L’art sacre, un art impossible

Unicode et typographie : un amour impossible

In this paper we give a new approach to the concepts of glyph and character, applied to the study of the Unicode encoding. After a thorough discussion of these two concepts, we describe the other fundamental ingredients of the encoding: privileged glyphs, character descriptions, combining characters, and properties. In each case we try to show the importance of the given notion and at the same ...

The Freedom of Clinicians and the Art of the Impossible

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20170163 Systemic arterial hypertension – or simply hypertension, in casual language – is considered the major and most common risk factor for death and disability of non-communicable diseases.1,2 Its prevalence in Europe ranges from 30% to 45%.3 In the United States, two thirds of the adults older than 60 years are hypertensive.4 In South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, hypertens...

An Impossible Utopia: People’s Art and the Cultural Revolution

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution period of the People’s Republic of China (1966-1976) was crucial in the creation of modern-day China. The material culture of that period mirrors the turbulent political activity of students and the directives of the Communist Party’s central leadership during the height of the Mao Zedong personality cult. The commercial manufacture of posters, often th...

Le Sacre du Big Red

Forme, Image, Mouvement : Vers Un Art Du Mouvement Visuel

Nous montrons tout d’abord en quoi le paradigme de la modélisation physique particulaire masses / interactions présente deux propriétés essentielles nécessaires à un outil de création informatique pour le mouvement visuel : la généricité et la modularité. Puis, nous abordons trois questions fondamentales liées aux conditions technologiques et théoriques pour l’émergence d’un art du mouvement vi...