Sentences with phrase «ubiquitous material»

The steel bars represent ubiquitous material in urban landscapes — often used to fence people out, or in.

IOU / USA will transform the ubiquitous material of cargo shipping containers into a giant, temporary public sculpture.

His decision to utilise a ubiquitous material such as a the milk can, speak to and simultaneously critique an everyday reality faced by many Ghanaians.

How to Live Without Plastic - To help you go plastic - free in your home, here are some tips for refusing and replacing the ubiquitous material during your daily routines.

And before long it will be quite a ubiquitous material.

British and Indian engineers are developing earthquake - proof housing using a cheap, ubiquitous material: bamboo.

The team used titanium dioxide, a ubiquitous material found in everything from paint to sunscreen, to create the nanoscale array of smooth and high - aspect ratio nanostructures that form the heart of the metalens.

Cheap and ubiquitous materials are transformed through a laborious process representing the complexities of use and reuse, and alluding to the hierarchies of artistic media and Indian social structures.

In my current work I use these same ubiquitous materials, but the initial disguise is deliberately revealed when the piece, at first appearing to be made from metal and by machine, is seen close - up and the dissemblance is exposed.

Nonetheless, its simple, ubiquitous materials make it fundamentally impersonal and offer a certain solemn and austere presence to the piece.

These fanciful and sometimes whimsical compositions reveal aspects of our reality that are unseen, but experienced, with influences of mystical minimalism and the use of ubiquitous materials like clear packing tape and steel wire.

Recently graduated from The Royal College of Art, she has blown audiences away with her intricate and surprising use of tactile and ubiquitous materials.

Manipulating ubiquitous materials like newspapers, mirrors, and shards of found ceramic, the artist disrupts the viewer's awareness of their surroundings and destabilizes familiar structures.

Ubiquitous materials of construction, gypsum, plywood and steel mined and extracted from the land are repurposed in a series of 8 foot high sculptures, their span mimicking that of Duane's chest and height with extended arms.

Off the Shelf, Richard Garrison's third exhibition with the gallery, continues his deconstruction and analysis of ubiquitous materials, objects and places from the suburban, most often consumer related, American landscape, such as Sunday newspaper sale circulars, parking lot colors, colors of product packaging, etc..

Using industrially mass - produced ubiquitous materials, present in daily life.

Not exact matches

These days, «going paperless» is a ubiquitous phrase in the promotional materials that banks hand out to prospective customers.

The regulatory state and ubiquitous new global media throw their ever increasing weight behind the new understanding of marriage and its implicit anthropology, which treats our bodies as raw material to be used as we see fit.

Znachki are so ubiquitous that in 1974 the Communist Party newspaper Pravda even complained that pin production in the U.S.S.R. was «growing catastrophically» and using up too much of the nation's scarce raw materials.

Plastic is undeniably the wonder material: It's cheap and versatile, and it is ubiquitous where we live, work and shop.

Take steel, a material that is ubiquitous in modern infrastructure such as homes, offices, cars and factories.

Researchers hoping to design new materials for energy uses have developed a system to make synthetic polymers — some would say plastics — with the versatility of nature's own polymers, the ubiquitous proteins.

Steel is one of the rare materials that is both strong and ductile, which is why it's ubiquitous as a structural material.

A multi-institution team of scientists led by Texas A&M University chemist Sarbajit Banerjee has discovered an exceptional metal - oxide magnesium battery cathode material, moving researchers one step closer to delivering batteries that promise higher density of energy storage on top of transformative advances in safety, cost and performance in comparison to their ubiquitous lithium - ion (Li - ion) counterparts.

«But over time the making money part really dwindled, and it's become a mission,» a way to change the global standard of living with ubiquitous energy and access to resources such as raw minerals from asteroids, helium - 3 from the moon, or oxygen, water and other lunar materials for space - or Mars - based habitats.

Such ornaments are ubiquitous in so - called Upper Paleolithic sites in Europe beginning about 40,000 years ago, where they were made from many different materials — animal and human teeth, bone and ivory, stone, and mollusk shells — and often varied widely among regions and sites.

The once dense and ubiquitous common reed (Phragmites australis) served as raw material for homes, handicrafts, tools, and animal fodder for thousands of years.

«Because crystallization is a ubiquitous phenomenon across a wide range of scientific disciplines, a shift in the picture of how this process occurs has far - reaching consequences,» said materials scientist and physicist James De Yoreo at PNNL.

