Waco, Tekken Re-Interpreted For Exhibit

Posted by simoniker on Thursday October 9, 2003 @11:53PM 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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Re:As a Texan, and a former student who did my sen by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-10 01:03 · Score: 1, Insightful

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!"