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François Delarozière. The theatre we practice is street theatre and action in the street.

François Delarozière

Scenes are performed in places that are used daily by all inhabitants. In short, especially in places where we would not expect them to take place. We deliberately surprise and unsettle the onlookers round the corner of a street.

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Memory implantation is now officially real. In this study, the mouse is now afraid of an environment in which it never received pain, and would therefore not associate pain with it.

Memory implantation is now officially real

By artificially activating the neurons associated with the pain-free environment in a new context with a foot shock, a fear response is now elicited the original context where no shock or pain occurred. The experiment takes advantage of associations, but uses optogenetic activation to make the mouse remember shock where shock never occurred (false memory). But the environment could be similar enough that it thinks it may be get a shock anyways.

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Seventeenth Century Art: Most Significant Artists of the Baroque Period

The Baroque Period was distinguished by exaggerated dynamism and clear detail that aimed to create drama and grandeur in sculpture, painting and architecture. The style is said to have started around 1600 in Rome before spreading across Europe. It was heavily influenced and encouraged by the Catholic church, which used it to communicate religious themes, war imagery, and aristocrats who appreciated the exuberance.

The artists of the time focused on depicting natural images, steeped in intense emotions and exaggerated through the play of light and shadow. It was both simplistic and melodramatic in its form, glorifying the church and monarchy. More Astounding Modern Art Collectors. Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. The Most Iconic Surrealist Paintings. Founded by Andre Breton in the early 1920s and emphatically explained in his Manifestoes of Surrealism, Surrealism is often considered both a cultural and revolutionary art movement.

The Most Iconic Surrealist Paintings

The form dedicated itself to depicting the subconscious and as such many critics regard Surrealism as a substantial divergence from traditional art movements. By stripping ordinary objects of their normal function, Surrealist artists aimed to expose psychological truth and as a result created abstract images in order to evoke empathy from the viewer. Highly individualized, the movement relied heavily on the element of the unexpected, borrowed from various Dadaist techniques and eventually came to represent the alienation many experienced in the wake of a war stricken world.

These seven iconic surrealist paintings have become not only iconic in the field of surrealism, but in art as a whole: Anonymous’s ‘Black March’ Media Survival Guide. Is a "Garden" the World's Greatest New Artwork? The Anamorphose.

Is a "Garden" the World's Greatest New Artwork?

Courtesy of Flickr user groume What’s the best new work of art in the world? Good question. Dave Conservatoire - Learn about music for free! Painting computer surprises viewers with its artwork. Sandrine Ceurstemont, editor, New Scientist TV What if you were told that your favourite painting was created by a machine?

Painting computer surprises viewers with its artwork

Can a computer produce an artistic masterpiece? Computer scientist Simon Colton has created software called the Painting Fool, which he claims possesses creative talents. In this video, you can see some of its recent artwork, demonstrating a range of styles. Psychedelic Petri dishes turn lab work into a freakout session. Science as Art, Artistic & Scientific Photo Gallery.

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