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Burst a Virtual Bubble at the ZKM

Budding artists and computer geeks alike should check out Germany's ZKM - Center for Art and Media - in the south-western city of Karlsruhe. The Media Museum claims to be the first in the world for interactive art, and while we can't verify this it is certainly a one-of-a-kind in our experience.

Some displays are a bit lame if you're not a total computer nerd (though the exhibition of old Commodore 64s and original Pacman games was kind of nostalgic), but others are really fascinating. A popular one shows a computer projection of bubbles onto a wall; you can gently move the bubbles around or burst them just by waving your hands in the air. Or you can see a computer produce random sentences that sound like real English but just don't quite make sense: try "How seriously do you book?" for starters.

Any kind of media that's vaguely related to technology and gets you hands on into something: that's what you'll find at ZKM. Not a museum for those who prefer reading endless boring texts beneath frames of boring artifacts.

[Photo: chuckbiscuito]

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