An art installation in which blood spurts from hospital drips when kills are made by players connected to the installation on the internet through the first-person shooter Counter Strike. This game known as “CS” is addictive to the max. It’s a very simple concept, where one team is meant to protect an area and the other team is meant to blow it up. If you succeed at murdering the other team, or if you blow up their area, you win.

Blood for blood, interactivity for fun.

Designer Riley Harmon makes death bloodier with the real deal the real bloody, bloody deal, with this interactive installation sculpture thang deal. Read about it instantly!

Acrylic glass, medical bags, custom electronics (based on Atmel microcontroller)
title is inspired by [the] Telefon Tel Aviv Song [by the same name].

Violence is an inevitable, mechanical function of the human brain, hard-coded down through time by culture, genetics, and evolution. Mediated experiences of killing change our perception of violence and death. As players die in a public video game server for Counter-strike, a popular online first person shooter, the electronic solenoid valves spray a small amount of fake blood. The trails left down the wall create a physical manifestation of nebulous kills.

In simple terms it is about manifesting experiences that are purely virtual, or only ‘real’ in a psychological sense, into the physical world – physical computing.

Custom electronics based on an Atmega8/168 micro-controller are connected to a PC running a dedicated Counter-strike Source server. Players across the internet can connect and play live on the server, and each time a player dies, EventScripts and a java applet written in Processing 1.0 send serial commands to the micro-controller, controlling electronic solenoid valves to dispense fake blood from 1000mL Gravity Enteral Bags.

To connect and play on the server while it is being exhibited during the week, launch Counter-Strike: Source and type the connect command along with the IP (TBA).

This sculpture will be on display Sept 19 – 21, 2008 at ARTBOTS in Dublin, Ireland. To connect and play on the server, you need COUNTER-STRIKE: SOURCE. TYPE ‘CONNECT 134.226.133.127:27015′ INTO YOUR CONSOLE TO CONNECT. FRAG ON!

Blagh! When you play for money, you play differently than if you play for free. Some people play cooler, some people play with more heat. How about if you play with real blood?