Mainly due to their great research interests, the phosphors have been commercialized as night or dark environment vision materials for a wide range of applications such as security signs, emergency route signage, identification markers, or medical diagnostics [2].
Helicopters had to suspend rescue operations during the night as Iran — under international sanctions over its nuclear program — is barred from purchasing night-vision materials, which could be used for military purposes as well as civilian missions.
She was heading toward a vision of material utopia in which products are the problem and more products are the solution.
This feels like an ultimate reversal of the relation between humanity and environment envisaged in the religious vision – the material world's processes deliberately harnessed to bring about domination by violence; though, when you think about it, it is only a projection of the existing history of military technology.
What binds Burgess's marvellously realised dystopian vision into material and moral coherence is the underlying narrative, with its ancient and familiar tropes of trial by ordeal, visits to the underworld, a magic sword, physical doubleness and the quest for spiritual wholeness.
Excerpt from 1938 book The New Vision, from Material to Architecture.
He further explored this theory in his 1938 book The New Vision, from Material to Architecture.
"That was the mix for me, between traditional art and contemporary vision, contemporary material".
So roll a blunt, grab your "vision board" materials, and look to the future.
By 1929, just as Dora Maar was embarking on her career, the New Photography - with its emphasis on directness of vision, on materials, and on the beauty of everyday and mundane objects - was at its height in France.
