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Fatima Lasay - CV /Aug 2007

Fatima Lasay (b. 1969) is an artist, writer/researcher and independent curator working in digital media. She is interested in articulations of aesthetic equilibrium in kaluluwa (knowledge), wika (language) and ginhawa (body). Her work deals with the social and political dimensions of technologies.

Lasay was artist-in-residence in Yangon, Myanmar (2004) and Sierre, Switzerland (2004), and has been awarded grants to collaborate and present her work in Europe and Asia. Lasay is author of the chapter “Tanaw: Seeing and Shaping the World in the Philippine Landscape” for the book “Tanaw: Perspectives on the BSP Painting Collection” published by the Central Bank of the Philippines (2005), and “No Carrier and Other Stories from Philippine BBS Culture” for the book “Read_Me: Software Art and Cultures”published by the Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, Denmark (2004). Lasay was professor of industrial design, computer art and art theory (1996-2004) at the University of the Philippines where she developed its first computer art electives and organized the Digital Media Festivals (2000-2003). Lasay also serves as member of the editorial advisory board of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (MIT Press).

Education:

Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines, 2002
Bachelor of Fine Arts, major in Industrial Design, University of the Philippines, 1991
Units earned in Bachelor of Laws (Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila), 1995-1996
Units earned in Master of Management (Philippine Christian University), 1992
Completed the Comprehensive Music Program of the University of the Philippines College of Music (1984)
Summer chemistry scholar, 1st CHEMSTART, under Fr. William Schmitt, the Ateneo de Manila University (1984).

Professional Experience:

2004-Present Full-time artist, writer/researcher, independent curator
2001-2004 Assistant Prof I, College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines, Diliman
1996-2000 Lecturer, College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines, Diliman
1995-1999 Associate Editor, TravelNews Philippines, Makati City, Philippines
1989-1995 Freelance graphic and industrial designer

Projects (Recent/2005 and On-going):

• Research Proponent, “Encarnacion and Estofado: Artists’ Techniques from Golden Age Spain to the Philippines”, under “Towards a Common Future” Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain and universities in the Philippines and the Pacific Islands. March 2003- ongoing.

• Contributor/Maintainer, Dialogues website, with Trevor Batten June 2007-ongoing.

• Research Proponent and administrator, “Edward’s Crochet and Computability” website. “Edward’s CnC” is a personal research about crochet, its variations, and programming (Prolog, Lisp and Turbo Pascal in particular) as related languages. February 2007-ongoing.

• Jury Member, Ateneo Art Awards: “Global/Vernacular” for the Ateneo Art Gallery. June 2007. (Requested to be inhibited from the final jurying for ideological reasons).

• Project Director, “WebSining: Contesting Traditions”, flagship project of the Committee on Visual Arts-National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), in celebration of the Philippine Arts Festival 2007, February 2007. (Went on leave in January 2007 for health reasons)

• Presentor, International Symposium MAAP-Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festivalat the Queensland State Library in Brisbane, Australia, December 3, 2006. (Title of essay: “The KURO Satellites” / Title of Presentation: “Art in the Age of Techno-Propaganda”)

• Resource Person, KURO Gathering hosted and coordinated by the Kalimudan Arts and Culture Center, General Santos City, Philippines. Supported by MAAP-Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festival and the Committee on Visual Arts-National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)and Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA)as part of WebSining: Contesting Traditions. November 15, 2006. (Title of KURO: “Art, Technology and Advocacy” / Title of presentation: “Some Thoughts on Art and Computers”)

• Writer, catalogue essay for “Fuzzy Logic” exhibition at the Lopez Memorial Museum, curated by Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, October 2006. Lopez Memorial Museum’s contribution to Zero-in 5, a collaborative project between Ateneo Art Gallery, Ayala Museum, Bahay Tsinoy, Lopez Memorial Museum, and Museo Pambata. Zero-in 5 marks the fifth year the museum consortium has pooled its efforts to share and expand museum going audiences and focus on bridging formal and museum education modes. (Title of Essay: “(Not so) Fuzzy Logic”)

• Chapter writer, “PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice” to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press. Edited and with introduction by Danny Butt, Jon Bywater and Nova Paul. 2006-2007. (Title of chapter: “Diwà: A Filipino Aesthetic of Knowledge, Language, Body”)

• Invited lecturer, “Hearing Helsinki” 4th Asia-Europe Art Camp sponsored by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the Media Lab at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland. June 12-20, 2006. (Title of presentation: “Diwa: Striking the Balance in Sound Space”)

• Invited lecturer for the Curators’ Lecture Series (Title of presentation: “Curating: Cure for the Soul”) organized by the National Committee on Visual Arts (NCVA) of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Manila. May 12, 2006.

