Virta-Flaneurazine at Fringe Exhibitions
Will Pappenheimer and John Craig Freeman

Exhibition Dates: September 6 - October 4, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6, from 6-9 PM

Virta-Flaneurazine(VF) is a potent programmable mood-changing drug for Second Life (SL). It is identified as part of the Wanderment family of psychotropic drugs because it automatically causes the user to aimlessly roam the distant lands of online 3D worlds. As the prograchemistry takes effect, users find themselves erratically teleporting to random locations, behaving strangely, seeing digephemera and walking or flying in circuitous paths. Many users report the experience allows them to see SL in a renewed light, as somehow reconfigured outside the everyday limitations of a fast growing grid of virtual investment properties. VF derives from a formula which the authors of this study, Dr* JC Freeman and Dr* WD Pappenheimer, synthesized some time ago. The clinical study will include an exhibition that dispenses and evaluates the drug for volunteer subjects. The installation includes a comfortable multi-position mechanical chair, exam area, a waiting room and live SL projection screens for patient and public viewing.

Virta-Flaneurazine is a 2007-08 Rhizome Commission.

For more information and images please see: http://virtaflaneurazine.wordpress.com/
Call for Participants: http://virtaflaneurazine.wordpress.com/call/

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