Conversations which are insightful and intimate about Art for Consumption as part of the KL Design Festival 2024 at the Malaysian Design Archive. The dialogue with a writer-public intellectual , artist and designer turned it into more than that and a brought about fresh thinking about AI, Amar Chitra Katha, Traditions and Cultural Sustainability.

How do we interrogate ideologies behind AI and Sustainability from Malaysia? Where is the deep thinking behind writing and design? Sustainability from the west is colonial power masked as egalitarianism.

The Malaysian Design Archive is critical cultural infrastructure which keeps records of a visual Tarikh of a Malayan Past, slowly being attenuated. KL is a deeply creative city, full of life while maintaining form and substance. A lot of learning during the past year has been through attending talks by Mr. Eddin Khoo and other civil society events and reading group sessions by Prof. Farid, Prof Farish amongst others.

Technology is an ideology and the politics behind it is hidden from plain sight, yet the values need to be thought through before art is created. Technology in the present form creates a version of mediocrity which is regurgitated in popular culture. An exit from technological determinism is much awaited as we trapped in heuristics rather than thinking in depth, which brings conversations forward.