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iCE's Modern Version Of Old-Fashioned Quilting Bee

Posted by timothy on from the impressive-results dept.

Ant writes "tiles.ice.org is a Web site with a cool art idea as a tribute to Salvador Dali. It is iCE (remember ANSI art, you old school computer users?)'s answer to the old-fashioned quilt party, minus the gathering of elderly women. It's a unique opportunity for collaborative artwork on the net. A huge image, composed of individual 'tiles' is created, one piece at a time. The goal when making a tile is to mesh your work as smoothly as possible with the surrounding tiles, while creating something cool, artistic, and if applicable, on-topic. Check out the finished sample. I love the ants in the quilt tiles!"

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  1. If we all cooperate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... we can quilt goatse into it!

  2. cool... but not as cool as the Zoomquilt... by Alkivar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/zoomquilt.ph p

    now thats some surreal collaborative art...

  3. iCE member here... by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tiles was a project i beleive started by our dear friend Slothy of iCE who i've worked with on more than one occasion and have known since i was 16 as an iCE member.

    iCE has always been an excellent organization of artists that are extremely talented and have remained friends for a long time now. Tiles is proof of the many great ideas Jon (slothy) has had over the years. Looking at the work in the tiles is pretty interesting and its a lot of fun.

    Nice to see it on slashdot. I know Jon and other iCE members such as myself are frequent readers of slashdot.

    Enjoy!

  4. Re:Progress made by one person or a group? by Queer+Boy · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Even with art, it's not the AIDS quilt we remember, it's Van Gogh's Starry Night.

    Folk art is quite different than Fine art. Folk art has a distinct culture behind it whereas Fine art is typically an individual expression (sometimes a statement). Yes, you're right, people remember the individual in Fine art whereas Folk art is about a community.

    Your assertion is that recognition is the inherent drive for art. I always thought it was expression. It's also not art by committee, it's art by community.

    --
    Not since Marie-Antoinette played milkmaid has looking simple and honest been so fake and complicated.