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Art made of storms: Nathalie Miebach on TED.com

Artist and TED Fellow Nathalie Miebach takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of...

Oct 21, 2011
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My mushroom burial suit: Jae Rhim Lee on TED.com

Here’s a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Natura...

Oct 14, 2011
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Weekend gem: The painter and the pendulum, from Tom Shannon

Each weekend, we’re surfacing a great talk from the TED archives that you might have missed … TED visits Tom Shannon in his Manh...

Oct 2, 2011
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“Art asks, not dictates.” Thoughts from Brooklyn’s Inside Out Project group action

Curious about starting your own Inside Out Project group action? Over at TEDPrize.org, they’re interviewing people from around the wor...

Oct 1, 2011
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Filming democracy in Ghana: Jarreth Merz on TED.com

Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Ghanaian filmmaker, came to Ghana in 2008 to film the national elections. What he saw there taught him new lessons abo...

Sep 28, 2011
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The art of wearable communication: Kate Hartman on TED.com

Artist Kate Hartman uses wearable electronics to explore how we communicate, with ourselves and with the world. In this quirky and thought-p...

Sep 14, 2011
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Playlist: Be here now

(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks o...

Aug 16, 2011
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Siegfried Woldhek sketches TEDGlobal

At TEDGlobal 2011, portraitist Siegfried Woldhek sat down in the Autodesk Café with an iPad and some special drawing software, and proceeded...

Jul 19, 2011
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How I became 100 artists: Shea Hembrey on TED.com

How do you stage an international art show with work from 100 different artists? If you’re Shea Hembrey, you invent all of the artists...

Jun 14, 2011
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