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• "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop,"

  The photographs in the exhibition were altered using a variety of techniques, including multiple exposure (taking two or more pictures on a single negative), combination printing (producing a single print from elements of two or...

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  Posted In: Technology on 11.3.2012

• Preston Scott Cohen Slows China's Building Fervor With Futuristic Taiyuan Museum

  By Kelly Chan ( www.artinfo.com ). In his 2001 book "Contested Symmetries and Other Predicaments in Architecture," Cambridge-based architect Preston Scott Cohen takes on a gusty, manifesto-like tone, lamenting the decline of architecture into "a discipline of disinterestedness, arbitrariness, and easily digestible decoration." While many of his contemporaries were turning to the computer to redefine their discipline, reveling in the new ease with which technically challenging forms could be realized, Cohen confronted the unsettling notion that architecture, as an intellectual and artistic pursuit, had once again been outpaced by technology.

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  Posted In: Technology, Museums on 9.5.2012

• Google teams with international museums to zoom in on art

  Using its Street View technology, the internet giant will allow people to virtually visit galleries and view works at gigapixel resolution.

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  Posted In: Technology, Museums on 2.3.2011