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Monsoon Fiesta VC Dance 2016
The annual dance festival held at our college was due again, and this time, the Visual Communication team decided to step it up a notch when it came to dance performances. A team of three dance choreographers, and two visuals artists, of which I was a part of, decided to create a multi-media dance performance that would tell a story with dance and visuals. We created visuals on various software, shot our own footage, created a script, and ensured that it matched the choreography. It was a fantastic experience, combining visuals and dance, along with working in a collaborative group.
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Data Mapping
I have a deep interest in airports and routes, so to visualize the amount of air traffic and airports in the world, I mined some data online and fed it into processing to create this image. It’s pretty amazing to see the amount of air traffic in our skies.
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Nike FuelBand Data Analysis
I used a Nike FuelBand for a year or so, and now I had all fitness data that I wanted to explore. I was keen to see the raw data, and although Nike does have a great interface to show the data, I wanted to play around with this data generated by my physical activity.
The first major task was to get the data from Nike. Nike+ does have some API’s but it’s quite a task for a non-coder like myself to access that data. With some digital snooping and hacking about, I finally managed to access the data, and produce it in a CSV format as well. Here’s the link to the python code which gets the data from Nike, https://github.com/burnedsap/fuelbandexport.
Now that I got the data, I had to process it somehow. To begin with, I started off with simple visualisation. Using Processing, I made a calendar using the Nike fuel to see when I was lazy, and the rare times when I actually did meet my goal. Red is when I’m especially lazy, Orange, when I’ve made an effort, Yellow if I genuinely tried, and Green if I have met my goal for the day. This is just an initial basic foray into this data, and now I’ll be experimenting with calories, steps, time, and GPS coordinates to find correlations and patterns.
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Audio to Visual Explorations
On my quest to visually plot music, I keep making happy mistakes that lead to some interesting visuals. Using amplitude, the plotted visuals exhibit the characteristics of the song, but not the aural quality. Lot’s of potential to work on here.
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Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processing, or NLP for short, is a field of computer science, artificial intelligence and computational linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages. It is now possible to download advanced NLP libraries. A few of us thought it would be better to try and build our own NLP library to understand the challenges that lie behind it. We created a simple algorithm that could understand the classification of words in the dictionary, and create simple sentences, albeit with no sense of grammar. We learnt a lot in the process of making it, and it definitely helped develop my programming skills.
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Processing Dump-1
Some of the work I’ve been doing on Processing. A quick compilation made before a jury, and I still need to add more work to this. A fun watch for sure though.
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HoloPlagiaristic Fatalism
For our Futures facing design project, we chose to work with the subject of art. There have historically been several arguments to be made for the purpose of art in society, and while the future, in its current trajectory turns to technology. Artists share an insightful lens through which to look at the world, and for the kind of complexity we will be facing, this lens will be as relevant as any other - scientific, social, and others. Research showed us that the current art world was lacking any cohesive philosophy and an art movement. And everyone was asking the same question-What is the art movement of our time and the future?
And so we decided it was a worthwhile inquiry to form a premise and explore Futures through this lens.
The final approach we took was to explore the conception of the art movement. Henry Dietrich Wolf, the founder of the art movement. We explored many methods of communicating conception of the art movement. The purest method was the one we felt was to be able to communicate with the man himself.
Communicating with a fictional character is difficult, but there was one way. Henry’s artefacts and his data would be the best way to communicate with his thoughts and ideas apart from talking to the man himself. If you were to have the chance to peruse someone’s personal diaries and computer system, you would be able to observe their thoughts, see their work and the development of their ideas. Recreating Henry’s workplace is not easy. To accurately represent his desk and therefore his character, we had to thoroughly flesh out his character. We created Henry, dovetailing his history with his current thought process, making sure that his ideas developed as he grows up to reflect his experiences.
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