Hi, I am Abhishek. Creative Technologist based in BLR

Walk into a Fragmented Forest examines how forest interiors and edges operate as distinct ecological worlds—shaped by fragile and often invisible relationships between plants, fungi, and insects. Central to the work is the Janzen-Connell effect, a process through which high-species diversity is sustained in tropical forests—dependent on distance, density, and vulnerability.

Convivial Commons Congress is an artistic research installation that explores how non-human actors can be integrated into collective decision-making processes through the use of artificial intelligence. Five AI-based assistants represent the interests of different stakeholder groups.

Their positions emerge from the analysis of their own sensor data, external environmental measurements, scientific models, and publicly accessible datasets. The basis for decision-making is therefore not symbolic speech about nature, but a largely autonomous, data-driven evaluation of conditions, ecological limits, and long-term environmental dynamics.

The debates are continuously documented and condensed into key statements, which are printed onto thermal paper receipts. At the end of the process, the discussed positions are put to a vote. Visitors can act as delegates by reading the printed receipts aloud, thereby bringing the debates into the physical space.

"Code Drift started as an Ajaibghar initiative and amorphously evolves with it's community."

Code Drift : The Game is a step by step, playful immersion into your own environment, to collaborate with your friends and create digital artwork for your context.

Play the game and find out more about Code drift at - codedrift.ajaibghar.com

Code drift: The game is a project commissioned by Ajaibghar

The compilation brings together sound artists from Algorave India, a community exploring live coding and algorithmic performance, and visual artists from the code.drift collective, known for their friendly approach to creative coding through playful urban exploration and generative sound & design practices rooted in their situated experiences.

Each track on this album is made using different algorithmic processes. Artists used tools aligned with their individual practices—from TidalCycles and Sonic Pi to Max/MSP and audio-to-audio synthesis models—to process sound with generative algorithms. These open-source environments allow for experimentation, improvisation, and unexpected sonic outcomes, turning lines of code into texture, rhythm, and movement.

At its core, the project showcases what’s possible when open-source tools and collective effort come together to create not just music, but an entire culture of making. This is accessible art made from scratch—by artists across India and the diaspora—pushing sound, code, and visual form into new territories.

Each zine in the series is a visual extension of its corresponding track—created with p5.js—translating audio into programmed visuals that glitch, pulse, drift, and loop. The zines are not illustrations; they are systems. Each one reveals something about the inner workings of the track, while also standing alone as a piece of code-based publishing.

Together, this project reflects the possibilities of open creative practice and aims to put a small but intentional marker on the global map of tech-art—from the perspective of artists working across India and the diaspora.

Installation for Baarish.anexperience (Episode One) - Echoes Before Rain
In a city waiting for the monsoon, we constructed a tiny little storm.

This immersive installation - created for Baarish, an episodic one-day seasonal festival - transformed a transitional space, a corridor, into a sensorial passage between weather, memory, and presence. A narrow walkway within Travancore Palace was reimagined as a living organism: responsive, ephemeral, awake.

The installation is meant to invoke the feeling of a marching band. As visitors march through a set on brass and percussion instruments, the marching band tune slowly forms one instrument at a time forming a full composition.

Imagine a tree standing tall in a forest. What has it witnessed? whose voices has it heard? and, what does it remember?

Memories of a tree is an installation that answers these questions by turning trees in a living archive of sound.

Interactive sculpture produced and curated by W.I.P Labs for BLR HUBBA

In the dystopian world of 2124, where a singular real plant survives, encircled by its motorised counterparts, a beacon of what once was—a poignant reminder of the world that could be if we fail to act in defence of our planet’s dwindling biodiversity.

A fun website to settle your disagreements with a game of rock, paper, scissors.

Code drift collective is an amorphous bunch of curious wanderers who drift through cities weaving the chaotic, vibrant essence of city life into immersive audio-visual cityscapes using real time code.

(AR)t Room is an Instagram AR filter to explore artwork in my house. Some of the artwork comes to life and animates when viewed through the AR filter.

Due to Meta deciding to discontinue Spark studio, all third party AR filters including (AR)t room will stop functioning after 14th Jan 2025