Aids Quilt Touch Project To Be Unveiled at SIGGRAPH
There are a lot of aesthetic questions worth asking about quilts at the present moment. And one of them is, “What will quilt preservation look like in the future?”
The AIDS quilt, for example, is transforming itself (once again) into a new modality of experiential interpretation, this time via technology. That quilts lend themselves so easily to this format is fascinating, for sure. But this digital experience can only be valuable as long as it provides even more meaning/context to the participant, to make up for what is lost not seeing the quilt (in person) for oneself.
Quote from the article:
“...Quilt enthusiasts will descend on the SIGGRAPH, a conference featuring innovations in graphics and interactive techniques, to experience the latest in hardware, software and services.
One of those innovations will be the AIDS Quilt Touch project, a web-based mobile app that showcases panels of and allows users to interact with the world-renown AIDS Quilt...”