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Like Tinder for art, this gesture-sensing frame lets you swipe through images

Not feeling that mural that's in your living room? Meural is like Tinder meets Minority Report, for art connoisseurs.
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Disney’s latest project is an artistic beach robot

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This 4K display turns digital art into an analog experience (and that’s OK)

The Depict Frame is a specialty 4K display designed for the sole purpose of showcasing art in ultra-high resolution.
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Canviz lets you hang Harry-Potter-syle animated art on your walls

With support for animated .gif files, the Canviz digital art frame allows you to display moving, interactive images on your walls
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Night at the Museum: You can tour this U.K. art gallery in the dark, using a robot avatar

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Apps as art? Björk app added to MoMA permanent collection

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Download 400,000 high-res images from Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made 400,000 images from its collection available for use in the public domain.
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This unassuming desk lamp eavesdrops and live-tweets private conversations

Embedded inside this normal-looking lamp, there's a microphone and small computer that records conversations, transcribes them, and uploads them to Twitter
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Some nails, fruits, and copper are all this artist needs to create these long-exposure photos

To create his long-exposure photographs, artist Caleb Charland uses ordinary nails and fruit to generate just-enough electricity from a light bulb.

Now that’s what I call art! Totaled Ferrari sells for $250,000 as contemporary showpiece

A totaled Ferrari Dino GT4 sold at an art show in Paris last week for $250,000.
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Banksy – or someone pretending to be the artist – has officially hit the social Web

It's hard to know what to make of Banksy's new Instagram account.
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Ever wondered what your place in the Facebook universe is? This interactive project can tell you

An online project called "Faces of Facebook" arranges every profile picture from every user in chronological order.
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As art collectors start eyeing GIFs, it’s time to ask: Can you ‘own’ digital art?

An auction house is collaborating with Tumblr for a net art sale... and it's just one of many examples of the burgeoning digital art market.

Ever wonder what a Twitter mood ring would look like? Wonder no more

A team of designers created MIMMI, an art installation that uses tweets to create a mood barometer for the people of Minneapolis.
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The man with a digital tattoo

An artist took his committment to GIFs to the next level by getting a microchip implanted in his hand as a "digital tattoo."

New York’s secret underground tunnel is an audiovisual reminder that stories live forever

Open to pedestrians for the first time in centuries, the Voice Tunnel lets visitors record their voices and watch as light renderings sped down the chamber.

Motorized ‘For Rent’ sign stalks pedestrians until they give it some love

For Sale, For Rent... signs all look the same. It's why one artist installed a motion-detection camera so the signs can follow pedestrians until they look.

Grow your own furniture with just a dash of water

Instead of wasting your precious day by shopping at Ikea, use those 24 hours to grow your own furniture - no allen wrench required.
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Are memes the pop culture art of our era?

There's a fine line between meme and art - and it's getting finer and finer.

How to sext your way into a museum and call it art

Who says naughty photos aren't art? The New Museum's newest exhibit, "Sext Me If You Can" will turn your dirty pictures into museum-worthy works of art.

The New Museum recreates 1993 New York by taking over the city’s pay phones

A New York City art exhibit is transforming public payphones into time machines to transport visitors back to 1993.

Inside Out Project takes your selfies and plasters them in the middle of Times Square

Can selfies be considered art? The Inside Out Project has placed a photo booth truck to snap portraits and paste them onto the grounds of Times Square.

A computer motherboard-inspired Memory rug for your home

Designer Lukas Scherrer collaborated with carpet maker Ruckstuhl to create a geeky wool rug that replicates a computer circuit board – no assembly required!
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Tagging 2.0: How one artist uses tech to give life to 3D graffiti

Italian graffiti writer "Peeta" gives us an inside look at street art in the Internet era.

Tumblr and Rhizome support budding online artists with new grants program

If you're an emerging artist and are an avid Tumblr user, then here's a contest you can join to get your art career started.

Schematic Prints turns your first computer and video game console into works of art

City Prints is offering gadget maps of the Apple I, Apple II, Atari, Commodore 64, Sega Genesis, and Nintendo as art that you can use to decorate your wall.

Not Aladdin’s magic ride: Artist creates carpet sculpture from computer parts

Miami-based artist Federico Uribe has assembled an e-carpet using old computer components to design an ornate sculpture.
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World’s largest LED light sculpture to illuminate San Francisco’s Bay Bridge from Tuesday

In Plymouth, U.K, movie watches you (and changes endings depending on your reaction)

Based on your brainwave activities and heart rate, the film Many Worlds will select upcoming scenes to keep your body constantly enticed.

Brooklyn artist makes 3D portraits using DNA from your unwanted trash

A Brooklyn artist has swept up hair, chewing gum, and cigarette butts from New York City to garner enough data to create 3D portraits of these DNA owners.

Are you a better artist than the Senseless Drawing Robot 2?

A Japanese art duo has created the Senseless Drawing Robot 2 which can create abstract graffiti that may just rival some pieces found in museums today.
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San Francisco’s ambitious 25,000-LED light show set for Bay Bridge in March

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Doodle 4 Google contest kicks off, giving young artists a chance to win big prizes

Google60 gives your standard search a slow, yet classy, retro makeover