Online Net art Games

• Velvet Strike - A collaborative project with Anne-Marie Schleiner
  'Velvet-Strike is a collection of spray paints to use as graffiti on the walls, ceiling, and floor of the popular network shooter terrorism game "Counter-Strike". Velvet-Strike was conceptualized during the beginning of Bush’s "War on Terrorism." We invite others to submit their own "spray-paints" relating to this theme.'
• The Making of Balkan Wars:the Game -' Both geopolitical war games and epic strategy video games are interrelated in this multi-media project. While virtual battle scenes are celebrated as the “most realistic ever,” contemporary warfare has begun to resemble science fiction...[this project] is intended to counteract the spectacularization of war in media by deconstructing stereotypes, focusing on the distortion of identities, and revising the dominant explanatory logic.'
• Space Invaders Act 1732 by Andy Deck - invites players to add invaders, in the form of menacing corporations, to shoot at in a reworking of the original space invaders game.
  
• Lexicon by Andy Deck-'Understood as an interactive experience, Lexicon is a form of software that has to be discovered rather than immediately understood. It offers a series of encounters: with programmatic images, and with strangers who are visiting the piece at the same time. People passing through the Lexicon, are its performers.'
• The Intruder - Natalie Bookchin and Metapet - A collaborative project with Natalie Bookchin 'Biotech innovation meets corporate creativity and gives birth to a new class of virtual pet: the Metapet'.
• Trigger Happy - This Space Invaders based game by Thomson and Craighead combines 'an absurd quest for information with an old fashioned shoot em up computer-game.'
• Antiwargame- Josh On's Antiwargame 'lets a player act as the US President and lead the USA into a war against terrorism...It is the President¹s challenge to keep up presidential popularity while pursuing whatever strategy might appeal to the player's sense of gameplay or political outlook.'
• Escape From Woomera - an online first person, 3D adventure game, being developed by an Australian collective of games developers, artists and activists. The game invites players to assume the character of a modern day refugee, and attempt to escape from a well-known detention centre in Australia.
• Bio-Tek Kitchen - Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski. Players clean up the kitchen laboratory of a home biotech enthusiast using weapons such as dish cloths and egg flippers.

Net Art in Wartime

• Under Fire by Jordan Crandall is a year-long project that explores the organization and representation of contemporary armed conflict. The project consists of a series of organized discussions that will occur online and in Rotterdam, throughout the year 2004.
• Kabul:Reconstructions by Mariam Ghani, with the collaboration of programmer Edward Potter, is a video installation and public dialogue project that explores the many different meanings and resonances of the idea of reconstruction in the context of the city of Kabul.
• >wartime< set up by Andy Forbes- 'A collective group effort by digital and network artists across all the continents to focus its visitors and audience on the horror and destructiveness of war.'
• The Anti War Web Ring set up by Andy Deck- 'The Anti-War Web Ring opposes the idea that war solves problems. It is a collection of Web sites that oppose specific wars, and it is a forum for people who are curious about pacifism and militarism to learn more about how war is a cyclical, self-perpetuating phenomenon.'
• The House that George Built by Dion Laurent - 'The Bush Administration urged us all to prepare a plastic sheeting and duct tape room in our house - so I did. It evolved to its current form and now is The O2 Service Station, The House that George Built.'
• Men and Bombs by Marc Garrett- 'A collection of cut up, collaged images found originally on the Internet and constructed using DHTML.'
• One Among 400,000 by Ruth Catlow - A personal document of the protest that took place in London, UK on September 28th 2002 to stop the war against Iraq.
• War Against Art- Gruppo Oreste, a group of Italian and International artists took part on the Venice Biennial. At the time of bombing Belgrade the contact with a group of artists from Belgrade, who call themselves "Prisoners of War" (POWs)
  

Art Activism On and Offline

• The Bomb Project by Joy Garnett- A strong influence on the motivation form and ongoing development of Rethinking Wargames Activate, Joy Garnett's ' Bomb Project is a comprehensive on-line compendium of nuclear-related links, imagery and documentation. It is intended specifically as a resource for artists, and encourages those working in all media, from net.art, film and video, eco-intervention and site-specific installation to more traditional forms of agitprop, to use this site to search for raw material'.
• Dress the Nation by globally distributed performance troupe Avatar Body Collision. On 3rd March 2003 Avatar Body Collision, joined the Lysistra Project in a worldwide theatre event for peace. 'Dress the Nation was conceived as the fictional response by George. W. Bush and his key supporters, to the news that degenerate theatre types were staging global productions of a lewd Greek play as part of an anti-war campaign initiative.'
• ®TMark- ®TMark receives project ideas from internet users, then lists them. Each listed project has its own discussion list (linked from the project). When a project requires a bit of funding to be accomplished, sometimes investors will step up to the plate and offer their help. Even more often, people will offer non-financial help or feedback.
• Isabelle Massu: Between Two Worlds An Interview with Isabelle Massu by Natalie Bookchin.
• WochenKlausur At the invitation of art institutions, WochenKlausur develops and realizes proposals - small-scale but very concrete - for improving sociopolitical deficits. In the context of many twentieth-century artists who understood how to actively take part in the shaping of society, WochenKlausur sees art as an opportunity for achieving long-term improvements in human coexistence.
• New media, 'community art', and net.art activism Interviews with Natalie Bookchin and Brendan Jackson by Beryl Graham of CRUMB.
  

Chess Variants

• Chess Variants A website dedicated to alternative chess- including 3 player variants, discussion forums and evaluations of new chess variants.