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JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out

Posted by News Source Center on March 4, 2011 at 2:02pm

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Posted from TED2011, happening now in California: JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. Learn more about his work and learn how you can join in at insideoutproject.net. (Recorded at TED2011, March 2011, in Long Beach, California. Duration: 24:09)

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