Archana Prasad, Founder of BeFantastic, Gooey.AI and Jaaga, explored the evolving meaning of originality in AI cultures alongside panelists Gerfried Stocker, Alida Sun and Shrujana at the Unpacking Originality with AI panel at India Art Fair. The conversation highlighted a powerful convergence: originality isn’t about creating something from nothing, it’s about designing systems of intention.
Human creativity has always emerged from constraint, context, access, lived experience. AI, trained on vast datasets, appears limitless. Yet without lived constraint, its outputs can feel flattened, homogenised. What surfaced across geographies and disciplines was a shared recognition: AI is not just a tool, it is cultural infrastructure. And originality today lives in how we frame problems, curate data, and responsibly shape the systems that will define culture and future memory. Deeply creative. Deeply political.
If you’re in Delhi come on over to the India Art Fair. I’m speaking on a panel of stellar folks on Unpacking “Originality” with AI. It’s on the 6th at 1pm. It’ll be great to see you there.
Saree Yatra, Bangalore: a neighbourhood study of Malleswaram with Archana Prasad, our muse who dons many a cultural hat, and is a passionate Malleswaram resident besides being a globe trotter!
#malleshwaram #sareeyatra #bangalore
🤖 What does AI miss — and how can humans fill the gap?
We explored this and more at the Beyond Bias Prompt-a-thon by Gooye AI — a brilliant initiative blending tech, creativity, and critical thinking.
A big thank you to everyone who joined us for the hands-on workshop and the thought-provoking panel featuring Trishla Talera, Anokhi Shah, and Chaitanya Modak, moderated by Archana Prasad and Sean Blagsvedt.
💡 From prompts to pixels, it was a day full of play, ideas, and powerful conversations. Swipe through for some highlights!
#BeyondBias #Promptathon #GooyeAI #AIandHumans #CreativeTech #PanelDiscussion #WorkshopRecap #WhatsUpAtGoetheInstitutPune #GoethePune #MMBPune #AIForGood #InclusiveTech
#BeyondBias Gather at the intersection of AI, culture, and society, where we'll be in conversation with Ayush Chauhan, Co-Founder of Quicksand & Gauri Pathak, Programs and Communication Manager at Khoj, facilitated by Archana Prasad and Sean Blagsvedt from Gooey.AI.
🌐Panel Discussion | Beyond Bias: Making AI More Inclusive
📅Wed, 8th Oct
🕚️18:30-20:00
📍Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi
🎚️Free Entry. Registration Mandatory.
🔗Register by 07/10/2025: link in bio
💡 What we’ll discuss:
– How can AI better serve cultural creators? – How do gender, caste & race show up in AI bias? – What does it take to design truly inclusive AI tools?
Join the conversation!
#BeyondBias You are invited to a public panel discussion that will investigate visual and cultural representations in AI and its impact on creative practices. Facilitated by Archana Prasad and Sean Blagsvedt from Gooey.AI, the conversation will feature Khoj Programs and Communication Manager Gauri Pathak, and trace important questions that have a bearing on inclusive digital futures.
🌐Panel Discussion | Beyond Bias: Making AI More Inclusive
📅Wed, 8th Oct
🕚️18:30-20:00
📍Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi
🎚️Free Entry. Registration Mandatory.
🔗Register by 07/10/2025: link in bio
Audiences will also be invited to participate and help expand the scope of the discussion.
#InclusiveAI #CulturalAI #Panel
From founding experimental art spaces to co-creating platforms for system-shifting ideas, Archana’s work blurs boundaries.
She’s building the infrastructure for imagination.
✨ This is one of the minds behind BeFantastic.
Stay tuned—we’re gathering momentum.
Know Your Speaker:
Archana Prasad is a serial cultural entrepreneur and Founder & CCO of Gooey.AI, a platform advancing Inclusive AI for Global Impact—building participatory AI tools for culture, education, and social equity. A graduate of NID and former Design Researcher at Microsoft Research India, she holds multiple patents and has published research on tech for bottom-of-pyramid communities. She founded Jaaga in Bangalore to bridge tech, art, and activism, nurturing collaborative communities and supporting the city’s early startup ecosystem. Archana also founded BeFantastic, a techart fellowship & festival platform supporting collaborative learning and trans-disciplinary practice to address UN’s SDG’s and Dara.network to connect global creative changemakers.
World Industrial Design Day 2025
🗓 29th June 2025, 4pm to 11pm
📍 ICON Boutique Hotel Domlur
Register: /e/widd
@adi.community
#design #industrialdesign #entrepeneur #artificial_intelligence #artificialintelligence #collaborate #bengaluru #blr #bangalore
Jaaga is now in its 15th year! We are grateful for the the incredible path we've walked together with you. Every step has been shaped by meaningful connections, shared dreams, and an active spirit of making. With great joy, we invite women and those who identify as women, to be part of our AI Futures Fellowship—a place for creative learning, bold visioning to make manifest radical, open, and hopeful futures.
We host this Fellowship in partnership with Malleshwaram Enterprising Women's Society (MEWS) and @gooeyai )
For more - www.jaaga.in/futures.
Apply by - 31st Jan 2025
#aifutures #womenintech #womeninart #aiart #futurethinking #techart #digitalart #indianartists
