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9 July 2014updated 10 Jul 2014 1:10pm

Digital revolution: how technology has changed what it means to be an artist

A new exhibition at the Barbican shows how the technology behind video games is turbocharging the human imagination. But is it art? (Yes.) 

By Helen Lewis

Umbrellium at the Barbican.

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