Sentences with phrase «utopian city of»

In a single - channel video projection titled «Llano,» the artist explores the socialist - utopian city of Llano del Rio, which lies in ruins after its water rights were lost in a lawsuit in the early 20th century.

Tomorrowland Futurescape will allow players to experience the utopian city of Tomorrowland (terrain / texture customization disc).

The largely man - made utopian cities of the United Emirates are the subject of Sarah Morris» new metropolitan abstractions.

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On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

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The city is the place of hopes and dreams, as the utopian thought of Plato, Augustine, and Thomas More attest.

If a theological sketch of the idea of a theological school is a utopian exercise, the community it describes is less an ideal city than a crossroads hamlet with an overwhelmingly white male population.

Between the cuts to New York City's universal meal program and last year's Congressional failure to adequately fund the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, it's clear that we're a very long way away from school food expert Janet Poppendieck's utopian vision of school meals «free for all.»

«Sometime in New York City» was one of the least likeable albums in human history but «Imagine» is attractive, even if it is implausibly utopian.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (July 21) Based on the graphic novel series in which government operatives travel to a rapidly expanding intergalactic metropolis called Alpha, a Utopian convergence of talents where dark forces are at work.

The film takes its name from the utopian community envisioned by Walt Disney during the 1960s near the site that eventually became Epcot and unfolds in the tacky strip where Disney's aborted city of the future might have been built.

Fred Brounian and his twin brother, George, were once co-CEOs of a burgeoning New York City software company devoted to the creation of utopian virtual worlds.

Ryan is important to BioShock lore, having created the utopian underwater city that was a character all by itself in the series of games.

Games like Cities: Skylines allow me to craft a Utopian intersection of efficient commerce and transportation, and games like Tropico let me indulge in the fantasy of becoming the ultimate despot.

Volskaya Industries is a Point Capture map located near St. Petersburg, Russia, and Numbani is a Point Capture / Payload hybrid map set in a utopian city on the edge of the African savanna....

Transistor has a more cyberpunk aesthetic, but instead of the tried and tested grimy and gritty streets of Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell, it's a beautiful, almost Utopian city, making you question how anything could possibly go wrong.

Melnikov later elaborated his ideas about the curative value of slumber in his «Sleep Laboratory,» proposed as a component of his utopian Green City.

Focusing on Fendrich's Conté crayon drawings — a separate but consistent body of work — Mario Naves wrote in New York's City Arts that they constitute «a droll synthesis of Utopian geometry and cartoony distortion: fractured and bulbous shapes that take on a jaunty anthropomorphism; and, not least, a meticulous attention to craft.»

In the projection's foreground, the «Fliegende Stadt» can be seen with its rotating towers, a transparent construction based upon Russian architect Georgi Krutikow's 1928 thesis, whose utopian vision was of a flying city, where people would live and work, returning to earth only for recreation.

However, Bublex sees the now ever - present mini-cities of prefab bungalows used on construction sites as an extension of the original Plug - In City, and from this he imagines his own evolution of urban utopian possibilities.

Inspired by art from the Renaissance period through the 19th century as well as utopian fantasies of the future, «The Strange City» represents the synthesis of a long artistic career.

For the US and other parts of the Western world, re-industrialization seems a utopian solution to underemployment, increasing class disparity, and dying factory cities.

She explains that this idea has such a vivid relevance for artists working in London, a capital of finance and «point of culmination» to Rosenthal, as the population of contemporary cities are always connected via screens and the internet both to a «virtual utopian world and the existing rational world.»

Joining forces with writers and intellectuals, these men and women — who came together at the progressive John Reed Club, founded in New York City directly after the crash — were dedicated to creating work that tackled a range of socially conscious themes, including class struggle, labor organizing, immigration, socialist mysticism, utopian communities, racial justice, and the Spanish Civil War, among others.

Where The Streets Have No Name proposes a utopian understanding of what would happen in a city without a mechanism of control.

Though varied in media and content, these series are united in their exploration of structural systems — from the individual body to larger architectural frameworks that encompass cities and utopian societies — which have become a hallmark of Lee Bul's oeuvre.

Spatial City brings together an international, multi-generational array of artists — with an emphasis on artists living in France — whose work contends with idealism, utopian thinking, and, in counterpoint, the cynicism that follows failed revolution and the retreat of optimism in the face of pragmatic reality.

