Digital shaman probing post-colonial narratives at the boundaries of the synthetic and organic, material and immaterial, the human and nonhuman. Often in collaboration with machine intelligence.
BIO
Connie Bakshi is an artist based in Los Angeles, trained as a classical pianist and biomedical engineer. Working predominantly with artificial intelligence, she probes post-colonial narratives that emerge on the boundaries between the synthetic and organic, material and immaterial, the human and nonhuman. Her works often re-code language, lore, and ritual to unfold the binaries of colonial canon.
Her accolades include the Red Dot: Best of the Best Award for Concept Design and the International Takifuji Arts Award. She has spoken and exhibited internationally, including at Feral File, FEMGEN at Art Basel Miami, VellumLA, EPOCH Gallery, MoCDA, NFCastle, The NFT Gallery in London and NYC, and SaloneSatellite in Milan. Her work and practice have been covered by Outland, Right Click Save, and TechArt Talks. An alumna of the VerticalCrypto Art Residency and NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for art, technology, and design, she is currently a resident artist at wildxyz. Connie holds degrees from Duke University and ArtCenter College of Design.
She is descended from the ancestral shamans of Taiwan.
SELECT INTERVIEWS + TALKS
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2023 | Meet Connie Bakshi | VoyageLA Magazine
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2023 | AI x Creativity | BMW Designworks
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2023 | AI x Creativity | BMW Designworks
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2023 | An Experiential Conversation | Bright Moments
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2023 | TECHNO TERRAIN Exhibition Talk | Expanded.Art x OBJKTONE
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2023 | Studio Visit — Connie Bakshi | Outland
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2023 | Education Fundamentals for Web3 | VerticalCrypto Art
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2023 | Text / AI / and Aesthetics | DMINTI DE(VIRTUAL)
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2023 | In Conversation with theVERSEverse | NFTuesdayLA Talk
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2023 | 'Algorithmic Imaginaries x Xenospaces' | Eyebeam FOLD
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2023 | Episode 035 - Connie Bakshi | Arbitrarily Deterministic by Kenconsumer
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2023 | Color, Time, and the Blockchain | DMINTI x Museum of Crypto Art
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2023 | Reimagining Artistry: AI's Influence on the Evolution of Creative Expression | Wonder Fair 6.0
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2023 | Art in the Age of AI | Proof of People x RefractionDAO
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2023 | Colborn Bell Talks with Connie Bakshi | DXM POD
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2023 | Expanded.art Crypto Art Salon | Frieze Week | Santa Monica Art Museum
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2023 | 'FEMGEN - A Conversation with Connie Bakshi' | VCA Editorial
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2023 | 'Artist Spotlight: A Conversation with Connie Bakshi' | VellumLA
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2022 | On Art for a Posthuman Age | FEMGEN | Art Basel Miami
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2022 | CONNECTOME Opening | MOCDA x The Foundry | Decentraland
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2022 | Ex Machina: The Myth of Other | NFTuesdayLA Talk
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2022 | 'The Blockchain Ecosystem and Its Rituals' | TechArt Talks
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2022 | 'Interview with the Artist' | Museum of Permuted Art
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2022 | 'Digital Art in the Expanded Field' | RightClickSave Magazine
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2 OCT 2023
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BMW Designworks LA leads a conversation featuring a lineup of creative minds. Together, we traverse the expansive landscape of how AI is not only redefining our conception of creativity but also making unprecedented strides in a myriad of sectors, notably automotive and transportation. Gain insights into the transformative role of creators as they navigate the ever-evolving terrain of a post-generative AI world.
PANELISTS
Claire L. Evans, Musician & Author
Hassan Ragab, Computational Designer
Connie Bakshi, Artist
Michael Fullman, Director & DesignerModerated by Paul Ferraiolo of Designworks
28 SEPT 2023
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Chriswood.eth sits down with AI artist and digital shaman Connie Bakshi for an experiential conversation powered by the voice-to-image AI Dream Machine.
14 SEPT 2023
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Anika Meier and Kika Nicolela sit in conversation with the artists of TECHNO TERRAIN. NATURE IN THE AGE OF THE METAVERSE.
