“THE CLOUD”, 2019 [mixed media, arduino]
“THE CLOUD” is a collaborative installation piece made with fellow dynamic interface design student april chu (@aprlc).
it is a physical representation of society’s personified presence of The Cloud, a mechanism used to store data with no seemingly physical location of its storage. an arduino programmed light strip is triggered by the push of a button that sends a patterned beam of light up and into the cloud formations.
we wanted to turn The Cloud into a tangible object, with a human interactive component (necessary for the arduino to initiate the lights), meant to portray the idea that through physical touch (fingerprints to unlock our phones, or typing information into a website, for example) we give technology a lot of access to information and data about ourselves. our installation is meant to raise questions regarding privacy, data collection and harboring, and autonomy in the digital age of information.
below is a short video demonstrating the interaction between the viewer and the piece:
process documentation and installation pictures:
