Category: Art
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Living in other places, other times… Old faces long gone…
How would you look if you lived in another decade? A student’s experiment shows us (source)… We are all so different. And yet so amazingly similar. Living in the same world. Different places. Different time. And yet, it feels as if we are all living together… Now. Moments frozen in time. Whole. I am here.…
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The most ancient Greek song…
Researchers try to recreate the most ancient known Greek song. (1) What is important is now echoing through the forests. What is trivial is what is left known to people. Emotions, feelings, joy, sorrow, laughter, tears, agony, nostalgia… Thing unwritten, things unspoken of. Shaping the world and who we are…
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Music with the eyes. I mean the brain. I mean the…
Ever since musician Eduardo Miranda met a patient with locked in syndrome 11 years ago, he has been on a mission to create a way for the paralyzed to make music. His latest invention is the brain computer music interface (BCMI) which allows people to create music using just their eyes. By connecting electrodes to…
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Art as a weapon of War…
For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art – including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko – as a weapon in the Cold War.…
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