30 AUG 2023
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In this virtual studio visit, Bakshi joins Outland from her home in the mountains in Lake Arrowhead, California: a place which, she says, has given her the necessary solitude and space to work through the “big ideas.” She describes the post-colonial identity crisis of growing up in an immigrant family in the US that motivated her to begin making art, as well as how her scientific and engineering background has shaped her creative approach. She also reflects on the dynamics at play when working with machines or code, and discusses several projects, including her first NFT collection Ethereal Caress (2022); the virtual installation My silence would be as stone (2023); and Gray (2023), an AI-powered collaboration with the poet P. Scott Cunningham.
24 JUL 2023
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Celebrating two years of the VCA Residency. Founded by @verticalcryptoart with the mission to democratise access to education in the fields of art, blockchain and technology.
A series of online talks on Twitter Spaces and a tour of our six online galleries featuring resident artists’ works.
27 JUL 2023
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Conversations on Art & Tech, Part 1: ‘Text | AI | and Aesthetics’
with Charlotte Kent, Ana María Caballero, Shivani Mitra, and Connie Bakshi, hosted by Sam Hillmer
26 JUL 2023
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theVERSEverse guides a conversation around the poem = work of art. On collaboration, exhibition, and collection of poetry, with discussion of works exhibited with L’Avant Galerie, Feral File, Refraction Festival, and VerticalCryptoArt.
FEATURING
Elisabeth Sweet (Host and Moderator)
Connie Bakshi
Dina Chang
Carla Gannis
Ellie PrittsPOETRY READING
Katie Peyton Hofstadter
Chris Wood20 JUN 2023
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For this upcoming FOLD event, Eyebeam presents a panel moderated by curator, writer and editor Nora Khan in conversation with four artists exploring AI in their practice and research: Los Angeles based multimedia artists Connie Bakshi and Peter Wu+ and London-based Libby Heaney and Lawrence Lek.
The conversation will be anchored by each of these artist’s deep use of storytelling as a tool for exploratory and architectural worldbuilding, and the continual exchange with curatorial practice. Khan will lead a discussion around what is meaningful for art audiences when encountering art that engages with AI in practice and research. Given a shared collective reality where experience, invention, and narrative are shaped and accelerated through AI and ML processes, what encounters and experiences are aesthetically and conceptually meaningful? The discussion will cover the artists’ diverse use of modeling, neural networks and ML, place classification, and ‘AI’ in all its forms.
15 JUN 2023
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Hosted by Kenconsumer, this episode was originally broadcast on www.keithfem.com on June 15, 2023. Arbitrarily Deterministic focuses on the intersection between art, technology and popular culture and the people who help blur those lines.
In this episode I talk to Connie Bakshi. As a focus, Connie is using AI technology to explore concepts of humanness, lore and ritual. Connie and I talk about her journey to using AI as an artist, how it was growing up a musical prodigy, her background in Biomedical Engineering, recognizing that AI is an intriguing artistic collaborator, AI's role as the "other" and many more interesting things. It was an outstanding conversation to say the least.
15 JUN 2023
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theVERSEverse x L’Avant Galerie host a live curatorial tour of select works featured in the exhibition at Librarie Métamophoses. Featuring presentations by poets and artists of POÈME SBJKT.
25 MAY 2023
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DMINTI x MOCA present a 24-hour conversation about color, time, and the blockchain. Streaming live in celebration of Ricci Albenda’s Universal Color Clock.
Hosted by Colborn Bell, Shivani Mitra, Charlotte Kent, OONA, Jeff Schroer, and Sam Hillmer
29 APR - 30 APR
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Reimagining Artistry: AI's Influence on the Evolution of Creative Expression
From generative art to machine learning-driven music composition, AI is already beginning to transform the creative landscape in ways that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. But as we move deeper into the posthuman age, what will this collision of the digital and physical worlds mean for the art world and the broader society?
FEATURING
David Hernandez, Moderator
Andre Oshea
Connie Bakshi14 APRIL 2023
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Has AI become more like us or vice versa? Where is this trend taking us?
FEATURING
Danielle King, Moderator
Sasha Stiles
Connie Bakshi
Adam Berninger
Chris Ostoich_
PROOF OF PEOPLE is back with its second edition in New York on April 12 to 13 at ZeroSpace Brooklyn.
For this edition, PROOF OF PEOPLE partners with Refraction Festival to throw the first Refraction x Proof of People event in NYC - bringing culture-seekers two unforgettable days and nights of visual art, live music, immersive experiences and crucial conversations.
