Over the course of 26 days, a treadmill customized for cyberspace was used to reenact Gandhi's famous Salt March of 1930. The original 240-mile walk was made in protest of the British Salt Act of 1...
Over the course of 26 days, a treadmill customized for cyberspace was used to reenact Gandhi's famous Salt March of 1930. The original 240-mile walk was made in protest of the British Salt Act of 1882; Joseph DeLappe's recreation of this seminal act of protest took place at Eyebeam, New York City and in Second Life, the Internet-based virtual world.
Media artist Joseph DeLappe walked the entire 240 miles of the original march on a converted treadmill - his steps on the treadmill controlled the forward movement of his online avatar, MGandhi Chakrabarti, enabling the live and virtual reenactment of the historic march. It took 26 days (with three rest days coinciding with the actual rest days from the original march) to complete this reenactment in RL and SL.
Joseph DeLappe is a 2008 Commissioned Resident Artist at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York City.
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I'm sorry I missed your presentation at Eyebeam yesterday. I was there at 4:00 and didn't realize that you were presenting until I looked at the Eyebeam brochure on way home. Do you show your work in New York often?
I had the pleasure of meeting this gentleman in SL...he sat by our fire and ate lunch...it was one of the coolest experiences. I ask you, where else would I have met someone involved in such an interesting endeavour. I am considering myself lucky to have met him.
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Where did you come up with that idea?
Inspired concept. Great YouTube work.