http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/taxonomy/term/250/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