Search results for "aesthetics"
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Review of "The Lucifer Effect. Understanding How Good People Turn Evil"
2013
Living Forms (of Art). Edoardo Kac's Transgenic Art between Ethics and Aesthetics
2013
Nel corso del Novecento si è assistito ad un intenso sviluppo della fisica e della biologia, grazie all’ausilio di nuovi strumenti tecnologici che hanno ampliato l’orizzonte della ricerca. Le sperimentazioni su organismi geneticamente modificati (come la famosa clonazione della pecora Dolly) hanno spesso generato scalpore, turbando le coscienze. Tali interventi sono tollerati in quei settori come la medicina in cui possono portare benefici all’esistenza dell’uomo, mentre suscitano inquietudine e perplessità in campo artistico dove l’intervento sulle forme viventi, non trovando giustificazione sul principio di utilità, sembra sfociare nel futile edonismo. Tenendo presente il dibattito avviat…
Libri, spazi, atmosfere tra immaginazione e realtà
2021
Il saggio intreccia finzione narrativa e biblioteche reali. Prendendo come spunto occasionale due romanzi, La bibliothèque des amants di André Miquel e Firmino di Sam Savage, analizza gli elementi architettonici e relazionali che in una biblioteca generano atmosfere respingenti o accoglienti, alla luce dell’estetica delle atmosfere del filosofo Gernot Böhme. The essay focuses on libraries, weaving fiction and reality. Taking two novels as an occasional cue, La bibliothèque des amants by André Miquel and Firmino by Sam Savage, the paper analyzes the architectural and relational elements that in a library generate repelling or welcoming atmospheres, in the light of the aesthetics of the atmos…
Haptic Visuality and Film Narration. Mapping New Women’s Cinema in Spain
2020
There is a trend in female film production in the 21st century in the context of Spain towards a type of cinema that we could classify as haptic. It is a mode of representation concerned with multisensory expression in film images. In this article, we shall study this haptic visuality in the works of four filmmakers: Isabel Coixet, Paula Ortiz, Mar Coll and Carla Simón, whose films in this century exemplify the trend. The method chosen is textual analysis, which will provide us with the necessary tools to study matters concerning representation (framing), narration (nuclei and catalysis) and communication (spectatorial subject). These three analytical categories together will enable us to s…
Formidable Bracelet, Beautiful Lantern
2013
We live in an experience economy. The more saturated the global market becomes with products offering the same functions, services and quality, the more companies are wanting to appeal to the intangible needs and desires of consumers. To achieve this, designers and researchers are turning inwards to investigate the psychological factors affecting peoples' relationships and reactions towards design properties. For this reason, design semantics studies on user experience have been advancing all the time. Much emphasis has been placed on visual product experience, as well as the relationship between brand perception and user experience. These are important steps, which are referred to in this …
Symbols and Meanings in Breast Cancer Awareness Campaigns
2013
This article examines symbols and meanings in breast cancer awareness campaigns, and the ways in which multifarious actors draw attention to the disease. We discuss what the various campaigns and initiatives can indicate, above and beyond creating breast cancer awareness. Our data stem from sources such as printed material, the Internet, and events. From these sources we have singled out and explored objects, text, and visual expressions, looking in particular for metaphors and symbolic aspects. In this article we present six “images” indicating the underlying patterns that we found. We have called the images Re-enchantment of femininity, Infantilization, Corporate profit-making, Objectific…
(Un)exhausted Cartographies. Re-living the visuality, aesthetics and politics in contemporary mapping theories and practices
This thesis is concerned with examining the life and deadliness of the map trope in contemporary Human Geography and the various ways maps and mapping have been re-theorized over the past twenty five years. Arguing that there is presently a feeling of exhaustion and disinterest amongst many human geographers in the use of maps given a shift to postmodern and poststructural approaches that decentre maps and mistrust their supposed objectivity, their representational qualities, and use by institutions to justify certain political actions, it tries to relive the attention in the ubiquity and flourishing of contemporary mapping practices by promoting a re-worked post-representational perspectiv…
L’interetnia e la rivoluzione sociale e demografica della città contemporanea: nuovi scenari e vecchie strategie
2013
Lo scopo principale dell’articolo è quello di descrivere la situazione localizzativa ed abitativa dei migranti nella città di Palermo, all’interno dell’esposizione, confortata dai dati statistici, del fenomeno migratorio nel contesto nazionale. Si evidenziano le differenze e le peculiarità dell’ondata migratoria nel nord e nel sud del paese rappresentandone le diverse tipologie e le motivazioni delle scelte geografiche di insediamento. La ricerca tenta di dimostrare come la modificazione del palinsesto sociale ed etnico della città sia praticamente ignorata dagli strumenti di piano vigenti
Embodied graffiti and street art research
2021
Graffiti and street art research (GSAR) has become more acknowledged within the academic discourse; however, it has much to gain from theorising its methodological aspects. As a multidisciplinary field, GSAR has mostly used qualitative research methods, exploring urban space through methods that range from visual recordings to ethnography, emphasising the researchers’ reflexivity. This qualitative approach has, however, paid little attention to the role of embodied practices. In this paper we discuss how embodied methodologies provide multisensory research results where the experienced moments, the participant’s and researcher’s senses, cognition and mobility in urban spaces are connected.…
A New System for Choosing the Form and Size of Complete Denture Anterior Teeth
2016
Introduction: In the absence of pre-extraction records, the choice of the size an form of anterior complete denture teeth can be extremely subjective. Several clinical and statistical parameters are usually used for choosing the correct size and form of the complete denture anterior teeth. Clinical Innovation: The technique consists of a system that allows the dentist to choose and, if necessary, easily change the dental mold during maxillomandibular recording session. The unique feature of the system is that six teeth of each mold are represented by veneers, which are connected to each other on the lingual surface by a fiber that allows each veneer some degree of movement. Discussion: This…