New media artist / Creative technologist / Live A/V Performance
Art that transcends traditional mediums and questions hierarchies. What is just a grimy cobweb on the wall to you, is to me my very first collaborator's home.
The backgrounds on this page are live generated using p5.js, feel free to interact with them!
This one is a water surface simulator, click to make waves and some crazy patterns.
Selected works
A small selection of my works spanning from 2019 to the present.
The debut live show of artists Shreesh (live DJ) and Tanya Dixit - tantriestoart (live visuals). We played to a small gathering of 10 people at a private venue in Mumbai. Audio-reactive visuals generated with the Live Overflow toolkit.
A three month long internship at Maker's Asylum, Mumbai that taught me the best practices in rapid prototyping and simple interactive systems design. I built some cool stuff, too.
An online workshop in which I covered the basics of music theory, made digestable to an audience coming back to it after a long break. Poster by Tanya Dixit.
Draw with a video game controller. An accessibility tool and novel digital art medium designed by me using p5.js. Go from gamer to artist in under a day. Check out some work by my friends Sibya, Vasav and Tanya!
Colorful Live Toolkit - Colorful LiT, a modular VJ toolkit for beat-reactive composition, controller mapping, and fast performance. Integrate it with Mixxx for a live DJ+VJ performance.
A simple ray casting engine I built to learn the basics of game development. Inspired by early '90s games like Wolf 3D and Doom, I kept the art style basic, but colorful. Check out this quick speedrun of the first level!
Disciplines
Striations in the bedrock. Sea foam on beach sand. A thunderclap on a silent night. All precipitations of great labor.
I create static & dynamic visual art using digital image processing, glitch, and generative techniques. My artistic choices are informed by my queer existence and the systems of nature. The more color, the better.
I produce music with FL Studio, which you can find on my SoundCloud . My music speaks of the melancholies of a trans life; the odd rhythms make you skip a beat and fall into my fruity shoes.
I use my years of training as a software engineer to develop toolkits that enhance the digital artist experience. Coded meticulously in my bedroom, but stress tested chaotically by my collaborators.
My training in physics and ecology has ingrained in me a deep sense of respect for natural systems, which I hold as my paramount artistic inspirations. In prostration, I model my mediums from ground up, quite literally, in code.
I perform live as a DJ under the moniker Cyberdemon. I mix mainly techno and experimental music, and my setlist curation draws from a vast array of non-traditional sources.
I've been actively collaborating with artists for the past two years on projects, experiments and music. I've been part of the Chipko Punks artist collective for the past six months. My friends and collaborators have made me who I am today.
My Process
Measure, calibrate, simulate, hypothesize, experiment, observe, repeat. This is how I get my work done.
Start from the source: movement, voice, curated video, field recordings, club rhythm, environmental noise, live camera input.
Define how input becomes form. Turn gestures into distortions in phase space. Formant frequencies into scales of Perlin noise. Convert a constraint into a mode of expression.
Build small, modular tests keeping the K.I.S.S. principle in mind. Once locked in, avoid future tech debt; keep the system clean and legible.
Run it with the craziest end user in mind. Debug constantly, keep hunting for edge cases. Stress test first, deliver later.
Export static videos, stills, technical notes, diagrams, and short write-ups so the work is understandable to curators, employers, artists, and future collaborators.
Live
I bring color, calculated chaos and a well-wishing attitude to every team I'm a part of. This is how I can contribute to our endeavors as collaborators:
Format 01
Live visuals and audio-reactive systems for music, club spaces, and experimental performance.
Format 02
Sensor, camera, touch, or browser-based environments shaped by audience presence.
Format 03
Custom software for artists, performers, educators, collectives, and production teams.
Format 04
Teaching and collaborative sessions around code, media, sound, interaction, and performance systems.
Contact
Available for commissions, performances, assignments, research, prototype development, documentation, and collaborative experiments.
