Yashika Goel
About
What if the sociotechnical bias in AI systems today define the institutionalised hegemonies of tomorrow?
Transdisciplinary designer and artist, Yashika Goel’s practice questions the systems that frame the development of emerging technologies and imagines subversive futures.
Yashika’s recent work is informed by a deep commitment to construct methodologies based on care and community engagement, to speculate alternative ways of making and experiencing AI. She explores the entanglement of human and non-human identities, and where it situates itself in the ongoing technological paradigm shift. Experimenting with new media, code, interactive installation, sound and film, Yashika creates experiential narratives rooted in feminist thought to voice the gaps and introduce inconsistencies as correction methods for biased automated systems that we exist within.
Machine Yearning, Yashika’s graduate work at the Royal College of Art, is an AI model slowly taught and embodied as a vessel – which recursively makes meaning from voiced experiences of yearning. The machine converses with stories, feelings, poems, and interviews imploring the everyday that informs the disruption that must shape our equitable collective futures. The conventional design of the machine learning model is broken and infiltrated with inconsistencies of voice inputs, oral histories, and intimate conversations – all gathered through workshops of shared feelings.
Yashika’s work has previously been exhibited at Corner7 London, Hyundai CMK Foundation South Korea, Royal College of Art, and previous collaborations include Meta, Korean University of Arts, and individuals from Royal College of Art and London School of Economics.
Education –
Royal College of Art, MA Information Experience Design 2024
Royal College of Art, Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Design 2023
University of Delhi, BA (Honours) English 2021
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