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Preview: See Bacterial Radio and Ars Electronica’s Other Intriguing Projects

In Joe Davis’ fascinating Bacterial Radio project, genetically modified microbes are combined into electrical circuits designed to convey sound. It’s one of the interesting projects that will be on display next week at Ars Electronica, one of the largest and most well-known art and technology festivals in the world.

Bacterial Radio won the Golden Nica, the event’s top prize, in the Hybrid Art Category. The image gallery above showcases some of the most intriguing art projects heading to the annual festival that has been attracting thousands of artists, engineers and thinkers to Linz, Austria, since 1979.

The gallery includes other Golden Nica winners like:

• Jeff Desom’s Rear Window Loop, a meticulous condensation of Hitchcock’s classic Rear Window into three spellbinding minutes.

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Noomi Rapace Burns Through Brian De Palma’s Passion Trailer

It’s not as crazy as the scene in Prometheus where Noomi Rapace’s character performs surgery on herself, but things do get kind of weird for the Swedish actress midway into the new trailer for Passion. Then again, the upcoming movie has suspense maestro Brian De Palma at the helm, so what else can you expect?

The teaser hyping Passion‘s debut at the Toronto International Film Festival next month shows Rapace, the original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, opposite Rachel McAdams, who was last seen on-screen when her character got poisoned in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

Here, McAdams plays a manipulative executive who appears to dig freaky masked lesbian sex. “Come closer,” she says. “Now kiss me.” But does she really mean it?

When he’s not making big action flicks like Mission: Impossible or crime dramas like Scarface, De Palma has exhibited an obsession for women-in-jeopardy scenarios dating all the way back to the classic 1976 blood shower inflicted during Carrie.

No matter the story particulars — and in the case of Passion, plot points revolve around corporate betrayal — De Palma invariably pulls the strings in a way that makes it clear: Any minute now, things are going to go terribly, terribly wrong.

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Artist Draws 8,628 Self-Portraits Under the Influence of Love and Other Drugs

As of this moment, Bryan Lewis Saunders has drawn 8,628 self-portraits. By the end of the day, he’ll have completed 8,629. And although he’s recently become known as the guy who draws under the influence of drugs, his creations have been inspired by everything from death to body hair over the years.

“All day every day, images and feelings of the world come into me and it’s inescapable,” said Saunders in an e-mail to Wired. “So I thought if I did a self-portrait every day for the rest of my life, with no rules, the world and I could be more linked to my nervous system. And I could die knowing that I tried to experience as much as possible while I was alive.”

Saunders, a 43-year-old Virginia native who currently lives in Tennessee, comes off looking like the art world’s Louis C.K. in his wildly diverse images. He began his self-portrait experiment on March 30, 1995, after an art-history class discussion about the prevalence of artists who put themselves into images of the world around them. He didn’t entirely agree with that tack, so he flipped the concept on its head. (See his “normal face” self-portrait, which is the first image in the gallery above.)

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Video: Hit and Run Is a Turbocharged Take on Love in the Liar’s Lane

                    

Hit and Run boasts plenty of speedy car chases, but the movie’s essentially a turbocharged comedic essay on how new lovers play fast and loose with the truth. For instance, if you were an ex-getaway driver, how much would you reveal about your former life if a sweet young thing got your heart revving?

The R-rated comedy “really explores lying versus omission,” says Dax Shepard in Wired’s video interview. Shepard co-wrote and co-directed the film with David Palmer (they worked together on 2010′s Brother’s Justice).

Shepard also stars in the new movie as the dude with the mysterious past, who’s falling for Kristen Bell and being chased by a federal marshal played by Tom Arnold as well as his former partners in crime. Get more of Shepard and Arnold’s take on Hit and Run, which is in theaters now, in the video above.

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Superman and Wonder Woman: DC Comics’ New Power Couple

Superman and Wonder Woman share a supersmooch on the cover of Justice League No. 12.

The upcoming issue will cement the superheroes’ relationship after a mysterious event pushes the two immortals to “seek solace” in each other, according to Entertainment Weekly.

“This is the new status quo,” Geoff Johns, DC’s chief creative officer, told EW, promising the cover wasn’t just a single-issue stunt.

Still, artist Jim Lee — who said he drew inspiration from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss and Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic photo V-J Day in Times Square — said his cover was designed to create buzz about the new supercoupling.

“Hopefully this will raise a lot of eyebrows,” Lee told EW. “We welcome the watercooler chatter.”

Last fall, Justice League was the first out the door as part of DC’s “New 52″ initiative designed to lure new readers by resetting issue numbers at 1 and recalibrating the publisher’s superhero universe.

Justice League No. 12 goes on sale Aug. 29.

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