http://prayas.in/ 2012-02-04T22:06:24-08:00 http://prayas.in/ http://prayas.in/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-02-04T04:19:34-08:00 Prayas Abhinav http://prayas.in/projects:reluctance?rev=1328357974&do=diff Meta 2012 / The Guild booth, India Art Fair / motorized wing, cameras, screen, C++ code Description The one-winged bird is reconstructed in fragments. Disembodied experience. Flight, vision, no body. Vision of the bird on-screen - an effort to look at only the permanent. Everything that moves is forgotten and painted white. If you are stil enough, you see yourself. text/html 2012-02-04T03:57:58-08:00 Prayas Abhinav http://prayas.in/start?rev=1328356678&do=diff Media art and design projects + research. More about me here. I live in Bangalore and am a faculty and artist-in-residence at CEMA @ Srishti. I also contribute to the n.e.w.s platform. text/html 2012-02-04T03:46:11-08:00 Prayas Abhinav http://prayas.in/projects:phase_shift?rev=1328355971&do=diff Meta 2012 / Collaborator: Ramana Venkat interactive installation with camera, currency counting machine, TV, animation frames part of 'Variable Operatives' a two-person show with Baiju Parthan at The Guild, Mumbai from 17th January to 29th February, 2012 text/html 2012-02-04T03:27:01-08:00 Prayas Abhinav http://prayas.in/projects:grasp?rev=1328354821&do=diff Meta 2012 / boxes, camera, C++ code, dice, LCD screen part of 'Variable Operatives' a two-person show with Baiju Parthan at The Guild, Mumbai from 17th January to 29th February, 2012 Description A performance machine. An animation engine. Dice kept inside an openable box can be played and different instances can be recorded. text/html 2012-02-04T03:26:16-08:00 Prayas Abhinav http://prayas.in/projects:the_restoration?rev=1328354776&do=diff Meta 2012 / motorized wing, glass of water, peep-box with 7” LCD screen part of 'Variable Operatives' a two-person show with Baiju Parthan at The Guild, Mumbai from 17th January to 29th February, 2012 Description The one-winged bird is reconstructed in fragments. Disembodied experience. The point where thought and physicality traverse on tangents. A bird’s flight, thirst and visual perspective; with the bird in question absent from the scene. Fear operates differently in absence. text/html 2012-02-01T05:16:22-08:00 Prayas Abhinav http://prayas.in/projects:another_pattern_is_apparent?rev=1328102182&do=diff Meta 2011 / video installation / acrylic, text, video / part of the On the Sidereal project Text Another pattern is apparent (and all narratives are fiction) is a video installation working with the fractal nature of text and distortion. In the installation a wavering body of text was projected onto a sheet of acrylic bent in a zigzag shape. The sheet of acrylic had a vinyl pattern stuck behind it which was obstructing the passage of projection selectively. This led to this ambient interpla… text/html 2012-01-05T18:55:09-08:00 Prayas Abhinav http://prayas.in/projects:the_decay_of_meaning?rev=1325818509&do=diff Installation view Meta 2011 / game developed in Lua/Love2d / part of "Words: A users manual" at Exhibit 230 (Lado Sarai, New Delhi) curated by Himali Singh Soin. Text A game-world in which the instrumental analysis of meaning and value in vocabulary becomes an obsession. You can jump and eat words, depending on which word you eat, you speed becomes faster or slower. When the player collides with its other avatar, one of them dies (who is faster?). But then there are three lives. If y… text/html 2012-01-03T08:27:06-08:00 Prayas Abhinav http://prayas.in/projects:infected_puppets?rev=1325608026&do=diff Meta 2011 / video mosaicing code, three projections on frosted glass and one USB microphone Collaborators Parag K Mital (the video mosaicing code was based on his research) and students of Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. Exhibited as a part of “Surface,” a interim semester exhibition at Srishti.