Art

Trails of 'Yakshagana'

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Trails of 'Yakshagana'

"Trails of a Yakshagana" is a video that captures the essence of a solo Yakshagana performance. The visually appealing video creates a rhythmic experience for the viewers as they follow the dancer's movements. The video, which lasts for 2.5 minutes and loops continuously, uses the power of a computer's graphical processing unit (GPU) to create a motion trail of the performance. Inspired by the traditional dance form of Yakshagana from the coastal Karnataka region, the video gives a modern glimpse of its Navras.

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Project Haze

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Project Haze

Project Haze is a site-specific immersive mixed-media installation that tries to invoke the feeling of 'lightness' among its users.

The installation, which works both a day as well as a night installation, takes inspiration from Gaston Bachelard's 'Poetics of Air' and explores the notion of using mist to create a 'ganzfeld effect'. In such a situation, the audience gets separated from their surroundings and immersed in a uniform stimulation field of sound, light, and touch. The result is a heightened sensory perception of all the senses and the flow of individual imagination.

The day installation relies on sunlight and wind to create movement in the mist which seems to immerse from the ground and fly upwards lifting the observer with them. The cool sensation of minute water droplets steals the heat from the sun, leaving a cooling sensation with them, the lack of obstacles allows them to play and explore the 'materiality of the cloud'. The viewer also has a chance to spot a circular rainbow against the sun, which seems to participate in their movement adding more delight to the experience.

During the night, the artist uses projection mapping to introduce volume to an otherwise invisible installation which again reinforces the principles of sensorial engagement, freedom in seclusion, and the materiality of mist with its audience.

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Motion and Code: Explorations

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Motion and Code: Explorations

For a long time, I have been interesting in capturing the style of Italian master and other icons in visual art history in code and displaying it as a live camera view. It would be interesting to see the world with the eyes of these masters and will open a window into understanding Modern art for a lot of people. Below are 4 examples of such works, but more are underway.

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A BITSian's Life

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Campus life at BITS Pilani is different from other Indian colleges. This project tried at capture the various moods I experienced here in a duration of 4 years.

Courtesy:
Panel partner - Vishal Chundawat
Juniors - Saket Nihal, Kshitij Kant
Seniors - Tanay Upadhyay, Anirudh Pathak, Sandy, Prankur

V for Vendetta

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One of my favourite movie character from the intensely engaging movie, V for Vendetta. The dialogues and plot of movie make it a remarkable movie to add to your watchlist.

“Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot…”
— V

Final sketch

“[V proceeds to kill all fingermen with his knives before they manage to reload]
Creedy: [desperately shooting at the approaching V] Die! Die! Why won’t you die?... Why won’t you die?
V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy. And ideas are bulletproof.”