TECH. ARTS. COMMUNITY.
Anupama Paul
New Media Designer & Engineer.
Anupama Paul is currently pursuing her Master’s in New Media Design at NID Gandhinagar, with a background in civil engineering. She is deeply drawn to meaningful conversations and understanding people at a deeper level. She sees AI as a creative collaborator — one that holds the potential to gently inspire us to become better versions of ourselves.
Challenges
10
A Taste of Memory
This is Anupama's Magnum Opus for this program. We invited the fellows to bring their final projects to life through the powerful mediums of either a short film or a graphic novel.
Anupama has created a future where nutrition is reduced to pills and efficiency is prized above emotion, connection is obsolete — or so they thought. When a quiet rebellion begins with shared meals and remembered tastes, one hacker’s act of defiance sparks a movement. A Taste of Memory is a visually rich meditation on humanity, grief, and the radical power of choosing to care in a world that has forgotten how.
9
For challenge 9, the fellows presented a pitch deck of their visual narratives. These narratives, set in 2050, address a conflict in an ideal future and its resolution. The pitch will serve as a storyboard for the final project, presented as either a short film or graphic novel.
Anupama’s pitch The Taste of Memory showed how in a world optimised by AI, a hacker named Ananya tastes rebellion for the first time. It presents resistance through the use of food and the collective power of community.
8
Challenge 8 was a fun exercise in which the fellows generated interactive AI personas using the Gooey.AI copilot tool.
Anupama’s bot, named Ananya, is a hacker from the year 2050, working at the intersection of tech and human connection. She is a sensory revivalist living in the year 2050, who is deeply committed to restoring human connection in a world that has traded food, emotion, and culture for sterile efficiency.
6
For this challenge, we wanted the fellows to create supporting characters that would inhabit their envisioned future world.
Anupama created two characters named Meera, a supportive mentor to her protagonist Ananya and a menacing antagonist named Mukesh.
5
Fellows developed characters who would live in their imagined future worlds.
Anupama continued exploring the character of Ananya, a hacker In a future, digitized world.
In a world where sensory joy and human connection have been stripped away in favor of optimized efficiency, Ananya Kumar fights back—not with weapons, but with code. A tech-savvy hacker in her late 20s, Ananya infiltrates the digital infrastructure of the hyper-sterile society, planting sensory "glitches" into smart glasses and neural interfaces—brief moments of warmth, taste, and memory that remind people of what they’ve lost. Her interventions are subtle but powerful: flashes of old family recipes, the smell of freshly baked bread, the sound of clinking cutlery, and fleeting visuals of shared meals. Driven by a quiet defiance, Ananya aims to awaken buried desires for connection, flavor, and ritual in a world that has forgotten what it means to savor life.
4
For this challenge, we wanted fellows to continue building on their explored futures, focusing on world building. We wanted them to visualise it as the opening scene of a sci-fi film, where the focus is on the setting rather than the characters. 5 to 6 frames were created using Gooey's Animation Generator in draft mode (2 FPS).
Anupama created a future, where food may become a precise science rather than a daily ritual or a gastronomic experience. Personalized pills will deliver exact calories, vitamins, and minerals that the body needs, thus preventing deficiencies.
3
For this challenge, we had asked the fellows to illustrate their peers’ predictions for the future.
Anupama illustrated Remya Padmadas’ prediction using AI tools and the results were astounding. The prediction detailed how the future of food might look different. Wearable biosensors will track nutrient levels, and personalized pills will deliver exact nutrients that the body needs, thus preventing deficiencies. The wealthy will therefore be able to access AI-driven health optimization, widening the health gap. Eating for pleasure may become a status symbol.
2
We asked the fellows to explore what the future would look like. We also asked them to forecast a series of predictions for the next few years, with a timeline of no more than 25 years ahead.
Anupama made the following predictions about the future:
In 25 years, urban spaces will prioritize self-directed play zones where kids can explore freely without constant monitoring. AI-assisted safety measures, modular playgrounds, and biophilic designs will create environments that foster creativity, independence, and social growth, ensuring safe yet uninhibited childhood experiences.
