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S[edition] aims to inspire through digital art

Mat Collishaw, Michael Craig-Martin and Tracey Emin are among the artists contributing to a "revolutionary digital platform" which will offer users the chance to buy bespoke works created specifically for online devices.

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Birmingham's Supersonic Festival heralds art, history and zines in diverse 2011 line-up

The hugely popular festival, best known for its disparate line-up of some of cutting-edge experimental musicians, supplements its headbangers with art and literature.

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Holy calling for Art in Romney Marsh as festival takes art and music to five Medieval churches

Nineteen contemporary artists make site-specific installations and experimental musicians abound inside five churches as the Kent festival returns for a fifth edition.

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Brighton Digital Festival inspires month of innovation

Brighton's digital festival offers interactive heists, flights to the sun, subsonic submarines and blockbuster films during an innovative month-long programme.

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Open submission policy triumph as Salon des Refusés bowls into Surface Gallery, Nottingham

Curators at the Surface Gallery have added hundreds of alternative artworks to their walls, managing to assemble the veritable deluge in less than three days.

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Field trip: Semiconductor talk about their findings in the far out reaches of Ecuador

Footage from a voyage to the Galapagos forms basis of a solo show from Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt at FACT.

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Toby Ziegler distorts the world in The Alienation of Objects at the New Art Gallery Walsall

Iberian stone heads, Staffordshire pottery dogs, a classical Venus, neo-classicism and Greek sculpture go polygonal.

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Museums at Night: Music, light, paintings and high spirits in store at Watford Museum

An all-girl local band, a BAFTA-nominated animation duo, galleries and drinks in Watford for Museums at Night.

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Speakers fill Fabrica with opera for Brighton Festival in artist Janet Cardiff's Forty Part Motet

A 16th century opera written for Elizabeth I will be played through 40 speakers inside the Fabrica gallery in Brighton.

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The Culture24 Seven: Arty alternatives for Valentine's Day bliss

Hankering after a bit of arty, love-themed diversion? Culture24's Mark Sheerin has sniffed out some contemporary artistic responses to the foxy 14th. Read on, lovebirds...

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Cory Arcangel transforms the Barbican's Curve Gallery into dazzling media art bowling arcade

In a grand scale installation, 14 consoles compete at ten pin bowling and keep losing. Mark Sheerin sees if it's up his alley.

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"Amazing" Susan Philipsz work becomes first sound installation piece to win the Turner Prize

Lowlands, the haunting sound installation based on a sea shanty, wins the Turner Prize 2010 for the Glasgow sculptor.

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Crafts Council collections launched online with pair of contemporary exhibition programmes

The digital drawing process and bookbindings are explored in two new online exhibitions from the Craft's Council's vaults.

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Pavel Büchler wires Max Wigram Gallery for sound with 75-horn Studio Schwitters odyssey

The Northern Art Prize winner strings out a lost Dadaist sonata as his latest spooky sonic solo show arrives in the capital.

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In Pictures: The V&A's Street Art show opens at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

Pictures from the launch and images of the works from Street Art, which debuts outside the V&A for the first time in Coventry.

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