Elliot Woods: 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.

Elliot Woods (@elliotwoods) prototypes future interfaces between humans, cameras and projectors. He is known for transforming a tree into an array of voxels, and performing other optical magic tricks with light and code. He is co-founder of design company Kimchi and Chips based in Korea, and contributor to OpenFrameworks and VVVV, open source toolkits for creative coding. He also curates the ScreenLab Residency in Manchester, England. [2014 Biography]

00:05 1. wiremap description
01:29 2. lightscape
01:59 3. points in space
02:15 4. tree sculpture
02:55 5. aesthetic of error
03:12 6. limitation 1
03:37 7. limitations 2
04:11 8. 2D vision in a 3D world
05:39 9. Ideaspace
06:28 10. Laying claim on ideas

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