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I did a lecture last week at Brown University to Mark Tribe’s students in the Department of Modern Culture & Media. This was my first opportunity to lecture regarding the Gandhi reenactment – these speaking opportunities provide a forum to talk through the ideas and concepts regarding the work. The following is a blog post by ben who attended the talk – he makes some fairly spot on insights regarding the project:
http://newmedia-mcm.blogspot.com/2008/04/putting-work-back-in-artwork.html
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Take a look:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9937611@N06/sets/
These are not in any particular order at this time – watch the slide show – these are virtually all of the manually recorded screenshots I took during the march reenactment.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I’ve been very busy with all else in life since completing the reenactment two weeks ago. I am currently in the process of creating extensive documentation to be located on my website – hope to have all up by Wednesday this week – http://www.delappe.net. I am also in the process of developing a number of works for exhibition at Eyebeam in June at the end of my residency – these various works will all have been inspired by the Salt Satyagraha Online. Stay tuned for more info as these works move forward.
Here are links to two stories published online in recent weeks. The first one is from NYC24 produced by Columbia University – a nicely done piece by Elizabeth Stark who spent quite a bit of time with visiting with me while conducting the reenactment. Especially of note the short video of me explaining the forward movement controller built into the treadmill: http://nyc24.org/2008/issue4/story4/
Another piece, more of a review, was published in the Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Art Politics and Culture based on the writer’s visit to Eyebeam during the rather chaotic opening of the Feedback show: http://brooklynrail.org/2008/04/artseen/joseph-delappe-gandhis-march-to-dandi
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MGandhi with some of the group of marchers with him as they arrived at the Dandi memorial on Eyebeam island just after 5pm (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eyebeam%20Island/128/213/45) – the scheduled end of the march – due to SL being down most of the day, we were actually only 2 miles into the final ten so the walking continued from here. A bit of a chaotic day!
Here we are at quite literally the last step of the march – at that very point on this sim we reached the “end of the world” as these edges to nothingness in Second Life are commonly referred. Cinco and Qyzzql were with me for the last three miles of the walk. It was truly a moment of great excitement and relief – particularly after a very troubling day of system wide outages for SL which lasted for several hours and delayed the start of the final day of the march by four hours.
He we are, looking out into the sea just after reaching the 240 mile mark (I’ve kept track of my mileage, btw, with a bicycle odometer converted for use on the treadmill).
Cinco, MGandhi and Qyxxql.
Just before reaching the end of the march, Cinco took us to a most extraordinary location called “Network Culture”, where there is an interactive recreation of the “Gitmo” interment camp at Guantanomo Bay, Cuba. One is able to take part in a simulated experience of arriving at the camp in a military transport plane, all the while straining to view what is going on through the sim provided black hood. You emerge in a supplicant position inside one of the kennel-like holding areas duplicated from the original layout of this notorious camp. Quite a chilling and sobering experience in an otherwise uplifting day: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Network%20Culture/232/85/25
Gandhi reenacting the famous photograph from Tianamen Square, 1989, this taken outside the “Palestinian Holocaust Museum” which appears to be under construction.
Just prior to this, we visited a fascinating location “Islam dot net”:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/IslamOnline%20dot%20Net/36/63/22
Very well done sim that uses directional arrows to walk one through the steps of a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Gyovanna and her friend joined me for walking some of the last miles – in RL she is in Brazil – she walked with me three or four times during the last two weeks of the reenactment – a great walker – always keeping up with me and referring to my avatar as “Mr. Gandhi” – very pleasant and polite company!
Another dragon! Here I am with LnyLnyLyn aka Lenny Correa, my very capable intern here at Eyebeam – he has been indispensible in helping to facilitate this project! Great to see him pop up in world routinely over the course of the journey.
After our stop at Eyebeam island, we made our way to Paris, arriving, of course, in the subway station.
I believe this is MGandhi jumping off the Eiffel Tower – yes, he is falling, not flying!
One more image of the group posing at the Dandi monument.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2008| 1 Comment »
http://qyxxql-merlin.livejournal.com/5627.html
http://weblog.xanga.com/HomerTheBrave/650757583/second-life-satyagraha.html
A recounting of the last day of the march by Qyxxql Merlin and Cinco Pizzicato on their blogs, many good pictures! These are the two hardy avatars pictured with me at the water’s edge in my previous post. Thanks guys!
I will have more for you later – slept in today first time in months! Now off to walk NYC in today’s Gandhi march noted in the previous post.
Thanks Qyxxql Merlin and Cinco Pizzicato – see you again in SL.
Posted in Announcements on April 5, 2008| Leave a Comment »
After delaying the start of the march until 4:00pm Eastern time, 1:00pm SL time, I was finally able to begin walking the last miles of the reenactment. Second Life was experiencing a major outage over most of the early morning hours well into the afternoon. After an incredibly interesting day of walking, with several very large groups of marchers, three of us completed the 240th mile at 9:26 Eastern time. Above is a picture above looking out on the sea from the exact point where the last mile was ticked off the odometer. More details on an amazing and crazy day will be posted here tomorrow. For now, peace! ps – I will be walking on a Gandhi inspired walk in real life tomorrow here in NYC. Check it out – pure coincidence…http://www.satyagrahanyc.org/home.php I am really looking forward to walking in the real word after walking for nearly a month in a virtual world. More soon…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2008| 1 Comment »
UPDATE 1:30pm Eastern – Second Life is still down for repairs, hopefully working soon!
Today marks the end of the march. I will be starting soon to walk the remaining 10 miles to complete the 240 mile reenactment here at Eyebeam in New York City and in Second Life. (all of course pending the return of Second Life, which, as of 11:30am Eastern time is down for maintenance). Today I will continue to explore new islands and invite as many of the friends I have made on the way to walk with me one last time. The day’s marching will come to a conclusion at Eyebeam Island at 5pm Eastern, 2pm SL time:
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged DeLappe, Gandhi, online performance, Salt March, Second Live, treadmill on April 4, 2008| Leave a Comment »
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ben%20and%20Jerrys/134/190/27
and please don’t forget…
tomorrow – April 5th, 12-6pm – Last Day of the March!
Final steps, Eyebeam Island Saturday, April 5th, after 5pm:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eyebeam%20Island/102/160/27
Saturday, April 5th marks the culmination of Joseph DeLappe’s 22 days and 240 miles of walking on a treadmill to control his Gandhi avatar walking across Second Life to re-enact the Mahatma’s “Salt March to Dandi”, the seminal 1930’s protest against the British Salt Act of 1882. On this, the final day of walking both on the treadmill at Eyebeam, New York City, and in Second Life, the public is invited to either visit Eyebeam to witness the final steps of the march or join MGandhi Chakrabarti in Second Life to virtually walk the final miles.
The final steps of the march will occur on the Eyebeam Island in Second Life, MGandhi Chakrabarti will arrive some time after 5:00pm Eastern time:
Reenactment: The Salt Satyagraha Online 