ritterpusch's curious relationship to the women that are contemporaries of his mother.

By manipulating colored monofilament and other tendril - like materials, I mean to construct a kind of substantive ephemerality, an accretion of marks and their shadows delineating maelstroms of visual noise; a luminous expanse in suspended animation, conjuring microscopic activity, arterial systems, dust, and weather.»