Shumon Basar

Shumon Basar is a writer, thinker and curator. He is co-author of The Extreme Self and The Age of Earthquakes, both with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Other roles have included long-term Commissioner of Art Dubai’s Gloal Art Forum; founding member of Fondazione Prada’s ‘Thought Council’; Expert Advisory Group for the Royal Commission of AlUla; Chief Narrative Officer and co-founder at web3 startup Zien; and establishing a new cultural platform in London entitled Ibraaz, powered by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation. Shumon has held editorial positions at the magazines TANK, Bidoun, 032c, Flash Art, and as Curator-in-Residence at Zora Zine, produced a trilogy of pieces around his viral neologism, 'Lorecore.'