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What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike detail. Join Sood and Google artist in residence Cyril Diagne in a mind-bending demo of experiments from the Cultural Institute and glimpse the exciting future of accessibility to arts and culture.

What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike detail. Join Sood and Google artist in residence Cyril Diagne in a mind-bending demo of experiments from the Cultural Institute and glimpse the exciting future of accessibility to arts and culture.

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Experience the ability to travel around the world virtually and discover art, history and wonders from over 1000 amazing institutions in over 70 countries. Download the Arts & Culture application on iOS or Android and get your daily dose of culture.

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Amit Sood

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As the director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, Amit Sood leads the effort to bring cultural artifacts from museums, archives and foundations onto the web in extraordinary detail.

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This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Experience the ability to travel around the world virtually and discover art, history and wonders from over 1000 amazing institutions in over 70 countries. Download the Arts & Culture application on iOS or Android and get your daily dose of culture.