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Padded Cell, 1995

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A collaboration that grew out of one of my classes (Christa Erickson) that included Andy Mirkis, Jeremy Paster, Amber Bishop, Christal Khatib, and others.
 

A playful look at technology as disciplining the body. You are lead into a pink room by a person in a white lab-coat and directed to sit in a chair, where an institutional figure straps you in. After your hands and feet are secured to your chair, you wander one pink padded cell room. At your disposal are two joysticks, which allow you to navigate, as well as a foot pedal, which activates objects within the virtual room, playing their linked sound or video. You are watched everywhere.  Rules for eating and pill taking are strickly enforced, and bad behavior is punished with a hypodermic needle shot. You wake up strapped to your bed. To get out, you must pick the correct sequence of faces from the mobile in the center of the room that has been watching you.