Connie Bakshi is a Taiwanese-American artist whose practice uses artificial intelligence to re-code language, lore, and ritual, probing diasporic memory, mythologies of power, and the boundaries of autonomous choice. Trained as a classical pianist and biomedical engineer, she turned to AI-driven art during the pandemic after a friend invited her to experiment with language and image-generation models.
Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and based in Los Angeles, she is descended from the ancestral shamans of Taiwan. She had maintained an installation and performance practice before pandemic shutdowns closed her fabrication resources, prompting her to build datasets and workflows with AI models introduced by her mentor Phil Bosua. Her 2022 collection Ethereal Caress paired AI-generated images with conversations conducted with GPT-3 to stage moments of connection during pandemic isolation, while Birds of Paradise envisioned a lost species revisiting a utopia resurrected by artificial intelligence. She showed Still, I Search at “FEMGEN”, a 2022 gender-equity exhibition at Art Basel Miami Beach organized with VerticalCrypto Art, Art Blocks, and Right Click Save.
