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The Greatest Self-Portrait of All Time…so far

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Back in 1991, fine artist Marc Quinn, (one of what’s now known as the Young British Artists) started the greatest self-portrait project of all time. Self (blood head) is a self portrait that has been cast and frozen, made out of 4.5 litres of Quinn’s own blood, reportedly extracted over a period of about 5 [...]

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Thank you for the new way to fingerpaint, Steve.

Thank you Steve.

Thank you for the new way to fingerpaint, Steve. Sketch done on my iPod Touch, using the Sketch Club app, my fingertip, and my gratitude for inspiring this new way to make artwork.

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Spongelab: gaming the art of science education

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“What famous painting does this remind you of?” I was sitting in the offices of Spongelab Interactive about a month ago speaking with  Jeremy Friedberg, molecular genetics and biotechnology professor, now science education game-guru, and we were discussing the interactive opening image of History of Biology, an expansive mystery game. The image in question, above, contains [...]

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