Yashas Shetty received the Charles Wallace India Award (in collaboration with the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation and Gasworks, 2012) and honorary mentions in the category »Hybrid Arts« at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz/Austria (20). He participated in group exhibitions like Notes from Utopia, Taipei Biennial (2012) and Ghosts in the Machine, Apeejay Media Arts Gallery, Neu Delhi/India (2006). The Nine Billion Names of God is a collection of science-fiction short stories published in 1974 by the English author Arthur C. Since 2007, Yashas Shetty has been giving several workshops as an individual educator or with the Hackteria collective, including workshops at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology (2010), National Institute of Design (NID), Bangalore (2009), Taipei National University of Arts, Taipei/Taiwan (2009), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA/USA (2009). He was also founding faculty of the Centre for Experimental Media Arts at the Shrishti School of Art, Design and Technology. He was artist in residence at Experimental Media Arts (EMA) program at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore (2006/2007), and at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore (2007).

Yashas Shetty lives and works in Bangalore/India. It will stop once it collects 9 billion cries for God, the quantity of utterances thought by Tibetan monks to call an end to the universe. Every Sunday, the program uploads a new mp3. The bot is 'trained' to find instances of orgasms where the word 'God' is uttered and using the tropes of artificial intelligence and machine learning, it compiles a downloadable.

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