Wormwood VR

author, 2016

A virtual reality piece for Netflix's Wormwood that puts the viewer inside a bad psychedelic trip, seen from the point of view of the show's subject, Frank Olson.

The hotel suite, hallucinated.
The hotel suite, hallucinated.
A face going the same way.
A face going the same way.
And closer.
And closer.

Frank Olson was a military scientist. In November 1953 the CIA put LSD in his drink without telling him, and nine days later he went out of a New York hotel window. The piece reconstructs what he may have seen: the room, the ledge, and the street below, every surface of it breaking into insects.

It was made with Jennifer Wu.