Golan Levin: 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.

Golan Levin's (@golan) work explores the expressive use of computation, and focuses on the design of systems for the performance of simultaneous image and sound. Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, combining equal measures of the whimsical, the provocative, and the sublime. He currently directs the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, an anti-disciplinary arts research lab at Carnegie Mellon University. [2014 Biography]

00:05 1. useless, whimsical
00:23 2. wide open field
00:44 3. my mother the abstract painter
01:10 4. yellow tail
01:56 5. playable image
02:45 6. eno
03:35 7. untitled
04:04 8. instruments
05:12 9. piano and pencil
05:37 10. observation of users
05:59 11. twitching in a room
07:40 12. what's an instrument?
08:15 13. project example
09:16 14. Play
09:51 15. why major in art
10:27 16. Marker 2
10:50 17. make a mark
11:10 18. woah
11:35 19. woah2
12:02 20. would be boring
12:15 21. this to that
13:12 22. emotion
13:39 23. listening post
14:37 24. hybridity
14:56 25. hybridity2
15:28 26. people like myself
15:46 27. finding a community
15:56 28. MIT
16:55 29. ACG
17:25 30. people at MIT
17:51 31. ACG3
18:11 32. Kyle
19:16 33. closed source mistake
20:31 34. pedagogical impulse
21:07 35. limits to sharing
22:18 36. damn
22:28 37. keeping you stuff working
23:14 38. sad not to be making
23:40 39. administrating versus making
24:41 40. STUDIO art and code
25:24 41. open data
26:28 42. hackathon
27:07 43. hackathons2
28:08 44. Anxious about the future
29:17 45. staring down the barrel
30:06 46. why make art
31:02 47. formalism
32:11 48. audiovisual concept
32:40 49. easy beauty
33:04 50. raytraced spheres
33:27 51. laughter
34:00 52. laughter2
34:27 53. kerrington
35:12 54. kessler
36:22 55. apocalypse3
37:19 56. jolted into the NOW

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