Bruce Sterling: 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.

Bruce Sterling (@bruces) is a science fiction writer and cyberspace theorist who is also still based there. He blogs extensively on 'Beyond the Beyond', published by Wired Magazine and often features the work of hacker artists, programmers, inventors, critical engineers. [2014 Biography]

00:05 1. It's an old thing
00:39 2. cyberpunk dictum long
00:54 3. creative agglomeration
02:03 4. All of a sudden...
02:22 5. Tidepools
02:46 6. Geeks with style
02:59 7. Wikipedia and Github
03:46 8. Github Tarball
04:15 9. Constant improvement
04:40 10. aborted projects
04:52 11. Volition
05:00 12. Gardening 1
05:23 13. Gardening 2
05:48 14. Anthropomorphism
06:05 15. Digital humanities technology
07:02 16. Textual technologies
07:45 17. Dead sea scrolls
08:34 18. fanciful metaphors 1
08:51 19. beauty of code 1
09:14 20. beauty of code 2
09:36 21. beauty of code 3
10:40 22. beauty of math
11:12 23. beauty of code 4
12:01 24. beauty of code 5
12:15 25. Marius
12:34 26. Parametric vs Generative
12:59 27. Digital fabrication
13:08 28. Design vs Art
13:32 29. 3D printed buildings
13:43 30. digital status quo
13:50 31. military
14:03 32. Don't care about design
14:19 33. Age of the universe, really weird
14:37 34. Gay sex, not that weird
15:02 35. Fax machine
15:14 36. Infinity in a grain of sand
15:43 37. Fractal graphics
16:27 38. New media Wow
16:47 39. Eno 2
17:19 40. new aesthetic 1
17:31 41. new aesthetic 2
17:44 42. new aesthetic artists
18:27 43. camera technician vs explorer
18:53 44. Trendspotting
19:09 45. Trendier than thou
19:33 46. Criticism
20:02 47. 7 year lifespan of novelty
20:37 48. Art history vs Trendspotting
20:57 49. orange
21:10 50. future of the new aesthetic
21:31 51. Techno in Berlin
21:53 52. Popular installation art
22:22 53. Future art
22:36 54. camera of future 25 years
22:43 55. Future camera 1
23:08 56. future camera 2
24:11 57. future camera 3
24:43 58. future camera 4
25:11 59. lashup 1
26:08 60. lashup 2
26:36 61. lashup 3
27:06 62. Reverse-engineered
27:12 63. kinect hacking
27:43 64. Augmented Ubiquity
29:22 65. Hand dryer
29:43 66. Pointcloud world
30:21 67. future city 1
31:02 68. Costs crash
31:22 69. future city 2
31:53 70. not one cyberpunk idea
32:20 71. Not one idea of the future
32:54 72. Everted Cyberspace
33:21 73. future camera 5
33:58 74. hamster herding
34:19 75. unstable mileau of media art
34:49 76. 2060s (Lashup 5)
35:17 77. what gets you out of bed
35:46 78. find the inner wellspring
36:01 79. obsessed with tactics
36:27 80. Suffocated by the old
36:46 81. machines don't think 1
37:15 82. machines don't think 2
37:36 83. Wikipedia 2
38:03 84. twitter is not your friend
38:38 85. A sappy Singularity
39:37 86. Hi I'm conscious
40:47 87. networks vs robots
41:14 88. past and future
41:50 89. atemporality
42:11 90. relating to history through networks
42:50 91. talking about the future as history
44:12 92. creativity in old age
44:45 93. ideas about time
45:06 94. Truth is unstable
45:42 95. pinheaded geekdom
46:10 96. cyberpunk dictum short
46:22 97. creative agglomeration short
46:27 98. FFFFFAT Lab
46:56 99. Simulation Replication Recursion
47:06 100. Fountain pen
47:19 101. small fuzzy things
47:38 102. Computer art takes flight

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