Spill Some Real (Fake) Blood with CS

[CSN NewsBot]

This is where reality meets virtual reality. An electronic sculpture designed by Riley Harmon sets out to combine the blood spilled in Counter-Strike with that spilled in the real world.

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.



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, a java applet written in Processing sends serial commands to the micro-controller, telling it to spray fake blood.

The display is located in the Oklahoma School of Art. If you'd like to participate in spilling a little blood for the sake of art, all you need to do is open up your console and type: connect 129.15.76.103:27015.

[Diamond Dust]

This seems all kinds of pointless, i hope cheaters fill up that server.

[Ryosuke T]

Weird and creepy.

[Linux]

Its interesting, but again it could be picked a better way. If you watch the video on the site, they have bots running HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Guess our Online community doesn't want to help it eh? But anywho I think I'll join and see it for fun. I love killing people online, so why not share the blood in real life :).

[meowmeow]

This is unbelievably retarded.

[Thortok2000]

Ryosuke T wrote..

Weird and creepy.

Stupid and gross would be the words I choose.

[brains]

That's pretty gross and excessive.

[Grimgrim_]

One word: ri-di-cu-lous.

[debman3]

good idea but the sculpture is ugly as hell... too bad

[pwnedbyIbanez]

Don't let Jack Thompson hear about this- all hell will break loose.



I did expect something like this could come out of an Art school...

[Mikemike 2.0]

not really that cool, the blood doesnt even spray out, it just kind of... leaks...