Tarshaa Krishnaraj is a designer and creative technologist
working within the cultural touch points of technology.
Building unconventional worlds in various mediums to
make fun, futurist, ficitious and humorous speculations.  

Focused on pushing the needle of
technology and future states of being, she brings to
the forefront cultural stories and narratives.






















BUD EATER x WEILL CORNELLENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURVIVALISMKAAJ • AI GAZEPOST HUMAN GAMESUGAR CUBECHEW MACHINE • LIFE OF A SPACESUIT •

Bud Eater: A Weill Cornell Medicine Collaboration- TOTH LABS ↗
Featured in Homegrown.in Magazine
05/2023

Art Direction, Design Research, Speculative Design

The Bud Eater forages for food.
Imagine, in an overpopulated world, how would humans find food? In collaboration with Weill Cornell’s Toth Labs .

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Post-human Game x National Geographic : Imagining Future States with a Feminist Game Design
03/2024

Game Design, Speculative Design,  Multi-Modal A.I. Machines

How much can a game challenge the male-centered, blue-chip story of a future that we have been fed through media?  A concept called Parthenogenesis, developed originally by National Geographic Magazine.  

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Workflow & Processes:

  • Unreal Engine/Game Engines/ Design 
  • Spatial Computing
  • Applied AI 
  • Spatial computing 
  • AI in the AR/VR Space


*This is a speculative project*


KAAJ: Video Exploration of Transformative Garments 
Full video
04/2024

Creative Direction, Videography

A video directed by myself and Aashita Mathur that showcases the intricacies of a transformative, contructed garment. The garment is multi-functional, transforming from a dhoti to a jacket and other abstract forms that hint at some human condition.  


All garments made by Aashita Mathur. Video Edited by Aashita Mathur.


Workflow & Processes:

• Filmmaking
• Video Editing (After Effects + Premiere Pro)
• Gimbal  Motion

Encyclopedia of Survivalism: The Art of Survivalism through Technology
for The GIANT Room
11/2023
Product Research & Engineering, Editorial Design


Asking the question: What objects would you bring to a deserted island? 

The project explores 4 speculative handheld tools as objects of survivalism. 


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Workflow & Processes:
  • ar/vr 
  • Speculative design 
  • 3D Modeling + Free Sculpting
  • Play testing
  • R&D

The A.I Gaze: Playing with the Machine Gaze Beyond Race
Entertaining the Racial Stereotypes of AI in the race for LLM Research.
02/2024

Applied AI, 3D Graphic Design


How does AI visualize race and brown faces? What kind of evolutionary systems in data is required for stereotypical racial figures to be dissolved in AI? Is that even possible?

These portraits were initially generated by Midjourney before I ran it through RunwayML & CSM to further push the capabilities of generative AI. 


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Processes & Workflow:

  • Applied AI 
  • Speculative Design 
  • 3D Modeling 
  • Stable Diffusion

Chew Machine: Machines for Eating: Turning the phrase “chew your food 32 times” on its head by building a machine specifically for a human cause. 04/2024
Speculative Design, 3D Design


Chew Brace is a imaginative speculative, wearable face machine that counts to ensure that we chew our food 32 times, and 32 times only. 

Modeled in Cinema 4D and projected on a AR/VR space.


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Workflow & Processes:

  • AR/VR 
  • Spatial Computing 
  • 3D Modeling 
  • Rigging

Life of a Spacesuit: Synthetic Intelligence & Beyond
Examining The Awkwardness of AI

04/2024

Life of A Spacesuit uses a synthetic machine’s current potential to stretch what is and what is not capable of an LLM to analyze, speculate and imagine. It stops somewhere between science and total fiction, producing something half-baked.


In  examining the stickiness, the awkwardness of AI, I hold a microscope to the corners of imagination that AI posesses. How many ‘speculative’ or ‘inviable’ situations can AI imagine for an entirely realistic prompt?

Workflow & Processes:

  • Applied AI 
  • Multi Modal LLM 
  • Speculative Design 
  • Motion Design 
  • 3D modeling


Sugarcube: Video Exploration
Collaborating with the Science Lab at Weill Cornell Medicine to create a sculptural inquiry of excess of food
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04/2024
For a future where lab-grown rocks become containers for chemically processed food. They grow buttery, meaty and fatty foods that represent a failed American Dream. 



Workflow & Process es:

  • Material Sensitbilities in the phygital realm
  • Video Production 
  • Editing 
  • Sculpture

3D Rock Renders with Umweltian qualities for Research on Rocks


Contact---tarshaakrishnaraj@gmail.com                 © 2024