A typical computer game centers around a violent war zone piled high with corpses. Wired News delivered to your inbox or hand-held device.
Viewers have a chance to play the role of first-person shooter in the exhibit.
This is not a typical gaming environment, however, where the goal is to kill the bad guys. Instead, players can aim at dead people onscreen and try to resurrect them. Observers can also watch a video of young people frantically manipulating joysticks and shouting as they play computer games. Viewers can see for themselves the intensity of the games, and the emotions that it brings out, Ruiz said. Walking through the rest of the exhibit, poster-sized prints of teenagers armed with fake guns and playing violent computer games line the walls, giving the viewer a sense of being caught in an imaginary crossfire.