Tanvi Kumar

Tanvi Kumar is a software engineer who enjoys creating generative art. She has contributed to the Processing Foundation as an open source enthusiast and uses p5 to create fun pattern based art. She is currently based out of Bangalore and enjoys exploring the food in the city. Her day job is at Microsoft, India where works on front end technologies.

Patterns in Grids

A starter kit into grid based pieces. The talk will go over creating pieces in 2D in square based and hexagon based grid systems using p5. It will start with just understanding patterns, then some basic code/math to see how we create grids in p5. Finally, there will be some live coding involved and a pre-sketch where people with their laptops can try to create their own works of art.

Instagram - @generativebyt

Arjun

Arjun is passionate about the interplay between humans and computers. He wonders what could be produced if fast, accurate, stupid machines work in symbiosis with slow, inaccurate, brilliant human beings to produce creative output. A designer, through & through, Arjun currently works as a design researcher in the day with TinkerLabs, attempting to solve complex social problems with behaviour design. At night, he experiments with algorithms to produce images. An advocate of interdisciplinary approaches, he previously worked with Science Gallery Bengaluru as an Xperimenter, producing public engagement programmes for young adults to interface with the sciences.

In Between Life & Death - Breaking Down The Making

In Between Life & Death is a web-game, made with p5.js, that attempts to explore why human beings do the things they do. Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs as the underlying system, players wake up as a 'conscious' particle in space compelled by different human 'needs'. As the game progresses, fulfilling the needs becomes increasingly more complex, and players ultimately reach a grand ending - but is there one at all? Dive into a zone of existential questioning as Arjun deconstructs the process of making his game - discussing the inspiration, conversion of Maslow's theory into a system of logic, stylistic choices and its resulting impact.

Instagram - @arjunsarchive
Website - arjunmakesthings

Chaitali Kulkarni

Chaitali is an electronics engineer, educator, artist, writer. She explores the intersection of art, stories, poetry and the human condition. She plays with circuits, code, experience design, learning design, poems, narratives, mixed-media, new media, trans-media tools, cocktail mixers and whatever else catches her fancy. She does research, design, create and facilitate in spaces ranging from a corporate to science museums to art galleries. She has displayed a collaborative project, Plastic Prayaschitta as a part of BeFantastic AI Art Festival 2023 and was a part of Goethe Institute's C3: Code, Creativity, Communities cohort.

Poetry from the machines

The talk will capture exploration of generating poetry with code from the basics using arrays and markov chains to blackout poetry to using GPT3 as a collaborator. It will highlight experiences of how as humans we give meaning to randomness and those where the machines nudged a subliminal experience. It will cover ways to play with tools like p5.js, rita.js, GPT3, some python.

Instagram - @booksnchai
Website - techtales-chaitali

Sangarshanan Veeraraghavan

Sangarshanan is a Software Engineer from planet Earth. He loves making stuff that helps and amuses him in equal measure and standing upside down while holding a banana. When he's bored you can find him making absurdist memes, yet another spotify playlist or staring straight into the void.

Programming constructs for beat making ft Sonic Pi

This talk will explore parallels between programming and musical constructs using Sonic-pi by looking at how different programming concepts like data structures, conditional statements etc can be used to create intuitive compositions and of course some dope beats!

Instagram - @roguentropy
X(twitter)- @sangarshanan

Rohan Jhunja

Rohan Jhunja is a Product Designer working with early-stage startups. His projects span across AI Tools, VR, Education, and Social Media. He studied at IDC, IIT Bombay, specializing in Interaction Design focused on education - projects there included a phygital nature trail experience, research on using Whatsapp based homework and designing a reading app around open-source animated stories. More recently he worked with Inspirit VR, an edtech startup, designing VR simulations for Science education and piloting them in schools across the US and India.

3D Metaverse for Education

Virtual classrooms and the metaverse were all the rage right after COVID. Collaborative spaces and 3D technology brings a significant change to education, however, the tech stack can be very expensive to build on and to access. I began to play around with code to create simple equivalents to best features of VR simulations including immersive environments and independent exploration. I'll be sharing some of my early prototypes in P5 and JS and discussing observations from pilots in schools with VR.

Instagram - @jh_nja
LinkedIn - @rohanjhunja

Rashmi Baur

Rashmi is a master's of information design student at NID bangalore, previously trained as an architect, she has always been interested in speculative ideas at the intersection of technology and design. She likes to experiment with different narratives and processes.She often like to observe and find patterns and interconnections among various things in nature and human beings.

MBTI data portrait

This project aimed to delve into and comprehend the systems of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Through the categorization of individuals based on the MBTI and real-life comparisons, it was observed that the classifications are more of a spectrum rather than absolute categories. To visually represent this spectrum, a visualization utilizing basic shapes and colors was developed. The interactive process involved users inputting their MBTI type and percentages, which resulted in the generation of their unique badge. The coding aspect of the project utilized the p5.js framework, enabling the creation of dynamic and visually engaging visuals. Overall, the project provided an innovative and visually intuitive way to explore and understand the nuances of MBTI types.

Instagram - @pocket.elf
LinkedIn - @rashmibaur

Collaborative Music Making with p5.js

In this engaging 1-hour workshop, participants will dive into the fundamentals of p5.js, a powerful JavaScript library for creative coding and learn how to code a basic synthesizer. Harnessing the potential of their smartphones, each participant will contribute to a collective musical experience, playing together in real-time. Through hands-on exploration and experimentation,this session promises to help you discover coding and the magic of collaborative music making.

