Physical Installation

Democratizing BCIs to foster curiosity, experimentation and speculation. Thesis Project in collaboration with NIMHANS Context Buddhi-GV was a 4 month long thesis project done in collobarotion with NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Helath and Neurosciences) and its upcoming Brain and Mind museum. Buddhi GV aims to use curisoity, experimentation and speculation to democratise access and understanding of Brain Computer Interfaces. Open access reopsitory Repo link: https://www.buddhigv.netlify.app The first outcome of the project is an open access repository which contains information, experiments and documentation of exisiting Brain computer interfaces....

Documenting urbanization and land use in Gantiganahalli through participatory mapping and GIS Analysis Pixelation of village level data The project looks at Gantiganahalli as an example village to understand the transition of urbanization and land use in peri urban areas of Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Available sources to data often under-represent or misrepresent peri urban areas. It was observed that popular open source data platforms like Openstreetmaps had very little to no data available on Gantiganahalli....

A gestural input based tool that replicates the physicality of the Abstract expressionism movement and translates it into a digital medium. I explored the design of somaesthetics to mediate a body mind union for this project. I used the infrared sensors in a Kinect to track a user’s body movements, used Processing (JAVA) to translate them into brush strokes where the weight of the stroke depended on the speed of the movement....

Concept note This project is a tangible data visualization of the functionality of cookies saved by different websites. The project was done as a part of the student exchange program at the Glasgow School of Art under the interaction design studio. Intent The intent of the project was to create a tangible creative visualization of otherwise invisible data. I decided to go ahead with online tracking because it is generally invisible which makes a lot of consumers ignorant on what kind of data is being taken from these and for what purpose it is being used....