Blast Theory at 30: How we started
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When you’re young you occasionally take unwise risks and we were no exception.
20 years of Blast Theory and Mixed Reality Lab
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From VR warfare installations, to interrogations at the Venice Biennale about political violence, our work with the University of Nottingham’s Mixed Reality Lab has produced 12 new works since the nineties.