Two of the three exhibitions the Fortean Times has sent me to have involved me sitting in a darkroom having a light flashed into my eyes, and I’m getting suspicious. The mostrecent ‘session’ was at Doug Foster’s exhibition at the Lazarides Gallery,London, sitting in ‘The Naughty Chair’, watching ‘Brainwasher’. ‘The NaughtyChair’ is inspired by the secretmind control programmes run by the CIA during the Cold War and is Doug Foster’snewest work.

A new exhibit from an artist like Foster is quite a rarething - you can’t churn out a “four-channel high-definition stereoscopic videoinstallation” with “35mm colour, stereo sound, 35-second seamless loop,computer, high-definition LCD screens and mirrors housed in a rusted steelplatebox (223 x 102 x 102 cm)” just like that.