In this session, Harshit will take us through the world of computational art- from its origins to the immense popularity it is gaining these days. He will talk about some very new emerging and exciting forms of computational art like AI driven art, Crypto Art along with ideas of generative and new media art. The session will include brief introductions to several platforms that make it easy to get started with computational arts too.

Harshit Agrawal

Harshit is an artificial intelligence (A.I) and computational artist. Harshit was the first artist in India to actively start working with AI. He was the only Indian artist in one of the world’s first A.I art shows in a contemporary art gallery (Gradient Descent show held at Nature Morte gallery).

His work is part of the permanent exhibition at the largest computer science museum in the world, HNF museum, Germany. He has exhibited work at other premier art festivals and museums around the world, like the Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), Tate Modern (UK) and more.

His work has also been extensively covered in international media, including BBC, New York Times, often as one of the founding artists of AI art. Along with this, he carries out academic research too, having published several research papers on creation tools at art and human computer interaction conferences.

He is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab and IIT Guwahati and has carried out art residencies at the Musuem of Tomorrow (Brazil), Art Center Nabi (Korea) and X-Lab (Japan).

Students Please Note : We've kept the event to a small number (as opposed to the endless open registrations) so that there's a higher quality of interaction and engagement in the conversation. Please sign up if you're sure you can make it, else you'll be taking away a seat from someone else who'll be there :)