Shaina Anand
b. 1975
Shaina Anand is a filmmaker and artist, and a co-initiator of CAMP, a space “in which ideas and energies gather, and become interests and forms” and Padma, the online video archive. She has been working independently in film/video since 1997. CAMP came together as a group in 2007, initially consisting of Shaina Anand (filmmaker and artist), Sanjay Bhangar (software programmer) and Ashok Sukumaran (architect and artist). By the time of setting up CAMP in Mumbai, the artists Anand and Sukumaran had already strong and well-recognized individual practices. Sukumaran had been awarded the first prize of the UNESCO digital arts award in 2006 and the prestigious Golden Nica of the Prix Ars Electronica the following year, 2007. He had lectured at venues such as the Tate Modern, and participated in the Singapore Biennial, 2006. Anand had done a series of well received projects with contemporary image media, and had exhibited at venues such as the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Serpentine Gallery London, Nottingham Contemporary, Cornerhouse Manchester, Khoj and Sarai New Delhi, Powerplant Toronto and more. CAMP’s reason to exist is that it produces and sustains long duration and sometimes large-…
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