Janet Cardiff created her first audio walk in 1991 during a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Since then, she and George Bures Miller have created numerous audio and video walks in locations around the world. An audio walk is similar to an audioguide. Audiences are given an iPod and headphones and the recording guides them through a narrative of events that occur along a route.The audio playback is layered with various background sounds all recorded in binaural audio which gives the feeling that those recorded sounds are present in the actual environment. In a video walk, viewers are provided with a video screen which they use to follow a film recorded in the past along the same route they are traversing in the present. Also using binaural microphones and edited to create a sense of continuous motion, the fictional world of the film blends seamlessly with the reality of the architecture and body in motion. The perceptive confusion is deepened by the dream-like narrative elements that occur in the pre-recorded film.

2019
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Video Walk
55 Minutes
2019
Thought Experiments in F# Minor
Video Walk
32 Minutes
2014
The City of Forking Paths
Video Walk
64 Minutes
2012
Alter Bahnhof Video Walk
Video walk
26 minutes
2006
Jena Walk (Memory Field)
Audio walk
2005
Ghost Machine
Video walk
27 minutes
2005
Words Drawn in Water
Audio walk
33 minutes
2004
Her Long Black Hair
Audio Walk with photographs
46 minutes
2003
Conspiracy Theory / Théorie du complot
Video walk
16 minutes, 40 seconds
2002
Ittingen Walk
Audio walk
30 minutes
2001
Taking Pictures
Audio walk with photographs
16 minutes
2001
The Telephone Call
Video walk
15 minutes, 20 seconds
2001
P. S. 1 Walk
Audio walk
10 minutes, 38 seconds
2000
A Large Slow River
Audio walk
38 minutes
1999
MoMA Walk
Audio walk
12 minutes, 50 seconds
1999
In Real Time
Video walk
18 minutes
1999
Waterside Walk
Audio walk
5 minutes
1999
The Missing Voice: Case Study B
Audio walk
50 minutes
1998
Wanås Walk
Audio walk
14 minutes
1998
Villa Medici Walk
Audio walk
16 minutes, 22 seconds
1998
Drogan’s Nightmare
Audio walk
12 minutes
1998
Mallins’ Night Walk
Audio walk
15 minutes, 40 seconds
1997
Münster Walk
Audio walk with mixed media props
17 minutes
1997
Chiaroscuro
Audio walk and telescope
12 minutes
1996
Louisiana Walk
Audio walk
11 minutes
1992
An Inability to Make a Sound
Audio walk with film and mixed media
10 minutes
1991
Forest Walk
Audio walk
12 minutes
1991
Bathroom Stories
Audio walk
5 minutes