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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Material-specificity"”.
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Digital Fabrication for Contemporary Material Specificity
… placed the onus of design squarely within the material world. This movement attempted to replace the immaterial “metaphysical” approach to design and material with physically-provable absolute concepts of materiality. However, this model failed to recognize that the value and use life of modern …
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The impact of psychosocial stress and biological sex on false recognition memory
… research done by Gallo and colleagues (2004) on material specificity in false memory. Participants in a Stress group (15 males and 13 females) were exposed to a procedure designed to induce mild psychosocial stress, whereas participants in a Relax group (15 males and 14 females) were exposed to a …
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Modeling and characterization of a monoenergetic gamma-ray imaging system for active interrogation applications
… of energy, are developed and characterized for material-specific radiography. It is found that the monoenergetic sources offer better material specificity and higher contrast. Finally, tomographic image reconstruction algorithms are developed to take advantage of the isotropic nature of …
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The Space of Clay: an investigation of contemporary clay-based art practice as a site of embodied viewer experience
… and conceptual potentials arising from material specificity. Key to this is the social, cultural, temporal and anthropological significance of clay in human life: no other substance is so closely connected with human existence, spanning millennia. This rich material identity is shown to …
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Redefine and reterritorialise: painting as an interdisciplinary form
… this leads to a retention of medium and material specificity. In contrast, a different methodological approach potentially changes the way in which painting can be thought and is explored within the thesis. The proposition of a particular type of methodological investigation challenges …
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The Crisis of Language in Contemporary Japan: Reading, Writing, and New Technology
… within reading and writing, I emphasize the material specificity of contemporary reading and writing practices.
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The Embedded American Artist
As our world ramps up the speed of its connections, our identities merge with increasing speed and angles of confluence. Not only are new identities created, but also the more fringe social and cultural elements of our world are exposed to mainstream consciousness. My work is a product of my own …