[NetBehaviour] New Turbulence.org Website + Launch of "Kill Box"
New Radio and Performing Arts Inc.
newradio.org at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 20:11:16 CEST 2015
September 28, 2015
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is thrilled to announce its new
http://turbulence.org website. Designed by Mushon Zer-Aviv (shual.com) and
funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Turbulence.org is now a 21st
century site worthy of its 20-year history. We hope you’ll enjoy it, learn
from it, and share it. Your feedback is most welcome (newradio.org at gmail.com
).
Coinciding with the launch is the premier of "Kill Box" @inthekillbox
#inthekillbox #games #drones #art #war #virtualization
Turbulence.org Commission: "Kill Box" by Joseph DeLappe (US) and Malath
Abbas, Tom deMajo and Albert Elwin (UK)
http://turbulence.org/commissions/Killbox
[To "play" the game download the application to your desktop, and make sure
your speakers are on.]
"Kill Box" is an online interactive game that critically explores the
nature of drone (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, or UAV) warfare, its complexities
and consequences. It is an experience that explores the use of technology
to transform and extend political and military power, and the abstraction
of killing through virtualization.
Kill Box is the Military term used to describe an area on a grid map that a
mission planner designates a target to be destroyed. "Kill Box" involves
audiences in a fictionalized virtual environment based on documented drone
strikes in Northern Pakistan (executed via satellite from as far away as
Las Vegas, Nevada).
"Kill Box" is a 2015 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for
its Turbulence.org website. It was made possible with funds from the
National Endowment for the Arts (USA). Additional funding has been provided
by The Phoenix Theatre (Leicester, UK); and The Cutting Room (UK).
BIOGRAPHIES
JOSEPH DELAPPE is an artist/activist with a substantial body of work on the
subject of geopolitics and drones and is considered a pioneer in the
nascent field of computer games and art. Professor of the Department of Art
at the University of Nevada where he directs the Digital Media program, Joe
as been working with electronic and new media since 1983. His works have
been shown throughout the United States and abroad. In 2006 he began
dead-in-iraq, typing consecutively all the names of America’s military
casualties from the war in Iraq into the America’s Army first person
shooter online recruiting game. DeLappe also created and directs the
crowdsourced memorial project, iraqimemorial.org.
MALATH ABBAS is an independent game designer, artist and producer working
on experimental and meaningful games. Since co-founding the award winning
studio Quartic Llama, Malath is establishing Scotland’s first game
collective and co-working space in order to support a community of
independent game makers
TOM DEMAJO is a digital artist, electronic musician and sound designer. He
has toured globally as part of electronic music duo Warp Technique, and is
a co-founder of the independent games company, Quartic Llama. He
collaborated with Malath Abbas (in partnership with the National Theatre
Scotland) on the award-winning game "other." Tom regularly contributes to
NEoN Digital Arts Festival, and he is Artist in Residence at Fleet
Collective in Dundee.
ALBERT ELWIN is an artist and programmer. Originally from New Zealand,
Albert now lives and works in Scotland. He studied Computer Games
Technology at the University of Abertay Dundee; co-founded Space Budgie, an
independent games studio where he lead the development of Glitchspace, a
visual programming game well known for its aesthetic and game design.
Albert was invited to talk about Glitchspace at various international game
festivals, most notably the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco in
2014.
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--
Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green, Co-Directors
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
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