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Peace Protesters Stalk America's Army Exhibit

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2008-07-10 18:40:52 by Shawn Sines in Gaming Today
...exhibit to its next venue after they forced changes to the presentation at Wisconsins Summerfest. The next stop for the exhibit is an airshow in Duluth, Minnesota. WAFF-48 news out of Huntsville, Alabama reports that a similar protest is planned for the airshow The Americas Army exhibit has the game set up in a Humvee. People have to be at...
 
Tags: army, exhibit, americas army exhibit, america, peace protesters, army overmatch, protesters, army takes xbl, exhibit glorifies war
 
 
 
 
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Republican Leads Protest as Game-Art Exhibit is Expelled From RPI

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2008-03-11 14:01:41 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...exhibit by Iraqi citizen and Art Institute of Chicago professor Wafaa Bilal As reported by the Albany Times-Union , the exhibition,suspended last week while school officials conducted a review, has now been officially expelled from campus. The head of RPIs Art Departmenthas beenordered to have the exhibit hauled away by days end. Of the...
 
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Curator defends 9/11 exhibit

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2008-08-27 22:43:55 by Thom Dinsdale in That VideoGame Blog
...exhibit as cras and insensitive, not to mention gratuitous; and everyone left death threats in the inbox of its creator, the American born Douglas Edric Stanley, the curator of the exhibit has actually come out in defense of the work. Andreas Lange of The Computerspiele Museum in Berlin, Germany has publicly declared his support of the...
 
Tags: exhibit, original space invaders, invaders, games convention, stanley, lange, douglas edric stanley, andreas lange, controversial subject
 
 
 
 
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RPI Game Exhibit Nixed Over Terrorism Concerns; FBI May Be Involved

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2008-03-07 14:50:13 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...exhibition by a visiting artist.Wafaa Bilal (left), an Iraqi who is on the faculty of the Art Institute of Chicago and whose brother was killed in the current war, was scheduled to present a hacked version of Night of Bush Capturing, an al Qaeda propaganda game at the campus Bilals exhibit, however, has been canceled by RPI administrators...
 
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Virtual Jihadi art exhibit expelled from RPI

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2008-03-11 00:00:00 by Alexander Sliwinski in Joystiq
...exhibit at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute (RPI) utilizing a modded version of Quest for Saddam , which caused a stir last week , has been booted from the campus by administrators. GamePolitics continues to track the story of the exhibit, which went from "little random thing" to pariah in a week. RPI's VP, William Walker, stated in a press...
 
Tags: exhibit, political art exhibit, rpi, republican majority leader, university resources, rensselaer polytechnical institute, university, press release, william walker
 
 
 
 
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Troy City Officials Wield Building Code to Shut Down Game Art Exhibit

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2008-03-12 13:48:08 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...exhibit As weve been tracking on GamePolitics , Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal , a faculty member at the Art Institute of Chicago, was invited to present at - and then abruptly booted from -Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute Following his RPI expulsion, Bilals Virtual Jihadi exhibit was moved to the nearby Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy....
 
Tags: code, city officials, city, code enforcement, troy, nearby sanctuary, sanctuary, independent media, schenectady daily gazette
 
 
 
 
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Troy, NY Sued Over City Shutdown of Video Game Exhibit

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2008-05-02 11:14:01 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...exhibit , which culminates in the player attempting to shoot President Bush, has triggered a lawsuit against the city of Troy, New York, according to the Albany Times-Union As GamePolitics readers may recall, Bilal, a faculty member at the Art Institute of Chicago, was invited to present his Virtual Jihadi exhibitat Rensselaer Polytechnical...
 
Tags: city, city officials, distasteful city officials, troy, mirch, bob mirch, code enforcement, sanctuary, exhibit
 
 
 
 
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Space Invaders/Sept. 11 art exhibit stirs controversy [update]

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2008-08-22 12:30:00 by Kyle Orland in Joystiq
 
...exhibit , which was part of a larger tribute to the classic game's 30th anniversary at the Leipzig Games Convention . A Games Convention press release calls the installation an "an articulated and critical commentary about the current war strategy" and "a social tale that can be related to historical tales without losing its poetic power."...
 
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9/11 Space Invaders Exhibit Pulled

2008-08-25 23:29:42 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
...exhibit/game based off the original Space Invaders , has been pulled with his permission from the Leipzig Games Conference, reports Edge Online Stanley, an American who grew up near Silicon Valley and has since relocated to France, took the 30th anniversary of Space Invaders as an opportunity to create a piece of art that acts as social...
 
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