Julia Kaganskiy: 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.

Julia Kaganskiy (@juliaxgulia) is passionate about technology's potential as an artistic medium as well as its ability to increase access to and engagement with the arts. She is the Executive Director of New Inc, a new art and technology incubator at the New Museum. Formerly she was an editor at The Creators Project, a collaboration between Vice and Intel, and founded New York's ArtsTech meetup. [2014 Biography]

00:05 1. museum emotion
00:27 2. beginning in the tech scene
01:17 3. Paola
01:53 4. community
02:53 5. tech to pop culture
03:07 6. propagates itself
03:28 7. program or be programmed
04:53 8. open source and ego
05:20 9. can't be solitary
06:14 10. work in context
06:37 11. aesthetic value
06:58 12. what clouds is about
07:09 13. CLOUDS
07:36 14. lives online
07:51 15. make us more compassionate
08:23 16. toward greater generosity 1
08:40 17. feeling of kinship
09:13 18. human in tech
09:49 19. what is it doing to us
10:16 20. million Facebook
10:55 21. Who owns the internet?
11:23 22. how it makes me feel
11:51 23. new and interesting
12:13 24. emotional
12:39 25. medium of our time
13:27 26. we feel fine
14:15 27. strength of weak ties
15:22 28. net friends

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