2024 George Lin Best Emerging Filmmaker Award

George Lin Best Emerging Filmmaker Award

2024: Alison Nguyen - History As Hypnosis

November 9, 2024

The 25th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF) proudly announced its 2024 award winners during the Filmmaker Awards Gala. The event took place on November 9, 2024, at EVE in San Diego, where honors were given across multiple categories, celebrating the excellence in Asian and Asian American filmmaking. The awards ceremony honors filmmakers whose creative storytelling amplifies diverse Asian and Asian American voices in cinema. 

Highlights include the Grand Jury Prize, Special Jury Mention, and the George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award. An independent jury of filmmakers, curators, critics, and academics selected the winners. In addition to recognizing outstanding films, the event honored key figures in the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.

Acquisitions to MIT List's Permanent Collection

2024: Acquisitions of MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alison Nguyen: history as hauntology (process), 2024, and I am screenless and I am wireless, 2022

history as hauntology (process), 2024, archival pigment print on metallic rag in aluminum artist's frame, framed: 13 5/8 x 17 5/8 x 2 in. (34.61 x 44.77 x 5.08 cm.)

I am screenless and I am wireless, 2022, gold on rag, framed: 6 x 8 x 1 in. (15.24 x 20.32 x 2.54 cm.)

09.02.24 - 09.06.24 EMAP x Frieze Film Seoul 2024

EMAP x Frieze Film Seoul 2024

CHAPTER 1: A Question of Quantum Entanglement 

Curated by Joowon Park and Valentine Umansky

September 2 – 6, 2024

Alison Nguyen, my favorite software is being here, 2021, 20 min

For the third year in a row, Frieze Film returns to Frieze Seoul 2024. This year’s programme is in partnership with Ewha Media Art Presentation (EMAP), on view from 2-6 September at Ewha Womans University and online at frieze.com. 

Curated by Joowon Park and Valentine Umansky, this year’s programme is titled ‘All that Weaves the Universe: Of Quantum Entanglements’. It brings together time-based media works of 37 international artists, unfolding under 8 chapters.


CHAPTER 2 - Longing & Belonging

These four films deal with the possible subversions of digital space, raising questions around identity and surveillance, in direct or symbolic ways. While Dineo Seshee Bopape’s is i am sky offers the possibility of cosmic infinity as a frontier for Black liberation, Alison Nguyen’s and Vitória Cribb’s works raise concerns about contemporary forms of oppression, through the generalization of digital mechanisms of control.

Together, the four works reflect ways of finding – unmonitored – spaces to connect in today’s age. They aptly emphasize how the interplay between capitalism and technology has driven economic inequality and exploitative dependency and offer possibilities of liberation through the blurring of identity markers and the construction of alternate universes.

05.09.24 - 05.24.24 ISP Studio Exhibition 2024

At Odds With, ISP Studio Exhibition 2024

Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune Street

May 9 – 24, 2024

The Studio Program exhibition, At Odds With, presents recent work by the 2023–24 Elaine G. Weitzen Studio Program Fellows S Emsaki, Kimi Hanauer, sadé powell, Albert Samreth, Shobun Baile, Mae Howard, Alison Nguyen, Elliot Reed, Omolola Ajao, José De Sancristóbal, Daniel Ramos, tarah douglas, Kearra Amaya Gopee, Emily Velez Nelms, and Jennifer Teresa Villanueva, and Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow Ella den Elzen. Curated by Juana Berrío, the exhibition will be on view May 9–24 at Westbeth Gallery, a nonprofit fine arts gallery located across the street from the ISP at 55 Bethune St, New York, NY 10014. An opening reception for At Odds With will be held at Westbeth Gallery on Thursday, May 9 from 6–8 pm.

05.09.24 - 05.12.24 Taipei Dangdai

Taipei Dangdai, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center

May 9 - 12, 2024

gdm participates in the 2024 edition of Taipei Dangdai, presenting iconic works of 13 artists, at booth E07.

Left: I am here to succeed in an image, 2024, acrylic and Gold on Canvas, 30 x 36 in., 91.5 x 76.2 cm. 

Right: Your content is my occupation, 2024, gold on acrylic on canvas, 30 x 36 in., 91.5 x 76.2 cm.