Pairings always fascinate me: the interplay between disparate things; the unexpected associations they evoke.
But Dan Wieden's story — an everyday example of creativity emerging from unexpected associations — in no way establishes that deliberately adding weirdness would have any value at all.
Wandering through the exhibition, gallerygoers are bound to find unexpected associations between fish and armor: the layers of articulated metal plates like scales, patterned and protective, hugging the body in motion.
After early recognition with his patriotic poems in syllabic metre, in Moscow he came under the influence of the Russian Futurists, and by abandoning traditional poetic forms, indulging in exaggerated imagery, and using unexpected associations, he attempted to "depoetize" poetry.
The presence of fear, anxiety, lust, horror, and other states was a new element, but their frequently jarring context was not; he was on the lookout, as always, for the unexpected associations generated by random images (or words) in close proximity.
Unexpected associations can also be revealed thereby furthering the understanding of the mechanisms of diverse interactions and potentially indicating novel treatments.
Another advantage of 'citation surfing' is that "it brings together material that would be never collated by the usual subject indexing"[1], reveals unexpected associations of ideas, and thus stimulates creative thinking.
This ability to show a researcher unexpected associations between entities that are related to their field of interest is at the heart of the value of an application like TripleMap and the extensive, rich, interconnected data available in the LODD data sets.
We used the MCM network graphs to identify unexpected associations and form hypotheses about why such associations might exist.
Some unexpected associations have been reported.
This has enabled the disclosure of unexpected associations between body composition and appetite.
