Made with in India
Made with in India
This installation, presented at National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, was a part of the “Nature Embedded” exhibition. The exhibition was inaugurated by Paola Antonelli .
Mid Day reports about the exhibition :
“To develop an understanding one has to look at things from other’s perspectives”. Through the means of this exhibit we tried to recreate an experience for the visitor to see the world from the point of view of a bird, dog and a fish. The view is not just a physical sensation but a perception of the world. In our design, we incorporated the unbiased, natural and permanent physical features of the eye like the shape of the vision cone and color sensitivity. Further, there was an attempt to showcase the world as perceived by a dog travelling down an alley, a fish inside a sea of pollution and a bird flying in the sky. These perceptions were biased human reflections which seem to affect these characters.
The narratives and visuals were precisely designed by experts. I am grateful to have worked with them.
My contribution was largely towards designing the interactions with the game and implementing them using electronics.
The environment was designed similar to a traditional Indian street. We tried to capture the hustle bustle and festivities using audio and visuals.
The physical device made using teak wood. It contains an IMU which computes the suggested gestures and moves the character in the games.
The interaction technique was found after conducting a small internal study. It was similar for all the characters to all quick, easy and intuituve transfer of control by the user at the site.
The environment of the fish showcased a narrative in which a fish explores the area.It finds pollution and garbage while moving along a path. Then a giant whale is seen being captured by hunters which the fish along with other smaller fishes sets free. There was a dreamy treatment given to the visuals.
The physical controller.
The bird environment depicts a bird flying back from its quest to gather food to its nest. She sees chimneys, electric lines, fountains and lands from far above.
The physical controller
We received great response and feedback from kids and other audiences. People loved the quality of the visuals and idea of exploring the world through the “animals”.
The project was a part of my work done under Prof. Ravi and Prof. Ajanta at IDC. The super talented team at dsource and ekalpa project made the project possible. They include Vajra, Pranisha, Deep, Shyam, Herold, Ravi, Malay, Swati, Vinaya, RamP (Audio) and other folks whose name I intermittently forgot.
Cheers,
Rohit
Read more48 hours to do something fun and then go to Japan ? Hai(はい)!! :)
Let us make dancing passwords !
It was a funny moment when I and Rishabh decided to participate in this hackathon. Designers in an engineering hackathon. I packed all my electronics in a bag, I got at another hackathon and reported at the venue. It was though to decide what to make.
Boredom struck us hard and we decided to make something that you could use to dance and operate the computer. Dance moves as a password? It was pretty random. Wishful thinking, of sorts.
We started working on a mat kind of a thing that one could place under his/her feet when using a computer. Hopping on it, one could do some moves to login. The mat would double up as a foot controller to operate websites like Youtube to do things like- play/pause, volume +/- and next/prev. We even built a chrome app for that. The whole thing was driven by an Arduino Leonardo acting happily as a USB-Keyboard.
And yeah ! We won the hackathon and got a chance to visit Tokyo :) #TamasHack
Cheers,
Rohit
Read moreThis post describes a commissioned installation on the occasion of Women’s Day. We use the metaphor of “being gentle” to create a series of breath driven interactive sketches.
The client came up with a requirement of quick turn around interactive installation for Women’s day to engage the audience while shopping. We wanted to explore the realm of love and socially undermined role of women in our lives. After some rounds of brainstorming, we decided to work on the idea of a “gentle love”.
We thought of connecting breath to gentleness. What is gentleness in nature? Feathers, Flowers, Bubbles, Vapour, Leaves. They all get aboard the gentle wind and spread their color and happiness wherever they go. Women do the same for us all. We wanted the depiction to be “as-is”. Further, breath based interfaces seem an interesting modality to experiment with.
So, we used several particles systems to make digitally manipulated flowers, flames and bubbles.
Quite simple and effective ; the audiences seem to have liked the idea. :)
Cheers,
Rohit
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