Selected work / Generative Art
Long before AI became a tool, the studio was already thinking about the nature of the image. These are the artworks that shaped that thinking.
Our name comes from the Hindi phrase “unnis-bees ka farak” — the tiny difference between 19 and 20. We live in a statistical world now, away from old determinism. Diffusion begins with noise and works its way toward order, always getting close to reality but never fully there.
Across a decade of work — found archives, face-detection code, pixel-energy algorithms, NASA data, JPEG compression — the recurring subject is the networked image: how photographs circulate, decay, and gather new meanings, and how something human survives the passage through cables, sensors and code.
The practice
Images are not flawless copies of reality but constructions living in the narrow zone where something feels almost real while still carrying ambiguity and invention. That threshold is not a shortcoming to eliminate — it is where meaning takes shape.
The irregularities and deviations that emerge in generative systems are part of the medium's own language. Like grain in photography or gesture in painting, they give the work texture and character, letting chance become a creative partner.
AI is not a gimmick or a shortcut but a legitimate medium with its own grammar and materiality. Just as photography once had to assert itself as art, generative practice stands within that lineage — alongside photography, painting and cinema.
The work is grounded in craft: guiding complex systems with human judgement and technical control rather than surrendering to spectacle. The aim is images that feel precise, emotionally resonant and convincingly real — turning computation into something poetic.
Generative art · 2018–2019
Taking its cue from Roland Barthes' Rhetoric of the Image and Daniel Palmer's The Rhetoric of the JPEG, the project shifts focus to the digital file itself. Random image searches are put through a scripted series of operations designed to expose the underlying structure of JPEG compression. What emerges is not only an image but the rhetoric of the format — its blocks, its noise, its hidden grid — insisting on its own materiality. Compression artifacts become brushstrokes.
Generative art · 2016
Reworking raw images from NASA's Cassini–Huygens probe, the project borrows the methods of conspiracy theorists who see hidden forms in pixels and embraces apophenia — our tendency to find patterns in noise. By sharpening, opening shadows and exposing artifacts, random data becomes a space for projection, where delusion and creativity share the same ground. The finished images sit between scientific record and imagined map.
Generative art · 2015
A generative series written in Java, made when images of couples kissing began appearing widely on Indian social media — a quiet signal of changing intimacy in public space. Each photograph was run through an algorithm based on a pixel-energy function, repeated across hundreds of thousands of iterations. The figures dissolve and the kiss emerges instead as a field of intensity: a portrait of social energy where desire becomes code.
Video installation · 2014
A room-scale video installation built from online darshan streams, where devotees connect to ritual through screens. Face-recognition software fragments these faces into pixelated images projected onto panes of frosted glass, isolating individuals within the collective. Echoing darshan's promise of seeing and being seen, the work asks how the energy of a prayer survives the jump from temple to server to screen — carried by the same systems built for surveillance.
Two-part work · 2011–2012
A two-part work exploring voyeurism, circulation and the violence embedded in everyday images. It began with a public presentation of found mobile-phone photos of women taken without consent, collected from Indian forums. In the second phase these images were passed through a loop of re-recording and digital decay until they dissolved into unstable colour fields — layered with voice fragments from the same forums. The work reveals how technology, aesthetics and power quietly converge.
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