CYCLOPS

CYCLOPS is a journey through the world of mind-control experiments, psychological operations, and unexplained historical anomalies. Featuring documents, videos, games, and other media produced between the 1950s and early 1970s, CYCLOPS requires active engagement and participation. Users are tasked with reconstructing events, deciphering codes, conducting open-source intelligence investigations, and analyzing music, literature, and poetry to move through a work that is part treasure-hunt, part historical unfiction, and part cybersecurity challenge. The entry point for CYCLOPS is a series of audio recordings found on an LP record. Some of the tracks are musical compositions, others are filled with voices reading letters and counting numbers, and others resemble static noise. Each track contains hidden puzzles leading to the interactive narrative on the CYCLOPS mainframe. Through interactions with the mainframe and LP record, users reconstruct some of the most bizarre and disturbing projects initiated by American intelligence agencies. The Cyclops Group is a collection of artists, writers, engineers, software developers, musicians, cryptographers, sound designers, and filmmakers dedicated to the creation of "speculative reality" artworks that emphasize interaction, cooperation and problen-solving to uncover hidden histories and to reveal the invisible forces that shape contemporary reality.