Treadmill Powered Gandhi in Second Life

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.

For more information and further documentation:

http://www.delappe.net

--or--

http://saltmarchsecondlife.wordpress.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• DeLappe
• Gandhi
• Second
• Life
• Performance
• Eyebeam
• Treadmill
• reenactment
• Art
• experimental

[TOMSSHOP2011]

My girlfriend wants to work out and lose her baby fat, heck I need to work out myself lol was looking at this

lifespan-fitness-tr100-compact­-treadmill from homegymswork has anyone tried this and if so did it work good? Thanks

[medhue]

Tooo cool! I want 1. Let me know when it goes into production.

[kilkennyfishblue]

ok i can see what you did, but what id really like to know is why you did it?

[DuvalAK47]

that's pretty interesting.

Where did you come up with that idea?

[drhitz]

wow amazing!! Will you be doing any Gandhi shows in UK?

[user107025]

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?

Inspired concept. Great YouTube work.

[darlinssweetcheeks]

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.