Robbie Cooper's film stills capture children's faces as they play violent videogames and form the basis of an art project that could also help us understand the effects of spending time in a virtual world.
" to settle on a group of 75 game-playing children - selected by a researcher to represent a cross-section of ethnic groups, income brackets and cultural backgrounds within Britain - and spend 18 months using the technique to film them reacting to different manifestations of screen warfare, be they videogames, news footage, internet videos or feature films. Cooper will then log their expressions and work with a psychologist and sociologist to interpret the results in light of the psychological profiles of the individual children."
