scholarly journals A Tale of Two Worlds: The Natural World and the Artificial World

2007 ◽  
Vol 205 (S1) ◽  
pp. 37-38
Author(s):  
J. T. Trevors ◽  
M. H. Saier Jr.
2021 ◽  
pp. 096372142110095
Author(s):  
Steven L. Franconeri

The visual system evolved and develops to process the scenes, faces, and objects of the natural world, but people adapt this powerful system to process data within an artificial world of visualizations. To extract patterns in data from these artificial displays, viewers appear to use at least three perceptual tools, including a tool that extracts global statistics, one that extracts shapes within the data, and one that produces sentence-like comparisons. A better understanding of the power, limits, and deployment of these tools would lead to better guidelines for designing effective data displays.


Author(s):  
Drama Permai ◽  
Sutarki Sutisna

A very thick culture in Indonesian society is increasingly fading away by the milenial generation over time. One culture that is taken as an example is the culture of ancestral prayer, fading due to the absence of mediators to study the culture. The learning of ancestral prayer culture can be practiced directly in one of the sacred buildings, namely the crematorium and the columbarium. The purpose of this study was to examine the typology of crematorium spaces that match the behavior of the milenial generation and how to process the spatial atmosphere elements in the crematorium building. The research method used is collecting data from direct interviews, internet data and books, comparison of precedent studies and synthesis analysis. The crematorium was designed for the milenial by emphasizing a journey that will be carried out by the milenials. Space scale, space colors, light and dark spaces, and the atmosphere inside will create a sacred journey. This Journey is expected to be a reference where milenials can save a cultural experience by directly sensing the atmosphere and activities in each of their spaces that will create a separate memory for the milenials. The design presented will separate the 2 main programs, namely the sacred mass and the non-sacred mass that is connected with a link. The role of nature is also included as a combination of the artificial world and the natural world such as the earth where the sky is superimposed. AbstrakBudaya yang sangat kental di dalam masyarakat Indonesia semakin lama semakin memudar oleh generasi milenial seiring dengan berjalannya waktu. Salah satu budaya yang diambil sebagai contoh adalah budaya sembahyang leluhur, memudar dikarenakan tidak adanya mediator untuk mempelajari budaya tersebut. Pembelajaran budaya sembahyang leluhur dapat dipraktekan langsung di salah satu bangunan sakral, yaitu krematorium dan kolumbarium. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk meneliti tipologi ruang krematorium yang cocok dengan perilaku generasi milenial dan bagaimana cara mengolah unsur suasana keruangan di dalam bangunan krematorium. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah pengumpulan data dari wawancara secara langsung, data internet dan buku, perbandingan studi preseden dan analisis sintesis. Krematorium ini dirancang untuk milenial dengan menekankan pada sebuah perjalanan yang akan dilakukan oleh para milenial. Permainan skala ruang, warna ruang, terang dan gelap ruang, dan suasana hiruk pikuk suasana di dalamnya akan menciptakan sebuah perjalanan sakral. Perjalanan ini diharapkan dapat menjadi acuan dimana para milenial dapat menyimpan sebuah pengalaman budaya dengan cara merasakan langsung suasana dan kegiatannya di setiap ruangnya yang akan menciptakan memory tersendiri bagi para milenial. Desain yang disajikan akan memisahkan 2 program utama yaitu massa sakral dan massa non-sakral yang dihubungkan dengan sebuah penghubung. Peran alam juga dimasukkan sebagai perpaduan antara dunia buatan dan dunia alam seperti bumi dimana dilapiskan oleh langit.


Author(s):  
Alistair Fox

This chapter examines Merata Mita’s Mauri, the first fiction feature film in the world to be solely written and directed by an indigenous woman, as an example of “Fourth Cinema” – that is, a form of filmmaking that aims to create, produce, and transmit the stories of indigenous people, and in their own image – showing how Mita presents the coming-of-age story of a Māori girl who grows into an understanding of the spiritual dimension of the relationship of her people to the natural world, and to the ancestors who have preceded them. The discussion demonstrates how the film adopts storytelling procedures that reflect a distinctively Māori view of time and are designed to signify the presence of the mauri (or life force) in the Māori world.


Romanticism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-201
Author(s):  
Paul Chirico

John Clare observed and described the natural world with an unsurpassed accuracy and intimacy. But his landscapes also bore the memories of life and labour. Like Wordsworth, he sought to create textual objects in transmissible forms, to deliver their reported worlds – expansive, dynamic, somehow inhabitable – to distant readers, drawing them into sympathetic intercommunion with a complex living scene. His intimate descriptive poetry reveals the tangible qualities of light and sound, and the material basis of the apparently abstract concept of time. Memory and imagination are understood to inhabit bodily spaces, provoking ‘real transport’: an observer lost in – and to – the moment. From his place and time, Clare felt solidarity with isolated birds, alienation from labour, estrangement from human communities. Publications such as annuals often showcased formulaic reflections on nature and on memory; Clare exploited textual duplicability, his meditative descriptive poetry spanning the history and futurity of an observed scene.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Ms. Cheryl Antonette Dumenil ◽  
Dr. Cheryl Davis

North- East India is an under veiled region with an awe-inspiring landscape, different groups of ethnic people, their culture and heritage. Contemporary writers from this region aspire towards a vision outside the tapered ethnic channel, and they represent a shared history. In their writings, the cultural memory is showcased, and the intensity of feeling overflows the labour of technique and craft. Mamang Dai presents a rare glimpse into the ecology, culture, life of the tribal people and history of the land of the dawn-lit mountains, Arunachal Pradesh, through her novel The Legends of Pensam. The word ‘Pensam’ in the title means ‘in-between’,  but it may also be interpreted as ‘the hidden spaces of the heart’. This is a small world where anything can happen. Being adherents of the animistic faith, the tribes here believe in co-existence with the natural world along with the presence of spirits in their forests and rivers. This paper attempts to draw an insight into the culture and gender of the Arunachalis with special reference to The Legends of Pensam by Mamang Dai.


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