Fatima Lasay / korakora.org

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.

In 2004, Lasay was invited as artist-in-residence at NICA (Networking Initiatives in Culture and the Arts) in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma), and CRIC (Centre de Réflexion sur l’Image et ses Contextes) in Sierre, Switzerland. She has worked in image and sound mediums, and is currently involved in programming and crocheting.

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), “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), and “Diwa: A FIlipino Aesthetic of Knowledge, Language, Body” for the book “Place: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice” (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008).

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 currently serves as member of the editorial advisory board of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (MIT Press), and as art and culture consultant for the Foundation for Media Alternatives.

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 (2005-present):

1. 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.
2. Presenter, Mini-Summit on New Media Art Policy and Practice, organized by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), July 24-26, 2008, Singapore. Title of presentation/lecture “Arts in Civil Society, A Philosophy for the Functioning Society“
3. Moderator, Working Group 4 (Media, Media Education and Civil Society), Mini-Summit on New Media Art Policy and Practice, organized by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), July 24-26, 2008, Singapore. The outcomes of the Mini-Summit was presented publicly during ISEA2008 in Singapore.
4. Invited speaker, University of the Philippines Association of Computer Science Majors (UP CURSOR) @rte Movement’s seminar on digital art (with Trevor Batten), University of the Philippines, College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science. August 25, 2007. (Title of Presentation: “Creative Thinking and the dynamics of organism, environment, language”).
5. Project Director, “WebSining: Contesting Traditions” (Went on leave in January 2007 for health reasons), 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.
6. Designer-Administrator, “Websining.net” web gallery, forums and blog, for the Websining project of the NCCA-NCVA. December 2006-January 2008. URL: http://websining.net/
7. 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”)
8. Resource Person, KURO Satellite Gatheringhosted and coordinated by the Kalimudan Arts and Culture Center, General Santos City, Philippines. Supported by 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. Also supported by Multimedia Art Asia Pacific.(Title of KURO: “Art, Technology and Advocacy” / Title of presentation: “Some Thoughts on Art and Computers”) (See transcript at the KURO-Websining Blog).
9. 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”)
10. 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”)
11. 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”) (See photos in Korakora Gallery).
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Invited lecturer, “Lost in Hyperspace: A New Perspective?” (with Trevor Batten) at the Eugenio Lopez Memorial Museum, Pasig City, Philippines. February 18, 2006.
16. 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 for visa reasons).
17. 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.
18. 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”) (See photos in Korakora Gallery)
19. 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”)
20. 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”)
21. 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:

1. “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).
2. “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). (See photos in Korakora Gallery).
3. “Santo to Signal” Electronics and Electrical Engineering Bldg., University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, March 2002 (MFA Thesis exhibition).

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1. NCCA Sungdu-an National, Cultural Center of the Philippines Roxas Blvd., Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines, February-April 2003.
2. “Making the Local”, NCCA Sungdu-an National Capital Region, Pasig City Museum, Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines, August-September 2003.
3. “Digiframe,” group exhibition of digital prints, organized by IFIMA Gallery Authentic, in Mozartstr, Koln, Germany, September 14-16, 2001.
4. “I/O”, West Gallery, Marisan Center, West Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines. March 2001.
5. “Geocentricity: the Earth as Center”, Web-based exhibition, fineArt Forum, URL http://www.fineartforum.org/Gallery/2001/geocentricity/2001.
6. “Manipulation”, Gallery Situ, Quezon City, Philippines. November 2000.
7. “Malliarium”, Cultural Center of the Philippines Roxas Blvd., Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines, August 2000.

