Nirmesh Gollamandala (b. 1989, India)

Working at the boundary between DETERMINISTIC_SYSTEMS and organic imperfection, he is a creative technologist and interdisciplinary practitioner who treats CODE as a material practice—capable of rhythm, contingency, and embodied response. In dialogue with pedagogical lineages that insist on the integration of art and technology, he left a decade in industrial engineering contexts (HONEYWELL, GENERAL MOTORS) to pursue a research-led practice through Man3shi Studio, where algorithmic systems are developed not to flatten experience, but to reintroduce sensitivity, drift, and human scale.

Informed by wabi-sabi, he approaches imperfection as a generative condition, and treats the interface not as a surface but as a responsive environment in which computation can approximate biological behaviors: growth, mutation, rhythm, and recovery.

His computational methodology is grounded in embodiment: the body as instrument, and movement as a form of systems-thinking. As a First Generation Breaker from India, he traces an epistemology of making to street culture—where constraint becomes style, and improvisation becomes structure. Rooted in hip-hop, he inherits a particular freedom of expression that sharpens his perspective on identity, and deepens his relationship to the South Asian diasporic condition. This practice matured in Chicago—the birthplace of House—where he has performed within the culture, including contexts such as the CHICAGO HOUSE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2025, and in proximity to foundational figures such as LIL LOUIS.

Balancing kinetic output with somatic study, he trained in NOGUCHI TAISO with MARI OSANAI, a practice that frames the body as a water-filled vessel yielding to gravity. He translates this HYDRODYNAMICS into engineering, replacing rigid logics with algorithms that flow—systems that remain stable without becoming sterile.

His current research explores the fluidity of language and reimagines typography as a responsive organism—an interface that moves, adapts, and remains accountable to the body that reads it.

“Man3shi” derives from the Telugu Manishi (మనిషి), meaning “Human,” and functions as a constraint in the best sense: a reminder that computational systems should remain accountable to lived, embodied experience.