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 ([email protected] ).
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. Turbulence.org http://turbulence.org “Like” us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/nrpa.org http://facebook.com/turbulence.org Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/turbulenceorg -- Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green, Co-Directors New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. http://new-radio.org http://turbulence.org http://somewhere.org
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