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After watching the the previous edition over and over again, Tate has finally refreshed the TateShots website. This monthly video programme with a focus on modern and contemporary art at Tate, can be downloaded from the museum’s website. The latest edition features an epic firework battle, a new commission by the Yangjiang Group entitled ‘If I knew the danger ahead, I’d have stayed well clear’ (2007). This performance was staged in Liverpool’s docks and marked the opening of Tate Liverpool’s exhibition of contemporary Chinese art that runs till June 10. The work was composed of 20.000 rockets being launched from two opposing barges, filling the sky like exotic tracer fire. Besides footage of this performance TateShots alse features an item on the current exhibition: Contemporary Art from China.

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An exhibition of more than 30 simple, efficient gadgets for poor countries opened Friday at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, turning the museum’s garden on Yew York’s Fifth Avenue into a global village. “Design for the Other 90 Percent,” which closes Sept. 23, underlines designs for the needs of the 5 billion people across the globe who have little or no access to the products of wealthy countries.

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One of the worlds leading museum designers Friday provided the most detailed vision yet for the proposed Canadian Museum for Human Rights, revealing innovative interior plans that will engage visitors through extensive use of interactive and multimedia technologies.

The museum in Winnipeg would be a towering, multi-levelled structure featuring several galleries connected by a ramping system that will take visitors from floor to floor.

Galleries will range from themes on aboriginal rights and the human rights journey in Canada to a forum that will feature interactive programs to reveal how personal actions impact human rights. Another level will look at todays challenges, featuring a real-time map of human rights issues such as poverty and discrimination against women. One display will employ a gesture-responsive wall full of factual information that will work in a fashion similar to Nintendo Wii technology; with a simple swipe of the hand in the air, visitors will be able to turn virtual pages. Upon entering the museum, visitors will be given a human rights key that will provide a digital recollection of their experiences that they can later take home.

Renowned designer Ralph Appelbaum, whose work for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the American Museum of Natural History in_New York has won every major design award, noted the tech-savviness will make the museum particularly approachable for the younger generation.

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