Become a Guantanamo Detainee in Second Life

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/04/Animating_Human_Rights_Games_Animation_and_Multimedia

Peggy Weil offers images from a Guantanamo Bay simulation in the online role-playing game Second Life. "You find yourself transported and shackled into a cage; it's a powerful experience," she says.

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Recent innovations in science and technology have provided human rights advocates, journalists, and scientists with new tools to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and to disseminate this information in real time throughout the world.

The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley is pleased to showcase these recent developments and push new frontiers of applied research. - Human Rights Center, UC-Berkeley

Peggy Weil, Visiting Assistant Professor, USC-SCA Interactive Media Division, is a digital media artist and designer focusing on interactive and immersive design. As a member of the original Architecture Machine Group (now the M.I.T. Media Lab) she worked on pioneering interactive projects going on to create titles for The Voyager Company, Broderbund, Electronic Arts, Von Holtzbrinck and Ravensburger Interactive including the award winning titles, A Silly Noisy House and Moving Puzzle. She was creative producer and designer for the Redistricting Game, a USC Annenberg Center sponsored project to increase voter awareness about congressional redistricting. Current projects include Gone Gitmo, a virtual installation of Guantanamo Prison and Mauerkrankheit (Wallsickness), a visualization of the world's border fences.

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[Slyfox38]

But somebody who kills over 600,000 Iraqis (a country that did not attack the United States) in a war waged on false pretenses (where are the WMDs?) gets to retire peacefully to his texan ranch? The irony here is ridiculous...

You can't beat terrorists by acting like terrorists yourselves. When you lock people up in offshore prisons established to evade the legal processes of your own country - you are acting like terrorists.

[Shadizar666]

that's not the point

the point is that you have no control

you're trapped

[TheyDidThis]

most comments here are about republicans. Pretty sure Obama is democrat and has strengthened the patriot act and illegal torture and arrest folks. Not to mention giving banks and corrupt ceos 20 trillion usd of tax payers money. They are all the same when will you retards wake up.

[Varick1337]

then send them back TO THE COUNTRY THEY COME FROM they have no rights in OUR country.

[AUTOBOT84]

anyone that plots to kill 3,000 americans has no RIGHTS so you and Obama need to get your heads out of your ass maybe you should worry about your own country first as because many people gave ther time and lifes for your freedoms

[MementoExpose]

yeah but they are citizens of other countries and also humans, and all humans have rights not just USA citizens!

[javalily]

America is supposed to be a Republic,but the Republican party strayed from what they are supposed to represent. There are a few Republicans trying to save the party,and many trying to destroy it. And MSM doesn't help. Third parties don't even have a chance the way things are now. The 2 party paradigm needs to be stopped.

[javalily]

I think ignoring the simularities between the two parties is more of a detriment. Not ALL republicans are defending torture,just like not all democrats denounce it. Judge a person by their character,not their party. There are good and bad in both parties.

[javalily]

They both are equally responsible for the destruction of our Constitution.

[Varick1337]

Lol obama has no right to give anyone in GITMO rights!! LOL because they are not USA citizens!!!

[jside]

its sad to see comments from more and more of these new Nazi types that are poping up.They are so anti arab/muslim that they are completley bloodthirsty.Look at this guy MrExnihilo,a prime example of a person conditioned into actualy relishing in the pain,suffering,torture,and killing of other human beings.These are the types of people who help set up ruthless dictators,corrupt police states,and the type to carry out genocide and other crimes against humanity.