SNDBOX
2026
Rangoli has been drawn for more than five thousand years as an act of prayer. To seek blessings, to invite something greater. In this work, the sand is offered to something that interprets it differently. SNDBOX is an interactive installation where participants draw forms in colored sand. A machine vision system assigns a label to the form, and generates an image displayed on a monitor in real time. Whether participants tried to follow the output or resist it, their actions were shaped by what the system had generated. It is not in dialogue. And yet, humans find responses within it, and attempt to read intention into it.
Credit:
Rintaro Fujita (Concept & Development)
Group Members: Khadiza Khasamwala, Kanak Kothawale, Megh Maliikaa Bora
Video shooting: Piyush Soni
Rangoli drawing performer in the video: Dhiru Boro
IDC School of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay