Digital Twin Protocol Is a LARP for Poisoning Your Own Data
Fei Fei leads a two-session counter-surveillance workshop at Games Transformed Festival in East London, where building a character doubles as evasion training.
- When
- Sun., Nov. 1, 2026, during the festival's Sunday program (10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. GMT). Session times not yet announced. The festival runs Fri., Oct. 30 to Sun., Nov. 1.
- Where
- Games Transformed Festival, across Proposition Studios, Pelican House and Three Colts Tavern in Bethnal Green, East London.
- Admission
- Festival ticket required. Free or discounted solidarity tickets are available by request to the organizers.
Digital Twin Protocol is a counter-surveillance LARP workshop led by Fei Fei at Games Transformed Festival 2026. Across two play sessions, players build characters through guided visualization, and the protocol "implicitly teaches players how to data poison the algorithm," first as individuals, then as a household, then as a whole community. The festival describes the target as a digital twin, "a simulation of our identity constructed from online data" that companies like Palantir can use to predict behavior. The character sheet is the tool: a second self, made on purpose, to feed to systems that already keep a version of you on file.
Fei Fei is the name used by Bea Xu, a London psychotherapist, which makes the guided visualization a working method rather than a warm-up. The festival's image for the session shows players sitting on the floor, strung together with lengths of thread.
Games Transformed runs Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 across three venues in Bethnal Green under the theme Here to Stay, Here to Play, after the "Here to Stay, Here to Fight" slogan East London's migrant and anti-racist communities used in the 1970s. Digital Twin Protocol runs on the Sunday, inside a program of more than 80 games, panels and workshops that also includes Total Refusal's in-game lecture-performance Cowboy Postcapitalism on Saturday.
Digital Twin Protocol and the Games Transformed Festival 2026 program. Courtesy Games Transformed.
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