idea by__  whoun & Alberto Rivero

THERE ARE CLOUDS. IT RAINS, THE RIVERS APPEAR. THOSE LEAD TO THE SEA. WATER EVAPORATES, ELEVATES AND BECOMES IN CLOUDS.  TODAY THERE IS A CLOUD, A GREAT CLOUD OF DATA. IT RAINS, …NOWDAYS, THE CONCEPTS ‘CLOUD’, ‘CLOUD COMPUTING’, ‘CLOUD UPLOADING’, ‘CLOUD DOWNLOADING’ ARE WORDS OR EXPRESSIONS VERY COMMON IN THE PSEUDO-TECHNOLOGICAL LINGO IMPOSED BY THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES. PEOPLE SPEAK ABOUT ‘CLOUD’ AND THE DATA OR FILES THAT FORM IT. WE UPLOAD OUR PIECE OF LIFE TO THE CLOUD, THE PICTURE OF LAST HOLIDAY, THE BOOK WE’RE READING, THE EMAIL WITH SOME GOOD NEWS, THAT SPECIAL SONG. BUT IMAGINE THE CLOUD IS A DIFFERENT THING. IT IS HARD TO THINK OF IT, PROVIDE IT WITH A PHYSICALITY, MATERIALIZE IT.
THIS PROJECT IS AN ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THIS DESIRE: BRING TO THE PHISYCAL SIDE A DIGITAL CLOUD OF DATA AND FILES.

040912: IT’S RAINING DATA IS AN INTERACTIVE INSTALLATON,  THE KEY ELEMENTS ARE:

• A CLOUD-SHAPED MODULAR STRUCTUR
• A CLOSED CIRCUIT OF WATER
• ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT
• SOFTWARE CONTROL DEVICE

THE INSTALLATION WORKS AS FOLLOW: THE USER OR SPECTATOR USING A WIREL
ESS DEVICE CONNECTED TO THE CLOUD IS ABLE TO UPLOAD A FILE (IMAGE, AUDIO, PICTURE, …). THE CLOUD GETS THAT FILE AND REACTS. AFTER THAT THE FILE IS ENCODED BY THE CLOUD AND IT IS TRANSFORMED INTO RAIN. THE RAIN FALLS DOWN THANK TO AN ELECTRONIC SYSTEM INSTALLED IN THE CLOUD. THE WATER FALLEN IS COLLECTED AND RETURNED BACK TO THE SYSTEM BY A CLOSED CIRCUIT OF WATER. THE USER, IF HE WISHES, HAS THE POSSIBILITY OF PASSING UNDER THE RAIN GENERATED BY ENCODING OF THE UPLOADED FILE.

THE EFFECT IS AN APPARENTLY RANDOM AND CHAOTIC RAIN BUT, IN FACT, IT HAS A UNIQUE AND SINGULAR STRUCTURE BECAUSE IT IS THE  REPRESENTATION OF THE INFORMATION STORED IN THE CLOUD. INFORMATION THAT MAY BE RECOMPILED AGAIN IF WE OBSERVE PATIENTLY THE SEQUENCE OF WATER DROPS OF FALLING RAIN.