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2019
DEADLINE FOR BOOKING FAST APPROACHING! This is the schedule for the conference Light | Sensitive | Material which will be held at the University of West London in Ealing, London on 1st and 2nd November 2019. Tickets for £20 are available at https://www.uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitive-material
In this paper, we describe a number of experiments and discoveries related to electroluminescent paper. Working with its chemical and physical properties, we present designerly ways of using electroluminescence, using different ephemeral substrates, hand painting, water as electrode, and sonic capabilities of electroluminescent displays. We propose a shift from electronics-oriented hardware to chemical and physical experiments with materials, arguing that such an engagement with inherent interactive properties of matter may lead to novel design ideas and creation processes. 1. Introduction For more than ten years, physical computing has drastically changed the way in which we use digital technologies in design and architecture. Today, responsive environments and objects are a collage of hardware components that can activate their physical parts, emit lights and sounds, and communicate among them. However, the process of composing ready-made electrical elements does not allow us, designers to explore and work with the properties of matter that make it active or responsive. In our research group we conduct material experimentation on the threshold between the mechanic, chemical and electronic. Our focus are materials that are inherently capable to change their states and/or properties in different environmental conditions or when exposed to electrical or chemical change. They are often not commercially available and the processes of creating them are too complex to be brought to a design studio. In order to address this issue, we develop processes, methods and tools that can allow designers, artists and architects to create with novel active materials and to explore how their behavior can be shaped and to what purpose. From the onset, we realized that such materials are suitable to explore novel creative practices, but also specific topics relevant for contemporary design such as aliveness, ephemerality, imagination, adaptability, hospitality and sustainability to name but a few. In this paper, we focus on one such material, namely electroluminescent paper and devices. 2. Transient Technology and Ephemeral Paper Interfaces The concrete materials explored in this paper challenge us with issues of longevity, durability and decay. These dynamic and fragile qualities are in direct opposition to the durability we have come to expect from consumer objects, technology and architectural environments. In the face of environmental problems related to electronic devices, a different approach is needed. Perhaps we can shift the value
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s – Workshop Oral Presentations Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:30 Keynote: David Reitze, Executive Director of LIGO, Caltech The Final Ballet of Binary Black Holes: LIGO and the Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy In late 2015, scientists observed the collision and fusion of two black holes by directly measuring the gravitational waves emitted during their collision. This detection, from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, comes 100 years after Einstein developed his revolutionary General Theory of Relativity that predicted the existence of gravitational waves, and 50 years after scientists began searching for them. 10:15 Eugene Arthurs, SPIE How Optics and Photonics Continues to Change Our World 11:00 John Hayes, Co-founder of 4D Technology (UA Optics Alumnus) Light, Passion, and Getting a Life 1:15 David Hagan, University of Central Florida, CREOL Programs in Optics and Photonics at CREOL 2:00 Laura Coyle, Ball Aerospace (UA Optics alumnus) Observations of an E...
Optics Education and Outreach IV
Outreach activities on light science and technology at TecnOpto-UMH during the International Year of Light2016 •
No. 8 Forschung an den Übergängen - Research at the Transitions
Textilisations of Light, pp. 24-27 (2018)2018 •
Light enables us to see. The light reflected from the walls shapes our perception of a room. The walls may pose a physical barrier but what we see is the reflections from the walls. Still, light is not often something we contemplate because we don’t see it only what it does to surfaces. By suggesting textiles as a design model for LED technology the PhD project Textilisation of Light – Using Textile Logics to Expand the Use of LED Technology From a Technology of Display to a Technology of Spatial Orientation investigates how textile ideas can be applied to expand the use of light-emitting diode (LED) technology from a technology for displays to a technology with spatial qualities.
In research published today in Nano Letters, physicists have delivered an unexpected boost for researchers with a new technique for 3D nanoscale elemental analysis for ion-electron microscope systems that allows the scientific community to take their work to the next levelparticularly in the fields of energy storage and sustainability[21]
Arts
The Threshold between the Material and Immaterial Light. Notes on Luminescence and Dark EnvironmentsThis article discusses the phenomenon of luminescence in the production and visualization of images from an art-practice standpoint. The theoretical argument is developed through an analysis of artistic work that explores, inserts, expands, articulates, and interrogates the internal contradictions of UV light and the transitivity of light-sensitive materials in installation contexts. This investigation explores complexities in the encounter of antagonistic concepts: the threshold phenomena between materiality and immateriality, visibility and invisibility, light and darkness, disclosure and concealment. It aims to articulate a new perspective on contemporary debates on physiological, psychological, and environmental effects of light and darkness, articulated through aesthetic experience and artistic practice. Methods for engaging in the sensation of light and darkness will be introduced and how it unfolds as experiential qualities within installation projects will be considered.
Lightweight materials, as the name suggests, simply refer to materials that are light in weight. However, whilst there are many materials that may be deemed light (tissue paper, for instance), the category of lightweight materials we will look at here refers to those that are of high strength for their weight (often referred to as the strength-to-weight ratio), or have another important property relative to their weight (such as toughness). This article explores lightweight materials and why they’re of interest to designers, engineers and manufactures.
I am the convenor of the hybrid conference "In the Photographic Darkroom" (08-09 June 2023). For more information, including programme, abstracts, and how to book your free ticket, please visit: https://sites.google.com/my.westminster.ac.uk/darkroom/home
Брідщина - край на межі Галичини і Волині
Фібула типу «Війтенки» з фондів Бродівського історико-краєзнавчого музею2024 •
Orientação profissional no ensino superior pedagógico em Angola (Atena Editora)
Orientação profissional no ensino superior pedagógico em Angola (Atena Editora)2024 •
2024 •
2024 •
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Modelos Cognitivos, Operaciones Cognitivas y Usos Figurados Del Lenguaje2012 •
Jurnal Ilmiah Matrik
Model sistem informasi geografis pariwisata menggunakan reuse method2020 •
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Middle East Journal of Scientific Research
Establishing the institute of hadith (Dar Al-Hadith) in malaysia: A prelimenary study2013 •
European journal of nutrition & food safety
Textural, Cooking Quality and Sensory Acceptability of Noodles Incorporated with Moringa Leaf and Sardine Powders2023 •
KAZAN LINGUISTIC JOURNAL
Military Vocabulary as a Special Element of Lexical System of the Language2020 •
2018 •
Research Square (Research Square)
Circulating microRNAs and hepcidin as predictors of iron homeostasis and anemia among school children: a biochemical and cross-sectional survey analysis2023 •
Journal of Individual Psychology
Music as Social Harmonizer -A Tribute to Rudolf Dreikurs2022 •
29th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit
Generation of helical gears with new surfaces topology by application of CNC machines1993 •