Tanuja Mishra
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- UC Davis, AI Beings, Assistant Professor
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2024
Tanuja Mishra is an Assistant Professor of Design at UC Davis where she directs the “AI Beings” Lab. She is a designer, artist and researcher who works at the intersection of critical and speculative design and social practice. She investigates historical, cultural, and aesthetic implications of technology to imagine futures that are both aspirational and equitable. Her current research focuses on questioning machine intelligence and building AI on the values of care, trust, and interconnection.
Her work has been presented internationally, at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, South Asian Visual Arts Centre in Toronto, Arthur M. Sackler Museum and Gallery 224 at Harvard University, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, National Institute of Design and CEPT University Ahmedabad, and USID (Universal, Sustainable, Inclusive Design for social change) India Foundation. Through her social practice, she has designed community-based interventions in collaboration with government organizations such as Uttar Pradesh Department of Tourism and City of Nanaimo.
