The Salt Passages
This is an interactive CD-ROM and installation produced whilst artist in residence at the VR and Innovation Centre, University of Teesside in 1998-9. Based upon the recorded conversations of 25 participants combined with video and sound, it attempts to reflect upon a rapidly changing social landscape.
Mark Robinson writes the project “The Salt Passages is one of the best evocations of Teesside in the 1990’s, capturing the light, the dark, the blood, the sweat, the tears, the bad habits, the humour, the sentimentality and the warmth, the old-fashioned decency of the place, all on the cusp of a new century, and all rather besieged.
It is, however, more than that. It is an expression of the values which make society more than a place to go shopping, life more than something we need training for, and community more than a way of defining a market sector. The Salt Passages is not Virtual Reality in the technical sense, but in the artistic sense: it allows us to explore an imaginary world with real shadows.”
Read his introduction here.
A short screen recording of The Salt Passages CD-ROM that captures a sense of the project.
Produced 1998-99 by: Geoff Broadway
Interactive Design Consultant: Sean Clark
CD-ROM Design and Packaging: Chris Gorris
