Zara Sajid is a specialist in the contemporary art sector as a curator and advisor. She actively promotes Pakistani contemporary art and curated 75 exhibitions to date in Pakistan, India, Dubai and London. Zara worked as a consultant for the World Bank Group Islamabad for their art program. A graduate from the National College of […]
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Sibel Mufti is a Biomedical Engineer who has worked with artificial limbs, robotics education and founded a tech start-up in Pakistan that made the country’s first laser harp. He is fascinated by the future of human health and society, and how technology will help shape it. He resides in Canada. As artists, we often tend
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Sofia Hardt studied Economics and Human Rights at Bard College.After her BA, she became gradually interested in filmmaking as a more democratic and open form of communication. Now based in Copenhagen, she works for Mændenes Hjem (an organization that offers a range of social and health services for people who are homeless, drug users or
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ANGON is a vodcast series that invites artists and cultural practitioners from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and respective diasporas in Birmingham to enter into dialogue on diverging narratives, common identities, and forge new connections. Contributors include authors, performers, journalists, poets, and filmmakers. Vodcasts are produced and curated by Masuma Halai Khwaja (Karachi, Pakistan), Nafis Ahmed (Dhaka, Bangladesh),
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Olha Pylypenko has a varied background in cultural studies and art programming and worked as a visual researcher and designer in the commercial film production field. Now, however, she is focusing mostly on curation and cultural management within contemporary and new media art. She notes “I got really interested in the universe of post-internet conditions
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Taimur Malik is a partner at the UK based Clyde & Co law firm and leads its global Pakistan practice. He regularly advises governments, sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions, listed companies and Fortune 500 companies. During 2005-8, he was also the Executive Director of the Research Society of International Law, Pakistan’s only international law think
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Omar is a concept artist, illustrator, and creative director. Originally from Peshawar, Pakistan, his formal training is in Engineering: he holds an MSc in Mechanical Design and an MPhil in Robotics. He was also pursuing a PhD in Robotics, but ultimately dropped out of the program to build a career better aligned with his passion
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Khayal is a curator and researcher, with a background in computer engineering. Currently working at the intersection of arts and technology, he is one-half of Media Art South Asia that aims at documenting and mediating media arts practices in the subcontinent. He was previously the Cultural Coordinator at Alliance Francaise d’Ahmedabad for three years, where
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Our next artist interview is with Natacha Lamounier, an artist and researcher in the Media Arts field with a multidisciplinary background. She holds an Erasmus Mundus scholarship in a Master mobility program from the Universities of Krems (Austria), Aalborg (Denmark), and Lodz (Poland). She has a degree in Materials Engineering from the Federal Center for
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Our interview series continues, this time with Jean-Baptiste Clais. Clais is an ethnologist and an art historian. He’s the curator of the Asian collection (China, Japan, and some India) and European porcelains at the Department of Art Objects at the Louvre. In his free time, he researches Mughal arts, especially hardstones and luxury weapons. As
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