A viewer is gazing at the installation.
Gazing at the Cloud is a WIP interactive video installation that investigates the relationship between human gaze and the hidden material infrastructures of the digital cloud. The work responds to sustained gaze by slowly opening a sphere of particles, each displaying an image sourced from ImageNet — a large visual database whose construction carries its own political history. As the gaze holds, the perspective moves inward from atmospheric clouds toward water, data center components, mining sites, and geological minerals. Sound shifts from clean synthetic textures toward industrial noise, mirroring the visual journey. When the gaze moves, the sphere follows, leaving behind fading trails of where the gaze has been.