Re-framing the “digital art festival”
Posted by: Fats in: Wika at Hirap > Mga Pulong atbpBelow are some questions that I have formulated in the framing / re-framing of a (Philippine) “digital art festival.”
In the context of Diwa, the inquiry underlying these questions is the formulation of the nature of knowledge / cognitive systems through which such concepts and observables as education / learning / behaviour, etc. is motivated. It is crucial, I believe, that we understand how their own local cognitive systems are structured (what are its principles and parameters, its values?), and only from there is it possible (and ethical) to ask questions that attempt to explore across the diversity things like: models of cooperation, develop strategies, engage diaspora communities, establish networks, investigate responses, etc.
Regards,
Fatima
1. What intellectual substance can the Philippines contribute to that body of creative practices called “digital art” or “new media”?
2. How does the Philippine experience (specific problems of the economic, political and cultural life across the country) relate to the ideas and methods of aestheticizing media and technology?
3. If the “festival” was to be conceived as a “process” rather than as an “event”, then what are the implications of such in terms of its topical and geographical scope, timetable, organization, funding, promotion, and evaluation?
4. What strategies responsive to and in congruence with local diversities and systems of knowledge must be developed in finding answers to these questions?
5. How do we know that these strategies are indeed “responsive” and “responsible”?
6. How do we know that the best of our intentions will not be corrupted in support of the very forces that have transformed cultures into global markets through “new media”?
