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Categories: Action | Interactive Environment
Keywords: Aggression | Body | Simulation
Relevant passages:
Margaret Morse «Sunshine and Shroud: Cyborg Bodies and the Collective and Personal Self»
Works by Eddo Stern:
Check as well:
Eddo Stern
«Cockfight Arena»
A one night parade of sweat and adrenaline hopes to reclaim performance art in the age of video games, pitting viewer against viewer in brutal virtual cockfighting theater. Audience volunteers suited up in custom-made wireless game controllers with full sized wings and feathered helmets. Combatants stepped into an arena to control their life size game avatars through vigorous flapping and pecking, competing for blood and birdfeed while rapaciously inflicting onscreen bodily harm in a custom made "joustlike" fighting game. (Source: http://www.eddostern.com)