New York City - based Will Cotton has become world famous for his candy - infused paintings featuring a utopian paradise of lollipops, gingerbread and melting ice cream with often nude female characters either lying in candyfloss clouds or wearing sugary confections as bespoke edible garments.

«A surreal tale of a glass ball lost in a magical world that both celebrates the utopian vision of the city and the role of glass within architecture and urban environments.»

Composed of the pollutants that the city and its inhabitants deposit upon one another, Jongeleen's epilogue to the Dutch cityscape exchanges the utopian view of the developing city for a more toxic perspective.

Curated by writer, Erick Lyle, and artists, Chris Johanson and Kal Spelletich, Streetopia will bring neighborhood residents together with at least 132 artists, performers, writers, filmmakers, activists, thinkers, and public policy makers in venues in the heart of the city, to address the show's themes of Utopian aspiration for the city.

This includes the creation of a fictional prototype for a new utopian city inspired by historic development plans for Los Angeles.

Curated by Michael Rooks «Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks; Recent Developments in Painting» Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark «HyperSurface», OVADA, Oxford, UK «Schil / Ders», De Constant Rebecqueplein (DCR), The Hague, Netherlands «HyperSurface», Rod Barton Invites, London «Parallax», Fieldgate Gallery, London 2007 «Existencias», Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Castilla Y Leon, Leon, Spain «Design for Living», Initial Access, Wolverhampton, England «Raumwelten», Kunsthalle Arnstadt, Arnstadt, Germany «Odd Spaces», Galerie Møller Witt, Aarhus, Denmark Artist Intervention, Commissioned by Vienna Art Week and the City of Vienna, Austria 2006 Recent Acquisitions, Hamburger Banhof, Berlin, Germany «The City is Not a Tree» Alon Segev Gallery, Tel - Aviv, Israel «Slider» Cell Projects, London 2005 «Ian Monroe and Emma Stibbon: Utopian Architecture», Upstairs Berlin, Germany «Infrastructure» Studio Voltaire, London «Winterzauber» Upstairs Berlin, Germany 2004 «Edge of the Real», The Whitechapel, London «Selected Sculpture» MW Projects, London «Cinderella» Trailer Projects, London «Contra Pop» Vamiali's Gallery, Athens, Greece 2003 «Bag Lady» Cell Projects, London «Reduced» Century Gallery, London «Debris» Martinez Gallery, Brooklyn «Godzilla» Trailer Projects, London Saatchi Gallery, County Hall, London «The Queen Mum Show» One in the Other Gallery, London «Chockerfuckinblocked» Jeffery Charles Gallery, London «RSVP» 5 Cork Street, London 2002 «Present» Hammer Sidi Gallery, London «The Way to Happiness» VTO Gallery, London «Trailer Presents» Trailer Projects, London «Lend us # 100m» 21 Dingley Road, London

By distributing stickers of commercial logos converted back into modernist geometries, Vidokle reinserts these once - utopian forms into the social fabric of the city.

In the exhibition Das offene Museum — die Stadt (The Open Museum — The City, 1970), Althaus sought new ways of integrating the art institute into its civic surroundings and presented utopian urban planning solutions.

These small utopian worlds buoyant around the confines of the looming city plays to our perception of scale.

A: «And then, outside the glass wall of this utopian city which had arisen out of the ruin of the «final» war between the country and the city is a green wilderness in which primitive rebels live off the land, alive to their humanity, and seek to free the ultimately urbanized sister within.»

The City of the Sun depicts a utopian city based on Campanella's reformative principCity of the Sun depicts a utopian city based on Campanella's reformative principcity based on Campanella's reformative principles.

West Coast cities carry the load of having served as imagined Arcadias for utopian thinkers and idealists, and San Francisco seems especially trapped between its amazing natural and urban scenery and a history that seems to haunt it.

Provenance, 2013, Amie Siegel's new video and the linchpin of her recent exhibition in New York, focuses on furniture pieces designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret for their utopian building project in the northwestern Indian city of Chandigarh, tracking these sofas and stools as they travel from India to the high - end homes of collectors in Europe and the United States.

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It made the case against the utopian planning culture of the times — residential high - rise development, expressways through city hearts, slum clearances, and desolate downtowns.