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Showing 1 to 20 of 1236 for “"seeing"”.
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Seeing it Straight
<p>This Master of Fine Arts thesis is divided into four main sections:FAITH and DISBELIEF: In which I reckon with the implications of faith versus rationality as a secular nontheistic artist. IDEAS: The central locus of my work is a place of indeterminacy between what is known/familiar and what is …
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Seeing and Perceptual Content
… two, I defend a contextualist account of object-seeing: one that illuminates the inscrutability thesis defended in chapter 1. Finally, in chapter three, I address the question of whether the contents of vision are object-dependent. I argue that it is simply indeterminate whether the particulars …
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Seeing video : dynamic immobility
Thesis. 1977. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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More seeing in learning
… can nurture creative learning through seeing and doing. I argue that the architectural design studio deserves further attention for its pedagogy that trains students to see and act at a faster pace. Based upon my teaching experience and research with students who excelled and struggled …
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Seeing Through a Wall
Architecture possesses the ability to evoke wonder in the everyday. This thesis and project mark the beginning of the study of an architecture that reveals this poetic dimension of the everyday. In an increasingly standardized world, how can architecture maintain, heighten or instill sense of …
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Seeing things : making sense of life
This thesis is a reflection on the ideas and process involved in making a body of art work which deals with singular experiences of looking and personal efforts to grasp meaning through vision. These projects grew from my understanding that vision is subjective and always mediated, both by …
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Seeing entrepreneurship : visual ethnographies of embodied entrepreneurs
In the last twenty years, the term entrepreneurship has become of significant importance in political and cultural spheres promulgated as a source of economic growth and a solution to unemployment. While economics has been unable to model entrepreneurship mathematically, governments remain …
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Seeing: The Multiple Narratives of Northern Xinjiang
This thesis investigates the relationship between land, mobility, and representation in Northern Xinjiang through the lived experiences and spatial practices of Kazakh pastoral communities. Beginning from a position of uncertainty and misalignment, the research questions how dominant narratives of …
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Seeing the unseen dynamics in soft matter
The theme of this thesis concerns the fundamental questions in soft matter, in particular, the dynamics of vesicle membranes, interfacial polymers, colloidal particles. Optical imaging was applied three distinct systems to reveal the underlying physical processes that were hindered by other prior …
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"A Metalloporphyrin-Based Colimetric Nose: ""smell-Seeing"
"To reduce response times, the ""Smell-Seeing"" array was miniaturized. Deposition of plasticized metalloporphyrin/polymer films on Teflon posts gave microarrays with faster response times (approximately 20fold) than reverse phase silica arrays at low analyte concentration. A prototype digital …
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From Seeing to Saying: Perceiving, Planning, Producing
Given the amount of visual information in a scene, how do speakers determine what to talk about first? One hypothesis is that speakers start talking about what has attentional priority, while another is that speakers first extract the scene gist, using the obtained relational information to …
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Seeing death : portraiture in contemporary postmortem photography
This thesis focuses on the aesthetics of the photographic representation of the actual dead body in Elizabeth Heyert's The Travelers (2004), Pieter Hugo's The Bereaved (2005) and Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta's Life Before Death: Portraits of the Dying (2004). The use of portraiture in each of …
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Seeing Beyond Limits with Physics-Informed Priors
Conventional imaging systems are limited by dimensionality and visibility: standard sensors capture only two-dimensional data, while light diffuses or scatters across surfaces and through complex media. This dissertation reformulates imaging as an interplay of optical encoding and neural decoding. …
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See and Seen : Seeing Landscape through Artistic Practice
… historian - used in See and Seen as routines for seeing. What are the implications for what is becoming a new kind of viewer of landscape today, and how could this be addressed in my work? These are two of the issues my research aims to open up. My way of working is a hybrid form that embraces …
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Seeing the Word : John Dee and Renaissance Occultism
This study reassesses the occult philosophy of the British polymath John Dee (1527-1609). Focusing on his treatise Monas hieroglyphica (1564) and his notorious angelic conversations in the 1580s, it describes Dee’s philosophical career as a continuous search for a language which could yield …
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Seeing the State: Women, Incarceration, and Social Marginality
<p>Based on in-depth, semi-structured qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews with 36 formerly incarcerated women, this dissertation answers three central research questions: (1) How does the state structure women's post-incarceration experiences? (2) How do these post-incarceration …
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Moments of Seeing: Woolf, Lewis, and Modernist Exteriority
This study reveals that the critical and creative work of Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis, while standing at opposite ends of some glaring contradictions in the modernist period, explores a similar set of verbal and visual aesthetic problems that foregrounds the role of the exterior in the …
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Seeing the Screen: A History of Electrified Visuality
… has engendered its own distinctive forms of seeing and imagery. The emissive nature of this medium first emerged as instrumentation for investigating electromagnetic spectra in European physics laboratories, knowledge which made possible for the first time perception beyond the limits of …
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Seeing what is not there: figuring the anarchive
Absences in archives render as impossible access to the fullness of the past. Yet, within the post-apartheid sociopolitical milieu, demands are made of the slivers of evidence in colonial archives to yield more than they contain, to provide material from which counter-colonial narratives may be …
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Seeing Labor: Fabrication Porn from Behind the Scenes
… of implicated laborers are rendered inseparable. Seeing Labor is a case that every architect should retrain themselves, to use their role in the organizing of bodies for advocacy, rather than exploitation.
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