Wednesday, October 04, 2006

"To Infinity And Beyond"

ZOOMQUILT – an idea by Nikolaus Baumgarten, is a collaborative art project of 15 artists that could be nicely summarized by quoting Buzz LightYear from Toy Story: “To Infinity And Beyond”.

The act of ‘Quilting’, which involves sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating batting in between, is taken to a new level by ‘quilting’ together several (I’ve counted at least 7) paintings in a seamless way.

Add a touch of Flash, and this magic quilt can be zoomed in or out in an infinite loop, giving the impression of a mysterious trip into a surreal world of fantasy.

Start your trip here (requires Flash player). An HTML version (not as cool as the Flash one) is here.

On a small tangent, click here to hear William Shatner and the Star Command Chorus perform “To Infinity and Beyond”.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Y liked it !!!!

It is absolutely surrealistic

you get some kind of seasickness when you go fast

It is good