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Art and Society: Engagement or Conspiracy?

“Arts of Engagement” is the umbrella theme of a conference (the “International Conference on the Arts in Society 2006″) to take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, around August of this year. Under the theme “Arts of Engagement” are ten sub-themes, covering the widest possible spectrum linking art and society: Arts Agendas, Supporting the Arts, Art in Communities, Constructing Art Worlds, Audiences, Arts Education, Analyzing Art Forms, Meaning and Representation, Festivals, and Art and Human Rights. (more…)

The Spanish Colonial Santos of Baclayon Parish, Bohol 303kb Two major sections compose the bulk of this paper; the first section deals with the digital conversion of three-dimensional objects for presentation in two-dimensional format, and the second section on the traditional polychromy of sculptures in wood. Research conducted through a grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation. (December 1999)

Santo to Signal: Phase Space Portraits of the Nstra Sra delos Dolores 191kb. Short paper of Masters thesis, University of the Philippines. April 2002.

Decode: New Media in the Cradle of Modern Art, 491kb (See “Ano nga ba ang “new media”?) Catalogue essay and curator’s lecture for the exhibition “DECODE” at the Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo de Manila University. The exhibition draws a conceptual link between new media art and Philippine modern art. (August 2003).

Artifact Reassembly through New Media Art 179kb (See “Ano nga ba ang “new media”?) For Digital Media Festival 2002, University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts. (With Noel Farol and Roberto Feleo).

Katawan, Satti (Body, Force), 127kb. Catalogue essay for exhibition “Katawán, Satti” at the Art Gallery of the National Institute of Education, Singapore, for the Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) festival 2004. (August 2004).

Philippine BBS Culture: No Carrier, 175kb For the “Read_Me Software Art and Cultures Conference”, Digital Aesthetics Research Centre (Aarhus University), Aarhus, Denmark. June 2004. The book “Read_Me: Software Art and Cultures” is available thru the Aarhus University Press.

Triad: Knowledge, Technology, Autonomy, 20kb. For the UNESCO DigiArts “Workshop on the Creation of Masterclasses on Art and Design, Technology and Culture in the Mediterranean Rim and Gulf,” Panel 1, Cultural Contents and Digital Technology: examples and possible applications Brucknerhaus, Keppler Saal, Linz, Austria. August 2004.

Lessons from the Philippine Triad  153kb. From a version prepared for “A Colloquium on Art/Science/Spirituality Reconnections Within Emerging Planetary Cultures”, Session 4 Art/Science Approaches, International Festival of the Five Cultures, Melilla, Spain. (July 2004). A later version of this paper published in Leonardo Vol. 39, No. 1 (2006).