This session brings together artists, thinkers, and practitioners to engage with this shift through a workshop, panel, and performance. Moving from hands-on making to critical discussion to embodied expression, the evening explores what it means when machines begin to hold memory – what we lose, what we retain, and what new forms of remembering might emerge.
This session is part of Imaginative Intelligences with G5A: The Origin of Thought, and is curated by Skip-A-Beat.
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Workshop: The Image in the Age of AI | 4 PM to 7 PM
Facilitated by Sourya Sen
A beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop using open-source generative AI tools in ComfyUI (via Comfy Cloud), where participants build their own image-making workflows while critically engaging with contemporary questions around the image – leaving with both practical skills and a deeper, more critical understanding of visual culture today.
Please note: Kindly carry your personal laptop for this workshop.
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Panel Discussion: Memory Is Not Storage | 8 PM to 9 PM
We speak about memory as though it were a hard drive, something that records, stores, and retrieves. AI has made that metaphor feel even more literal and, in doing so, more dangerous. But the act of remembering is nothing like retrieval. It is selective, embodied, emotional, and always happening in the present tense. It is shaped by what we need to believe, by who is in the room, by what we are allowed to say. This conversation asks: what is memory actually for, and what do we risk losing when we outsource it to a machine?
The panel will be led by Dhvani Solani – Writer, Editor, Former Editor-in-Chief, VICE India, Shruti Sitara Singh – Curator & Founder, Rooted Narratives, Dr. Simin Patel – Founder, Bombaywalla Historical Works, and will be moderated by Tejas Nair.
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Neural Natak by Spryk | 9:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Delivered as a fully synchronised audio-visual show featuring an electro-folk soundtrack alongside techno-magic visuals and cinematic lighting, the live cinema performance by Spryk is a 45-minute, 5-movement work drawing on remixed cultural archives, generative AI systems, and electronic music — imagining neural networks as practitioners of technomagic, with deep references to India’s traditions of street performance, ritual theatre, and the performing body as a site of memory.
