About Time: Temporality in American Art and Visual Culture

About time: Temporality in interaction

Ever since the inception of the modern computer, researchers and designers alike have been interested in the effects of system delays on users. The current study was conducted in order to examine the most central issues to the field of temporality in interaction, and presents a consolidation of a selection of publications on the subject. A distinction between two types of interactive systems, d...

Physical Time and Intrinsic Temporality

Physical theories distinguish two notions of time: reversible, homogeneous parameter time (relativity theory and quantum mechanics) and irreversible, directed time (thermodynamics). Both concepts differ fundamentally from what we define implicitly by using the tenses and temporal adverbs in language. The tempora past, present, and future hinge upon one uniquely exposed moment: the now. The now ...

the role of visual aids and translation in teaching vocabulary in est

the present study investigated the effect of the two vocabulary teaching techniques in est, namely the use of translation and the use of visual aids as two separate vocabulary teaching techniques. to answer the question of the study, a pretest (michigan test) was administered to the 58 randomly selected est students at khajeh nasiredin tusi university, faculty of mechanics. after the homogeneit...

Insanity, Art and Culture

Insanity, Art and Culture

He sets out to examine the paintings of psychotics, to see if the symptoms shown are due to the illness alone or possibly to cultural background and secondly, whether the symptomatic significance is of universal or irrelevant character. In the course of the investigation various artistic mediums such as sculptoring, needlework and painting are studied. It is very necessary that in a concisely w...