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Eddo Stern, who is well-known in the video game design world for his work on controversial games like Tekken Torture Tournament and Waco Resurrection, will present two installations, "Darkgame" and "Best Flame War Ever." The former, captured in this still, is "a video game installation in which two participants playing against each other maneuver avatars around a two-dimensional plane, their movements projected on the gallery wall," according to a description submitted to the festival. They're both working with forms of sensory deprivation--"they are alternatively blind or deaf, or cannot see the action play out in real time."

"Best Flame War Ever" is a plasma-screen-based computer animation "that re-enacts chat room conversations dealing with overboard masculinity and perceived violence," according to the submitted materials. The chat deals with degrees of expertise around the fantasy game Everquest.