Zoe Beloff's interactive CD-ROM, called Beyond, represents a haunting, complex exploration of the "dream life" of technology, the period from 1850 to 1940. BEYOND curiously blends references to 19th century mechanical devices with 21st century electronic imaging technologies.The project combines 80 digital movie clips with an interface comprised of 20 Quicktime Virtual Reality panoramas. By incorporating methods of stitching segments of videos, films, diagrams, and photographs together with Quicktime VR movies, she lures the viewer into an endless maze of winding textured pathways. She taunts us, chanting excerpts from the writings of Charles Baudelaire,"the first modernist." We do not encounter nostalgia for an unknown past, but confront a magical 19th century that stretches its influence into the present and future. Beloff prompts our reflection upon the origins of our century as it nears its close.

Beyond was exhibited at the 1997 Whitney Museum Biennial in New York.

Beloff has exhibited her work internationally at numerous venues , including: Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, California; the Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels; ISEA 97 in Chicago , Illinois; Ars Electronic Festival '97;the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; the Biennale de I'Image, Paris, France; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Zoe Beloff is a filmmaker living in New York; she is also on the faculty at The Pratt Institute.