It's News From The Desert Front - And You're Calling The Shots

Sealed inside a virtual war game, your mission is to define the lines between fiction and reality. Amid four tonnes of sand, a motel room and a maze of desert warfare, the British-based art collective Blast Theory is seeking members of the public to enter virtual conflict. Within a large-scale work, Desert Rain a combination of performance, art installation and computer game participants must negotiate a virtual and real-life world mimicking CNN-style coverage of the Gulf War.