A Web Site by Gregory Chatonsky about the Parisian subway,

the network and anonymity.

Under ground. Underground, the memory of a century, its internal

organization, it’s history. It’s tunnels and passengers that come and go. An

under the pavements life  we  forget. SOUS TERRE looks nothing like other

web sites. The surfer doesn’t come to grab information. SOUS TERRE slips

away from the instrumentality of the internet. Here you have to change your

pace, slow down, stop, suspend for a moment cyberspace flow. Images are dark

so daylight and darkness of the night will have an influence on what’s

visible on the screen. The unpredictable navigation is a continuous

sampling, what comes next is never clear. The point is a labyrinth where you

intentionally loose yourself. SOUS TERRE is a living space that evolves in

time. At the start an empty space, viewers come to leave e-mails, bits of a

fiction which will build up gradually by the thread of interactions. Each

part has a limited number of spaces.  The work will exist when all those

paces will be occupied. SOUS TERRE is a narrative and u-topic space that links

the underground to the web: a network where anonymity allows encounters and

surprises. We are only passing through the network, we are going from one

place to another and we are several people to be connected to the same site

at the same time.