Workshops and Presentations/Lectures:

1. 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”) (See photos in Korakora Gallery). (Shorter version written for CANS (Chinese Art News).
2. 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. (See photos in Korakora Gallery). Presentation for Accessible Web Design Workshop., at NICA, Yangon. Presentation, Art and Technology Overview, at Books for All, Yangon. Presentation for Sound Art Workshop, at NICA, Yangon.
3. 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).
4. 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. (See photos in Korakora Gallery).
5. Presentor, Artists’ Dialogues, “Sungdu-An 3 NCR 3” exhibition at the Pasig City Museum, Pasig City, Philippines, August 30, 2003
6. Resource Person, ArtSpeak, for DECODE exhibition, Ateneo Art Gallery, August 28, 2003. (See photos in Korakora Gallery).
7. 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.”
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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. (See photos in Korakora Gallery).
11. 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.
12. 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:

1. Selected Artist, FILE (Festival Internacional de Linguagem Electrönica) Hipersonica 2003, Paço das Artes/São Paulo, Brasil. August 16, 2003.
2. Selected Artist, V Salón y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Habana, Cuba. June-July 2003.
3. Selected Artist, Chiangmai First New Media Art Festival, CMU Art Museum, Chiangmai, Thailand, March 28-April 4, 2003. (Work submitted: Algorithm-generated music) (Listen to algorithm-generated music in Korakora Gallery).
4. 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:

1. 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. (See photos at Korakora Gallery).
2. Manila Organizer, SIGGRAPH senior delegation visit to Asia, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, February 2004.
3. 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.
4. Guest Curator, “Decode”, Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, August 14 to September 9, 2003. (See photos in Korakora Gallery).
5. 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. (See photos in Korakora Gallery)
6. Guest Curator, “Mga Wika ng Liwanag” for “InteractivA’03″ Museo Arte de Contemporaneo Ateneo Yucatan (MACAY), Merida, Mexico, July 10-September 28, 2003.
7. 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:

1. 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/
2. 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.
3. 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/
4. 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”) (See photos in Korakora Gallery).
5. 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
6. 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. (See photos in Korakora Gallery).
7. 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.
8. Festival Organizer, “DMF2K (Digital Media Festival 2000),” Corredor Gallery, University of the Philippines, October 1-15, 2000. URL: http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/dmf2k (See photos in Korakora Gallery).

Articles, Research Papers:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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. (See photos in Korakora Gallery).
4. 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 visa problems).
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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 visa problems).
8. 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. (See photos in Korakora Gallery).
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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. See also on Leonardo Online.
14. Guest Editor-Author, “The Myth of the Divided Child,” Vol. 10 No. 5 May 2002, Leonardo Electronic Almanac. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.
15. 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.
16. Author, “Crossing Language, Media, Culture,” August 2001, fineArt Forum.
17. 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.
18. Author, “eART” Araw Magazine (NCCA), June-August 2000 Issue.
19. Author, “Hiroo Onoda’s Mission of Peace to Lubang Island.” TravelNews Philippines, 1996
20. Author, “Mindanao Autonomy, Now or Never.” TravelNews Philippines, 1996.
21. Author, “Carlos P. Valino, Jr.: Reluctant Master.” TravelNews Philippines, October 1995.

Misc:

1. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Leonardo Electronic Almanac2003-Present
2. Corresponding Editor, Leonardo Electronic Almanac and fineArtforum (fAf) 2000-2003
3. Member, End Frame Video Art Festival Selection Committee, Manila, September 2007.
4. Juror, Ateneo Art Awards “Global/Vernacular”, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila. June-August 2007. (Requested to be inhibited from the final jury process for ideological reasons).
5. Member, Steering Committee, Pacific Rim New Media Summit for ISEA20062006
6. Member, Scientific Program Committee, ICEC2004 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Eindhoven, Netherlands, September 1-3, 2004.
7. 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.
8. Member, Artwork Committee, International Conference on Computational Semiotics in Games and New Media (COSIGN2003) University of Teeside, Middlesbrough, England, September 9-12, 2003.
9. Advisor, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) Gallery Board, 2003.
10. Member, Artwork Committee, International Conference on Computational Semiotics in Games and New Media (COSIGN2002) University of Augsburg, Germany, September 2-4, 2002.