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  • At the Tate Modern, London: This is a permanent augmented reality intervention celebrating Damien Hirst's retrospective exhibition in 2012. The gold coins are a 2012 special edition of the British gold sovereign for Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond...
  • Babel -
    Babel is a site specific work for a non-site. The context of the work is non-physical. The site is an abstract thing...information space and the taxonomy of knowledge that all libraries represent...which the Internet, where the project is realised,...
  • Great Wall of China -
    The Great Wall of China is conceived for simultaneous realisation across media, including a Website (1995-96), a CD-ROM with portfolio of prints (1997-99) and an interactive installation (1999). The foundation of The Great Wall of China is a...
  • Trucold -
    TRUCOLD is a video work shot at night on the streets of London and - during a heavy fog - in Karlsruhe in Germany. The work comes out of Blast Theory's interest in physical displacement, amnesia and time travel and ties directly into other urban...
  • 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...
  • Kidnap -
    In this sensational precursor to Big Brother, two volunteers were selected from a few hundred applicants and subsequently kidnapped for a period of 48 hours.

    Selected finalists were chosen at random and put under surveillance. Following this...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Flypad -
    The company has also been commissioned to create a major, new permanent installation for THEpUBLIC in West Bromwich UK, due to open in 2006.

    Using Augmented Reality, Flypad will generate avatars from a 'data body' - information submitted by...
  • The Potential Thief -
    New performance installation exploring the relationship between the individual and cinematic image. Performers and audience members negotiate one another’s movements as they copy excerpts from films. Three audience members are asked to join each...