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The Dark
The Dark is an interactive virtual world that challenges how we perceive the real world. Explore and interact with virtual ghosts from our past, using only your ears and your imagination.
Link: www.thedark.net
Let your ears guide you through this stunning interactive experience
- In the first year of launch, 35,000 people visited The Dark when it toured the UK
- "Fascinating experience. I enjoyed the feeling of uncertainty and it helped me push my limits, to stretch beyond my own understanding of perception" - participant
- "The effect is scary and disorientating. People hallucinate and lose track of time" - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
The Dark installation provides a unique experience using the latest digital sound technology to create three-dimensional soundscapes. Filled with the virtual ghosts of the past, The Dark challenges the way we perceive our surroundings by looking at how we interpret a world without visual cues.
The website and installation complement and support each other, presenting different versions of the same original material through different types of interactive engagement. This original material is a combination of specially commissioned music, sound effects and the reminiscences of ghosts re-living significant moments in their lives. These ghosts tell of their experiences as slave traders, sea captains and slaves who passed through the ports of Liverpool and Bristol.
The Dark is an original work created by Braunarts Braunarts and commissioned specially for Culture Online.
For the latest information about The Dark exhibition, please visit The Dark website.
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