Jen Lowe: 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.

Jen Lowe (@datatelling) creates visualizations that tell stories and move people. Her research focuses on the implications of data in society and communicating information through pictures. She brings a background in applied math, information science, and literature to her work with data and open source technology. She is a founder of the School for Poetic Computation with Zach Lieberman and Taeyoon Choi. [2014 Biography]

00:05 1. MathMajor 1
00:17 2. a different mathematics
00:35 3. Math simulating reality
01:10 4. Math shapes the world
01:15 5. Lidar 1
01:29 6. Lidar 2
01:47 7. Predicting weather
02:22 8. hated computer science
02:50 9. necessity of code 1
03:04 10. necessity of code 2
03:17 11. sitting in front of a computer
03:28 12. struggle with programming
04:01 13. to program or not to program
04:20 14. new toolkits
04:46 15. Facebook data
04:55 16. Big data
05:26 17. data crystal ball 1
05:33 18. data crystal ball 2
05:48 19. data crystal ball 3
06:04 20. personal archive 1
06:25 21. keeping pictures
06:39 22. Personal archive 2
06:46 23. data autobiography
07:11 24. data viz challenges
07:50 25. visual communication
08:08 26. generalization 1
08:50 27. generalization 2
09:03 28. Scaling data
09:34 29. pull out the stories
09:44 30. rhetorical tool 1
10:21 31. rhetorical tool 2
10:50 32. data viz too serious 1
11:24 33. data viz too serious 2
11:38 34. a gravity to the work
11:47 35. data viz noire
12:18 36. too serious
12:27 37. more playfulness
12:34 38. rafael's cardiogram
13:01 39. stencil pie chart
13:27 40. stasis 1
13:37 41. stasis 2
13:57 42. telling stories to engage
14:17 43. data memory 1
14:35 44. data memory 2
14:43 45. data truth
15:01 46. truthiness
15:10 47. oversimplified circles 1
15:21 48. oversimplified circles 2
15:30 49. objective subjective
16:01 50. numbers and words
16:23 51. library
16:42 52. deep interaction
16:57 53. immersion of reading
17:21 54. in the movie
17:30 55. museum immersion
17:37 56. immersion in data
17:53 57. intuitive spelunking
18:13 58. Guesswork
18:22 59. information cave
18:43 60. all about complexity
18:49 61. browsing
19:05 62. data essay 1
19:43 63. data essay 2
19:54 64. life chapters
20:05 65. twitter friends
20:32 66. building community
20:38 67. prisons
20:49 68. self and other
21:24 69. grouping people
21:37 70. saving the world
22:16 71. right choice 1
22:47 72. right choice 2

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