Day Two -- Friday -- 20 September 2024
Location: UCA Campus Dining Hall
Location: UCA Campus Creative Studio
- Screening of Movement from Armenia
- Screening of Dig In from United States
- Screening of El Mago Georges from Argentina
- Screening of Yesterday I found ... from Poland
- Screening of Interstellar Maze from China
Location: UCA Campus Creative Studio
- 09:30-09:40 -- Introduction to Digital Experiments -- Dr Soheil Ashrafi and Dr Michael Garbutt
- 09:40-10:25 -- Experimenting, the Art of Digital Human Interface Culture -- Prof Paul Thomas
- 10:25-10:35 -- Discussion
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Location: UCA Campus Yellow Classroom
About the Speaker
Sascha Priewe is the Director of Collections and Public Programs at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Before joining the Aga Khan Museum, he was the Associate Vice President, Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships, at the Royal Ontario Museum, and Curator: Chinese and Korean Collections at the British Museum. He is a co-founder of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative, author of Museum Diplomacy: Parsing the Global Engagement of Museums and co-editor of Museum Diplomacy: How Cultural Institutions Shape Global Engagement. He serves on the boards of ICOM Canada and Ontario Museum Association, is the inaugural chairperson of the Global Leadership Council of the Idaho Museum of International Diaspora, and a Senior Fellow of Massey College. Sascha holds a PhD from Oxford University.
Drawing on his practice as a programming director at a museum devoted to advancing pluralism through the arts and in his academic work dedicated to advancing cultural diplomacy, Sascha Priewe will speak to the ways in which the globally and locally engaged work done by museums and through art can create change in people and in the world.
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Almagul Menlibayeva is a multimedia artist specializing in video, photography, and textile art. A graduate of the Art and Theatre University of Almaty, she is recognized for her interdisciplinary practice, which spans video, photography, AI art, cyber textiles, and mixed media installations. Central to her work are the concepts of Transience and Impermanence, reflecting the inherent instability of the world—rooted in themes of nomadic indigenous mythologies. Her practice also addresses post-socialist modernity, exploring issues such as environmental perception, gender, and socio-political transitions in Central Asia. Menlibayeva’s artistic contributions have earned her numerous accolades. In 2017, she was honored with the prestigious Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. Her other notable awards include:
Daryn State Prize (Kazakhstan, 1995)
Tarlan Independent Kazakh Award (2003)
Grand Prix Asia Art at the II Biennial of Central Asia (Uzbekistan, 1995)
Main Prize at the International Film Festival Kino Der Kunst (Germany)
In addition to these achievements, Menlibayeva collaborated with Louis Vuitton on a special project in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Her work has been exhibited at globally renowned venues, including the Venice, Sydney, Sharjah, and Thailand Biennales. Key solo exhibitions include "Transformation" at the Grand Palais and M HKA Museum, as well as her curatorial debut, "Bread & Roses," at MOMENTUM.
In 2023, Menlibayeva unveiled a significant installation on the Kazakh Famine at the Sharjah Biennale, commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation. Her most recent solo exhibition took place at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Currently, she is engaged in a special project on cyber textiles, integrating her photography and video installations.
Menlibayeva studied under renowned Kazakh artist Sergei Maslov (1985-1990) and continues to collaborate with sound artist and composer German Popov.
About the Talk
On the mountain, at the entrance to the Portals of 18 Worlds, our guide told us to lie face down on the ground. Buried in the steppe wormwood – the scent of sunset and dust felt so familiar. Then we were led to the river, clouds floated along its waters. We dove into the sky.
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Departure Location: UCA Campus Parking
- 14:00-14:15 -- Performance
- 14:15-14:17 -- Film Festival Teaser
- 14:17-14:20 -- MC Opening by Erbol Sovetaly uulu
- 14:20-14:30 -- Opening Remarks by Dr Soheil Ashrafi, co-Chair of the Nomad 2024 Festival
- 14:30-14:40 -- Address by Prof Maxim Khomyakov, Dean of the University of Central Asia's School of Arts and Sciences
- 14:40-14:50 -- Address by Government Representative
- 14:50-14:53 -- Introduction of Jury Members
- 14:53-15:00 -- Introduction of Films + Filmmakers
- 15:00-15:15 -- Screening of Short Film Romeo
- 15:15-15:35 -- Screening of Short Film In the Night
- 15:35-15:55 -- Screening of Short Film Pilgrim
- 15:55-16:15 -- Screening of Documentary Coexisting with Wolves
- 16:15-16:32 -- Screening of Documentary To Descendents on Demand
- 16:32-16:44 -- Screening of Documentary Aylin's Fairytales
- 16:44-16:54 -- Performance
- 17:00-17:20 -- Screening of Short Film Sabyr
- 17:20-17:25 -- Screening of Short Film Space
- 17:25-17:32 -- Screening of Short Film One Client
- 17:32-17:45 -- Screening of Short Film City of Dreams
Philosophical Encounters with Richard Shusterman is a documentary film, directed by Pawel Kuczyński about the life and work of philosopher Richard Shusterman. It has three related but independent modules, each almost 30 minutes long. The first (which will not be screened) is “The Role of a Philosopher,” while the other two encounters go more closely into Shusterman’s career and are respectively titled “Making a difference” and “Inspirations and Influences.” These two encounters explain Shusterman’s transcultural work and international impact in philosophy and aesthetics, including his pioneering project of somaesthetics and his experiments in performance art. Following that work through its presence in France, Germany, Poland, China, and Japan as well as the United States, the film connects his personal life experiences with his philosophical theories. Avoiding the long interview format, the film works largely through visual images and short dialogical responses where Shusterman explains his philosophical ideas and their emergence from his nomadic life.
