Word: abstraction
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LUCAS I'm going to go off in the direction that I was really interested in going off in when I was in film school--films like Koyaanisqatsi, films that are a little more abstract in nature. It's vaguely in the land of music videos, I guess, but I don't even know how to describe them. I'm going to deal with themes that have always interested me and are vaguely esoteric in nature. But I'm going to try to make them dramatic. I'm going to try to make them emotional. How they're gonna turn...
...chess has a third--and unique--characteristic that is particularly fatal. It is not just monomaniacal and abstract, but its arena is a playing field on which the other guy really is after you. The essence of the game is constant struggle against an adversary who, by whatever means of deception and disguise, is entirely, relentlessly, unfailingly dedicated to your destruction. It is only a board, but it is a field of dreams for paranoia...
...Samuel Eilenberg of Columbia in 1945 which introduced category theory, a framework to show how mathematical structures relate to each other. This branch of algebra has since influenced most mathematical fields and also has functions in philosophy and linguistics, but was first dismissed by many practical mathematicians as too abstract to be useful...
...techniques, Rosselli paints an abstract oil-on-canvas, and then uses a video camera to “[animate] an extreme close-up running over the surface of the painting. She turns it into a video and it looks like the surface of her painting is dancing,” Rivers said...
...third performer of the evening, Shawn Faherty, uses sophisticated software and high-end graphics hardware to create abstract 3D shapes, which he then manipulates to prerecorded music. Tonight he will be performing to songs by Mogwai and Nine Inch Nails...