INfinity

Welcome to the Library. What is this living creature, this forest of thoughts?

A secret door hides behind a mysterious bookcase full of books and curiosities in the NYU Libraries atrium. Open the doorway into the infinite possibility, wherever the Library may inspire your imagination to take you. 

If the Library were to make a sound, what would you hear?  


Audio Description: Overlapping layers of singing bowls, performed by Daniel Givens, form the basis of a humming, vibrating soundtrack the emulates the sound a Library make might as a living organism.

Inside the door, visitors find a pair of headphones on an outstretched hand, inviting them to listen.

Welcome to the Library 


Download transcript. 

Bach’s “Crab Canon” performed by Adam Finchler. 

A large ornate black and gold bookcase sits in the atrium of NYU's main library.
A large ornate black and gold bookcase sits in the atrium of NYU's main library.
A large ornate black and gold bookcase sits in the atrium of NYU's main library. Books and knickknacks are on the door. The marble flooring features a black and white geometric pattern.
An arial view of large ornate black and gold bookcase sits in the atrium of NYU's main library. It's swirled black and gold body contrasts with the geometric black, white, and grey floor tiles.
A hand reaches into glowing lights of "Infinity."
A large ornate black and gold bookcase opens, revealing that it's actually a door way. Lights emanate from the inside.
A gold metal hands offers a set of black over ear headphones.
A large ornate black and gold door opens into NYU library's atrium. A lighted mirror shines upon the inside of a black door.
A visitor wearing over ear headphones looks into a mirror with infinity lights.
A visitor wearing headphones listens with closed eyes. Her image is reflected in an infinity mirror with lights.
A small red booklet stands inside a decorative glass cube. The geometric pattern of the floor is reflected in the glass.
Two large red books sit on a shelf beside a clock and glass oil lamp.
A 1930s antique black bakelite rotary telephone sits on a gold shelf.
Red books sit on the top shelf an ornate gold and black bookcase.
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