Tube Lines

"Tube Lines" is "a set of overlapping narratives – personal and historical, passengers and staff – revealed through a reworking of the central London underground map. Readers may choose to follow the linear love story by tracing a particular journey around the 78 stops and lines. Alternatively they may access the nodes randomly in a kind of dadaist reading of the tale; or instead follow their own particular personal journey in the form of a digital labyrinth. Created in Flash and primarily designed for desktop viewing, I wanted the scenes to be full of competing words and stories, sounds and images, like the tube itself. Too much information, yet for the London immigrant (and even after ten years here, I still feel like a newcomer) there is so much information that it seems an intentional and perverse recipe for confusion." -- Chris Joseph