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ZOOM
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An archive of paintings that contain their next frame.
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An archive of paintings that contain their next frame.
Explore the catalogueWe build the infinite descent — worlds that keep falling into themselves. Thirteen original works, one evolving practice of zoom and its stillness, where every frame is a doorway to the next.
The infinitely zooming painting has deep roots. In 1957, Kees Boeke published Cosmic View, a book that zooms from a girl in a chair to the edge of the universe and down to the nucleus of an atom. In 1968, the Eames Office's Powers of Ten and Eva Szasz's Cosmic Zoom brought the same idea to film.
In 1997, Gridcosm launched on SITO.org — an anarchic, collaborative infinite picture where anyone could contribute. It inspired tiles.ice.org, an early-2000s patchwork painting community where the Zoomquilt was born. Artists reserved a spot, received borders of neighbouring tiles, and blended their work into the evolving quilt — a digital Cadavre Exquis.
The Zoomquilt (2004) established the continuous animated descent as a native web artwork. This collection extends that visual language with AI-assisted scene making, variable portals, depth maps, authored transitions and custom Canvas and WebGL renderers.
ZOOM ART is the working archive of thirteen infinite zoom artworks published by [email protected]. Each work is a complete browser experience, not a static reproduction.
The collection explores how authored image sequences become continuous spaces through recursive cameras, custom apertures, depth maps, transition masks and real-time Canvas or WebGL rendering.
Open any work to enter the live zoom. The catalogue keeps the original player, interaction modes and fullscreen experience intact.