Proof by palette
experiments exploring bias, structure, and form
by S. Gupta
Swati Gupta is a Massachusetts-based scientist, artist, and photographer. Driven by curiosity about hidden structures — in algorithms, markets, and the visual form — her work interrogates how bias shapes what we see and decide. In both research and art, she uses structure as a starting point to ask: what assumptions are baked in? Her paintings, photographs, and participatory projects explore this through oil, acrylic, pouring, and collective creation. Proof by Palette is her investigation into what art reveals that analysis alone cannot.
PANORAMIA
Experiments with Panorama,
MIT Museum (2015-2017)
Panoramia grew from a question: what happens when you ask a technology to do something it wasn't designed for?
It is a series of explorations that reimagine the panorama feature of the iPhone. Instead of stitching landscape, Panoramia stitches through relative motion between the objects and the observer. The museum exhibit features an application where the observer can stitch their own face —using the motion of the camera. On the right you see a 9-feet photograph that stitched the wake of the boat from the New York Skyline to the Statue of Liberty.
It began as an experiment on a high-speed train, became real through a collaboration with mentor Martin Demaine and the MIT Museum, and was hosted at the MIT Museum in 2015-17.
Jiyo Re Laado
Interactive Street Art
Dilli Haat, Delhi (2014),
Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge (2014)
A participatory painting project hosted at Dilli Haat in New Delhi in 2014. We asked strangers questions about unconventional gender roles. Their brushstrokes layered into a collective canvas about gender, freedom, and what it means to move through the world as a woman. In the act of painting together, the abstract became visible: what we inherit, what we resist, what we question, what we create when our hands move in the same space.