Amrutha Bushan

Amrutha Bushan is a writer and an image-maker (photographer)
She believes that her art was a conjunction of her fascination with sky-gazing, which led her to write her first piece of poetry.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari are her inspirations, who have molded her early academic visual projects for IISc.

*High school diploma with Samskrutham as first language.
*Under-Grad in Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Eng.Lit, and pre-law subjects.
*One-year advanced diploma program under the Center for Experimental Media Arts (CEMA) using the mediums of photography, moving image, and mixed visual media.
*Interdisciplinary research and collaboration with Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

*Project on a video-compilation of Ants ('Ants Can Teach Autonomy' based on Colonial Studies by Deborah M.Gordon)
*Multiple-projects on producing video compilations using the concept of 'moving-image' being 'still images'
*Video-project on the spiritual concept of 'The Birth of Light' (Creative Juxtapositions)
*Video-assignments on the everyday life of local people in their occupational context. (Flowers vendors, BMTC bus drivers, and women shop-keepers)
*Photography on 'Paper Wasps' (Exhibition)
*Video-compilations on 'Ants' (Exhibition)
*Silver Town - 'Polarities' - Performance photography
Chemical photography including cyanotype.
A separate series of architectural photography called 'When Hampi Inspired The Hindu' (Interim semester) (Group exhibition)
*Gandhi Bazaar's Morning Love (A visual celebration of street culture of Bangalore on the morning of a famous Kannadiga festival, Solo Exhibition)
*Advanced diploma practicals- Studio crit prep and exhibition prep
*Charette (Group exhibition) - 'Becoming' by Deleuze and Guattari (Performance photography)
*Informed food practices (Solo exhibition)
*Self-initiative project on 'Pop art' (Project)
*Sri Rama Navami (Performance photography)
*Spilt Milk Photo Collective (...