Demo Reel
Ansh Patel
experimental art / criticism / research
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Demo Reel
select artworks
first-person narrative on violence and its legacy in a utopian future
four-part experimental game series interrogating player choice and agency
meta-simulation and critical commentary of the game industry in form of an interactive installation
degenerative interactive fiction, where every action you take disintegrates both the world and the story’s grammatical structure bit by bit
interactive installation exploring the decay of a long-distance, romantic relationship through the filters of unreliable technology
procedural audio-visual anxiety generator
dancing battle on a light projected colored floor involving teams of two navigating trust through non-verbal communication
narrative performance constructed from live oncoming TCP/IP packets from the audience
installation on the spatial and temporal qualities of film and screen while placing the participant’s eye within a projector
exquisite corpse made with friends comprised of 6 interactable vignettes
select talks and press
On process-centric approach to creating and interdisciplinary collaboration
On the need for a speculative futures in art
Motherboard VICE feature on Agency?
On experimental games movement
Huffington Post on Radical/Networks projects
On the mesh network project “Playful Mesh"
Kill Screen interview on Agency?
On the experimental games series and its critiques on game conventions
Time feature on the research at the lab I work
On deep brain stimulation and trying to find a cure to Alzheimer’s
critical writing
On thecatamites’ Crime Zone, hierarchies of systemic power, police and identity through space
Kentucky Route Zero's Musical Centerpiece and the Power of Choice (Paste)
Analyzing Act III of KRZ and how it provides player expressive power to paint their emotions on the canvas of its linear narrative
An essay about death, mortality and memories viewed from an ephemeral game
Questioning the 3D Printing Revolution (Model View Culture)
A critical perspective on the techno-utopian ideas of Fabrication Revolution and the continual erasure of the work of the underprivileged communities
Namaste Inc. (The New Inquiry)
On “Namaste” and the pursuit of the authenticity of cultural identity trapped within a globalized narrative
select academic writing
Fairness for Whom? Critically reframing fairness with Nash Welfare Product
paper critiquing and analyzing algorithmic fairness techniques in automated decision-making systems used for pre-trial detention and proposing a novel technique by drawing from welfare economics
Theta and alpha oscillations are traveling waves in the human neocortex (Neuron)
clustered theta and alpha oscillations in neocortex exhibit characteristics of traveling waves in posterior-to-anterior direction
Imperialism in the Worlds and Mechanics of First-Person Shooters (Journal of Games Criticism)
paper on how imperialist narratives manifests through the mechanics of first-person shooters
this is about agency?