Padmini Ray Murray
Bio
Dr Padmini Ray Murray is a researcher, maker, and founder of Design Beku—a collective of artists, technologists, and researchers working to build community-led, ethically grounded, and locally rooted digital practices. Her work aims to reshape how we think about design, technology, and justice, partnering with a range of community-based organizations and NGOs such as Enable India, Point of View, Sangama, Maya Health, and Janastu on projects which range from feminist digital interventions, public health, and digital self-determination for people with disabilities. Her creative work includes ‘Visualising Cybersecurity’, about how cybersecurity is represented in the media; ‘On Affecting the Archive’ (as artist-in-residence at Serendipity Arts Festival); an animated short entitled Appa and his Invisible Mundu on surveillance capitalism; and her work ‘Gathering Multitudes’ was featured as a highlight at the NEoN Digital Arts Festival. She is currently an ESRC Digital Good Fellow, exploring how non-western epistemological paradigms might alter and subvert our imaginations of AI.