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Sculpture goes interactive in new Canary Wharf art exhibition

LONDON.- The art world’s latest interpretation of the global craze for touch-based technology has arrived in London, with an impressive new exhibition set to be unveiled in Canary Wharf on 9 January. ‘Marbles’, a new interactive artwork by Dutch artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde, recent winner of the prestigious Design for Asia Award, features eight spectacular glowing forms which come alive upon human touch, using sound and colour to communicate to people in the vicinity and to each other. The exhibition runs until 2 March 2012 in Jubilee Park, on top of the Canary Wharf Jubilee Line Station. Keith Watson from Canary Wharf Group, which curates an award-winning public art collection and programme, said “Roosegarde’s Marbles reflects the demise of traditional childhood games, such as marbles, and the current obsession with interactive technology, questioning how it can be used in a more social manner.”