Kyle Chayka: 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.

Kyle Chayka (@chaykak) works as a freelance writer covering digital media art, internet culture, and commerce for publications including Newsweek, The New Yorker, Pacific Standard, and The New Republic. He has also curated exhibitions at Garis and Hahn gallery and Moving Image art fair in New York and London. [2014 Biography]

00:05 1. history of computational art
00:44 2. open source
01:16 3. new generation
01:55 4. face OSC
02:44 5. new aesthetic 1
03:16 6. new aesthetic 2
03:44 7. tribe of New media
04:31 8. abstraction
04:47 9. RGBD
04:58 10. Social media performance
05:23 11. Avatars
06:29 12. virtual and identity
07:02 13. RMB city
07:45 14. virtual space online
08:05 15. nature is complex
08:14 16. coral reefs
09:23 17. digital museums
09:41 18. old server farms
10:31 19. Cory Arcangel
11:04 20. MMORPGs
11:36 21. net galleries
12:02 22. mainstreaming of fring visual culture
12:21 23. vocabulary for understanding
12:54 24. fun accessible art
13:06 25. Casey Reas Music Visualizations
13:46 26. Sentience of digital art
14:00 27. don't underestimate traditional art
14:39 28. interactivity
14:53 29. interactivity 2
15:00 30. erase distinctions
15:21 31. coding is 1
15:30 32. coding 2
15:36 33. coding, magic
16:17 34. blows my mind
16:26 35. alter language 1
16:41 36. storytelling
17:49 37. videogame world
18:29 38. Polygons
19:07 39. Cloud atlas
19:45 40. Future life storage
20:42 41. Twitter archive
21:09 42. Modeling consciousness
22:09 43. modeling consciousness 2

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