Cargo of Clouds / Demo

Cargo of Clouds is an installation for 3 screens and quadrophonic sound, 15 minutes looped.

Authors: Isabelle Vigier and Anne La berge. 2021.

In their new work entitled Cargo of Clouds Anne La Berge and Isabelle Vigier observe how human use of data impacts landscapes in our contemporary world.

Although data seems free flowing and innocuous it actually exists in the world physically. In Cargo of Clouds, we express the ways data is embedded in our physical world, and how the global networks supporting data circulation affects our natural space. Central to the story is the question of how we are involved as individuals in systems that we do not control, but that have a profound impact on the world.

Do we comprehend the impact of our online behaviour on nature? How can we be fully human in a world where nature is commodified for the sake of commerce and profit? And how can we, as artists, compare and link issues of nature’s demise with parallel issues involving data?