2:30-2:45pm

PREDICTING THE PRESENT
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
By Global Art Forum Commissioner Shumon Basar

2:45-3:00pm

FASHION AS EARLY WARNING SYSTEM
CONVERSATION
Head of Editorial Content, VOGUE JAPAN Tiffany Godoy and Global Art Forum Commissioner Shumon Basar
Because of its reach, fashion is said to not only express the present moment but actually embody it. Tiffany Godoy shares her uniquely informed insights into fashion’s next seismic evolutions, through the prisms of media, technology and markets.

3:00-3:45pm

PRESENT DIGITAL (PART 2)
CONVERSATION
CEO and Co-Founder of TRLab Audrey Ou and Curator and Founder of NFT Asia Clara Peh
Hosted by Founder of Tropical Futures Institutes Chris Fussner
What are the latest forces shaping digital art and NFT innovation? Audrey Ou and Clara Peh share stories with Chris Fussner from the frontline of Web3 cultural production and communities, and delve into Art Dubai Digital’s participants, projects and initiatives.

3:45-4:00pm

BREAK

4:00-5:00pm

UNDERSTANDING PREDICTING MEDIA
LECTURE
Critic and Co-Founder of New Models Caroline Busta and Co-Founder of New Models, Director and Music Producer Lil Internet
What could possibly come after social media: Recommendation media? Community-as-media? Web3 decentralised anti-social media? New Models chart the contours of the media-maximalist 2010s — a decade of endless podcasts, streams and sensational takes — in order to point us to where the rest of the 2020s could venture next.

5:00-5:45pm

PREDICTING NARRATIVES
DISCUSSION
Artist Ahaad Alamoudi and artist Shuang Li
Hosted by Art Critic and Researcher Nadine Khalil
What is the relationship between identity and heritage? Does technology elicit new narratives of the self and of the nation state? What is the resolution of truth? Ahaad Alamoudi and Shuang Li are two of today’s most exciting young artists. They weave novel, witty narratives based around their cultures — Saudi Arabian and Chinese, respectively — articulated in the native languages of online characters.

5:45-6:30pm

PRESENT AND POTENTIAL PLACES
DISCUSSION
Writer and Editor, The White Review, Skye Arundhati Thomas, Principal of Counterspace, Professor of Practice, UCL and Artistic Director of Islamic Arts Biennale Sumayya Vally
Hosted by Global Art Forum Commissioner Shumon Basar
As the tectonic plates of globalisation shift again, what can we predict about the present from Asia and Africa’s perspectives? In this discussion with Goa-based Skye Arundathi Thomas and Johannasburg/London-based Sumayya Vally, place is presented as a source of political and creative potential that constantly renews itself.