Asia Bazdyrieva is an art historian whose research spans visual culture, feminist epistemology, and environmental humanities at large. Her projects focus on a hybrid of European and Soviet modernities and its ideological and material implications in spaces, bodies, and lands. She holds an MA in Art History from City University of New York and an MS in Analytical Chemistry from the Kyiv National University. She was a Fulbright scholar in 2015–2017, and an Edmund S. Muskie fellow (2017). Asia co-authored ‘Geocinema’—a collaborative project exploring the possibilities of a planetary notion of cinema.She is currently associated with Critical Media Lab (Basel).

Asia co-authored ‘Geocinema’—a collaborative project exploring the possibilities of a planetary notion of cinema. Concerned with the understanding and sensing of the earth while being on the ground, the project includes vastly distributed processes of image and meaning making. ‘Geocinema’s work has been shown internationally, including the solo show Making of Earths at Kunsthall Trondheim Norway (2020), and group shows including Critical Zones at ZKM Karlsruhe (2020-21), Re-thinking Collectivity at Guangzhou Image Triennale (2021) and Sensing Scale at Kunsthalle Muenster (2021). As part of ‘Geocinema’, Asia was a 2018–19 Digital Earth Fellow; the project has been nominated for the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research (2020), and the Golden Key prize at the Kassel filmfestival (2021).