12 APR 2023
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FeralVerse is an anthology of multidimensional poems that embody theVERSEverse’s mission to explore the myriad ways in which words and image intertwine, growing together. Since 2021, our collective of poets, artists and technologists has explored the creative potential for composition and publication via blockchain, a realm where writers are empowered to transact their work, transcend the printed page, and collaborate with each other. Our Feral File offering — the first exhibition of verse on this platform — is planted here as a seed for the poetry journal of the future, in which authorial imagination is unbounded, language and art exist in symbiosis, and every contributor is a vital force in a literary ecosystem in which connection to verse can lead to collection.
6 APR 2023
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This collection, Protopian Futures, features artists imagining futures beyond the binary of utopia and dystopia, offering new ways of thinking embodied by their work and practice. These pragmatic futurists disrupt by creating through a protopian lens of hybrid practices, phygital transformations, perceptual shifts, and metaphysical awakening. The problems of the future cannot be solved with the mindset of the past. Instead of burning it all down, they conjure visions to replace obsolete, hierarchical, extractive systems of power by rebuilding regeneratively with equitability.
4 APR 2023
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Artists of EPOCH Gallery’s XENOSPACE exhibition discuss human-AI collaboration within the virtual world.
FEATURING
Wade Wallerstein (Moderator)
Connie Bakshi
Ana Maria Caballero
CROSSLUCID
Libby Heaney
Eddie Wong
Peter Wu+
Ziyang Wu25 MAR 2023
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The Santa Monica Art Museum hosts a series of events, exhibitions and panels with experts in art, curation, and museum innovation during Frieze Week.
Featuring Anika Meier and Margaret Murphy in conversation with artists Gretchen Andrew and Connie Bakshi to talk Web3, AI, the power of language, and the appropriation of systems of power.
Crypto Mermaids & Mimosas, powered by Tezos
18 FEB 2023
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In Episode 51, Colborn Bell of Museum of Crypto Art (MOCA) talks to AI artist Connie Bakshi about how invisible experiences are shaping our humanity.
07 FEB 2023
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Featuring Artists
Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Connie Bakshi, Joelle Snaith, Marjan Moghaddam, p1xelfool, Patrick Amadon, SamJ, Tim Maxwell, tu.uk’z
24 JAN 2023
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Meet and greet with the artists of the VCA Residency 5th Cohort
18 JAN 2023
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Meet Connie Bakshi, a pioneering transmedia artist and experiential designer who seamlessly blends technology, art, and science to create thought-provoking and boundary-pushing works that explore the human experience in the era of emerging AI.
PapaJams in conversation with Connie Bakshi.
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VellumLA in conversation with Connie Bakshi on the occasion of the Next-GEN LA: Digital Artists to Watch exhibition.
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With Anne Bracegirdle, Sasha Stiles, Connie Bakshi
Presented by VerticalCrypto Art x Right Click Save x Art Blocks
3 DEC 2022
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Co-hosts Micol Ap, Anne Marie Alanes, Danielle King in conversation with Nancy Baker-Cahill, Connie Bakshi, Ivona Tau, Linda Dounia, Melissa Wiederrecht, Ana Maria Caballero, Sasha Stiles, Tais Koshino, Operator, Aleksandra Jovanic, and Sarah Ridgley
22 NOV 2022
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Featuring Artist
Connie Bakshi in conversation with CoProd, Krishna Parikh, and anonymissNFT
17 NOV 2022
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Moderated by Margaret Murphy
Artists Ziyang and Connie Bakshi discuss artificial intelligence and its implications in art.
16 NOV 2022
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Featuring Artists
Connie Bakshi, Enes Guc, Evelyn Bencicova, SynthTati, Klahr_dk, Sasha Stiles, Tabitha Swanson, ZEITWEITZ
15 NOV 2022
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Moderator Sam Gittis in conversation with Will Lobkowicz, Jake Al-Haffar, Matthew Stone, Pedro Victor Brandao, Connie Bakshi, KingVitamin.
24 OCT 2022
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AI artist Connie Bakshi talks bending the rules to break the algorithm. Connie will share her journey through the unspoken, undefinable, and invisible aspects of language — leaving attendees to consider the hidden binaries that shape our relationship to the machine and to one another.
