"New media is sliding into the biological world," said Chris Chafe, a Stanford University composer whose work "Tomato Quintet" (with Greg Niemeyer) consists of a playful, five-armed tent in which tomatoes are set to ripen.
By the time Blé Goudé, his figure lean and tense, made his way with an armed bodyguard to the tent, and then out across the open dirt to the speaker's stand, the moon was rising over Port-Bouët.
The SPLA had become a big tent into which armed ethnic militias with no uniform, training or shared identity had wandered in order to get paid.
The Lebanese cannot afford to let the cities of Syrian refugee tents turn into armed camps outside the sovereignty of Lebanon, run by Syrians carrying their own weapons outside the law.
The sum total of the festival in the refugee camp itself was a morning of short documentaries made by refugees and shown on large TVs in tents guarded by armed police.
For instance, robots never get tired, they don't get cold, they don't sleep, nor eat, don't require tents, and when armed insurrection becomes necessary, robots are much more morally ambivalent.
We armed him with the necessary tools (tent, beer, food, camera, dictaphone and backstage passes) and let him loose.
On foreign trips he has set up camp in a luxury Bedouin tent and been accompanied by armed female bodyguards - said to be considered less easily distracted than their male counterparts.
If schools are damaged, or are being used by displaced people or armed groups, temporary learning spaces such as tents will be provided.
For ten days, these men and women had lived in tents and faced simulated confrontations with armed groups, courtesy of the German Ministry of the Interior and the federal police.
Greek armed forces were working around the clock to set up tent cities in fields at the border.
