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Ivy4Evr is an SMS drama for teenagers created by Blast Theory, written by Tony White, author of novels including Foxy-T (Faber), and commissioned by Channel 4 Education.

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Documentation of the first day of I'd Hide You.

Shot and edited by Becky Edmunds.

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If you want to know Paul's unique skill, you'll just have to follow his stream. What we do know is he's focused, and planning to snap as many players as possible.

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Watch out Patrick, Natasha's after you. Is she behind that person? Is she under that car or other object? We literally don't know. Did she mention she's small?

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The charging bull who's going to scare the opposition into submission. He's tall, and he's after Paul.

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Slow as a tortoise, cunning as a fox -- Sam is always where you'd least expect.

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Early to bed, early to rise - Niki's lurk-lurk-POUNCE! strategy is one to be wary of.

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He's the map-reading planner who built the wooden horse. He says the other runners wander aimlessly while he scopes the area.

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Says he's the most competitive - and the quickest.

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Plans to use his terrible sense of direction to his advantage -- his streets are the alleys and fire escapes.

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The silent stalker with the uncontrollable urge to win.

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I'd Hide You is an online game of stealth and cunning like no other.

Jump onboard with a team of runners live from the streets of Manchester as they roam the city trying to film each other. See the world through their eye...

From Tenby, Wales. Stamina from long-distance running and cycling around all summer on an ice-cream cart.

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Testing the I'd Hide You cameras in various lighting conditions. For more information about I'd Hide You visit http://idhideyou.com/ and follow us on twitter @idhideyou

A Machine To See With is a film where you play the lead. You sign up online and hand over your mobile phone number. On the day, you receive an automated call giving you the address you need to go to. Once you arrive on you...

Chemical Wedding plunges you into a world where the multiple meanings of AIDS are contested. From the Black Death to the movies of paranoid Hollywood this promenade performance explores the viral nature of ideas; how do di...

Documentation of A Machine To See With at the Banff New Media Institute, The Banff Centre, Canada, 2010.

Film by The New Media Institute.

A Machine To See With is a film where you play the lead. You are in a heist movie...

Can You See Me Now? is a game that happens simultaneously online and on the streets. Players from anywhere in the world can play online in a virtual city against members of Blast Theory. Tracked by satellites, Blast Theory...

Flypad is a site specific work for the Public Gallery in West Bromwich, using augmented reality to create a thrilling, collaborative experience that combines game play with interaction, joyful goofing about with a visceral...

Ulrike and Eamon Compliant is a new work by Blast Theory which premiered at the 53rd Venice Biennale in June 2009, commissioned by the De La Warr Pavilion and supported by Arts Council England.

The work is based on the li...

Documentation of the Atomic performance at CASCO in Utrecht in 1998. Premiered at Kunstlerhaus Betthanien in Berlin, 1997.

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Advert for the Kidnap project shown in UK cinemas among the usual adverts without titles in 1998. Approx 800,000 people saw it. Commissioned by Chris Dorley-Brown and Bob Jaroc at The Junction.

Desert Rain is a game, an installation and a performance placing particpants in a collaborative virtual environment and sending them on a mission into a virtual world. In a world where Gulf War images echo Hollywood images...

Day Of The Figurines continues Blast Theory's enquiry into the nature of public participation within artworks and within electronic spaces (here, through SMS). It uses emergent behaviour and social dynamics as a means of s...

In 1998 Blast Theory launched a lottery in which the winners had the chance to be kidnapped. Ten finalists around England and Wales were chosen at random and put under surveillance. Two winners were then snatched in broad ...

Documentation of the premiere at the Barbican in Oct 2007

In March 2004 Blast Theory premiered the world's first 3G mixed reality game, I Like Frank in Adelaide, at the Adelaide Fringe.

I Like Frank took place online at www.ilikefrank.com and on the streets using 3G phones. Play...

An Explicit Volume is an interactive installation comprising nine books arranged in a three by three grid. Each book is operated by an electronic page turner. The project is sited in a darkened space where four red vinyl c...

You Get Me is a mixed reality game played between Mile End Park and the Royal Opera House in London. It uses the internet to connect two sites that although they are only five miles apart geographically are separated by a ...

Sidetrack: Lightsleeper (2000) by Blast Theory

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Documentation of the Atomic performance at CASCO in Utrecht in 1998. Premiered at Kunstlerhaus Betthanien in Berlin, 1997.

For further information go to www.blasttheory.co.uk.

Invisible Bullets (1994) by Blast Theory

Invisible Bullets is an installation/ performance that was first performed in Hoxton, London in July 1994 as part of the Fete Worse Than Death. Commissioned by Joshua Compston of F...

Choreographic Cops In A Complicated World (2000) by Blast Theory

A video collage in which Keanu, Clint and Hollywood's finest supporting police officers are looped relentlessly. The delicate, balletic and camp world of ce...

Documentation of 10 Backwards (1999) by Blast Theory

10 Backwards was a 70 minute performance combining live and pre-rendered mixes of video projected either at end of a traverse stage. Toured throughout the UK and in Eur...