Baiju Parthan is a Mumbai based inter-media artist working simultaneously with traditional media as well as digital technology. He is one of the early exponents of new-media art and ‘mediatic-realism’ in the Indian contemporary art scene. Baiju Parthan hails from Kerala and has a chequered academic background with degrees in Botany, Visual arts, Philosophy, and PG diploma in comparative mythology, along with certifications in Computer game Level design and 3D graphics from Pratt Institute, New york.
Parthan’s vocabulary of visuals consists of arcane symbols, diagrams, elements of cartography, as well as contemporary imagery gathered from mainstream media. These elements and references are brought together by the artist to create paintings that reveal a dense multi-layered phenomenological landscape. Parthan’s work in the digital realm consists of explorations into the boundary where the virtual and real bleed into each other. Through computer-generated virtual objects presented in interactive installations and large scale prints on metallic surfaces, as well as animated 3D lenticular prints, Parthan manages to present a critique on high technology and its impact on our experience of reality and life.
The Artist lives and works in Mumbai.