{"id":14,"date":"2023-06-19T13:59:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T20:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:05:06","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parag K. Mital is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of AI, simulation, and storytelling. His work explores how meaning forms and how computational systems increasingly shape it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He develops living narrative worlds using AI-driven agents and real-time environments, where stories emerge through interaction rather than linear authorship. These systems model relationships, conflict, and collective belief as evolving processes, creating space for nuance, contradiction, and unexpected forms of empathy. His recent works, including <a href=\"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/works\/conflicts\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/works\/conflicts\/\"><em>Conflicts<\/em><\/a> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/works\/the-game-of-whispers\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/works\/the-game-of-whispers\/\">The Game of Whispers<\/a><\/em>, span personal and historical narratives, inviting audiences to experience stories from within rather than as observers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mital is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/thegardeninthemachine.com\">The Garden in the Machine<\/a>, a computational arts studio, and <a href=\"https:\/\/emergentic.ai\">Emergentic.ai<\/a>, a platform for building and simulating narrative worlds. His practice bridges artistic production and technical development, contributing to both cultural discourse and research in multi-agent systems and human-computer interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His work has been exhibited and presented internationally, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, British Film Institute, and Walt Disney Concert Hall, and in <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=OwW_posAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=OwW_posAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">academic contexts<\/a> such as NeurIPS. He has collaborated with artists and organizations including Massive Attack, Sigur R\u00f3s, David Lynch, Sphere, and Google.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parag K. Mital is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of AI, simulation, and storytelling. His work explores how meaning forms and how computational systems increasingly shape it.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-about.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}