|
Shankar Barua, popularly known as 'ShankarBaba', is a multiple media artist, musician, and writer,
old as the mountains, based in both New Delhi, the capital of India, and Sattal, the "7 Lakes" area of the Lower Himalay, in the Kumaon region of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. This website reflects just some aspects of Shankar's life and career, both of which he has always been peripatetic about. **His archives and records are actually substantially non-existent, with even some of the information below remembered only mid-2024.** Prior to becoming an independent professional in the early-1980s, Shankar worked as a Copywriter with an Advertising Agency, Assistant Editor and PR Manager with a Publishing Company, Senior Assistant with a Tea Broking Company, PR Manager with a large Printing Company, and Assistant Editor on two Magazine Launches (additionally serving as Art Director with the second). Amongst entities now defunct for various reasons, even though Shankar himself soldiers on still, he has also been Special Advisor: Electronic Music Foundation (Albany NJ, USA), Co-Curator and also Archives & Documentation Associate: Thailand New Media Art Festival '04 (Bangkok, Thailand), Editorial Board Member: Arts Electric (New York NY, USA), and Honorary Committee Member: Digital Art Guild & Museum of The Living Artist ~ International Digital Art Exhibition 2006 (San Diego CA, USA). Over the years, Shankar has been a featured speaker at events associated with institutions such as India International Centre, Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), two Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs Mumbai & Guwahati), Assam State Museum, British Council (Delhi), Goethe Institut (Delhi), Centre for Policy Research (CPR), Niti Aayog (earlier the Planning Commission of India), Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, ARCOmadrid, Korean Arts Council, Total Museum of Contemporary Arts (Seoul), Valencia Festival of Electronic arts, and others. |