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Showing 1 to 20 of 730 for “"materiality"”.
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The concept of materiality
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The concept of materiality
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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An inquiry into virtual materiality
“We shape our tools, and thereafter they shape us," this Mcluhanism demands that when we create, we do so thoughtfully. This thesis examines artists' relation to VR tools for 3D shape modelling and their needs regarding VR creativity. A new interaction model is presented for sculpting in VR …
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The CAPM approach to materiality
Materiality is a pervasive accounting concept that has defied a precise quantitative definition. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) approach to materiality provides a means for determining the limits that bound materiality. Also, the approach makes it possible to locate the point estimate …
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The (im)materiality of Goethe's geology
… from the perspective of the interplay between materiality and immateriality. Specifically, I posit that Goethe’s descriptions of mountains, mines and rocks focus in equal part on the material and immaterial characteristics of the object in question, without privileging one or the other. Drawing …
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Digital graft : towards a non-homogeneous materiality
(cont.) and form development. Through this approach, space can be perceived not as distributed geometries, but rather as a composite graft responding locally to flows of programmatic and environmental parameters.
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Memory, Margins, and Materiality: The Philadelphia MOVE Bombing
On May 13, 1985, Philadelphians watched a live news broadcast as a police officer tossed a duffel bag full of plastic explosives onto the roof of an occupied rowhome in a Black, middle-class West Philadelphia neighborhood. The bombing and the decision to allow the fire to burn killed five children …
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Formation of the Cloud: History, Metaphor, and Materiality
… the entanglement of history, metaphor, and materiality. In telling this story, I argue that metaphors play a powerful role in how we imagine, construct, and maintain our technological futures. The cloud, as a metaphor in computing, works to simplify complexities in distributed networking …
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Turbulent Bodies: Disruptive Materiality in American Painting, 1880-1940
<p>This study historicizes the physical processes of painting of the American artists Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917), and John Marin (1870-1953). It situates their practices in the context of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture by thinking of painting …
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Religious objects and performance : testing the role of materiality
… addresses the problematic nature of religious materiality in Western discourses, illustrated by its typical relegation to being representational instead of sensual, embodied or tangible. Two ethnographic accounts highlight the prominent role that materiality plays in vernacular religious …
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Modernity, mobility, and materiality in E. M. Forster’s fiction
… social relations in E. M. Forster’s fiction. The materiality of the world is prevalent in his literary works where the textures of places, objects, and things are meticulously described. Places are depicted as dynamic and affective entities that are experienced physically and sensorially through …
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Contextual materiality : the Jewell Golf and Country Club project
<p>In any design process, materials affect every aspect of the final project, ranging from functional elements and key structural components to the overall aesthetics and determining final cost. Through this thesis, I will show that a material palette rich in the architectural character of a rural …
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Beyond Playthings: Materiality and Embodiment on the Modern Stage
This thesis examines the ways in which materiality and embodiment animate each other on the mid-twentieth-century stage: its aim is to unveil how the mutual schooling of objects and bodies constitutes a dramaturgical force across a range of Anglo-American plays from the 'long' 1960s. Even though …
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The Materiality of Mobile Pastoralism: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives from Samburu, Kenya
<p>This thesis represents the first comprehensive ethnoarchaeological study to date on the material culture of African mobile pastoralism, a way of life economically, culturally, and ideologically centered on the herding of livestock. In Africa, tens of millions of people today still rely on …
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Mourning, materiality and the feminine: Sarah Pucill’s films 2004-2010
… hand-made texture of image and sound that is the materiality of the unpolished. Vivian Sobchack (The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience, 1992), Sobchack (Inscribing Ethical Space: Ten Propositions on Death, Representation and Documentary, 1984) Laura U. Marks (The Skin of the …
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Effects Of Serveware Materiality On Food Perceptions, Consumption, and Waste
<p>Three lab studies and three field studies indicate that food waste and consumption is influenced by serveware disposability. Studies indicate that consumers waste more food when eating with disposable plates and consume more food when eating with permanent plates. The effect persists whether …
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Sartorial Choreography: The Materiality and Performance of Clothes-Making Gestures
The materiality of clothes is closely tied to bodily movement and performance, and fashion designers and researchers have explored how clothes become expressive through wearing and performing. However, while the performative aspects of wearing clothes have been extensively investigated, the …
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