How Do I Get To The Cloud

by Irene Doukas Behrman

This is a book we wrote together about how we're all lost.

95 pages, Paperback

Published July 31, 2020

Reviews

[Shilo · Rating 5 out of 5]

A inquiry into what we are all searching for and an absolute delight.

[Jessica Wadleigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

How Do I Get to the Cloud by Irene Doukas Behrman. This book has stuck with me! I’ve read this ~2.5 times since I got it and I have made new discoveries each time I’ve picked it up. In How Do I Get to the Cloud, Behrman presents an assortment of Google search auto-fills, one after another. The author starts the search - “people see” - and then presents the auto-fill suggestions. This continues, one after another, across 90 pages. At first, it was just kind of amusing and I found myself flipping through somewhat passively - until something I searched for popped up on the page. I felt jolted into the work by recognizing that I was a participant in this because I’d searched and taught the algorithm to privilege the presented result. Suddenly activated, I started thinking about society more broadly, and the questions that we are all asking, quietly, to our smartphones in the dark, for all different reasons, and the book read differently to me than it did before. And then I started to think about the artist - we learn something about the author simply through the questions that she asks and the results that she picks, and again, the way I read and looked at the book shifted. I am utterly captivated by this and eager to discover more. Recommended.

[Kye Flannery · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bright, wry, wtf, sad, funny, comforting.