Professor & Chair School of Fine & Performing Arts FLAME University, Pune
Dr. Vinod Vidwans is currently a Professor at the FLAME, Pune. He was a Senior Designer and an Ex-Vice Chairman (Research) at National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. He also headed the disciplines of New Media and Software User Interface Design at NID, Ahmedabad, India. At NID he taught Foundation, Undergraduate and Postgraduate students across all the disciplines. He has been a visiting faculty & resource person at IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Kanpur, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Symbiosis Institute of Design Pune, D J Academy of Design Coimbatore, CEPT University Ahmedabad, Pt. Deendayal Petroleum University Gandhinagar and Central University of Hyderabad.
He inherits Vedic and Indic knowledge tradition and currently engaged in research on various Indic themes. He has designed and developed a creative intelligent expert system for Indian Classical Music taking inspiration from Bharata’s Natyashastra and Sangeet Ratnakara of Sharangadeva. The software generates a Bandish (a musical composition) on its own without any human assistance in a given Raga and renders it in traditional classical Indian style. The creative software system uses principles of artificial intelligence (AI).