• Presentor, “Media, Art and Articulating Spaces” for the Forum-Presentation on Media Art Practices in the Philippines and Asia, with the co-artistic directors of the Ogaki 2006 Biennale and media art practitioners from the Philippines, held at the Ateneo Art Gallery. April 7, 2006.

• Curator, “Diwa’t Kapookan/Articulating Spaces”, winners of the WebSining 2005-2006 digital art competition, organized by the National Committee on Visual Arts-National Commission for Culture and the Arts. March 9, 2006 at the Upper Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Manila. Resource person for the exhibition forum and editor of the exhibition catalogue/CD-ROM.

• Invited lecturer, “Lost in Hyperspace: A New Perspective?” (with Trevor Batten) at the Eugenio Lopez Memorial Museum, Pasig City, Philippines. February 18, 2006.

• Member, International Steering Committee and Co-Chairperson of Working Group on Education, Pacific Rim New Media Summit, a 2-day pre-conference as part of ISEA 2006 Conference and Festival, co-sponsored by the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at the San Jose State University and Leonardo/ISAST, August 5-13,2006. (Was unable to attend due to visa problems).

• Invited presenter for “Cultural Futures: Place, Ground and Practice in Asia Pacific New Media Arts ” at the Cultural Futures International Conferencein Hoani Waititi, Auckland / Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa/ New Zealand, December 1-5, 2005.

• Keynote speaker for “The international conference of the exchange of the Cultural Creative Design of International Indigenous People” at the Chung Yuan Christian University, December 16-17, 2005. (Title of Presentation: “Anito at Diwa: A FIlipino Archaeology of Self” / Essay title: “Anito at Diwa: A Filipino Archaeology of Self”)

• Invited speaker for Sessions on Public Interest/Advocacy: “From Open Source to Open Content: Issues and Alternatives in “Intellectual Property” and the Public Domain” and “Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) and the Creative Practices”, organized by the Foundation for Media Alternatives at the LinuxWorld Conference, Dusit Hotel Nikko, Makati City, September 14-16, 2005. (Title of Presentation: “FOSS and the Creative Process: Knowledge, Technology, Autonomy”)

• Invited speaker for “Synch: Forum on Collaborative Practices”, organized by Pananaw Sining Foundation at the Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino, Cultural Center of the Philippines, August 17, 2005. (Title of presentation: “Conflict in Collaboration”)

• Chapter Writer, “Tanaw: Seeing and Shaping the World in the Philippine Landscape” for a book published by the Central Bank of the Philippines, “Tanaw: Perspectives on the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Painting Collection.” August 2005. (Awarded 2006 Gintong Aklat Award for the Arts (Book Development Association of the Philippines) and 2006 National Book Award for the Arts and the Alfonso T. Ongpin Award for Best Art Book (Manila Critics Circle). The book features essays by Dr. Jaime Laya, Dr. Alice Guillermo, Cid Reyes, Ma. Victoria Herrera, and Fatima Lasay. Edited by Ramon E.S. Lerma.)

Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions:

• “Chansons de mes deux âmes”, sound installation in Lac Géronde, Sierre, Switzerland, April 26-30, 2004 (Programme Artistes en Residence, center de réflexion sur l’image et ses contexts / école cantonale d’art du valais, March-April 2004)

• “Enfants du raisin”, L’école cantonale d’art du valais, Route dela Bonne-Eau, Sierre, Switzerland, April 28-30, 2004 (Programme Artistes en Residence, center de réflexion sur l’image et ses contexts / école cantonale d’art du valais, March-April 2004).

• “Santo to Signal” Electronics and Electrical Engineering Bldg., University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, March 2002 (MFA Thesis exhibition)

Selected Group Exhibitions:

• NCCA Sungdu-an National, Cultural Center of the Philippines Roxas Blvd., Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines, February-April 2003

• “Making the Local”, NCCA Sungdu-an National Capital Region, Pasig City Museum, Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines, August-September 2003

• “Digiframe,” group exhibition of digital prints, organized by IFIMA Gallery Authentic, in Mozartstr, Koln, Germany, September 14-16, 2001.

