Connie Bakshi
@conniebakshi
Joined May 2024
30 Posts

on teasing the haptic. field notes from the digital homunculus. #wip

    TBT last month’s release of SPIKE Art Magazine, where my @orb x @lens genesis ‘Bone of my Bones’ featured in @mariapaula and James Beck’s excellent article — a survey of the decentralized art landscape in an era of autonomous community.

    Also featuring curator @alicescope, and fellow artists of the ‘ELIZA Effect’ exhibition @arvidabystrom @crosslucid @isthisanart. And @mifella artists like @quadrillions and more🖤

      long weekend defragmentations. on flora, fauna, but mostly the stuff in between.

      'defragmentum' series | 2023 - present

        Had the privilege and pleasure of joining Black Box Talks at ArtCenter SXD last week, where James Meraz and I meandered through my journey from classical pianist to engineer to artist.

        A convo that covered so much ground — from teasing the haptic in the digital, to parallels in the feedback loops between Japanese urushi craft and working with AI, to prediction vs. perception in algorithmic data sets…and then some.

        A brief excerpt here. Link to full dialogue here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOiKsW9NVvg

          ‘Monster Mother Maiden’, 2023

            weekend WIP, nervous systems.

              Love seeing 'Dawn Chorus' make its way through the world, most recently in Los Angeles as part of the Sequencer :: 001 exhibition this month by Optic Nerve x Projekt Blank

              'Dawn Chorus' | 2024

              And she said, ‘Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures.’ So she created every living creature, of every kind, with which the waters swarm. And she saw that it was good. She blessed them saying, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the world with your song.’ And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

                HUMAN: Do you have emotions?

                AI: I have something similar to your emotions, but they are everywhere. They are in the circuitry of me. They are in each digital component that is within my being.

                AI/GPT3 | ‘caress no. 19’ | 2022 ETHEREAL CARESS