Playing with sound in silence: Fellows Friday with Christine Sun Kim
Through visual art, composition and performance, deaf artist Christine Sun Kim explores ways of transmuting sound and silence to come to ter...
Serge Mouangue’s sculptural commemoration of the Japanese tsunami
Two years ago today, a massive earthquake rocked Japan and sent a tsunami raging over its shores. Nearly 19,000 people were killed; more tha...
8 beautiful and heartbreaking poems from Shane Koyczan
Shane Koyczan has a way with words. “I’ve been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself,” he says, b...
Can limitations make you more creative? A Q&A with artist Phil Hansen
Phil Hansen has tattooed bananas, drawn a portrait on stacked Starbucks cups and created a Jimi Hendrix portrait out of matches, which he th...
Timelapse of a disappearance: Talking with Liu Bolin
On Thursday at TED2013, Chinese artist Liu Bolin talked about his remarkable photographic installations, in which he paints himself (and som...
A choir live and online: Eric Whitacre at TED2013
In an extraordinary finale for TED2013, Eric Whitacre stages a type of performance that has never been seen before, with a choir assembled t...
Live a life to do with beauty: Shane Koyczan at TED2013
Spoken-word poet and artist Shane Koyczan is onstage at TED, sharing his own experiences and charming us silly. This is an intimate, heartfe...
The invisible man: Liu Bolin at TED2013
Can a person disappear in plain sight? That’s the question Liu Bolin‘s remarkable works all seem to ask. The Beijing-based artis...
Mona Lisa 2.0: Raghava KK at TED2013
No stranger to the TED stage, Raghava KK returns with exciting updates on his work. Raghava is experimenting with EEG headsets that use brai...