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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"dematerialization"”.
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Conceitualismo: moderno, insuportável
… (Art Language, Povera, Land Art and Body Art) of dematerialization of the art object (Modernism paradigm of the 20th century first half) are here thought as a verification of a possible rupture or continuity solution between what contemporary art and modern art supposedly are.
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Material scarcity from the perspective of manufacturing firms : case studies of platinum and cobalt
… in expenditures. Recycling, substitution and dematerialization were actions taken or encouraged by firms in the manufacturing industry that reduced the impact of scarcity. These responses take time to implement, are not available to all and lead to permanent market changes. It was recommended …
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House I
… transparency, spatial ambiguity, symmetry, dematerialization, are used as a method to organize space and architectural elements. Spatial orders and conditions are examined through the use of idealized color. This work is the result of a year long study of the above architectural vocabulary. …
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Transformation of painting into architecture : museum for the works of F. Lembersky
… in art and architecture are abstraction, dematerialization, organization and construction of space. The similarity of purpose and formal principles allow art and architecture to inform each other. Artists have employed architectural elements as pure abstract form, and architects have …
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A dynamic input-output model to project U.S. freight transportation demand
… high-value commodities, which reflects ongoing dematerialization in the U.S. economy. Nevertheless, these commodities promote a shift towards faster, more energy-intensive freight transport modes, which gives reason for environmental concern and requires regulatory action to support less …
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Performative monuments : public art, commemoration, and history in postwar Europe
… antipode to the monument in its ephemerality and dematerialization, did not neutralize the monumental but reinvented it as a new practice: one that involved the audience explicitly through conventional transactions, best understood through the speech-act theory of J. L. Austin (who coined the term …
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Between Earth and Sky
… "framework tends towards the aerial and dematerialization of mass, whereas the mass form is telluric, embedding itself deeper in the earth. One tends toward the light and the other toward dark. These gravitational opposites . . . may be said to symbolise the two cosmological opposites to …
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An Investigation of the Coherence of Instrumental Accumulation, Using a Sculptural Methodology
… categories of knowledge. The vocabularies of dematerialization, expansion and relational exchange in the critique of sculpture, have provided a starting point to articulate what is implied or “mapped out but not socially recognized”1 by the structure of specialist categories. The …
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An Ethics of Light: The Affective Turn of Contemporary Practices
… in the 1990s, resulting from a debate on the dematerialization of the artistic object and post-media practices. This research proposes an understanding of practices of light and questions whether these practices reflect a new sensibility which emerges from experience as opposed to metaphysical …
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Cyberpunk visions of the future city
… of exclusion, sprawl, surveillance, degradation, dematerialization, submission, and resistance. This study examines the images of a potential urban future, with particular attention placed upon the future of urban form, through detailed readings of cyberpunk fiction and film. While a far cry from …
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Clearly impossible : Constructing the phantom
… consciousness and the shape of the perception? Dematerialization is a mean to alter our perception to this physical world -- Materials lose their sense of solidity and lights reconstruct the surfaces of the space and objects. This thesis project is to visually eliminate the boundaries of the …
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The refusal of the work of art: aesthetics and autonomy in Italy, 1965-1985
… changing conceptions of the “work" of art, a dematerialization that manifested in a turn towards performance and conceptualism. Aesthetic and political radicalism shared a desire for immediacy and a rejection of representation (be it the figurative representation of painting or the political …
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IL CIMENTO DEL LIBRO ELETTRONICO: L'EDITORIA DALLA 'DEMOCRATIZZAZIONE' DEL COMPUTER AL WEB 2.0.
… which completes and consolidates the dematerialization and "softwarization" of the book (digital publishing). This outlines a complex path, beginning with the emergence of IT innovations related to the storage, organization, processing, and transportation of information. It passes …
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In the Mouth of the Cave: Subterranean Site-Specific Writing Practices in Britain from William Wordsworth to Katrina Palmer
… precipitated what Lucy Lippard declares the ‘dematerialization’ of sculpture at the same moment poetic practices begin to query language as a situated medium. As sculpture becomes increasingly engaged with the absence of its traditional materials, the cave (defined by an absence in stone) …
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Dematerializing the City
The project is a local cultural center located in Gulou area in the old city center of Beijing, China. This urban intervention establishes a series of harmonious relationships between the city and the architecture, between the urban and the autonomous and between the old and the new . The pattern …
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COMING OUT OF THE COFFIN AS THE POSTHUMAN: POSTHUMAN RHETORIC AND HARRIS’ SOOKIE STACKHOUSE SERIES
… undead, but for the posthuman it is encoding and dematerialization that allows us to transcend these mortal bodies. This notion of disembodiment demonstrates the body being a rhetorical strategy to create an effect, such as manipulation. Since the body for the posthuman is seen as materiality and …
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Progetti contemporanei nei paesaggi consolidati del Mediterraneo. La modulazione della luce come strumento di analisi compositiva
… you relate to some elements of tradition: the dematerialization of the building mass, the dimming systems, gaps in the patio and courtyard and places of shade. Each of the examples treated, shows that there is a traditional way to control the light that has characterized the Mediterranean …