Harshit Agarwal is an Indian artist working with emerging technologies, primarily artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D printing. His practice centers around exploring the poetics of technology in our already posthuman existence. He is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab (USA) and IIT Guwahati and has completed residencies at the Museum of Tomorrow (Brazil), Art Center Nabi (Korea), and X-Lab (Japan). He was recently the first artist-in-residence for Google Arts and Culture in India. He has authored several publications and holds patents at the intersection of human-computer interaction and creative expression.
Harshit has been active in the space of AI and Art for a decade. He was the only Indian artist among seven international AI art pioneers at the first global exhibition of AI Art in a contemporary gallery at Nature Morte Gallery in 2018. He held India’s first solo exhibition of AI Art at the Emami Art Gallery in Kolkata in September 2021. His work has been nominated twice for the prestigious Lumen Prize, ranking among the top 3% of global tech art submissions. His work is part of the permanent exhibition at the largest computer science museum in the world, HNF museum in Germany. He has exhibited work at premier museums, galleries, and art festivals around the world, including the Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), Asia Culture Center (Gwangju, Korea), Tate Modern (UK), and many others. He curated India’s first AI NFT exhibition – Intertwined Intelligences with six global AI artists (including his works) at the Terrain.art platform.
He has delivered several talks about AI and Art, including at TEDx and INK Talks. His work has been extensively covered in international media, including BBC, New York Times, Artnet, and STIR World.