Rachel Binx: Interview Excerpts from CLOUDS (2014)
Channel: The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
Date: 2023-04-05

This video presents excerpts of raw interview footage from CLOUDS (2014). Directed by Jae Minard and James George, CLOUDS is an interactive, generative, computational documentary that allows the viewer to explore different perspectives on the intersection of code and culture. Filmed using the RGBD 3D cinema format and created entirely with open-source software, CLOUDS uses a data-driven story engine to present an endless, ever-changing conversation about the role of computational thinking in contemporary arts and design. More information is at cloudsdocumentary.com.

Rachel Binx (@rachelbinx) takes an innovative approach to mapping people's global journeys using personal location data. By encoding GPS information in images and objects, she designs mementos that embody the latent associations between memory and place. [2014 Biography]

00:05 1. actually interesting
00:26 2. tool for others
00:45 3. trips
01:10 4. making things
01:46 5. frustrated about visualization
02:14 6. digestibility
02:29 7. tools for storytelling
03:11 8. Mesh-U business
03:41 9. maps
04:14 10. meaningful shape1
04:25 11. making a map
04:46 12. face data
05:24 13. hackathon
05:40 14. ar&&code
06:17 15. women in tech
06:42 16. glass ceiling
07:06 17. creative coding is more diverse
07:21 18. Significant othered
07:55 19. programming is a superpower
08:42 20. tech fracturing
08:59 21. skillshare
09:17 22. learning
10:04 23. learning with others
10:10 24. big data
10:38 25. field of data vis
11:08 26. technoutopian
11:23 27. changing the world
11:36 28. art and culture
12:13 29. art for money
12:55 30. hybridity
13:17 31. Background
13:35 32. there was no degree
13:53 33. geodata
14:18 34. tools for storytelling2
14:40 35. work for hire
14:58 36. brogrammers

Directors: Jae Minard and James George
Executive Producer: Golan Levin (CMU)
Producer: Winslow Porter
Design Director: Bradley G Munkowitz