James George & Jonathan Minard 

James George is an artist using code to discover creative potential in emerging technology, and he is based in Brooklyn, New York. .  He has been using computational photography to display an interactive storytelling.  He has worked with Microsoft Research, Grank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry at CMU, and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media in Japan.

Jonathan Minard  is a new-media documentarian who approaches technological through an anthropological lens.  He is also based in Brooklyn, New York.  He has worked at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute as a filmmaker competing in the Google Lunar X Prize to send a robot to the Moon. (His website has expired)

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What I found interesting about James and Jonathan’s work on Clouds was their perspective on using code to make an interactive documentary of 40 + influential coders.    I admire the way that they merge both code hybrid and dynamic 3D graphics  to visualize their ideas and the connections among them.  Both of them mentioned that they enjoy storytelling and I was fascinated by the way that users could parse through a documentary film by using their mouse to click on different parts of the screen.

During their presentation they actually went through the interactive documentary on the spot.  I could see that their would be many different ways a viewer could navigate the story.  I like how they connect the act of storytelling and interactiveness to the film.  The presentation was very natural and informative, and their pacing of information telling was also good.

Eyeo 2014

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James George and Jonathan Minard talk about computational documentary exploring art and code.