Jer Thorp: 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.

Jer Thorp (@blprnt) mines invisible patterns and stories from heaps of data. In other words, he makes data more human. He was a data artist in residence at The New York Times Research and Development Lab. He co-founded EyeO festival, an annual art and technology conference at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.Through his company OCR, the Office for Creative Research, Jer helps people and corporations take control of the information that surrounds them, using technology and data visualization as a new form of storytelling. [2014 Biography]

00:05 1. Making a tool
00:16 2. everyday experience
01:11 3. Eyewriter touchstone
01:29 4. makerthons
01:37 5. Desire to get together
02:08 6. Generative Art
02:34 7. Pattern
02:54 8. people don't read these things
03:36 9. data visualization
03:59 10. Good at understanding complexity
04:44 11. take advantage of this thing we can do
05:00 12. reading the complexity
05:21 13. ambiguous narrative
06:14 14. lives being documented through data
06:27 15. open paths 2
07:02 16. open paths 3
07:23 17. Big Data Security
07:37 18. Data ownership
08:09 19. Research at Open Paths
08:49 20. Thought it was boring
09:56 21. open paths 1
10:38 22. deciding not to record
11:26 23. storage
11:59 24. spoken word
12:35 25. active not interactive
12:56 26. failure to communicate
13:40 27. opportunistic sensors for apple
14:37 28. Thanks
15:12 29. Software1
17:15 30. Software2
17:33 31. Post-capitalism
18:30 32. post-capitalism2
19:06 33. Toxi: gurus
20:05 34. fireflies

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