Varun Desai

Artist and creative coder

Varun Desai is a computer engineer working in the fields of synthesis and interactive design. He's been a teacher and lecturer for both hardware and software platforms as well as a graphic designer, coder, musician and synthesizer builder. His video art projects use real-time code-based visualisations that make use of custom built microphones, cameras and sensors. Varun has 17 years of experience working in arts and culture as a promoter, label manager, and producer. As a musician, composer and educator he has been involved in trans-cultural projects and residencies and has created works that are responsive to the technological advances of the digital age. Varun is the founder of Synthfarm, India's leading residency for synthesis, modular sound, music production and synth-making and is the director of the Kolkata Jazzfest, one of India's longest running music festivals.

Instagram - @varundo
X(twitter)- @varundo
Facebook - @varundo

p5 Portraits

P5.js beginner workshop

Make a portrait of yourself using code in 60 minutes or less! (Else your next pizza is free). Learn the basics of creative coding and p5.js in this workshop where we use simple shapes and colours to make a self portrait. Engage with your creative side through some code!
This workshop is for absolute beginners who are curious about how to make art with code.

Mathura Govindarajan

"Mathura is a creative technologist in Bangalore, India. She runs a non profit - Paper Crane Lab - which focuses on making STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) more accessible and affordable. She was a fellow and graduate student at New York University, in the Interactive telecommunication Program, and now am a guest faculty in NYU. Her current interests revolve around education, fabrication, coffee and messing around with maps. Overall, she is very enthusiastic when it comes to learning new things. More so, she's always looking out for things that help bridge the gap between art, science and technology."

email - mathura@papercranelab.com

Turn an algorithm into a zine

Learn to create complex art using simple rules (aka algorithms!), and turn them into zines (DIY mini-magazines!) Whether you're new to creative coding, or have been playing with p5.js or other creative technologies, join us as we turn our ideas into printed zines that can have many variations & unique themes.

Rasagy Sharma

Information Designer, Data Artist & Design Educator.

Rasagy Sharma is an Information Designer, Data Artist, Design Educator & Compulsive Sketchnoter. He currently heads the design team for DataLabs at CapitalOne, and has spent over a decade designing data-heavy applications. In his free time, he creates art using data on identities, memories & other unusual topics, and teaches creative coding, cartography & data visualization at NID & IDC, IIT Bombay.

X(twitter) - @rasagy Instagram - @data.n.coded

Ipsa Jain

Scientist-turned-science communicator

Ipsa Jain is a scientist-turned-science communicator. She makes books, zines, images, and stories about science and its processes for different audiences. She is interested in public participation in science, and building science communication skills in young scientists. She also works with design students on courses that confluence at the intersection of science, society, and engagement."

Instagram - ipsawonders

A Guide to Performing Live Coded Visuals

In popular imagination, writing code equals being very serious about it. A lot of times this kind of code is written within the corporate structure, and has very long lifetimes. Tests are written and sensible comments are expected to be left. But all is not well in the code kingdom. Legacy software, bugs and deadlines plague the system and rid it of much joy. Live coding lets you break out of these boundaries. It lets you explore making mistakes and experience how it is completely okay to do so. It lets you write code that is ephemeral and that will possibly never give the same results. It is kind and welcoming and freeing. It lets you experience the joys of performing. This workshop is aimed at beginners who are curious about performing with code. We will use a language called Punctual to make some visuals in the browser, and if time permits, have people drawing and coding with each other using a collaborative Live Coding space called Estuary! Let's play with some code together!

Anushka Trivedi

Creative Technologist and Net Artist

Anushka Trivedi / opheliagame as a creative technologist uses code to write computer programs that create images and poems. As a net artist, her practice involves making tools, websites and live coding visuals. Coming from a technology background, she is always thinking about and exploring what it means to make art and to be an artist. She was a part of the freeFall exhibition curated by dra.ft for ELO, 2021 and Future Landing for Serendipity Arts Festival, 2022. Her work is currently exhibiting as part of this.generation at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts.

Instagram - @ophelia.game

Vinay

Vinay is a creative technologist and new media artist based in Pondicherry. With an insatiable drive for novelty and experimentation, he enjoys conceptualising and creating multisensorial experiences that evoke awe and wonder through technology. His interests are multi-disciplinary, and typically so is his work. He creates interactive installations, multimedia performances, audio-visual art and immersive experiences.

Instagram - @_vinaykhare_

Dhanush R

Dhanush is an 8th standard student from Sri Saraswati Vidyaniketan school in Sarapur. He is interested in Maths and Science. Outside of academics, he enjoys sports - especially football. Late last year he took part in a coding competition conducted in his school, and his team took the first place. Today we will talk to him to understand p5.js from his eyes - what he liked, what he didn't and what more he'd want out of it!

Algorave — short for algorithmic rave — is a performance format and underground movement that revolves around the practice of live-coding, that is, writing and editing code live in front of an audience to create music and visuals. Live coding has been a medium for performing arts for almost three decades, but it was usually restricted to either the art world or tech and trans-media events. In 2012, Sheffield-based musicians Alex McLean, Nick Collins and other UK based livecoders decided to take live coding into the club environment, organizing live coding jams at local music venues under the Algorave banner.

Abhinay Khoparzi

Filmmaker, Musician, Livecoder, Computational Artist

Abhinay Khoparzi is a multidisciplinary artist, and creative technologist from Allahabad, India who maintains a practice across film, video, music and web technologies. After cofounding Algorave India in 2018 Abhinay has been instigating computational arts events and communities all over the country and has been pushing the Algorave scene in collaboration with artist collectives in various cities. Khoparzi performs with TidalCycles and Hydra and has played experimental and dance music performances at Fat Finger Mayhem (Mumbai, 2018, 2019), ICLC (online, 2019, 2020), ISMIR Conf (2022), U-Oslo RITMO Rave (2020), Github Universe and Satellite (2020, 2021, 2022) and many more.

Instagram - @khoparzi
X(twitter)- @khoparzi
Youtube - @khoparzi