Blast Theory is an artists' group that specializes in work that mixes interactive media, digital broadcasting and live performance.
[4][5][6][7] Commissions include You Get Me (2008) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Ulrike and Eamon Compliant (2009) for the De La Warr Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale;[8] Spit Spreads Death: The Parade (2019) for the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia and We Cut Through Dust (2023) for the Manchester International Festival.
Desert Rain (1999) was a large scale virtual reality game that saw a shift towards work that questions performativity,[12] site and presence.
Blast Theory's work has been influential in the fields of theatre, indie games, ARGs and mobile design.
Desert Rain was described as ""one of the most complex and powerful responses to the first Gulf War to be produced within the sphere of theatrical practice"[13] and "possibly the most technologically ambitious art installation ever made" in The Times.