Mourning Cloud
Will we all end up in the cloud(s) ?

In countries where discussion of anything related to death is extremely awkward, what is the future of physical and digital funerary practices?

The act of listening to a voicemail, looking at photograph and instant messages again and again to is now part of our grieving for a loved one. Services and other spontaneous behaviours have emerged, from personalised VR experience of a farewell to the possibility of attending a funeral via your smartphone.

Mourning Cloud proposes a space where "digital afterlife services" intersect with questions about the ownership of personal data. It allows the visitor to prepare the appearance of his or her own person, using a single piece of data. Freeing himself from his image, processed by a deepfake algorithm disconnected from feelings, his double will remain as long as the Mourning Cloud exists. This encounter between oneself and one's ghost could be a first step towards managing our digital heritage and its attempts to make us immortal.