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FAX.BOOT.FORCE: Become an Engine of One
Interactive Walk-through Installation, 2003


Kunstuniversität Linz
06.09 from 13:30 to 19:00
07.09 to 11.09 from 10:00 to 19:00


www2.snm-hgkz.ch/~flx/fax/

The Pentagon paid $7 million to develop “America’s Army: Operations,” an online video game designed to train young Americans and to give them a realistic view of a modern army. FAX.BOOT.FORCE deals with interfaces at the nexus of society, army and the entertainment industry. In a playful installation, visitors to the exhibit are recruited as FAX ARMY SOLDIERS and assigned to a unit of the virtual army. Recruits’ behavior during the enlistment process influences their army career ...

Felix Eggmann/Max Rheiner

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