http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/taxonomy/term/200/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/text_entry/578 <p>"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."</p> <br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/text_entry/578">read more</a></p> http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/text_entry/578#comment Action Idea peace performance technology war Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:55:15 +0000 tomski 578 at http://www.performingrightslibrary.org http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/archive/515 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-name"><h3 class="field-label">Author</h3><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item">P.E.A.C.E.</div></div></div><div class="field field-type-text field-field-reference-number"><h3 class="field-label">Reference number</h3><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item">P.E.A.paper.1</div></div></div><div class="field field-type-text field-field-body"><h3 class="field-label">Description</h3><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item"><br class="clear" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-type-text field-field-publisher"><h3 class="field-label">Publisher</h3><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item"></div></div></div> http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/archive/515#comment Acquisitions 2006 Action booklet Organisations peace political Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:34:41 +0000 louisa468 515 at http://www.performingrightslibrary.org