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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"negative space"”.
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The Study of Negative Space
… of scholarly work concerned with the study of negative space in media economies: a practice of understanding current realities in order to recognize the more just, equitable possibilities that do not currently prevail but nevertheless could. The work draws on diverse fields, including platform …
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Human pose and action recognition using negative space analysis
… art techniques focus exclusively on the image space occupied by the body for pose and action recognition. The method proposed here, however, focuses on the negative spaces: the areas surrounding the individual. This has resulted in the colour-coded negative space approach, an image …
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The Conception of Irony with Continual Reference to Kierkegaard: An Examination of Ironic Play in Fear and Trembling
… Irony is interpreted in this thesis as negative space, which both binds and separates and which assumes meaning equal to or greater than the positive space that binds it. This definition applies to Kierkegaard's Socrates who lived ironically in the space between actuality and ideality. …
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Crazy People
… crutches. The preface explores the concept of negative space as it applies to short fiction, manifesting itself in the form of open-ended endings, miscommunication between characters, rhetorical questions, and allusions to unspecified characters. The preface seeks to differentiate "good" space …
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The sounds of displacement : a portfolio of binaural compositions
… of the recordist on the resulting recording), negative space (the space left by the recordist, subsequently occupied by the listener), spatial strategy and the contextually rich results of the method are discussed, along with their creative applications within the portfolio.
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Figurative Sculpture in Paper Clay.
… in psychological content and in the use of negative space; similarities with sensuality in Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings; paper clay technique and the work of Rosette Gault; ceramic workshops in Appalachia; mythology and feminism as inspiration; the effect of nature and environment on …
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BRIDGE SCAPE
… shortage issue in Singapore by using existing negative spaces that are formed due to the presence of the expressways. With around 60% built up area on its 716km2 land, Singapore has applied and envisioned some strategies in anticipating its even greater land need in the next 20 years. They …
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Celestial Bodies and Other Stories
… members of a family and of the American South. “Negative Space” is a woman’s recounting of her sister’s suicide and the part she may have played in it. “Bittersweet” describes the expectations and grief passed from grandmother to mother to daughter. “Shakespeare Sounds Better in a Southern …
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Instant Conductors
… and timelessness. They attempt to reimagine the negative space of individual, sometimes muddled, histories, into some understandable or at least familiar, organic, whole. Universal truths or no, these are the electric currents of language. They are hazardous. They are harmless. They are instances …
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Observation, Surveillance, Voyeurism, and the Making of the Middle Class in Victorian England
… the writers than their subjects. By reading the negative space of these narratives—that is, reading the lower class as a depiction of what the middle class is not, or as what the middle class fears—we are able to elicit a greater understanding of how middle-class identity is formed, shared, and …
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SCISSION: The Architectural Collage and Gordon Matta-Clark's Circus Caribbean Orange
… store knowledge for future makers, reframing negative space as an epistemic resource. Ultimately, SCISSION positions collage—not as an artistic supplement to architecture—but as an architectural methodology that integrates built matter and its erasures offering a framework for practice in an …
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Characterisation of imperfections in single crystals of high purity synthetic quartz
… Sweeping was shown to induce the formation of a negative space charge in treated quartz which gave rise to inhomogeneous lattice strain. The strain was gradually relieved upon prolonged exposure to x-rays. A mechanism for the production and relief of lattice strain has been proposed. Sweeping …
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Out of the Unexpected: poems with Sappho
… poets thereafter.</p> <p>Sappho’s mystery is the negative space that continues to intoxicate her readers and has led to countless translations, summations, or even attempts to “finish” her poems. Many scholars continue to argue over her role, position and value; for example, she was a teacher but …
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Seeing what is not there: figuring the anarchive
… of absence in its own right, that is, the negative space of an archive that constitutes a form of absolute absence. I have named this absolute absence in archives the “anarchive”. Identifying the imprints of absences as indicative of the anarchive has led me to instantiate the anarchive …
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"In the blank of mere possibility": liminal transformations in the poetry of Christina Rossetti
… the distance and seclusion of the liminal space. This enables the liminal space to shape a new identity for the speakers/protagonists. In Rossetti’s poetry, the liminal personae become defined by the space they inhabit, or are trapped in, on visual, physical, psychological and sound levels. …
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Grain boundary chemistry and morphology of heavily doped cerium dioxide
… transmission electron microscope (STEM). Space charge models both at the dilute limit, and with a limited site density at the interface, have been applied. In addition, a number of adsorption models have been considered. The segregation isotherms of singly doped compositions allow one to …
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Tearing the envelope: from tunnel to tower industrial typology
… industrial typology. The intention is to vacate space on an industrial site to cater for an interface with the public. Visual and physical connections with the local urban condition will allow the factory to contribute to the revived intention of industrial urbanism in the area. The Jensen Belts …
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Impulse breakdown characteristics of SF6 and its mixtures in highly non-uniform field gaps
… gaps. Of particular interest were the effects of space charge, artificial irradiation, different gas mixtures, different additive gases and different wave fronts on the impulse breakdown characteristics. High divergent fields can exist in GIS under certain conditions as, for example, when a …
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Chiasma: Plural Selves on Ink and Paper
… same time, display the limitation of occupiable space or the limitation of their co-dependency. A gloss medium is applied to the negative space inside the geometric shape, further emphasizing the differentiated occupiable space within the metallic boundaries and the background of the …
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Author and Believer: Exploring the Mystery of Faith in the Works of Flannery O’Connor, Marilynne Robinson, and Alice McDermott
… belief, she is using the artistic principle of “negative space” to show how necessary religious faith and an understanding of grace are. O’Connor’s stories force the reader to reflect on the role religion and grace play in daily life by depicting how stark and hopeless the absence of religious …