Interactive Computer Confessional
     
   
     

"Interactive Catholic Confessional", digital interactive system, Apple II Computer, 1984

The first ever interactive computerized confessional was created to mimic Joseph Weizembaum's seminal psychotherapy software "Eliza". This was my earliest project utilizing computer interactivity. For the installation of the piece, visitors entered a confessional space, knelt before the computer and went through the process of Catholic confession. The computer gave each user an appropriate penance for their sins.