{"id":4340,"date":"2015-01-27T17:42:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T17:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2015-02-27T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:51:42","slug":"desert-rain-by-blast-theory-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/desert-rain-by-blast-theory-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Desert Rain&#8221; by Blast Theory (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blast-theory-desert-rain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4341 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blast-theory-desert-rain-1024x692.jpg\" alt=\"blast theory desert rain\" width=\"720\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blast-theory-desert-rain.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blast-theory-desert-rain-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blast-theory-desert-rain-210x142.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Desert Rain is an immersive participatory performance created by Blast Theory in collaboration with Nottingham University&#8217;s Mixed Reality Lab. It deals with the mediation of the first Gulf War through technology and images. Participants (six at a time) play their way through a game structure that virtually transports them into different war-related environments. The participants additionally move through physical space&#8211;a series of installations within container boxes. After traveling virtually through a field of numbers representing Iraqi casualties of war, players\u00a0finally arrive at a simulation of a hotel room where they see and hear testimony from individuals whose lives have been shaped by the war.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Desert Rain is an immersive participatory performance created by Blast Theory in collaboration with Nottingham University&#8217;s Mixed Reality Lab. It deals with the mediation of the first Gulf War through technology and images. Participants (six at a time) play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":4341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,94,97,93],"tags":[183,186,185,184],"coauthors":[111],"class_list":["post-4340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-works","category-artists","category-physical","category-references","tag-blast-theory","tag-gulf-war","tag-iraq","tag-mixed-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}