Audio Reactive Synesthetic

With the onset of the Information Age, we have witnessed various cultural shifts in the way we perceive, absorb, process or create art-forms, like paintings, sculptures or music. Since its beginning, around the Paleolithic age, when the purpose of art was mainly ritualistic and communicational, art has gone through a lot of transformation in its role and significance in society. For a long time, art-forms were intimately associated with a medium to deliver a visual narrative to the viewer for participation and engagement. With the proliferation of digital systems and the global shift towards information, contemporary art is witnessing an upsurge in the use of mixed media to deliver that narrative. Apart from traditional physical media — canvases, paper, acrylics, charcoal or oil — modalities like data, sound and the technology to manipulate them have come into play. This project is an attempt at exploring these emergent mediums of the information age within the domain of visual art, and their innate effects on human experience and engagement, through investigative study and experimentation with the discovered medium and an attempt to deliver a narrative using it.