All of them had trouble feeling the vibration of a tuning fork placed on their wrists, and seven of them could not determine the approximate weight or
shape of an object placed in their palms — both tasks that most people can perform.
Not exact matches
To test the long - term spatial memory
of mice, the scientists trained the rodents to spot a new
object placed in a controlled environment where two
objects of similar
shape and volume stand.
Based on the physics
of granular materials, this robotic gripper picks up delicate and oddly
shaped objects by gently molding to them, then locking in
place.
When I explore this landscape I find myself connecting with the textures and patterns that nature provides, finding interest in detritus that washes ashore, both organic and in - organic, for even the smallest
of objects contain the beauty
of randomness and irregularity.We live in one
of the most dynamic environments on the planet, where ocean meets land; ever changing, our lives are deeply connected to this
place where tides ebb and flow revealing aggregate
shapes, leaving imprints, and proving that time is both fast and slow.
Recent exhibitions include Sitting with the Qualities
of a Mountain, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London; Damien Meade, Scheublein + Bak, Zurich;
Shape Shifters, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles; Beastly Hall, Hall
Place, Kent; Unspecific
Objects, Malgras Naudet, Manchester and The Royal Standard, Liverpool; Have You Seen Dante?
This exhibition features five artists whose recurring, yet widely divergent, use
of circular
shapes, dots, droplets and spots are technical and aesthetic tools used for the exploration into
objects,
places, popular culture, abstract forms and the self.
Shaped photographs -
of -
objects - on - photographs combine flora and crumbling clay with metals and trash (Ray
placed real
objects over photo collages, thus giving her images a special dimensionality).
«Kelly's visual vocabulary is drawn from observation
of the world around him —
shapes and colors found in plants, architecture, shadows on a wall or a lake — and has been
shaped by his interest in the spaces between
places and
objects and between his work and its viewers.
Sculptural
objects placed directly on the floor create a skewed sense
of scale and perspective, caused by the interplay between two - dimensional
shapes and three - dimensional forms.
In a series
of works started in 2012 Thomas Ruff essentially takes an idea that was first introduced my artists like Man Ray, Laszlo Moholy - Nagy who simply
placed objects of various
shapes, textures and opacities onto photographic paper and captured their physical qualities through the optical traces they left on the light sensitive surface
of the paper.
The paintings» irregular
shapes place them at the juncture
of painting and sculptural
object, and position them in relation to the surrounding architecture.
He
places a mound
of bright orange pigment in the V -
shaped space between the chairs, the weight
of the pigment balances the
objects.
Artists Marie Herwald Hermann, Laith Karmo, and Addie Langford pair clay and mixed media to consider how the
objects and space
of the Scarab Club have
shaped and continue to
shape the sense
of what this space housed, supported, sheltered, formed, and transformed in creating and maintaining
place.
His visual vocabulary was drawn from observation
of the world around him —
shapes and colors found in plants, architecture, shadows — and has been
shaped by his interest in the spaces between
places and
objects, and between his work and its viewers: «In my work I don't want you to look at the surface; I want you to look at the form, the relationships.»
Simply
place various
shapes of objects in the liquid in question (water, honey, whatever), variously oriented, and observed that the resulting level
of liquid always rises in direct proportion to the
object's weight.
Bagel Labs also includes a scroll wheel measuring device to easily record the length
of odd -
shaped objects, and an ultra-sonic remote measuring sensor to size up hard to reach
places, like say a corner between the ceiling and a wall.
Perfectly symmetrical,
placing matching items from your central point or mix it up with decorative
objects of different
shapes and sizes.