Creative and digital professionals to discuss 'The Future' at Art Dubai

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March 7, 2016 5:46 PM

The Global Art Forum 2015 opens at the 10th edition of Art Dubai holding from March 18 at Fort Island, Madinat Jumeirah and will see writers, technologists and other professionals in creative and digital world probe The Future.

'The Future' will take centre stage at the 10th edition of Art Dubai as creative and digital professionals discuss issues including museums’ role in protecting the past.

The Global Art Forum 2015 opens at the 10th edition of Art Dubai holding from March 18 at Fort Island, Madinat Jumeirah and will see writers, technologists and other professionals in creative and digital world probe The Future.

Those expected to serve as resource persons at the event include Art Dubai’s Director, Antonia Carver, Global Art Forum’s Commissioner, Shumon Basar and Co-Directors Amal Khalaf and Uzma Z Rizvis.

Also to be discussed are interpretations of art history, the anti-nostalgia imperative and ways of protesting against forgetting.

According to the press statement from the event,

"The past we know is simply what someone imagined and manifested into being, the stories that the humans of that time decided to tell. The future is unwritten, a mass of unwritten stories. Yes there are reasons to feel afraid; there is experiential trauma from a history thick with imperialism, colonialism, capitalism. But rather than letting that silence us, how do we cultivate the capacity to create as our move against destruction? How do we learn to use collaborative ideation to carve out space for futures that are collective, resilient, interdependent, compelling, and beautiful? How do we use science fiction, emergent strategies and pleasure activism to develop a future we long for?”

Also speaking at the event will be Christine Sun Kim who is expected to present works developed in relation to the different shades of the sound and meaning of the future.

Her work breaks down rigid definitions by piecing together a tangle of overlapping languages and systems, including American Sign Language (ASL), which is similar to sound in its intrinsic spatiality.

Other speakers include Lauren Beukes and Sophia Al Maria who are scheduled to talk about why the deep past of the desert is also the perennial projection of literary and cinematic futures.

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