CAMP is a

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-based studio for transdisciplinary media practices founded by Shaina Anand (born 1975 in Mumbai, India) and

Ashok Sukumaran 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 Schoo ...

(born 1974 in Sapporo, Japan). CAMP's work has been concerned with the history and politics of technology and experimental video and audio. CAMP's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the 2010

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, the 2011

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, the 2012

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Triennial, Documenta 13 in

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and

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, the 2013 edition of the

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, the 2014 edition of the Shanghai Biennale, and the 2017 edition of the

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History

CAMP was founded in Mumbai in 2007 by Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran. Shaina Anand was born in 1975 in Mumbai, India. She received a BA in History from RD National College in Mumbai and attended an MFA in Film and Media Arts at

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. Prior to co-founding CAMP, Anand founded http://ChitraKarKhana.net, a media production unit based in Mumbai.

was born in 1974 in

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, Japan. He holds a bachelor's degree in Architecture from the

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in New Delhi, India and an MFA from the Department of Design/Media Arts from the

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. CAMP has also had other members over the years, including Sanjay Bhangar, Hakimuddin Liliyawala, Iyesha Geeth Abbas, Nida Ghouse, Zinnia Ambapardiwala, and Simpreet Singh. In 2008, CAMP co-initiated https://Pad.ma, short for Public Access Digital Media Archive, an online archive of annotated video material, and in 2013 co-initiated https://indiancine.ma, the online database and archive for Indian Cinema. In 2020, they were awarded the 7th Nam June Paik Art Center Prize.

References

{{reflist Artists from Mumbai Indian artist groups and collectives