ABSTRACT

This paper argues that contemporary Filipino visual art institutions and communities have a limited role in vernacular socioeconomic development because of a lack of an auto-critique that is grounded on an historical and structural context. This paper argues that a re-conceptualization of the role and meaning of contemporary art in developing countries such as the Philippines must take place, and that such re-conceptualizations can only take place within a critique of development itself. In view of a “regeneration of digital art”, this paper offers a “contemplative regeneration” by studying relationships between art, technology and socioeconomic development within the international dynamics of economic and cultural imperialism.

Note: This article was written by Fatima Lasay (fats@korakora.org) as presenter/speaker for “Regeneration of Digital Art”, the International Symposium on Digital Arts in Taiwan, December 15-16, 2004, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, ROC. Document URL: http://korakora.org/proyekto/economic_cultural_imperialism