Tarshaa Krishnaraj

Archive PROJECTS INFO

I am a producer and filmmaker curious about exploring the culture of internet behaviour.

I work within the cultural touch points of technology and AI , building unconventional worlds to make fun, futurist, ficitious and humorous speculations.

Focused on pushing the needle of technology and future states of being, I like to bring to the forefront cultural stories and narratives.

MAGNOLIA PICTURES • BUD EATER x WEILL CORNELL • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURVIVALISM • KAAJ • AI GAZE • POST HUMAN GAME • SUGAR CUBE • CHEW MACHINE • LIFE OF A SPACESUIT

Magnolia Pictures
Creative Producer, Editor

Ideated, created, iterated and edited film campaigns across all socials. Campaigned and conducted offbeat marketing strategies for Magnolia Pictures, a titan in the film distribution world. Over the course of 7 months, I worked on several films, including The Assessment, Sister Midnight, One to One: John & Yoko, Lake George, and more. I developed brand marketing tactics to ensure that all the campaigns resoonanted amongst audiences.

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Bud Eater: A Weill Cornell Medicine Collaboration

Creative Technologist

TOTH LABS ↗

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

Designer, Creative Technologist

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*

Encyclopedia of Survivalism: The Art of Survivalism through Technology

for The GIANT Room

sking 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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The A.I Gaze: Playing with the Machine Gaze Beyond Race

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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Chew Machine: Machines for Eating

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

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?

Sugarcube: Video Exploration

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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.  

3D Rock Renders with Umweltian qualities for Research on Rocks