The Seventh Transdisciplinary Conference on Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science, and Culture
23 – 25 September 2022
Virtual and in-person, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan
The Seventh Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference will be held in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, a country where equestrian nomadism remains a powerful cultural signifier. In Deleuze and Guattari’s nomadology, the nomad pursues pure lines of flight across the steppe, desert, or ocean: smooth, continually shifting spaces that stand in opposition to the striated, enclosed world of the settled State. Similarly, images traverse and produce unbounded, uncharted spaces whose circumference shifts, expands, and dissolves. Confounding distinctions between arrival and departure, every return of the image is a phantom, as illusory as the belief that the earth returns to the same spot after orbiting the sun. Heterogeneous and dynamic, de-territorialised and de-territorialising, how do the image’s nomadic flights construct and reflect the textures of the everyday?
In a hybrid online and in-person event hosted by the University of Central Asia on its Naryn campus, the conference offers an exciting opportunity for international participants to connect with Kyrgyz and other Central Asian creatives and scholars, and to explore experimental imaging cultures at the crossroads between East and West, and hypermodernity and tradition.
Conference Founder and Series Chair: Hon. Prof. Paul Thomas, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture
Co-Chairs 2022: Soheil Ashrafi, University of Central Asia, and Michael Garbutt, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture
Contact: sas@ucentralasia.org
The 7th Transdisciplinary Conference is sponsored by the University of Central Asia and delivered in collaboration with the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Arts, Architecture & Design, with support from Alo-Too International University and ololohaus, Bishkek.
