Video Art

City Signals

The rapid urbanisation that Bangalore is witnessing is a cause for much concern as well pride. Amongst the cacophony created by this process of change, the city appears to have lost its voice. It seems to have lost the ablity to connect with the people who reside within it. This project is a collaboration with sound, video and movement artists in a bid to create a live performative dialog with the city and its people. We hope to create an awareness of the citys' spaces and their significance to its people through our efforts.

VJ Experiments

VJing with the Bobbleheads on the 4th of April 2009 at the Goethe Institut, Bangalore was a fantastic experience. Tanvi Rao, Suman Sridhar, Kamal Singh and I featured with this newly formed electronica act. Must say it was a super fun experiment for me to play with 6 projectors in a perfect-for-VJing auditorium. And better still, we opened for one super amazing German electronica act - Mouse on Mars. These guys absolutely rock!!!

Photocredits: Arnab Dey

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I also sometimes VJ at nightclubs and love seeing these spaces come alive with video projections. Starting off with a couple of gigs with DJ Bipin and Roberto Narain way back in 2005 at Taika, I plugged in with the super talented DJ Nuerotesque (aka Rahul Giri) for a brief stint at the Underground Monday scene at Maya mid 2008.

Posters designed by Shilo Shiv Suleman

VJ Manjunaut

VJ for Lounge Piranha

I worked with a Bangalore-based post-rock band called Lounge Piranha from around early 2005 till late 2008 . This project was my efforts at live video performance art. The aspect of performance art came mainly from the fact that the video projections were assembled, edited and projected live at the shows. While the band created sound with musical instruments, I created projected visuals with my laptop. My background as an animation film designer from NID really came into play here. A live installation aspect came from using theater techniques specifically with lights to create the mood and ambiance for the bands' performances. My last performance with this band was as part of their Going Nowhere India tour in September 2008.

Going Nowhere Tour 2008 Shot at B'lore by Kim

Going Nowhere Tour 2008 Shot at Manipal by Vandana Menon

VJ Mix for Lounge Piranha's Gunsong

Lounge Piranha: Jamroom

Lounge Piranha at Strawberry Fields

Lounge Piranha at Opus

Nameless Now

Animation

I studied Animation Film Design at NID between 2000 and 2004. It was a crazy ride and I learnt animation the classical style - cel or hand-drawn animation. I love it. It makes sense to me as an artist and over time I hope to use my learning to tie up with my interest in performance art with Lounge Piranha.

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