• “Malliarium”, Cultural Center of the Philippines Roxas Blvd., Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines, August 2000

Workshops and Presentations/Lectures:

• Speaker, “Regeneration of Digital Art”, the International Symposium on Digital Arts in Taiwan, December 15-16, 2004, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, ROC. (Title of Presentation: “Within the Dynamics of Cultural and Economic Imperialism: A Critical Look at Art, Technology and Development in the Philippines”)

• Artist-in-residence and resource person for sound art workshop and accessible web design workshop, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma), organized by Networking and Initiatives for Culture and the Arts (NICA). September 27 -October 22, 2004.

• Resource Person, “A Sound Archaeology Workshop” (assisted by Trevor Batten, Romaine Bovier and Fulvio Bressan), L’ecole cantonale d’art du valais, Sierre, Switzerland, April 2004. The workshop (”A Grape Planting Ceremony, the Sounds of Life”) was also conducted with children at the Institut Notre-Dame de Lourdes in Sierre, Switzerland, April 29, 2004 (Programme Artistes en Residence, center de réflexion sur l’image et ses contexts / école cantonale d’art du valais, March-April 2004).

• Presentor, UNESCO-Sarai International Colloquium, Old Pathways/New Travellers: New Media, Electronic Music and Digital Art Practices in the Asia Pacific Region Center for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India, December 4-5, 2003.

• Presentor, Artists’ Dialogues, “Sungdu-An 3 NCR 3″ exhibition at the Pasig City Museum, Pasig City, Philippines, August 30, 2003

• Resource Person, ArtSpeak, for DECODE exhibition, Ateneo Art Gallery, August 28, 2003.

• Paper Reader, “1st Philippine Art Studies Conference” October 24-26, 2002 - Art Studies Conference at the Cultural Center of the Philippines organized by the UP Art Studies Department Foundation, Pananaw Sining Bayan, Inc. and the Lopez Foundation. Funded by the Japan Foundation Asia Center. Title of paper: “Myth, Mind and Meaning in New Media.”

• Resource Person, “Accessible Web Design” September 18 & 20, 2002 - Conducted a 12-hour accessible web design workshop for SPMO at the Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) in UP Diliman.

• Participant, “Tri-Partite Dialogue: Burma’s Road to Democracy” A forum-sharing of experiences after the August 8, 1988 nationwide uprising in Burma, at the Third World Studies Center, University of the Philippines, August 8, 2002.

• Resource Person, “Collaboration, Networking and Resource Sharing: Myanmar” June 2002 - served as paper reader and respondent in panel discussion “Working with International Cultural Institutions: Policies, Strategies, Intentions and Constraints”, panel moderator for “Networking and Resource-Sharing in the Globalized Economies” and conducted a workshop on digital art entitled “Healing Cultures through Digital Art.” Research Dissemination Grant awarded by the Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs.

• Resource Person, “Accessible Web Design Workshop” 12-hour Accessible Web Design Workshops for February 2000, April 2001 at the Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) UP Diliman. “UP Webmasters Conference 2000″ December 6-8, 2000, conducted Web Design Workshop for UP System Webmasters at Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) UP Diliman. “UP Webmasters Training II” April 2000, conducted web design training for UP Diliman webmasters at the UP Computer Center. “UP Webmasters Training I” September 1999, designed the training modules and conducted the First U.P. Diliman Webmasters Training at the MITC, College of Education.

• Research Proponent-Presentor, “The Spanish Colonial Santos of Baclayon Parish, Bohol: A Digitization Initiative” At the Ateneo de Manila, Program for Cultural Cooperation Executive Committee, and “Towards a Common Future” at the Ateneo de Zamboanga.

Participation in International Festivals:

• Selected Artist, FILE (Festival Internacional de Linguagem Electrönica) Hipersonica 2003, Paço das Artes/São Paulo, Brasil. August 16, 2003.

• Selected Artist, V Salón y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Habana, Cuba. June-July 2003.

