Shankar Saanthakumar
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Bio
Shankar Saanthakumar (b.1993, London) is a sculptor and sound artist based in Edinburgh. His practice explores themes of perception, embodiment, and digital–analogue hybridity, asking what non-human systems might reveal about the human condition. Blurring the boundary between the visual and the sonic, his work spans objects, audiovisual installations, and live performances. With a background in architecture, Shankar approaches story telling in his work with an inherently spatial and site-specific sensibility. He begins most projects with a period of intuitive sketching and deep listening as his primary form-finding mechanisms, later combining this data with structured computational logic and hybrid digital–analogue fabrication techniques. The resulting interplay between human intuition and computational control dictates his final outcomes, whether visual, sonic, or something combining the two.
Music style
Ambient, Experimental