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High-tech art (with a sense of humor) - Aparna Rao

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Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao reimagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on screen -- that put a playful spin on ordinary objects and interactions.

“The Pygmies,” an interactive installation by Pors & Rao, seems at first to be pretty simple but is actually quite complex. What are some of its sophisticated features? How long do you imagine that Pors and Rao worked to develop this piece?

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