Tara Kelton is an Indian-American artist living in Bangalore, India. Tara’s work explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, interrogating how individuals exercise control, decision-making, and influence within digital systems and networks. Digital labour is at the centre of her practice—she immerses herself in the workings of digital services and platforms, from co-creating with image production studios in India, to collaborative experiments with gig workers, to reimagining the functionalities of search engines.

Tara’s work has been featured and supported by Hyundai Artlab; ZKM Karlsruhe; ArtForum; ICA Singapore; distant.gallery; Institute of Network Cultures; The Centre for Internet and Society; Mumbai Art Room; Serendipity Arts Festival; the Wrong New Digital Art Biennale; and the Kochi Muziris Biennale. She received her MFA from the Yale University School of Art and she is a Y12 member at New Museum’s NEW INC, in collaboration with Rhizome.

Tara is co-editor of Silicon Plateau, a publishing series that explores the intersection of technology, culture, and society in Bangalore.