Assistant creative technologist at DXARTS, University of Washington, majored in electrical engineering and likes to work more in interdisciplinary projects_____loves to work on innovative hybrid video art & engineering, 
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                           eat imported mangoes from India. 

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What caused the transition in my interest?

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After my first year in grad school studying electrical engineering, my passion towards video art and urge to represent the masses kept pushing me to get back to the artistic realm. So I took a research credit to work in Juan Pampin’s Lab in the Digital Arts and Experimental Media(DXARTS) department at UW, where I had the great fortune of practicing the integration of elements like aesthetics, philosophy, mechatronic art, poetic data and video art to develop contemporary interactive media. And I immediately dove into understanding how every element in the world has a fair share of both Science and Art, which are nothing but the same, approaching the same subject or idea from two different directions. Which made me think how the world is full of interdisciplinary connections, and understanding it can be used to keep our civilization at a sweet subtle point, without hurting anything around it, including our own kind. And following a job that could make use of my skills that I had practiced in engineering,  I felt it would be meaningless if I settle for just designing a form of engineering mechanism to assist the current system. Because the things that bothers me about the world are, 

1. I don't see revolutionary people around us anymore. Are those days gone? Why do I feel I wanna do something like that? Am I irrelevant to the current era? 

2. We have stopped letting nature create some art too. Just sit on a hill and watch nature direct a movie. The trees moving, breeze flowing, light playing around. Animals chasing each other.

3. Where are we running to? What are we after? Just imagine how the world would be if instagram was deleted, and how the mainstream media would be more pure and authentic. How can we make people gain awareness rather than ignorantly consume entertainment? Nowadays, repetition is so much that the algorithms are not needed to recognise them, but the evolution of algorithms is stunted due to too much repetition of information in the world. 

4.  Promoting creative lifestyle needs to be infused into day to day life but would it make everything even more complex? Should we work on initiating a Reverse progress of civilization? If not, how can we make people live closely connected to the earth, and sustainable thought processing with the advancement in tech? 

5. Sometimes, I look at the colors that are depleting with the emergence of new digital shades. The towns and landscapes look different, look at the influence of an artist, how a new pattern or a colour theory creates a new world. we don't know what is perfect, we always hunt for change in everything we do. 

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And I could not move on without finding answers to these questions and care only about myself. So I need to be involved in a place where the mission is to critically examine and innovate media art and help me connect my ideas and voices with the creative media - the second alternate verse of the universe, to have a deeper impact on the emotions of not just humans but of whole ecosystem.