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ARCHANA PRASAD

Featured ENTERPRISES

Cultural Entrepreneur.  AI TechArtist. Curator. Researcher.

Cultural Entrepreneur

Archana Prasad is a serial founder in the the cultural & tech sector. Based in Seattle, USA and Bangalore, India, she has more than two decades of industry experience and is an established thought leader in the tech and arts industries. Listen in on Nvidia's podcast tracking the journey of her digital arts project Dara.network supported by British Council to a TechStars VC funded AI platform - Gooey.AI.

TechArtist 

Archana has a deep focus on AI & TechArt in Public Space.  She has a unique participatory, community lead artistic practice. Here is a video of her talking about her creative journey presented by the British Council as one of their featured Cultural Champions.

Curator & Researcher

Archana is an experienced curator of Art Festivals, Exhibitions, Cultural Engagements and Speaker Sessions. She is focused on the edge effects of frontier tech & arts.

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"It is critical that cultural workers lead on the design & roll-out of frontier tech like AI."

Archana leads on the rally of #AIforGood and nurtures a global network of creators committed to AI and techart for socio-environmental change.

She has a deep love of documentation and creating public awareness on neighbourhood socio-cultural heritage, and many of her projects  over the last two decades do so using a combination of hi and low tech with social research, design and participatory art processes. 

 

Archana formerly worked at Microsoft Research India in Design Research and Advanced Prototyping and holds 3 global technology patents. She holds a Bachelors in Painting and a Masters in Art History from CKP and a Masters in Animation from NID. She is a Clore & Chevening 2017 Fellow and an ATSA 2010 Fellow. She is a TechStars Founder and a Blume Founder. Archana is an Accredited Coach from Relational Dynamics First, UK. She has a Master Class Certificate in Curating Contemporary Arts, Royal College of Arts, UK.

 

Her work has received a Public Arts Grant from the India Foundation for the Arts,  British Council's Digital Arts Grant, Facebook Developers Community Challenge Prize amongst others. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Kanoria Center for the Arts. She won the German Language Artists Scholarship at Goethe Institut, Bangalore

About

Gooey.AI

Archana Prasad drives Gooey.AI’s vision, making Generative AI accessible for impact-driven organizations. Gooey.AI is a secure, low-code platform with 870,000+ users, enabling AI discovery, customization, deployment, and impact measurement. She leads user research, design, and community engagement, while managing key partnerships and communications. She defines the company's strategic goals.

BeFantastic.in

As Founder and Curator of BeFantastic, Archana Prasad advances techart through festivals, fellowships, and public arts initiatives. Evolving from Jaaga’s pioneering work, BeFantastic fosters AI-driven art and global collaboration geared to UN's SDGs. The 2023 FutureFantastic festival showcased AI art addressing the climate crisis, and exemplifies the organisations commitment to embodying radical optimism for an open, engaged future.

Dara.Network

As Founder and COO of dara.network, Archana Prasad built a platform fostering creative cross-border collaborations through technology. Dara.network connects global changemakers via networking events and a digital platform, enabling deeper collaboration in the arts, tech, and social impact sectors. Archana led its vision, operations, and partnerships, shaping it into a dynamic space for meaningful connections.

Jaaga.in

As Founder and Director of Jaaga, Archana Prasad built a platform uniting arts, technology, and social change in Bangalore India. Since 2009, Jaaga has convened global and local thinkers, led public arts initiatives, and connected governments with grassroots communities. Now a Public Charitable Trust and for-profit entity, it supports artisans, creatives, and tech entrepreneurs. Archana continues to drive its mission with her board of trustees.

Creative Practice

Work from Archana's archives spanning the last two decades at the cusp of public, tech arts and research.

Archana's Focus Areas

In the era of AI, curation in the cultural sector remains essential for navigating information overload, tailoring experiences, providing context, facilitating discoverability, addressing ethical concerns, building community, and supporting artists and cultivating the cultural landscape. With Jaaga.in Archana has been at the center of culture-making and curating since 2009.

Curate Culture

Techart is a wide open frontier for creative innovation, where artists craft interactivity, bridge disciplines, and collaborate across borders. It's the loom where artists weave a vivid tapestry, a reflection of our era's spirit, and a gateway to manifesting a better future. Through BeFantastic.in Archana nurtures the techart communities of India and beyond.

Make TechArt

Gen AI transforms the arts and cultural sector by revolutionizing creation, access, collaboration, and preservation, making it an essential and transformative force in the global cultural landscape. Through Gooey.AI Archana spends much of her time on this topic.

Explore Gen AI

Art festivals, conferences, and exhibitions are the vibrant canvases for techarts to blossom. They also provide both the showcase and the pulpit to reach and connect with diverse groups of people in our efforts to move the needle for positive change on critical issues of our times. Through her AI festival platform - FutureFantastic.in, Archana curates, engages and supports the AI Art ecology.

Gather & Show

Community building is critical to human connection, sparking engagement, inclusivity, and collaboration. Together, we educate, preserve, and amplify the arts, offering context, ethical guidance, and unwavering support to culture makers. As technology leapfrogs  us into the vast unknown, these human networks hold and ground us. Archana believes in helping people create social capital, she does this through her work with Dara.Network.

Build Community

Featured AI & Community TechArt Projects

FEATURED WORK

CULTURAL PRACTICE LEADING TECH INNOVATION

Archana drives Gooey.AI’s vision of making Generative AI accessible for impact-driven organizations. Gooey.AI is a secure, low-code platform with 870,000+ users, enabling AI discovery, customization, deployment, and impact measurement. She leads user research, design, and community engagement, while managing key partnerships and communications. She defines the company's strategic goals.

Gooey.AI

As Founder and Curator of BeFantastic, Archana advances techart through festivals, fellowships, and community arts initiatives. Evolving from Jaaga’s pioneering work, BeFantastic fosters AI-driven art and global collaboration geared to UN's SDGs. The 2023 FutureFantastic festival showcased AI art addressing the climate crisis, and exemplifies the organisations commitment to embodying radical optimism for an open, engaged future.

BeFantastic.in

As Founder and COO of Dara.Network, Archana built a platform fostering creative cross-border collaborations through technology. Dara.Network connects global change-makers via networking events and a digital platform, enabling deeper collaboration in the arts, tech, and social impact sectors. Archana led its vision, operations, and partnerships, shaping it into a dynamic space for meaningful connections.

Dara.Network

As Founder-Director of Jaaga, Archana spearheads a platform uniting arts, technology, and social change in Bangalore India. Since 2009, Jaaga has convened global and local thinkers, led public arts initiatives, and connected governments with grassroots communities. Now a Public Charitable Trust it supports artisans, creatives, and tech entrepreneurs in expanding their practices. Archana continues to drive its mission with her Board of Trustees.

Jaaga.in
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