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Waco, Tekken Re-Interpreted For Exhibit 43

Posted by simoniker from the but-is-it-art? dept.
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the forthcoming New York unveiling of a game revisiting the 1993 Waco, Texas incident involving the siege of the Branch Davidian cult. The official site for this controversial art exhibit/game, called 'Waco Resurrection', explains: "...gamers enter the mind and form of a resurrected David Koresh... [and] are bombarded with a soundstream of government 'psy-ops', FBI negotiators, [and] the voice of God" as they "voice messianic texts drawn from the book of revelation, wield a variety of weapons from the Mount Carmel cache and influence the behavior of both followers and opponents by radiating a charismatic aura." The creators, C-Level, are also showing their Tekken Torture Tournament exhibit at the same venue, a PlayStation setup that "converts virtual on-screen [Tekken 3] damage into bracing, non-lethal, electric shocks."
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  • Never sleeps.

    Video games are now the agitprop primordial soup of a society that may too soon find itself to be populated entirely with drones.

    Oh, wait, its Art. Never mind what I just said.
  • bradley tanks shooting flames into the buildings...

    CJC (and Bill Hicks R.I.P.)
  • research project on the Davidian raid, I don't know I would want to be on the defense side. Not that I think the government was right by killing just about everyone inside, they weren't, but because I don't even want to symbolicaly defend a pedophile.

    • Re:As a Texan, and a former student who did my sen (Score:1, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      to symbolicaly defend a pedophile.

      Just out of curiosity, since you've studied it, what was the proof of this? It always seemed just as likely to me that the government needed to make him appear to be a bad guy, and that's about as bad as you get.

      "He's a religious nut."

      "We don't care."

      "He hoards weapons."

      "We don't care."

      "ummmm......He's a pedophile?"

      "BURN HIM!"

      • Proof? Not hard to find.

        The cult didn't spring up on Monday then get ATF'ed on Tuesday. There were families that left the cult. It sprung up initialy as a disagreement with he 7th Day Adventist Church. There were those that left well before the raids, those that left right before, and those that left during.

        Would a 12 year girl and her mother both talking about it not be good enough? If not how about the 14 year old girl and her father? If the testimonies of the victims and their parents who were gu
        • I don't think that most reasonable people dispute that Vernon Howell was among the lowest forms of vermin to ever defile the soil of the US.

          That isn't the point of those of us who criticize the government's actions.

          It is not a matter for federal law enforcement if someone is molesting children. Has the ATF or FBI ever been to your city to arrest a child molester?

          I have been visited by ATF agents in the past, 8 years ago I had two armed ATF agents with "Department of Treasury" badges at my front door beca
    • research project on the Davidian raid, I don't know I would want to be on the defense side. Not that I think the government was right by killing just about everyone inside, they weren't, but because I don't even want to symbolicaly defend a pedophile.

      Have you ever asked yourself why they never accused him of sexually abusing children until more than a month after the start of the Siege?

      I have, and the only logical answers are more upsetting than what Vernon (the man most people know as David Koresh) was
  • Oh you mean like the painstation [painstation.de] or the Xshock controller [techtv.com]? Nice to see that even artists aren't above using someone else's idea.
  • There is art and then there is art in good taste. For some reason, the Virgin Mary's breast depicted in feces and this immersive experience into the world of a megalomaniac just do not seem to be in good taste to me. Nintendo's draconian processes to protect what people do with and produce for their system does not seem all that bad to me after reading this.

    Its just someone else cashing in on the death and destruction that pervades our world. What is next, a race from the top of the World Trade Center T
    • Nice rhetoric. "Is it art or not" debates are tiresome. More tiresome are the legions of the easily offended, blithering endlessly about all the bad art that threatens their fragile sensibilities. So what if it's tacky, grotesque, shallow or useless. If that's the worst anyone can say about it, then Jesus H. Christ in a bottle of piss, that's better background noise than having to hear another pathetic pedantic paladin of good taste. Don't fucking go on about bad art. It skull fucks us every goddamn time we
    • personally, I think that a race from the top of the WTC towers would kick ass! Better yet, a commandos-style game where you try to blow 'em up.

      Don't you get it? It is all just bread and circus now. We, as a culture have far exceeded the bounds of taste in many more explicit ways than this and the only thing that is going to make it stop is when the barbarians at the gate put rome to the torch. I have read The Stranger enough times to realize when it is time to just fiddle...

      "Hard as it comes still nobody
    • What is next, a race from the top of the World Trade Center Towers?

      Too late, somebody's already doing it: 911 Survivor [selectparks.net]

      ugh.
  • This is definately an interesting piece of art. Anyone who is interested in the Waco thing needs to see the film "Rules of Engagement", regardless of your views on the 'incident'. A lot of interesting links related to Waco can be found here [blogspot.com].
  • ...has anyone put together a Columbine High School map for Quake?
  • This experience does not need to be revisited. I lived in Waco during the events and resurrecting David Koresh and making a martyr out of him is in very poor taste. What happened in Waco was that a local news reporter tipped off the Davidians about an ATF raid, and even though the ATF had lost the element of surprise they stupidly went forward. At the end of the siege I think the Davidians started the fire themselves. I still feel sorry for those brainwashed that stayed. I really feel sorry for the c
    • How could you feel sorry for the "brainwashed" that stayed? They made that decision for themselves... "brainwashing" is not an excuse for stupidity, everyone's accountable for their actions.

      Now the children held captive, that's another story.

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