• Selected Artist, Chiangmai First New Media Art Festival, CMU Art Museum, Chiangmai, Thailand, March 28-April 4, 2003. (Work submitted: Algorithm-generated music)

• Selected Artist, E-M/AG/INERO, An Experimental Poetry Installation (with Jorge Luiz Antonio). August 2001 URL http://www.the-virtual-mine.net. The physical installation was launched also in August 2001 at the Gegenort Industrial Mine Pit in Neunkirchen-Wiebelskirchen, Germany. Also presented in the “Reading Room, Hypertext 2001,” 12th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, University of Arhus, Arhus, Denmark, August 14-18, 2001. URL: http://www.ht01.org; and “2nd Interpoetry Exhibition: A Hypermedia Poetics,” Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Sao Paulo, October 9-11, 2001.

Exhibitions and Other Events Curated or Organised:

• Curator, “Katawán, Satti” (Body, Force), Art Gallery, National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore, for the Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) Festival in Singapore. Participant in a media arts forum at the Singapore Art Museum. October 2004.

• Manila Organizer, SIGGRAPH senior delegation visit to Asia, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, February 2004.

• Invited Curator, Philippine works for the streaming media program of the Walker Art Center’s (Minneapolis, USA) “Translocations/How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in the Globalized Age,” February 8-May 10, 2003.

• Guest Curator, “Decode”, Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, August 14 to September 9, 2003. (See photos in Korakora Gallery).

• Exhibition Designer, “Yankee Doodles” for Sangandaan 2003 conference on the centennial of Filipino-American relations, Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, July 6-August 30, 2003.

• Guest Curator, “Mga Wika ng Liwanag” for “InteractivA’03″ Museo Arte de Contemporaneo Ateneo Yucatan (MACAY), Merida, Mexico, July 10-September 28, 2003.

• Curator, “Geocentricity, the Earth as Center,” commissioned by fineArt forum, May 2001. URL http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/2001/geocentricity/

Projects Organized at the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines:

• Curator, “Inter/Active/Trans/Media: Media, Imperialism and Propaganda” CD-ROM, UP College of Fine Arts, October 19, 2003. URL: http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/dmf2003/

• Organizer, “Mga Wika ng Liwanag” CD-ROM of student works for InteractivA’03, Museo Arte de Contemporaneo Ateneo Yucatan (MACAY)in Merida, Mexico, July 10-September 28, 2003.

• Curator, “The Hidden War: Re-imagining the Center” multi-media student works hosted by Kanonmedia.com, non-profit organization for new media based in Vienna, Austria. July 27, 2003. URL: http://www.kanonmedia.com/

• Festival Organizer, “Artifact Reassembly through New Media Art, Digital Media Festival 2002,” Corredor Gallery, UP College of Fine Arts, October 3-19, 2002. URL: http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/dmf2002/ (Title of essay: “Artifact Re-assembly through New Media Art”)

• Organizer and Contributing Writer, “Healing Cultures” digital artworks by students for “The World Healing Book”, edited by Birgitta Jonsdottir and Michael Lohr (Beyond Borders Press, Iceland), November 2001. URL: http://this.is/poems/hope

• Festival Organizer, “DMF2001 (Digital Media Festival 2001),” Corredor Gallery, UP College of Fine Arts, October 1-14, 2001. URL: http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/dmf2001.

• Organizer, “Palm Reading” student works for 2nd Interpoetry Exhibition: A Hypermedia Poetics, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and I Congresso International Todas As Letras Lingua e Literatura, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 9-11, 2001.

• Festival Organizer, “DMF2K (Digital Media Festival 2000),” Corredor Gallery, University of the Philippines, October 1-15, 2000. URL: http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/dmf2k

Articles, Research Papers:

• Author, “The Philippine Triad and Western Dichotomous Philosophies, A Contest of Traditions.” Leonardo Journal for the International Society of Art, Science and Technology Volume 39 Number 1 2006. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.

• Chapter Writer, “Tanaw: Seeing and Shaping the World in the Philippine Landscape” for a book published by the Central Bank of the Philippines, “Tanaw: Perspectives on the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Painting Collection.” May 2005.

• Author, “Within the Dynamics of Cultural and Economic Imperialism: A Critical Look at Art, Technology and Development in the Philippines” for the International Symposium on Digital Arts in Taiwan, December 15-16, 2004, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, ROC.

• Author, “Triad: Knowledge, Technology, Autonomy” for the UNESCO DigiArts “Workshop on the Creation of Masterclasses on Art and Design, Technology and Culture in the Mediterranean Rim and Gulf.” Linz, Austria, September 4-5, 2004. (Unable to attend due to travel visa problems).

