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Blast masters: interactive digital design group Blast Theory lets Neil Churcher in on its game. (Profile).

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BLAST THEORY is an arts group that is working with interactive digital media in an exciting, investigative way. Interaction designers take note, as the work it produces mixes audience participation, interaction design, the use of the latest digital communication technology including webcams, GPS and GPRS location devices and unusually, collaborative evaluation to research and quantify the outcome of its projects. All classic interactive design processes.

But this isn't strictly a design group. Blast Theory plays games with people's behaviour and its interactive games do just that, games that audiences can play and are hybrids of art-based performances. The Desert Rain project in 2000 …

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