Salt Lake by Tom Heene and Yacine Sebti

We have been out during Christmass Holidays. Now here we are back, with plenty of energy and new plans for the new year! We hope this will be a great year for all of you, wishing you all the best! 

We have started the new year with a great digital instalation produced by IMAL. Salt Lake is an immersive environment for one visitor at a time. Salt Lake proposes a unique experience where he/she will be inside the media inferno. Salt Lake is an hybrid work at the border between different artistic expressions: immersive environment, cinema, video game and interactive work. Salt Lake investigates the influence of information and the media on our everyday lives. The need to win the 'communications battle' encourages the commercial media, the authorities, the institutions and individuals to swamp us with audiovisual material. We are presented with this visual, auditory and iconographical corpus as a single large archive, fully searchable, without intellectual, ethical, or moral limitations, in a universal language to be interpreted and recycled by all. This accessibility stimulates reflection on a number of issues. Is the internet a simple window on the world, or is the image of the world defined by the internet? Does this complete access to material that has hitherto been kept secret or exclusive - at the same time beautiful and terrible to see - help us to build our own memories and through its duality create our new personalities? Do the media and the internet really influence our mental and physical states? Salt Lake is meant to cause indigestion, nausea, image overkill, so that the spectators can rediscover themselves as they reach the end of their journey through the media inferno.

More on http://www.imal.org/SaltLake/