Christian Marc Schmidt is a media artist, who studied economics in school, which ultimately influenced his present works regarding the environment and social interaction. One of his recent works includes "All Horizon," in which its separate components were brought to him by the aide of volunteer photographers, and then he combined the components together into a project that is now called "All Horizon."
"All Horizon" comprises of about one-hundred fifty photographs, which have been digitally sewed together into a slideshow-like movie that one can access via Quicktime. In the movie, the viewer finds him or herself gazing at one photo at a time. There is a very slow transition between each of the photos, in which elements of the first photo are still temporarily present as the second photo materializes before you. These transitions seem to bring the photos together, and it seems as if though the artist is treating all one-hundred-fifty images as if they had all been taken and shot by his own hand.
The photos were very breathtaking in my opinion, which strongly aided in the serene and tranquil mood of the movie. Whoever volunteered to take those photos were talented, indeed. To me, the transitions between each photo had a very surreal effect to them, and I felt as if though my eyes were aimlessly yet carefreely wandering. It put me in an almost meditative state of mind because of the way many of the photos separately romanticized the world that we all live in. And yet, when the artist placed the images together to form one, whole piece, I wasn't quite sure what to think of it, except that it evoked a very dream-like feel.
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