Tara Kelton is an Indian-American artist living in Bangalore whose practice centers on informal digital labour – the invisible human effort that sustains supposedly automated systems. Tara 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. 

︎︎︎ Selected projects (.pdf)

︎︎︎ CV (.pdf)

Edge Cases, Rhizome, online
Plateau Ritual, LI-MA + distant.gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Total Flow, New Museum, New York, USA
Time.place, tiat, San Francisco, USA
Are you Human?, Khoj Studios, New Delhi, India
IT Sculpture I, 8-0-0, Bangalore, India 
Work, Dilalica, Barcelona, Spain (.pdf)
Unproductive Solutions, online (.pdf)
Algo-portrait, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India (.pdf)

Job application for you, bitch!, The Hmm, 2026
100 Percent Grey, Puree Mag, 2026

Dissolving Margins (Algorithmic Identities) by Melanie Pocock
On drawing virtual objects, and rendering dreams by Marialaura Ghidini
Staring at Sentience: Labor and Loneliness in AI by Skye Arundhati Thomas
Where does my data body live? by Richa Kaul Padte
Resisting the Algorithm by Anisha Baid


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

Contact her at studio@tarakelton.com