Helena Sarin

Helena Sarin is a pioneering visual artist and software engineer merging contemporary generative art techniques with traditional art forms. With a career that began at Bell Labs, where she designed commercial communication systems, Helena's expertise in technology seamlessly transitioned into her artistic practice. Over the years, she has developed sophisticated computer vision software and worked as an independent consultant specializing in deep learning. Despite her strong foundation in tech, Helena's artistic endeavors initially focused on analog mediums such as watercolor, photography and pastel. Her dual passions for technology and art coalesced when she discovered Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Sarin's decision to train neural networks on her archive of artwork led her to produce what she referred to as “Folk AI” and quickly propelled her into the forefront of the early AI art movement.

Since then, Helena has become a prominent figure in the contemporary generative art world, exhibiting her work in renowned international venues such as Zurich, Dubai, Oxford, Shanghai, and Miami. Her innovative approach has been featured in esteemed publications like “Art In America” and prominent art books by Rizzoli and Taschen. Her fascination with tactility and humor through story-telling also led to the self-publication of a series of artist books like “The Book of GANesis” and “GANcommedia Erudita.” As of 2023, she has directed her focus on what she refers to as #potteryGAN, skillfully integrating her AI-generated designs into ceramics, creating functional art that bridges her technological expertise with tactile craftsmanship.