Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project is an interactive virtual reality narrative performance made for the EVL’s CAVE2™ large-scale 320-degree panoramic virtual reality environment that visualizes stories of violence and the post-traumatic stress experienced by ordinary American soldiers who became torturers in the course of serving their country. During the American-led counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism campaigns in Iraq in the years after 11 September 2001, the torture and abuse of detainees was a commonplace tactic.

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Special Section: Highlights from the IEEE VIS 2014 Arts Program (VISAP’14): Part 3
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Hearts and Minds Video Sample

In Hearts and Minds, four doors from a central hall lead to seemingly ordinary domestic spaces. When users trigger trigger objects, the walls give way to landscapes of memory and users here disturbing memories of U.S. veteran's accounts of training, interrogation and abuse that occurred during the occupation of Iraq. (© Roderick Coover, Scott Rettberg, Daria Tsoupikova and Arthur Nishimoto)

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Hearts and Minds as presented in the CAVE2 in the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Hearts and Minds was developed by an international team of artists and scholars in the US and Europe in the CAVE2 at the Electronic Visualization Lab (University of Illinois Chicago). It can be viewed in immersive 3D in both CAVE environments, individual headsets, and 2D formats. (© Roderick Coover, Scott Rettberg, Daria Tsoupikova and Arthur Nishimoto)

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Still from Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project.

Hearts and Minds we developed by an international team of artists and scholars in the US and Europe at the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois Chicago, where it was first performed. It can be viewed in immersive 3D in both CAVE environments, individual headsets, and 2D formats. (© Roderick Coover, Scott Rettberg, Daria Tsoupikova and Arthur Nishimoto)

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