Andres Colubri: Interview Excerpts from CLOUDS (2014)
Channel: The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
Date: 2023-04-06

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.

Andres Colubri (@codeanticode) develops computer applications for visualization in biology and media arts. He works as a research associate at the Harvard Sabeti Lab and designer at Fathom Information Design in collaboration with Ben Fry as one of the principal developers of Processing, a Java-based open source programming language. [2014 Biography]

00:05 1. make an egg
00:28 2. protein folding 1
00:49 3. protein folding 2
01:06 4. examples of the impossible
01:16 5. sharing code
01:40 6. Reaching higher
01:54 7. DNA computing 1
02:28 8. DNA computing 2
03:12 9. probability
03:38 10. fuzzy systems
04:11 11. soft systems 1
04:33 12. soft systems 2
05:12 13. modeling complex systems
05:51 14. an overly complex model
06:37 15. modeling the human being
07:11 16. Less beautiful than it could be
07:46 17. correct is beautiful
08:07 18. seeing molecules
08:50 19. Computational lens
09:41 20. camera distorts reality

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