Truthmachine – C-Arts Studio
There is something inherently unsettling about agreeing to take a lie detector test, particularly when the results are going to be shared with a room full of strangers. Australian company Counterpilot has built Truthmachine around precisely that proposition, using real biometric sensors and live voting technology in a thirty-minute immersive experiment.
This was a new C Venues space for me, above Victoria Street. Two flights up, we were ushered into a darkened room dominated by a long table, six seats on either side, each equipped with headphones, microphone and voting panel. At one end sat our questioner; at the other, an ominous chair surrounded by the equipment into which one of us would eventually be plugged.
It is an impressive set-up: clinical, mysterious and tech...