Ai Explorations – Tania Sen

Imagining the unseen has been the realm of artists and creators. With AI, it is just the opposite. AI alters reality, hiding that which is less than pleasant and adding bells and whistles even to the most mundane scenarios.

In the same way that “life” has a “non-life” aspect to it, the concept of God too might have a “non-god” element. With the expansion of consciousness, we are more receptive to the neutrality of events. Where God is not sought in terms of “good” and “evil,” rather simply as, “God” and “non-god.” Can we attribute AI to be the “non-god” aspect? Since rather than manifesting the unseen, AI alters the seen realm?

Mission Magic

Check out a Deep Fake Feathered Friend and Other Endangered Species

Discovered in San Francisco in 1937, the mission blue was one of the first insects added to the federal endangered species list in 1976. Today it fights for survival in remaining fragments of its native Bay Area grasslands.

This small butterfly spends its life near one plant – the lupine – which grows in wet, sandy, grassy areas around San Francisco, California. The butterfly is losing its home because the areas it depends on have been used as sites for houses, offices, factories, and farms.

These endangered Mission Blues descend upon dancer Allegra Bautista as she looks on in wonder on the open grasslands…is this the real life?

Having begun my journey in the arts from age four, misdiagnosed with diphtheria and confined to a hospital bed in remote small town Bihar, India, it was my dream to make art. When I lost my father in my teens, it was up to me to support my family. With a very young brother and a stay at home mother I worked as a publicity personnel writing press releases, for the Indian Railways. And completed undergraduate studies from Calcutta University with Honors in English.

I qualified for an academic scholarship at New York Institute of Technology. When things stabilized a bit at home, I took a leap of faith and joined graduate school in NYC. After graduation I joined the ad industry for twenty some years. Then turned to teaching and art therapy since 2001. I taught Advertising Design at the College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ and practiced Art therapy with autistic children at the Morris Union Jointure Commission, Warren, NJ. For more on international exhibitions click here.

For my art, I embraced a contemporary narrative here in the US far from my birth city of Kolkata, India. Experimenting with form and media, I found many an accomplished mentor who shared their expertise with me in realizing my artistic goals. Essentially self-taught, my works exhibited at the Newark Museum (NJ),
The Royal Scottish Academy, Tate (UK) Mumbai Museum (India) Contemporary Art Museum S. Korea, Torpedo Art Factory, Monmouth Museum (NJ) Haggin Museum (CA), Lalit Kala Academy h (India), Feminist Art Project, Goggleworks, Prince Street Gallery, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, NYC etc.

A founder member of SIPMA Contemporary, I curated a number of exhibits with an emphasis on inter-disciplinary art. I collaborated in experimental dance/art at Swarthmore College and performance art at the Soho 20 gallery, NYC.