Hello!

i am an AI (artificial intelligence) artist and human computer interaction (HCI) researcher. i graduated from the Fluid Interfaces group at MIT Media Lab and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Guwahati). i’ve carried out art residencies at various places to develop my practice in diverse cultural contexts, including at the Art Center Nabi (Seoul, Korea), Museum of Tomorrow (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Kakehi-Lab (Tokyo/ Yokohama, Japan). i was the only Indian artist in one of the the world’s first AI art show in a contemporary art gallery (Gradient Descent held at Nature Morte gallery, curated by 64/1). My work is part of the permanent exhibition at the largest computer science museum in the world, the HeinzNixdorfs Museum Forum in Paderborn, Germany. i’ve been privileged to exhibit my work at other premier art shows, festivals and museums around the world, like the ‘Augmenting Creativity Exhibition’ at Nanjing Arts University (China), Art Bengaluru Art Fair (India), Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), Tate Modern (UK), Asia Culture Center (at Otherly Spaces/Knowledge exhibition curated by Kazunao Abe-san, Korea), QUT Art Museum (Why the Future Still Needs Us exhibition, Australia), Museum of Tomorrow (Brazil), Alt-Ai (at the School For Poetic Computation, NYC), Art Center Nabi (Korea), Laval Virtual (France), TIFA Studios (Pune, India), BeFantastic Festival (Bangalore, India), ISEA (Canada). My work has also been extensively covered in international media, including BBC, New York Times, often as one of the founding members of this new genre of art- A.I based art. Along with this, i’ve published several research papers on creation tools at art and human computer interaction conferences, including Siggraph, ISEA, UIST, UbiComp, TEI, IUI, IDC.

Through my practice, i explore what i call the ‘human-machine creativity continuum’- the melding of human and machine creative agency. i use machines and algorithms and often create them as an essential part of my art process, embracing becoming the cyborg artist. i often juxtapose traditional art media, tools and processes along with machines and computation, creating a space to both direct, and be guided by the machine.

Through my work, i invite people to reflect upon and re-evaluate their ever evolving relationship with technology. i use A.I, drones, sensors, augmented reality technologies creating both extreme and alternate narratives, providing a platform for the audience to explicitly engage and converse with these, than being implicitly steered by them.

(Here is my CV)

To enquire about purchasing of any of the pieces on my website, please drop me a line at harshit.rnnh@gmail.com.

