Sentences with word «utopia»

Arns obtained her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2004 with a thesis focused on paradigmatic shifts in the way artists in (ex --RRB- Yugoslavia and Russia refected upon the historical avant - garde and notions of utopia in visual and media art projects during the 1980s and 1990s.

Muttopia is certainly a type of utopia for dogs like Maggie and Patricio.

The main theme of her work lies in overlapping social and political issues and exploring the notion of utopia where public space and subliminal messages are brought together to break boundaries.

Uncentered, unattached and featuring constantly evolving parameters, these objects were primarily artistic experiments that expressed an earnest belief in the utopian power of art at a precise time when the West's reigning art ideology had definitively abandoned the idea of utopia as such.

In addition to recognizing common grace, Calvinism acknowledges the reality of a «common curse,» said Carter, in that «man is fallen, man has a bent toward evil, and man is not capable of creating utopia on his own.»

The Star Trek universe opens in ultimate utopia with the crew of the USS Enterprise getting a much needed, dare we say «bathroom break», at the gigantic Starbase Yorktown.

Virtually all cultures and societies valorise work and in response, utopian idealists of past ages have sought, rather disastrously, to banish work from our lives by promising that by working very hard to create a socialist utopia in some nebulous future we can live lives of unadulterated hedonism.

I hope we'll see more homages to crazed citizenry of my favorite failed utopia as BioShock 2 «s release date draws near.

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It's crazy how quickly you get used to living out of a suitcase, and how the sudden bevy of options before you can feel like utopia.

French artist Denant creates modern utopias from raw materials — such as concrete, or timber — as seen across Galerie Anne de Villepoix's booth in the Discovery sector.

Ready Player One, set in a run - down future, follows teenager Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), who likes to escape his dreary, dangerous real world by logging into Oasis, a globally networked virtual utopia where users lead idyllic alternate lives.

Well, it's not utopia.

If Braderman's voice - over narration drifts into nostalgia for a lost utopia on occasion, the testimony of her interlocutors reminds us that even though consciousness - raising groups are a thing of the past, the spirit of the group is very much alive.

The award - winning overview Inverted Utopias in 2004, organized by MFAH curator of Latin American art Mari Carmen Ramirez, introduced a vast panorama of modern artists including Lygia Clark, Carlos Cruz - Diez and Rafael Soto.

The crystallised model becomes the physical yet ghostly rendering of a missing building, highlighting the deterioration and decay of the city due to government neglect, and thereby reveals the fragile line between utopia and reality.

That's fine by us, as we weren't looking forward to typing that out from here until release, but part of me hopes we'll see Sea of Dreams again — perhaps for a failed underwater utopia - inspired Disney on Ice?

Playing in the underworld utopia gone wrong world of Rapture is a fantastic atmospheric experience.

Among those who worked in geometric abstraction at this time, a certain balance and visual tension was perpetuated between spiritual (mystic) expression and social utopia as evidenced by the containment of form within these artists» works.

The Empathics are people in the present who try to bring a future utopia into the present through science and ritual.

Since attending San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1980s, McGee has found a canvas waiting on every crack and corner of his hometown, an urban utopia for oddballs.

If these observations are true, then the communist utopia of full material prosperity and superabundance which is well within the conceptual experience of reason is not the goal for the radical and qualitative transformation of reason.

All you need to know is that this world centers on a powerful resource called vibranium, and vibranium is protected by a secret African utopia called Wakanda.

«They feel that nothing negative is going to happen, and that this will just create an economic utopia for New York, and we disagree,» Durant said.

For the inaugural show, Lee Bul has envisioned a dynamic installation that continues her exploration of ideas about utopia and the human condition; one that works in harmony with the gallery's original architectural character, which was left intact during the renovation process.

While you're in the area: Continue the otherworldly theme of Charles Avery's imaginary Island with a visit to The Garden of Virtual Utopias at Thomas More Square, where curator Estela Oliva presents works that illustrate how virtual simulations could become our future utopian spaces.

The isolationist country in Africa is a hidden technological utopia built upon a mountain of Vibranium, one of the strongest metals in the world that also has special properties that have led to the culture to advance far beyond its humble neighbors.

Who could be behind this threat against Mars, the new planned perfect utopia for humanity?

In his paintings, Modernism becomes the thread by which Eamon explores the double - edged sword of human achievement — the effort to achieve utopia through artistic pursuits and the inevitability of the failure to reach that exalted state of existence.

In contemporary art of the last fifty years, the concept of real has often been characterized as an embodied engagement of social transformation and an imagined utopia against a pictorial formalism.

hi... i'm in very near pocket utopia through january... i'll stop in and say hi during your residency for sure.

Dystopia and anti-utopia are not interchangeable, and as terms describe parallel conditions which emerge from diametrically opposed motives: dystopia describes a deliberately oppressive society, built from its foundations as a structure of tyranny; while anti-utopia describes a more complex circumstance where the conditions for building utopia fail, and the results amount to those of a dystopian society.

The scenario — about an emotion - free utopia successfully maintaining its communal calm — feels shockingly out of step with today's democracy - run - amok catastrophes.

As incongruous as it may sound, a trip to Nevada's bone - dry Black Rock desert is what got Patri Friedman thinking about a political utopia in the middle of the ocean.

Radical Utopias presents new works on paper and canvas by Smith that emphasise his interest in composition and material.

However, the attack on fine art loses its roots — in Rodchenko's Russia, Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, and the other modernist utopias.

«[But] the idea of having an independent little utopia within the boundaries of an undemocratic monarchy was simply utter nonsense.»

They can not be understood in the language of rootless ideologues or deracinated international bureaucrats, whose promised utopias seem always to end in the prison camp.

This former utopia hides many spine - chilling secrets...

Along the walls were 13 engraved stoneworks, each bearing a tenet, a rallying cry not about finding utopia but about meeting the necessities for our survival.

Instead there appeared what Tillich (1966 p. 70) calls negative utopias such as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984.

With an air of opulence befitting royalty, Imbali Safari Lodge is the perfect African utopia where guests will find serenity.

To solve the problem relies upon people willing to fly in the face of the human utopia which is freedom without responsibility, and address their way of living.

The only real utopia is yet to come...

Since the events of Rise, Caesar and his Hominidae cohorts have established their own utopia where apes don't kill apes and a dwindling human population poses little threat to their way of life.