Over the course of 26 days, using a treadmill for cyberspace, Joseph DeLappe reenacted Mahatma Gandhi's famous 1930 Salt March. The original 240-mile walk was made in protest of the British salt tax; Joseph DeLappe updated this seminal protest march in Second Life, the Internet-based virtual world. For this performance, Joseph Delappe walked the entire 240 miles of the original march on a converted treadmill at Eye beam in New York City and online in Second Life. His steps on the treadmill controlled the forward movement of my avatar, Gandhi Chakrabarti, enabling the live and virtual reenactment of the march.
After reading up on the artist Joseph DeLappe I feel like the walk he did on a treadmill to represent Mahatma Gandhi's famous 1930 Salt March is amazing. The 240 mile walk Gandhi originally made was remarkable and a milestone in history that will always be remembered. To have a new media artist like Joseph DeLappe reenact Gandhi's journey is such a good idea. He turned a historical event and put in on Second life.
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