FWD: TROPICAL AMERICA project launch!

[auriea]

Project Launch!

   TROPICAL AMERICA
http://www.tropicalamerica.com

The world's first online video game based on the
relational connections between 13 historical episodes
of Latin America.

Tropical America fuses the new world of video games
to a compelling past through a journey to unravel the
mysteries of the Americas.  Your journey begins as the
sole survivor of a terrible massacre - you must find four
pieces of evidence to bring justice to the memory of
your small village.

>From the battles of Bolivar, to the single-crop economy
of Cuba, the myth of El Dorado and the poems of Sor
Juana de la Cruz, Tropical America reveals a forgotten
terrain, the birthplace of contemporary cross-cultural
life.  Inspired by the similarly titled mural by David Alfaro
Siquieros - subsequently whitewashed in Los Angeles
in 1932 - Tropical America explores the causes and
effects of the erasure of history.

Developed in collaboration with Los Angeles artists,
teachers, writers and high school students, the game
features a bilingual, thematic gameplay, accompanied
by an online database of educational resource
materials, source texts and imagery.

info at tropicalamerica.com

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A project of OnRamp Arts, 2002

OnRamp Arts is a non-profit media arts organization
whose mission is to create and produce collaborative,
innovative, digital media projects that bridge new
technology, the arts and local communities.

http://www.onramparts.org