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Refugee Republic is an interactive transmedia documentary about everyday life in Domiz Camp, a Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq.

The aim of the makers, artist Jan Rothuizen, multimedia journalist Martijn van Tol, photographer Dirk Jan Visser and webdeveloper Aart Jan van der Linden, is to enrich the existing image of refugee camps by building an anatomical sketch of everyday life in the camp, through a combination of drawings, film, photography, sound and text to create a sensory experience.

Microsculpture - The insect photography of Levon Biss. Process is fascinating by its complexity. 

https://vimeo.com/157712307

More information about the project and collaboration with Oxford University Museum of National History.

Cristina de Middel's Little Red Book

A book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), the former Chairman of the Communist Party of China, published from 1964 to about 1976 and widely distributed during the Cultural Revolution

The Mars One organization has proposed to land the first humans on Mars and establish a permanent human colony there by 2025. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One

Simon Menner’s new book Top Secret: Images from the Stasi Archives examines the vast collection of information and photos once gathered by the East German secret police. While coincidental, the timing couldn’t be better as news about the NSA surveillance program continues to dominate headlines.

A German hacker who rose to fame after hacking Apple's TouchID and recreating the German defense minister's thumbprint from a high-res image, has revealed a method where iris images taken from a distance with a high-resolution camera can be recreated with a laser printer.

André Malraux (1901-1976) was a French art historian, philosopher and cultural politician. In his work, Malraux describes how the art museum – despite being a modern invention – has obtained the status of being the proper home of art today. It is within the museum that artworks of different styles can be compared, and it is through this comparison that the nature and quality of individual work of art presents itself.

Camouflage from face detection.

CV Dazzle explores how fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology, the first step in automated face recognition.