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Sept. 9th, 2003 
Applied Interactives is pleased to invite you to view it's latest virtual reality artwork "Special Treatment". Special Treatment is an ongoing project that began in the spring 2002. We are welcoming members of the community and press to view the project in its current state at our studio/gallery. This invitation is ongoing and we welcome you to contact us to arrange a visit.ai@appliedinteractives.com |
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'Special Treatment' is a Virtual Reality based artwork. Historically, it has been common for organized groups to come up with a coded language in order to speak secretly or delicately about matters which they do not necessarily wish to have understood publicly. AI is interested in how, in the historical past, these coded terms were used to mask unspeakable governmental activities from the greater population as well as from other authorities. 'Special Treatment' or ‘Sonderbehandlung’ was the term commonly used by the bureaucracy and agents of Hitler's Third Reich to describe the program of relocation and imprisonment of Jewish inhabitants in the concentration camps. This artwork deals abstractly with the architecture of this language, the architecture of the concentration camp, and of collective memories of both.
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