by Urshita Bharal, Phoebe Nguyen, Suyash Singh, and Erica Wellman
Stars of Fate is an interactive generative art experience that visualizes the lifecycle of connections, their bloom and demise. As a traverser of fate, one uses the twirling and swiveling of their physical interface to guide their trail among the stars, all the while making and breaking connections with fellow traversers. Blooming stars in this sea act as a conduit for traversers to influence each other by bonding together and affirming their real selves with a quiver of their respective interfaces. This sea of fated stars is a broadcasted visualization exhibiting the struggle and journey of the fated traversers. Avid explorers of stars can try and discover hidden constellations in the mysterious stars of fate and expect minor surprise.
Urshita Bharal
A 4th year Digital Media Development student with interest in arts and programming combined. She is interested in anything related to designing or creating things such as website designing, illustrations, photography, video and music editing, 3D Modeling and so on. Have working on different projects does help gaining knowledge and a push to reach goals out of the comfort level which helped her grow more. This helped her also figure out some hidden knowledge and talent in different projects.
Suyash Singh
A 3rd year Computer Science student with too much fascination for digital art. His interests include breaking down art/realistic ideas into coding concepts, reading novels, philosophical arguments, reading novels, IoT, being in awe of better creators (artists and authors), and again reading novels. All in all, he is someone with a little too much curiosity for his own sake making him a jack of all trades, master of none. But maybe that’s what allows him to get a clearer picture of moving pieces in a bigger machinery.
Erica Wellman (Art IG @eriwell)
A Japanese Canadian 2nd-year student, majoring in Digital Media Arts. She is interested in almost anything that involves creating and has many hobbies, such as DIY, flower pressing, Illustration, music videos, web design, animations, and much more. Erica also loves to add new ideas and details to her course projects even after the deadline has passed, to gain new skills and knowledge for making a more interesting and stronger project in the future. Right now, she is working on character designs and illustrations for a game made by her friends and is also making her own projects to find her strengths and weaknesses as a step in finding her goals for the future.
For inquiries regarding this initiative, please contact:
Mark-David Hosale, Ph.D. – mdhosale@yorku.ca
Associate Professor and Chair, Computational Arts
Digital Media Program
School of Art, Media, Performance and Design
York University, Toronto
4700 Keele Street .:. 228 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts .:. Toronto ON, M3J 1P3 Canada
http://computationalarts.ampd.yorku.ca/