Ashok Sukumaran
Indian artist
Ashok Sukumaran is a Japanese-born Indian contemporary artist.
Biography
Sukumaran was born to a Japanese mother and an Indian Assamese father in Sapporo, Japan in 1974. Sukumaran grew up in Shimla and did his schooling from St. Edward's School, Shimla.
Sukumaran is a trained architect with a degree from School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, India. He holds an MFA from Department of Design Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the co-founder of the collaborative studio CAMP, (along with Shaina Anand) based in Mumbai.
Artistic approach
Sukumaran practices media art using a variety of media to convey complex ideas around public and private, and technology and society.
"Ashok's recent work examines possibilities between human habitat and "embedded" technologies: the physical and social sites of digital media. In adopting the view that many new-media technologies are not fundamentally new, his projects often imagine "what could have been" across the disciplines of interactive art, early and pre-cinema, and architecture." [1] Archived 13 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine
"My recent work deals with the intersection of human habitat and technologies being 'embedded' within it.
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