Regine Debatty: 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.

Regine Debatty (@wmmna) writes about the intersection between art, science and social issues on her blog we-make-money-not-art.com, highlighting the ways artists and hackers use science as a medium for critical discussion.She also contributes to several European design and art magazines and lectures internationally about the way artists, hackers and designers use science as a medium for critical discussion. [2014 Biography]

00:05 1. digital technology
00:21 2. making a living
00:42 3. adapting work for commercial contexts
01:12 4. advertisers stealing
01:33 5. commercial appropriation
02:05 6. ambiguous categories
02:36 7. new media ghetto
02:50 8. doesn't matter as long as it's good
02:58 9. more concerned with socially engaged work
03:11 10. Hacking
03:51 11. Hackers
04:12 12. Boring beauty
04:42 13. aesthetic experience
05:08 14. twitter, future
05:34 15. imagining the future
06:10 16. teleportation
07:01 17. virtual
07:41 18. future camera
07:54 19. dark future
08:20 20. elitist and their gadgets
08:45 21. looking forward to problems
09:19 22. ineffectual art
09:58 23. information should be free
10:19 24. Internet doesn't change things
10:50 25. the lucky ones

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