To speed the search for these unknown genes, scientists use a «subtraction» method to remove the bulk of ubiquitous, already - identified genes from a sample pool of genetic material, leaving behind a higher percentage of the undiscovered genes expressed less frequently or at low levels in an attempt to increase the probability of discovering these genes.

Yes, nanotechnology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives and has found its way into many commercial products, for example, strong, lightweight materials for better fuel economy; targeted drug delivery for safer and more effective cancer treatments; clean, accessible drinking water around the world; superfast computers with vast amounts of storage; self - cleaning surfaces; wearable health monitors; more efficient solar panels; safer food through packaging and monitoring; regrowth of skin, bone, and nerve cells for better medical outcomes; smart windows that lighten or darken to conserve energy; and nanotechnology - enabled concrete that dries more quickly and has sensors to detect stress or corrosion at the nanoscale in roads, bridges, and buildings.

This week on All Things Paper, the skys the limit when world famous artists work their magic with a material as ubiquitous as paper.

As technologies continue to make learning more convenient, more effective, and more ubiquitous, education companies should be making learning materials ever more available.

SENIOR MOTORSPORTS EDITOR MAC MORRISON: A new A4 is coming any day now, but the old model holds up very well across the board: Exterior and interior design and materials, excellent ride and handling, and the ubiquitous 2.0 - liter turbocharged drivetrain.

According to a Publisher's Weekly article called Nonfiction, Common Core, and More: An ABPA Panel, «print remains ubiquitous (appearing everywhere at the same time) and book sales point to an unwavering commitment on the part of parents to purchase reading material for their children.»

These days, «going paperless» is a ubiquitous phrase in the promotional materials that banks hand out to prospective customers.

The box is notched, allowing customers to place two 2 - by - 4 boards across the span to provide tiered storage of materials — including ubiquitous 4 - by - 8 sheets of plywood.

Using only this humble material, which is ubiquitous to the point of invisibility in everyday life, the artists in The Paper Sculpture Show offer a visually stunning, conceptually rich, and playfully hands - on exploration of artistic practice today.

I work with material that is typically ubiquitous, either natural or non-natural, such as grocery bags and water bottles.

Creating works from synthetic materials such as resin, neon and rubber and reworking ubiquitous matter such as glass, plexiglass, wood, sand and metal, Webb often parodies modernism to wry and poetic results - referencing consumer culture and making use of the solid and the open and the soft and rigid to explore new sculptural possibilities.

Material Cultures reminds the viewer that, although it can be easy to forget about the importance of materials as ubiquitous as fabric, textile production is a powerful lens through which to understand culture.

Using materials taken from amateur photographers» how - to manuals from the 1970s, Lipps make the case that the supposedly Internet - derived, algorithmic image culture so widespread today may actually find its roots in the feverish popularity of the low - cost Brownie camera of the 1950s and the ubiquitous Fujifilm disposable point - and - shoot of the»80s.

Artists like Carl Andre, Donald Judd and Frank Stella would often use common, everyday materials such as bricks and house paint, and their works would draw from shapes that one would encounter just as regularly, such as the ubiquitous cube or box - shape.

Frei Njootli uses the standard issue black baseball cap as a launch point in her sculpture and performance, activating the ubiquitous headgear with animal fur, beadwork, and other cultural materials.

In Unbranded, Thomas removes all branding information, including logos and text, staging a détournement that investigates the ubiquitous language of advertising through material representations featured in Ebony, Times, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy magazine.

In keeping with his signature vocabulary of common objects and materials, he chose the ubiquitous hue of traffic cones, construction zone signage, and road crew vests.

Using materials ubiquitous to South Africa and Zimbabwe, Halter employs the language of craft and curio as a visual strategy to articulate his concerns within a fine art context.

Today's DRC is the world's largest exporter of coltan, a raw material used in computer chips and mobile phones, and we see this ubiquitous marker of global modernity creeping across their skins.

Known as hanji, the paper is deeply rooted in Korean tradition and was at one time a ubiquitous household material, as well as a means of wrapping various objects such as medicine and food.

Plastic Entanglements unfolds in three sections, charting a timeline — past, present, and future — of our ongoing engagement with this ubiquitous manmade material.

On the surface, glass and wax are ubiquitous, innocuous materials.