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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"visual languages"”.
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Translating Transformative Human Rights Education through Visual Languages & Informal Spaces
… were developed to address. Reframing media and visual arts as an archive of past and present conceptualizations of memory and narrative formations, the project explores educational methods and theories of adapting human rights concepts into public spaces. </p>
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The Modernist Imagetext: Embodying Impersonality From Optics to Aesthetics
… presumptions of dualism, by developing visual languages, or ""imagetexts,"" that were consonant with the partial, mediated images proposed by a late-19th-century physiological optics. These imagetexts---which appealed not only to science, but also visual art, commodity culture, cinema, …
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Rethinking the book
… display of large bodies of information. New visual languages have been created for information display which exploit the computer's unique ability to render dynamic and three-dimensional typography. These languages demonstrate that the use of three dimensional form, expressive movement, …
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Multiparadigm visual programming languages
Successful visual programming languages are all specialized, and general-purpose visual programming languages are unsuccessful. One of the reasons is that visual programming languages are usually based on a single programming paradigm. A multiparadigm visual programming language is described and …
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Visual Programming Language for Tacit Subset of J Programming Language
Visual programming is the idea of using graphical icons to create programs. I take a look at available solutions and challenges facing visual languages. Keeping these challenges in mind, I measure the suitability of Blockly and highlight the advantages of using Blockly for creating a visual …
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Realidade e representação: possibilidade e desafio em pintura
… requirements for attaining a Master Degree in Visual Languages. Cutting out brief slices of Art’s History, I try to situate and analyse contexts and moments when the questioning of values (as occurs today) evoked in artists and their work answers in an attempt to overcome feelings of doom and …
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Investigação sobre a matéria do pensamento: um estudo sobre a não-forma como gênese
… investigation processed in two years during of Visual Languages Mestrade.In that studies about ‘Material's Thinking' and Non-Form as genesis I intend to lightining the link between the works I've been desenvolving in this instituition sinse the Painting graduation, with what we use to call …
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Images of Art: Katherine Mansfield's Use of Line, Color, and Composition in Her Short Stories
… Mansfield's short stories include numerous visual images, many of which contribute significantly to the stories' moods and themes. Her visual imagery has been linked with literary devices such as symbolism and irony. This study, however, emphasizes three major principles of the visual arts …
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Diego Rivera: constructing a myth
Diego Rivera was a master of creating visual languages to express his ideas and beliefs. Throughout his life, he actively sought to define Mexican culture and his life through his art and his writing. Much of how he is remembered today: visionary, rebel, lover; and how Mexico is known to the world: …
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Data-driven machine translation for sign languages
… of data-driven machine translation (MT) to sign languages (SLs). The provision of an SL MT system can facilitate communication between Deaf and hearing people by translating information into the native and preferred language of the individual. We begin with an introduction to SLs, focussing on …
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Chilean muckrakers: Making investigative journalism in a post-authoritarian and neoliberal context
… watchdog-style journalism when intertwined with visual languages in a Latin American journalistic culture. The research design mixes different methodological techniques (like interviews, archival work, and analysis of agenda) and material (such as administrative records, visual material, and …
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‘In defence of the decorator’ : Giulio Rosso (1897-1976) in Italy in the interwar period
… through humour and stylistic references to the visual languages of contemporary fine arts and modern media. This analysis of Rosso’s output highlights decoration as a practice worth exploring and distinct from the fine arts. During the 1920s, Rosso took advantage of a new interest in decoration …
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Arresting visions : a geographical theory of Antarctic light
… Antarctica disrupts the usual practices of visual representation. This thesis investigates, what I call, chronogeographical approaches to visual culture within the Antarctic terrain. The material and theoretical chronogeographies of vision are mapped through the action of light, to elucidate …
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A grammar of sentiment thinking about sentimental jewellery towards making new art about love and loss.
… artefacts codify emotion through use of complex visual languages, employing the symbolic and coded use of gems, human hair, emblems, words and wordplay. The research has expanded to encompass memorial garments known as ‘widows weeds’. The aims of the research have been threefold: firstly, to add …
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Visual Power and Elite Subjectivity in Private Portraiture from Imperial Greece
… locales and contexts, brought Greek and Roman visual languages into conversation to situate themselves in history and within complex power dynamics. To explore what this sculpture did with, and contributed to, its Greek background, and, in consequence, how personal and local identities were …
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Local identities in a common language: the iconography of Hellenistic funerary stelai from eastern Greek poleis
… grave monuments. This dissertation analyses the visual language of Hellenistic funerary stelae from eastern Greek poleis, thereby challenging the notion of a uniform "eastern Greek" iconography. The thesis focuses on the combination of tradition and innovation in the pictorial language of the …
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Negotiating Traditions : Taiwanese Art Since the 1980s
… themselves as multiple opportunities for visual artists. The objective of this thesis is to examine how traditions are developed, constructed, incorporated, juxtaposed, forged, and processed; in short: how they are negotiated by the artists, and what kind of messages and ideas are …
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Strategies of representation: South African photography of the HIV epidemic
… the HIV epidemic. The focus is on the different visual, political and intellectual strategies that photographers have used to document the disease and the complex issues that surround it. The study considers the work of all South African photographers who have produced a comprehensive body of …
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Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere
… and spirits, are relatively common. Sentient visual languages are encountered, their forms unrelated to the representation of speech in natural language writing systems. This thesis constructs a theoretical model of linguistic phenomena encountered in the psychedelic sphere for the field of …
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"In the blank of mere possibility": liminal transformations in the poetry of Christina Rossetti
… by the space they inhabit, or are trapped in, on visual, physical, psychological and sound levels. This positioning helps them to acquire (or re-gain) personal history, memory and a voice. I proceed to explore the conflict between the seen and the unseen, revelation and illusion, in Rossetti’s …
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