18 OCT 2022
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OBJKT.com in conversation with curators Adam Disbrow, Ganbrood and artists Auriea Harvey, Bruta de la Creme, Ivona Tau, Jenni Passanen, ClownVamp, Connie Bakshi, Von Doyle
5 OCT 2022
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Editor Beth Jochim in conversation with Connie Bakshi.
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Co-Founder Rodania Leung discusses the MoPAr Rite of Passage collaboration with artist Connie Bakshi.
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For two artists working across artificial intelligence and augmented reality, NFTs are unlocking new creative possibilities.
RCS in conversation with Laura Shepherd and Connie Bakshi
SELECT PRESS + PUBLICATIONS
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2023 | INTERREALITY | Fad Magazine
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2023 | Selections from theVERSEverse | Poetry Society of America
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2023 | TECHNO TERRAIN in Review | objkt.com
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2023 | Avant Galerie | POÈME OBJKT SBJKT Exhibition Catalogue
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2023 | Hyperallergic | '10 Art Shows to See in LA This May' - XENOSPACE
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2023 | Feral File | 'The Poetry Journal of the Future'
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2023 | Right Click Save | 'FEMGEN and the Brave New Art World'
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2023 | YummyColours | 'Concept of the Year: Dear Future'
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2022 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | 'AI isn't choosing our artistic future, we are'
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A few blocks from LACMA, Interreality encompasses 15,000+ sq ft & expands on conversations
addressing the divide between digital and traditional media.
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The Poetry Society’s new window installation, curated by poet and artist Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, explores how poets are using emerging technologies like blockchain to create poems that are also works of art. Featuring the work of more than a dozen poets and artists, selected from the online NFT gallery theVERSEverse and displayed on Infinite Objects, the window showcases the ways poets are pushing the boundaries of contemporary poetry.
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On August 30th our curator Kika Nicolela and Anika Meier from Expanded Art hosted a Twitter space to introduce the international group exhibition TECHNO TERRAIN: NATURE IN THE AGE OF THE METAVERSE in collaboration with objkt.one. Here are the key highlights.
15 SEPT 2023
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The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art curates for objkt.one with June 29, 2023 exhibition
A Wild & Newfangled collection of new 1/1 artworks from 15 outstanding mowna artists for objkt.one auctioning June 29th, 2023.
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T△NDEM presents a series of original works by international artists linked to generative creation. The exhibition illustrates a creative dialogue with the digital tool and experimentation using algorithmic methods.
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The catalogue of the exhibitions POÈME OBJKT SBJKT curated by theVERSEverse in collaboration with L' Avant Galerie and la Librairie Métamorphoses.
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This month’s picks are all about community, networks of support, and perseverance. Lonnie Holley brings together a group of friends and colleagues in By Any Means Necessary, while tabernacle at FOCA explores themes of dislocation, diaspora, and domesticity. Vaginal Davis summons a cadre of influential performers through her “make-up paintings” and Sherrill Roland processes the isolation and dehumanization of incarceration through his diverse practice. EPOCH’s Xenospace explores how artists can utilize AI to counter virtual alienation through creative empowerment, and Exposure highlights the disastrous repercussions that nuclear testing and environmental exploitation have had on Indigenous people around the globe.
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FeralVerse consists of ten collaborative performances between writers and artists at the avant-garde of web3 poetry and digital art, reflecting diverse perspectives, aesthetics, and approaches to the worlds around and inside us, always in flux.
Curators Ana María Caballero, Kalen Iwamoto, and Sasha Stiles asked the poets in the exhibition to answer the question: What does it mean to you to publish your poem as an NFT — and how did the experience of collaborating with a crypto artist make you think about the possibilities for literature?
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Feral File is pleased to announce FeralVerse, an exhibition that explores the myriad ways in which words and image intertwine. Curated by theVERSEverse, a collective of poets, artists, and technologists interested in the creative potential for poetry on the blockchain, FeralVerse is the first exhibition of verse on Feral File. It includes 10 new works, each of which is a collaboration between a writer and an artist and each offered as an edition of 50.
Press Release
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100 Notable AI Artists, curated by Tender Art
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The RCS community looks back on a year of critical conversations and an event that changed generative art forever.
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YummyColours presents Dear Future, an open platform for contributors of all backgrounds to utilize as a catalyst for imagination and discovery—an invitation to explore creativity, think critically, challenge trends, and discover new modes of inspiration.
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Katie Peyton Hofstadter considers the future of artificial intelligence in art.