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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.

In one of the pieces by Rao and her collaborator Soren Pors, the night sky twinkles through teddy bear fur. Why?

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