Archive for July, 2006

Call for participation - Mobile Asia Competition 2006, Art Center Nabi

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Attention to the role of media makers and artists in articulating and expressing the Asian mobile cultures. The total award money is US $20.000 and the selected works will be exhibited in various on and offline venues.

With the mobile market and its culture expanding beyond Korea, Japan, China, and Taiwan to the Southeast Asia, the […]

Saving the children in India

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Although some of the ministry’s arguments against OLPC is debatable, I can only agree entirely with the statement that the scheme is being propagated in a conceptual vacuum as key argument that can underlie the rest. It is good that India opened the debate on (in this case) OLPC, as more debates and discussions on […]

Call for entries: Endframe Video Art Project

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Call for Entries END FRAME VIDEO ART PROJECT
Deadline for Submissions: 11 August 2006
            
The End Frame Video Art Project calls for entries to the Philippines’ first video art festival. Presented by Visual Pond and Power Plant Mall in partnership with The One Minutes, the Cubicle Art Gallery and the Listening Group of Companies (Listening in Style, […]

Proyekto Korakora

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

As if I do not have enough to do (or maybe I just like killing myself), I have just set up Korakora -Projects (http://proyekto.korakora.org/ or http://www.korakora.org/projects/)  as a site for “doing things.” While all the musings and theory are distilled in this blog and the main Korakora site, I have decided to set-up a separate […]

The Incompassionate Society

Monday, July 17th, 2006

I wrote this preface “The Incompassionate Society”* in 2000 for a short essay called “Lunch” which I wrote in 1998 and first distributed through local BBSs and shortly through the Internet). Also, now I realize that the real reason why I was invited out to lunch by my aunt and her elderly friends was because […]

How do you “survive?”

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

I took the issue of “Freetrade” in exploring this question because it is a rather complex problem, far more complex than simplistic answers such as “sacrifice”, “perseverance”, “choice”, “hardship”, “savings”, “management”, “professionalism”, “experience”, “talent”, “education”, “responsibility” - mostly about the desire and proficiency to build an arts career after having made the choice to creative […]

Ang monumento - public art or public squalor?

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

There is a Filipino joke/riddle that goes: “Konting bato, konting semento, pinatuyo: monumento” (a bit of rock, a bit of cement, let dry: monument.)
The monument (from Latin monere meaning “to remind”) is supposed to be something set up to keep alive the memory of a person or event, as a tablet, statue or other. I […]