Class Wargames Revises Guy Debord's The Game of War in London

Guy Debord is the celebrated leader of the Situationist International movement, and the author of the searing critique of the media-saturated society of consumer capitalism in his book The Society of the Spectacle, but many who admire his political ideas and revolutinary thinking and commetary from the late 1960s, don't know that he spent the final time of his life living in the countryside of France, where he devoted his time to refining and promoting his most important project called The Game of War.

This Spring in London, a group of artists, gamers, academics and technologists have revised Guy Debord's game of warfare and politics and have been staging performances to introduce audiences to the board game, and to educate about the poltics it symbolizes historically, and in the moderne age. The players of Class Wargames (visit www.classwargames.net for more information) exhibited a game session at Battersea Park's The Pump House Gallery on Saturday, 26th April 2008, attracting a crowd of curiousity seekers. More gaming performances are scheduled, with the next one happening Saturday 10 May 2008 from 10 am to 10 pm at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1.

The players of Class Wargames include: Dr. Richard Barbook, a media theorists, author and lecturer at the University of Wesminster, Rod Dickinson, an artist and instructor at the University of the West of England, Alex Veness, and artists and lecturer at the University of the Arts, Ilze Black, curator at Waterman's Art Gallery, Fabian Tompsett, publisher of Class War 1985, Mark Copplestone, Copplestone Castings and Lucy Blake an e-learning developer.

See photos of the recent Class Wargames event here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/haimediagroup/sets/72157604762776749/

For more information about Class Wargames visit: http://www.classwargames.net

Photos and article by Lisa Devaney, Director of the Hai Media Group:

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