About
Fatima Lasay is a Filipino artist/writer. Her work explores the social and political dimensions of technologies. Contact fats@korakora.org.
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They make boats of wooden boards and fasten them with split rattan, and cotton wadding to plug up the seams. The hull is very flexible, and rides up and down the waves, and they row them with oars made of wood, too. None of them have ever been known to break up. - Wang Ta Yuan, Tao I Chih Lueh
As an artist, I believe that all truly creative activity is a world-building process involving the inter-operations of knowledge, language and body. If we get the balance right, then we create a world congruent with the principles of life (buhay) and inherited life force (bisa).
My work explores the creation of primitive expressions, operations and abstractions in a variety of linguistic-perceptual systems, from computer programming to crochet, from gardening to cooking. It is in this invention of language that I see art as a truly creative and meaningful activity, as a means of creating an enriching environment for continuous learning and survival.
In 2003, I started working with Trevor Batten, a British computer artist of the artist-programmer tradition, now based in the Philippines. In conjunction with my interest in language and computability, Trevor articulates the Space-Time process and proposes that if the computer is perceived in terms of Turing’s “universal simulation machine” (in the form of a self-modifying memory system, which in turn can be interpreted as a one-dimensional Einsteinian Time/Space machine) then this would seem to effectively integrate the concepts of Time, Space and Process.
Although Trevor and I have conducted workshops, lectures and dialogued together since 2003, only recently did we decide to assess our similarities and confront our differences in our common pursuit of the basis for variations in human and machine language.
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