immateriality

Example Sentences

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Grosse uses industrial spray paint on thin fabric, which is hung, not stretched, giving the painting a kind of liminal immateriality.

From The New Yorker

During a media preview of the show, she explained the appeal of immateriality: “I really like projection because it’s nondestructive. You don’t have the change the physical space.”

From Washington Post

This is a small, quiet show that potently traverses realms of materiality and immateriality, connecting ideas about what’s seen and unseen, and what’s in between.

From Seattle Times

The immateriality is in the chatter it provokes, the jokes, the pleasure some will take in seeing the president humiliated, and resulting insiders’ discourse about contemporary art and irony.

From Washington Post

For all their seeming immateriality, the internet and the cloud rely on a vast industrial infrastructure consisting of data centers linked through a sprawling network of fiber optics.

From New York Times