The National Gallery of Software Engineering
Works & Missions of M. Karishma Taj · 2021 — ongoing
A retrospective spanning the artist's early academic period at NIT Andhra Pradesh through her celebrated orbital era — currently in residence as SDE-2 at Dhruva Space, where she continues her craft of building mission-critical software — and teaching machines to see.
ENTER EXHIBITION ↓Gallery I
six major works, on permanent loan from GitHub
A meditation on posture: the machine watches, and gently corrects.
1AUDIO GUIDEFaces recognized, attendance recorded; absence rendered impossible.
2AUDIO GUIDEThe voice as material; emotion as the found object within.
3AUDIO GUIDEThe long-form condensed; nothing essential lost.
4AUDIO GUIDELegalese translated into the vernacular; a public service piece.
5AUDIO GUIDESeveral artificial minds, deliberating on markets in concert.
6AUDIO GUIDEGallery II
the artist's periods, chronologically descending
The artist returns to her formative studio, now composing satellite software at full scale. Critics call it "her most mission-critical work yet."
Two movements of mission-critical software for orbital imaging; a study in seeing through clouds.
Early studies in GMAT, QGIS and OREKIT; acquisition of the vision instruments PaliGemma-2, SAM, Florence and GDAL.
An ongoing collaborative work: AI agents, made among friends.
Yoga poses corrected in real time; power-grid faults detected by machine intuition.
First class with distinction, . The foundation of everything that followed.
Gallery III
manuscripts by the artist · "How Satellites See the World" and other papers
The instrument that looks back down at us.
Manuscript II"Colour is a beautiful lie."
Manuscript IIISame physics; an entirely different problem.
Manuscript IVWhere a satellite sits decides what it may see.
CorrespondenceOn swarms that fly themselves.
CorrespondenceOn attention as currency.
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