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.

Dates

  • 12.11.2017 apérOYÉ @ Madame Louis, Paris, France
  • 10.28.2018 Le Bal du Loup @ Le Cirque Electrique, Paris, France
📷 Dina Gligo
@ /fu:bar/ festival in Zagreb, Croatia
📷 Dina Gligo
@ /fu:bar/ festival in Zagreb, Croatia
Focused individual with microphone and audio equipment, working on a laptop, with blue glitch art projections in the background during a live performance.
📷 Dina Gligo
@ /fu:bar/ festival in Zagreb, Croatia
📷 Dina Gligo
@ /fu:bar/ festival in Zagreb, Croatia