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  • ...Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller developed in "The Muriel Lake Incident" (1999) a miniature movie theater, in which a maximum of 3 person can have a look inside. The image and sound illussion is made perfect and has the effect that the viewer starts to daubt on...
  • Alchemy -
    ... Alchemy is an interactive illuminated manuscript, inspired by medieval books such as Les Tres Riches Heures de Duc De Berry. The theme of the book is the alchemical practice of creating homonculi, small human like creatures, in test tubes. The work is...
  • Golem -
    ... monitors and 12 channel audio, colour, sound audio by Hans Peter Kuhn Golem was a two channel video installation where the two monitors were arranged like the pages of an open book. The imagery was derived from medieval illuminated books so the overall...
  • The Library -
    ...As the Y2K media frenzy and millennium celebrations reached a fever pitch in late 1999, the finishing touches were being put on the design of one of the most ambitious VRML projects on the internet today. With the assistance of modellers, animators and programmers at...
  • I like Frank -
    ...In March 2004 Blast Theory premiered the world's first 3G mixed reality game, I Like Frank in Adelaide, at the Adelaide Fringe. I Like Frank took place online at www.ilikefrank.com and on the streets using 3G phones. Players in the real city chatted with...
  • Kidnap -
    ... hours. Selected finalists were chosen at random and put under surveillance. Following this initial phase of observation of the short-listed candidates, Blast Theory selected two ‘winners’ at random. On a chosen date, the performers then abducted their...
  • Desert rain -
    ...In this fascinating piece the company worked in collaboration with the Computer Research Group of the School of Computer Science at Nottingham University, UK. The piece was one of the most complex and powerful responses to the first Gulf War produced within the...
  • ...Not only does god play dice... but he sometimes throws them where they can't be seen - Stephen Hawking THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN is an interactive videodisc installation dealing with gambling and spirituality, twin distillates of our obsession with luck and...
  • Liquid Language -
    ...It is an experiement in fluid text. Text appears on the screen, dissolves and transforms continuously, resulting in a representation of a wandering stream of consciousness. The structure of the work revolves around the three themes : forgetting, remembering and...
  • Can you see me now? -
    ...Can You See Me Now?draws upon the near ubiquity of handheld electronic devices in many developed countries. Blast Theory are fascinated by the penetration of the mobile phone into the hands of poorer users, rural users, teenagers and other demographics usually excluded...