]> http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/text_entry/578 Comments for "Cherry Blossoms" en http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/text_entry/578 "Cherry Blossoms is a backpack that uses a small microcontroller and a GPS unit. Recent news of bombings in Iraq are downloaded to the unit every night, and their relative location to the center of the city are superimposed on a map of Boston. If the wearer walks in a space in Boston that’s correlated to a site of violence in Baghdad, the backpack detonates, releasing a compressed air cloud of confetti, looking for all the world like smoke and shrapnel. Each piece of confetti has the name of a civilian who died in a war based on lies." Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:55:34 +0000