Projection

(noun)

The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.

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Examples of Projection in the following topics:

  • Tax-Supported Art

    • In the USA and Canada, grants are available to fund artistic projects in all media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, theater, music, dance, new media, and interdisciplinary art forms.
    • In the United States, the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the federal government that offers funding to projects it deems exhibit artistic excellence.
    • In Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts funds the projects of artists in much the same way as the NEA, but allots more funding to the arts based on population.
    • The grant application typically entails submitting a project proposal in relationship to one's artistic practice, as well as a detailed budget, timeline, and curriculum vitae (c.v.).
    • Project grants are intended to cover the immediate costs of a project as well as the living expenses of the artist for the duration of the project.

  • Distortions of Space and Foreshortening

    • Perspective projection distortion is the inevitable misrepresentation of three-dimensional space when drawn or "projected" onto a two-dimensional surface.
    • The most common of these is perspective projection.
    • Perspective projection can be used to mirror how the eye sees by making use of one or more vanishing points.
    • In photography, the projection mechanism is light reflected from an object.
    • The resulting image on the projection plane reproduces the image of the object as it is beheld from the station point.

  • Digital Art

    • Digitized text, raw audio, and video recordings are usually not considered digital art on their own, but can be part of larger digital art projects.
    • Digital visual art consists of, firstly, 2D visual information displayed on a monitor, and secondly, information mathematically translated into 3D information and then viewed through perspective projection on a monitor.
    • There are many software programs that can enable collaboration, lending such artwork to sharing and augmentation so users can collaborate on a project to create art.
    • Some resemble video installations, particularly large scale works involving projections and live video capture.
    • By using projection techniques that enhance an audience's impression of sensory development, many digital installations attempt to create immersive environments.

  • Hatshepsut

    • Hatshepsut's reign was very successful, marked by an extended period of peace and wealth-building, trading expeditions and great building projects.
    • Hatshepsut was one of the most prolific builders in ancient Egypt, commissioning hundreds of construction projects throughout both Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.
    • Another project, Karnak's Red Chapel or Chapelle Rouge, was lined with carved stones that depicted significant events in Hatshepsut's life.
    • Following the tradition of many pharaohs, the masterpiece of Hatshepsut's building projects was her mortuary temple.
    • Identify the most important construction projects carried out by the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut

  • European Expressionist Architecture

    • An example of a built expressionist project that is formally inventive is Erich Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower .
    • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper Project, Berlin-Mitte, Germany, 1921.

  • Two-Dimensional Space

    • Two-dimensional, or bi-dimensional, space is a geometric model of the planar projection of the physical universe in which we live.
    • Two dimensional, or bi-dimensional, space is a geometric model of the planar projection of the physical universe in which we live.

  • Earthworks

    • Exponents of land art rejected the museum and gallery setting and developed monumental landscape projects which were beyond the reach of traditional transportable sculptures and the commercial art market.
    • Land artists in America mostly relied on wealthy patrons and private foundations to fund their often costly projects.
    • Perhaps the most well-known artist who worked in the genre of Land Art was the American artist Robert Smithson, whose 1968 essay "The Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects" provided a critical framework for the movement as a reaction to the disengagement of Modernism from social issues as represented by the critic Clement Greenberg.

  • Dur Sharrukin

    • Sargon, who ordered the project, was killed during a battle in 705.
    • After his death, his son and successor Sennacherib abandoned the project and relocated the capital with its administration to the city of Nineveh.

  • Rome and the Papal States

    • His main construction project was the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace .
    • The city hosted artists like Bramante, who built the Temple of San Pietro in Montorio and planned a great project to renovate the Vatican.

  • Chicago School of Architecture

    • The arrangement of windows on the facade typically creates a grid pattern, with some projecting out from the facade forming bay windows.
    • These windows were often deployed in bays, known as oriel windows, that projected out over the street.