Updates
Participated in the Google Arts and Culture and MIT Media Lab organized Open Lab– Home Sprint. 2 day online event for making art. Worked with artist Rohini Devasher. (June 2020)
Profiled by Association of Designers India for my work on AI Art. (May 2020)
(author)rise at Summer Nostos Festival, Greece. (May 2020)- Cancelled.
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Creative Expression at National Institute of Design, Bangalore as part of Processing Community Day. (Feb 2020)
Keynote, panel discussion and exhibition at India Science Festival- the largest Science Festival in India. (Jan 2020)
Artwork ‘Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Algorithm’ exhibited as part of NeurIPS creativity workshop. (Dec 2019)
Masked Reality and GAN Narratives at Cyberia Arts Festival by TIFA Studios at Pune, India. (Dec 2019).
Spoke to art students at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology as part of their Proto Art Festival. (Dec 2019)
Masked Reality at ‘Augmenting Creativity‘ Exhibition at Nanjing, China– curated by Jason Bailey (one of the foremost curators and writers of A.I and digital art). Along with other international computational artists- Casey Reas, Sougwen Chung, Robbie Barrat, David Young, Alexander Reben, Fan Xiang.  (Nov 2019)
Masked Reality, Latent Landscapes and Emergent Patterns exhibition at Art Bengaluru by Sublime Gallery. (Nov 2019)
Feature interview on my AI Art practice by Cueva Gallery (Oct 2019)
AI Everything art show in Dubai, curated by Luba Elliott (one of the foremost A.I Art curators). (May 2019).
Machinic Situatedness Show at Nature Morte Gallery in partnership with WeWork Bangalore. (March 2019)
Gave a TedX talk titled ‘The Art of Artificial Intelligence’ at TedX SIBM. (Feb 2019)
Part of a panel on Digital Heritage as part of the Unbox Festival. The panel consisted of an art curator, museum owner and art historian, another artist and a designer. Bangalore (17 Feb 2019).
Gave a Masters talk at the Kolkata Design Week on AI and Art and the Evolution of the Cyborg Artist at the Kolkata Center for Creativity (Feb 16 2019).
Spoke at the ‘Processing Community Day‘ on AI Art at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Bangalore (2 Feb 2019).
Spoke at the ‘Music Tech Community Meet-up‘ with the theme “ML for Music and Art Generation”. Bangalore (29 Dec 2018).
Gave a talk on AI and Art and was on a panel at the AI Future Lab organized by the Quicksand Design Studio in Goa, (16-17 Nov 2018).
Gave a TedX talk titled ‘Making art with Artificial Intelligence-The evolution of Cyborg Artist’ at TedX Surat (one of the largest TedXs of India). (Oct 2018)
Gave a talk and was on a panel on Designing for AI at NUMA, Bangalore as part of Bangalore Design Week and IxDA (Interaction Design Association) Bangalore Chapter. (4 Oct 2018)
Gave a talk and was on a panel on Mixed Reality and AI in Art at the Laval Virtual Asia/ World Virtual Reality Innovation Conference, China. (27-29 Sept 2018)
Was the only Indian artist among 7 A.I art pioneers (Mario Klingemann, Memo Akten, Tom White, Anna Riddler, Jake Elwes, Nao Tokui) in one of the first A.I only art shows to take place in a contemporary art gallery- Gradient Descent Show at Nature Morte, Delhi, India. (Aug 2018)
Tandem became part of permanent collection of the largest computer science museum in the world- Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum at Paderborn, Germany. (Jul 2018)
(author)rise exhibited at Laval Virtual, an annual Virtual Reality and Emerging Technologies festival. (Laval, France). (3-8 April 2018)
Tandem and A Flying Pantograph exhibited in the Otherly Spaces/ Knowledge exhibition at Asia Culture Center (Gwangju, Korea), curated by Kazunao Abe. Work showed along with other new media artists- Kyle McDonald, Daito Manabe, Evala, Lauren McCarthy, Marko Pelijhan, Matthew Biederman, Moon Kyungwon, Jeon Joonho, Pierce Warnecke, Ryoji Suzuki, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sang-won Leigh, Satoshi Furuya, Sho Miyake. (2-25 March 2018)
(author)rise demo presented at the Intelligent User Interfaces conference (Tokyo). (7-11 March 2018)
Gave an artist talk at BeFantastic Festival (new media art festival in Bengaluru, India). Tandem was also exhibited at the BeFantastic Festival. (15-17 December 2017).
Tandem was installed at the Museum of Tomorrow (Rio De Janeiro) for an year long exhibition on Artificial Intelligence. (4 January 2018).
Participated in the Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion Symposium at Museum of Tomorrow (Rio de Janeiro). Exhibited Samba+AI music experiments at the symposium. (8-11 November 2017).
(author)rise was exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria). (7-11 September 2017).
Tandem (v1) was exhibited as part of the Why the Future Still Needs Us exhibition at QUT Art Museum (Brisbane, Australia). (August-October 2016)
Artist+Research residency at Kakehi Lab/ JST Erato (Yokohama, Tokyo). (March-June 2017).
Gave a talk at around Artificial Intelligence and Creativity at PICNIC Brazil (11 November 2017)
Artist Residency at Museum of Tomorrow (Rio De Janeiro). (October-December 2017).
Gave a talk around creative experiences for self-expression at INK Talks (several TED global speakers speak at INK annually). Was also part of the INK Fellows cohort for 2016-2017 batch. (Goa, India) (16-18 September 2016).
Artist Residency at Art Center Nabi (Seoul). (July-August 2016).