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Nation on the Move

Interactive exploration of the world of the Persian carpet in which users pull strands of yarn across a network of gender, art, and commerce.

Year 2007
Format
Website
Credits by Minoo Moallem
Design and Programming by Erik Loyer
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In Nation on the Move, a single thread is pulled, teased and stretched into a chaotic web of interconnections between ideas of nationhood, gender, commerce and art that comprise the world of the Persian carpet. A collaboration with scholar Minoo Moallem.

Video Traversal

A high quality recording of the project as a user might experience it.


As the piece begins, users a presented with a single thread stretched across an image.
By clicking and dragging, the user can “hang” colored strands of this thread on specific locations in the image, revealing short texts that illuminate aspects of Moallem’s argument.
Further exploration results in a chaotic web of interconnections.
A bookmarkable index allows users to explore the content of the project independently of the main interface.