What colonialism needed was a good video game. Enter artist
Tamiko Thiel, raised in the U.S. and Japan. In her three-dimensional,
interactive virtual-reality installation, you become Mariko Horo and
images of the Western world are processed through your time-traveling,
westbound Japanese eyes—hovering domes of angels and
demons in Renaissance churches, photographs of the Vietnamese
napalmed girl, and hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners. What sort of place
is this? (911 Media Arts Center, 402 Ninth Ave N, 682-6552.
Noon–6 pm, free.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...