What it is without the hand that wields it

Riley Harmon's What it is without the hand that wields it is connected to a game of Counter-Strike (see image below for an idea of what the game is like).

Here's what Riley says about the artwork:

Violence is an inevitable, mechanical function of the human brain, hard-coded down through time by culture, genetics, and evolution. Mediated experiences of killing change our perception of violence and death. As players die in a public video game server for Counter-strike, a popular online first person shooter, the electronic solenoid valves spray a small amount of fake blood. The trails left down the wall create a physical manifestation of nebulous kills.

In simple terms it is about manifesting experiences that are purely virtual, or only ‘real’ in a psychological sense, into the physical world - physical computing.

During the show's run (April, 2008?) people who have a copy of Counter-Strike can join the game and cause the sculpture to active:

To connect and play on the server while it is being exhibited during the week, launch Counter-Strike Source and type this command in your console:
“connect 129.15.76.103:27015″

[via Make]