• Chapter Writer, “No carrier and other stories from Philippine BBS culture” for the “Read_Me 2004 Software Art and Cultures Conference”in Arhus, Denmark, organized by Read_Me, Digital Aesthetics Research Centre (Aarhus University), Det Jyske Kunstakademi (The Jutland Academy of Fine Arts), Runme.org, and Dorkbot. August 2004.

• Guest Editor-Writer, “Network Leaps, Bounds and Misses: Critiquing Regional Strategies for Digital Arts and Electronic Music in Asia and the Pacific,”for a special issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press, MA, USA. August 2004.

• Author, “Lessons from the Philippine Triad”, for Session 4 Art/Science Approaches, the Art/Science/Spirituality Reconnections Within Emerging Planetary Cultures Conferenceat the International Festival of the Five Cultures” in Melilla, Spain, organized by La Ciudad Autonoma de Melilla in collaboration with Leonardo and the Al Andalus Foundation. July 2004. (Unable to attend due to travel visa problems).

• Author, “New Media in the Cradle of Modern Art” curator’s essay for “Decode” exhibition at the Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City. July 2003.

• Author, “New Media Art in the Philippines: the Bend in the Road.”The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) Newsletter Issue 90, December 2002 to January 2003 (Amsterdam, Netherlands) URL http://www.isea-web.org.

• Author, “Myth, Mind and Meaning in New Media.” October 2002. Written for 1st Philippine Art Studies Conference held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Slightly different version of the paper was published in Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA)December 2002, Vol. 10 No. 12. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.

• Author, “Images Resulting from the Application of the Mathematical Concept of Recurrence Plots (Phase Space Portraits of the Nuestra Señora delos Dolores of Baclayon, Bohol).” MFA Thesis. 2002.

• Author, “Working with International Cultural Organizations: Policies, Strategies, Intentions and Constraints (On the formulation of guidelines and the limitations and challenges of cross-cultural cooperation).” Short reader for the international symposium and workshop “Collaboration, Networking and Resource-Sharing: Myanmar.” June 2002.

• Author, “Geocentricity: The Earth as Center.” Leonardo Journal for the International Society of Art, Science and Technology Volume 35 Number 3 2002. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.

• Guest Editor-Author, “The Myth of the Divided Child,” Vol. 10 No. 5 May 2002, Leonardo Electronic Almanac. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.

• Guest Editor-Author, “Being Universal: A Dialogue on the Process of Collaboration between Joel Weishaus and Fatima Lasay.” With Joel Weishaus. Vol. 10 No. 6 June 2002, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.

• Author, “Crossing Language, Media, Culture,” August 2001, fineArt Forum.

• Author, “A Digitization Initiative: The Spanish Colonial Santos of Baclayon Parish, Bohol” and “Preserving Object through Tradition (The Spanish Colonial Santos of Baclayon Parish, Bohol).” Research paper submitted to the Program for Cultural Cooperation, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. 2000.

• Author, “eART” Araw Magazine (NCCA), June-August 2000 Issue.

• Author, “Hiroo Onoda’s Mission of Peace to Lubang Island.” TravelNews Philippines, 1996

• Author, “Mindanao Autonomy, Now or Never.” TravelNews Philippines, 1996.

• Author, “Carlos P. Valino, Jr.: Reluctant Master.” TravelNews Philippines, October 1995.

Misc:

• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Leonardo Electronic Almanac2003-Present

• Corresponding Editor, Leonardo Electronic Almanac and fineArtforum (fAf) 2000-2003

• Member, Steering Committee, Pacific Rim New Media Summit for ISEA20062006

• Member, Scientific Program Committee, ICEC2004 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Eindhoven, Netherlands, September 1-3, 2004.

• Member, International Program Committee (Geopolitics of Media), ISEA2004 Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts International Symposium on Electronic Art Stockholm, Tallinn, Helsinki. August 14-22, 2004.

• Member, Artwork Committee, International Conference on Computational Semiotics in Games and New Media (COSIGN2003) University of Teeside, Middlesbrough, England, September 9-12, 2003.

• Advisor, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) Gallery Board, 2003.

• Member, Artwork Committee, International Conference on Computational Semiotics in Games and New Media (COSIGN2002) University of Augsburg, Germany, September 2-4, 2002.