Dear friend in the arts,

You might be mildly aware that there is an ongoing campaign towards the strengthening of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement in the Philippines as the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced plans in April 2008 to pursue more aggressive IP protection schemes with its trading partners around the world.

East is East? (A Euro-centric view of Middle-Earth)
by Trevor Batten

Abstract:

Working Group 4: Some personal observations on the dynamics of the sessions
Prepared by Fatma Lasay (WG4 Moderator)
August 9, 2008

The Working Group 4 members and participation

The Working Group on Media, Media Education, and Civil Society had three opportunities to meet, discuss and write the policy recommendations. I would just like to quickly describe the participation in these processes.

Microsoft Office Open XML now a certified standard: Some issues
by Fatima Lasay, April 2008

Death by ICT. A Critical Look at the Information Society.
by Fatima Lasay

This document is based on a short presentation/discussion I facilitated several days ago at ISIS International-Manila. Entitled "Death by ICT. A Critical Look at the Information Society", the presentation/discussion was intended to stimulate critical thinking about communication and technology concepts and how these concepts relate to and affect daily tasks, decisions and issues seemingly unrelated to ICT.

SO WHAT IS MEDIA ART?
by Trevor Batten / Amsterdam Jan/July/Aug 1996

1. Terminology:

a. Art and Media:

The term "Media Art" is of course a rather silly term. All Art is "media" Art.

However, the current (i.e. permanent) crisis of confusion and decay regarding the meaning and value of Art suggests that dropping the term "Media" allowing a total dissolution into the category "Art" would be a loss of opportunity to revitalize both concept and practice of "Art".

Social, Artistic and Commercial networks: Social Justice or Exploitation?
by Trevor Batten, February 2008

1. "Innovation and technology: Twenty-First Century"

In the journal "Leonardo", Volume 28, Number 4 -published by Pergamon Press in 1990 we read an article with the title directly above, written by Lowell T. Harmison (biophysicist, scientist, administrator) Maxwell Foundation, USA:

The Arts in Civil Society - A Philosophy of the Functioning Society
by Fatima Lasay

Presented at 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.

(Not so) Fuzzy Logic
By Fatima Lasay
Draft - August 2006

Catalogue essay for “Fuzzy Logic” exhibition at the Lopez Memorial Museum, Philippines.

Anito at Diwà: A Filipino Archaeology of Self
by Fatima Lasay

This paper was presented at and published by the Chung Yuan Christian University in Chungli, Taiwan, for the “International Conference of the Exchange of the Cultural Creative Design of International Indigenous Peoples” (December 16-17, 2005).