Cloud Factory

It starts in a windowless room filled with blue sky. A temporary space where files come to die. Suddenly, a disturbance ¿¿¿¿¿¿̳̳̳̳¿̵̵̵̵̛̛̛̛̛̛¿͉͉͉͉͉͉͉͉͉͉˸˸̵̵̵̵̵̵̵̵̵̵˸˸˸̜̜̜̜̜̜̜̜̜̜̜̜¿¿̢̢̢̢̢¿ʴʴʴʴʴͯͯͯͯͯͯͯͯͯͯʴ̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸▓͝͝͝͝͝͝͝͝͝͝͝͝▒╜←∙∕∕∕∕ Is it a glitch ? the factory quickly processes it. Each mishap is reshaped into a cloud of broken data. Artifacts rise and fall as the storm builds up. But how much failure can the system uphold ?

The Cloud Factory is the first performance I ever worked on.
It started off inbetween a conference and me burning computer CPUs on stage.
I then changed a few things and toned-down the computer-harming part for obvious material
reasons. About a year later it then became something enterily different where
I would exclusively burn computers on stage without explaining anything, and a
while after that I stopped doing it altogether because I couldn't find any meaning in all this.

The performance tells the story of an imaginary recycling facility in charge of
processing broken files. Both the artist and the machine take a playful approach
by making art out of the glitches, but it soon gets out of hand when the data stream
becomes too much to handle, ultimately, resulting in a system-wide crash.

Credits

The performance was first created and played for the /fu:bar/ 2017 glitch art
festival in Zagreb @ AKC Medika, organized by Format C. The project then toured
with the OYÉ Circus for the two following years in new media art and electronic
music in France and Spain.