"With every disability comes a superpower, waiting to be discovered or waiting to get recognition."- a generative AI artist with ADHD
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Caroline is a creative technologist who tells creative stories through the use of emerging technologies and is passionate about generative AI art. Her recent project, EnvisageKIT, utilizes artificial intelligence to make art therapy more accessible and inclusive for people with various neurodivergent conditions.
Interview with Caroline Mishra:
Q: What is your favorite AI art project?
A: If I am to talk about the work of other artists, Elsewhere in India is an amazing project by indofuturists Thiruda and Murthovic - it presents an alternative future and adventure led by a cultural cyborg called Meenakshi. The aesthetic and themes really resonate with my own values as an artist and personal philosophy, which is a somewhat utopian mindset around technology for good. There are also a few artists creating some mind blowing surrealist images and videos which are just fun and make my day every time they pop up in my Instagram - Niceaunties (surrealism X Kawaii), enjoykaos aka Jiminy Albion (monochrome and red tentacle horror plus gingers) and artificial.nightmares (does what it says on the tin!).
If I am to talk about my own work, ‘a machine gift of many masks’ was my first project with GANs - In this series, I explore the many masks we wear when we interface with others via the medium of technology. Each image is created from a single source self-portrait artwork, run through a generative adversarial network with different parameters changed, some intentionally, some randomised.
The machine is responsible for if it comes out ugly, beautiful, angelic or demonic. Human control on the outcome is limited and the algorithms have taken charge - a reflection of the experience we all now have with our own image when we use computers and the internet, whether we realise it or not.
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My most recent project EnvisageKIT is exploring using generative AI to democratise art therapy for neurodivergents and create a BCI (brain computer interface) software based on the same online platform, which one day I hope will be able to be used in a clinical setting. I am putting together a team of developers, therapists and interaction/UX designers and applying for funding.
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