Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal

Abstract

The Assassin's Dilemma is a networked digital artwork in which ten people engage in a surreal stage. A virtual room, displayed on a flat panel computer screen, hangs on the wall in ten homes. The computer screen becomes a stage on which players place the figures and props provided by the work to create a changing "painting". In this shared space, connected by the Internet, each person's actions are visibie to the other participants.