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Digitally Deface Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye
Have you ever wanted to throw a piano or screeching cat at Le Corbusier's pristinely white 1931 Villa Savoye in France?
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Dealing with Death in an Evocative Game about Cancer
"We grieve in silence," game maker Ryan Green says at one point in That Dragon, Cancer, an interactive experience based on the illness and eventual death of his son, Joel.
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Digital Distractions: Designing a Subway and Pruning a Tree
For December, we've got a psychedelic plane ride tribute to a man who died in a crash, a paper craft city, subway line design, and tree pruning (it's fun!).
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An Interactive Timeline of Human History According to Wikipedia
A new data visualization tool called Histography transforms Wikipedia's entries on historic events into an interactive timeline
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Interactive Comic Commemorates the Tragic Story of the Vietnamese "Boat People"
For the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, artist Matt Huynh — the son of Vietnamese boat people — adapted the award-winning story "The Boat" into an interactive comic.
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Digital Distractions: Tweeting as a Bird and the Awkwardness of AIM
For November's Digital Distractions, journey through Twitter as a rotund bird on a mission, relive the awkward AIM conversations of the early 2000s, and give a monster a makeover.
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Play a Tormented Painter in a Video Game of Creeping Terror
In Layers of Fear, a new game by the Poland-based Bloober Team, you are an artist who has gone completely insane.
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Digital Distractions: 'Twin Peaks' Dance-Off, Skull Glitches, and an 18th-Century Opera Puzzle
Walk through a glitchy realm of skulls and flowers, have a Twin Peaks dance battle in the Black Lodge, alter an alternative reality, and experience an 18th-century opera as a puzzle.
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Carnegie Museum of Art Makes its Provenance Accessible and Interactive
Label text rarely describes the life of a painting before it arrived at a museum, yet there's a whole narrative of ownership in a painting's journey from an artist's studio to a static place on the wall.
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Digital Distractions: Sleepwalking, Glitches, and Junk Mail
In a new monthly series, we’re highlighting a few games, apps, and interactive digital experiences recommended for the art crowd. For September, here's a simulation of an Italian Renaissance painting guild, a Surrealist puzzler, a glitchy Pac-Man, and the most thought-provoking game on junk mail yet
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A Catalogue of Violent Design in the 21st Century
MoMA's online initiative Design and Violence was an 18-month experiment in addressing the brutality of 21st-century design.
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Digital Distractions: Love, Color, and Clapping
In a new monthly series, we're highlighting a few games, apps, and interactive digital experiences recommended for the art crowd.