CHITZ RAMIREZ [PH]

Wanted: Tubero is a visual drawing of otherwise invisible lines that run through the sometimes harmonic, sometimes dissonant elements that make up a whole. One such charged plane or contested whole is the artworld which lives on the perpetuation of a chain of associations that keep symbols alive through their regurgitation and constant remaking. This underlying connective structures of thought and meaning make up art's critical lifelines that nonetheless get reworked and shift over time and place.

In affirming his faith in art's capacity to enable flex and/or an altered pace, Ramirez challenges the force-fitting that has become analogous of how aberrant artists and their art get squeezed into digestible, skeletal bits. Thus, this interactive installation attempts at an indexical engagement, where visitors are encouraged to take any of the strewn about fittings (elbows, tees, reducers, bushings, and so on) which they can use as is or cut to size, then add on to any open end to extend a length, or effect a switch or a break in the flow. Just as children used to play shooting stars and eventually Tetris, Wanted: Tubero allows the willing participant to create individuated paths and counterflows in the course of which it is hoped, that the ambient chatter, swishes, and hum that reverberate through these pipes make a case for keeping such energies churning rather than being repressively shut off.

DENIS LAGDAMEO [PH]

Denis Lagdameo is a visual artist working in different mediums from concrete, light, to large scale installations. He was the visual component to the spoken word collective called Jamfood Technology and the Heavy Dream Program in the late 90’s. He primarily uses slide projectors and hand manipulated film slides.

KAWAYAN DE GUIA [PH]

Kawayan Thor Kalayaan De Guia (born 1979) is an artist who focuses on line drawings, performance art, and installations. He is the second of the three children of Filipino independent filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik and German stained-glass artist Katrin De Guia. He finished his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines. Incubator won him the 2008 Ateneo Arts Awards, which eventually earned him the 1st New York Arts Project residency grant in 2009. He was among the 30 artist recipients selected from over 900 applicants from 69 countries. In 2009, De Guia held two exhibitions, Ice Cold Happiness in Beijing, China, and the Baguio jeepney-jukebox project Katas ng Pilipinas for the Cultural Center of the Philippines's The Thirteen Artists Awards.

LAWRENCE ENGLISH [AU]

Lawrence English is a media artist, composer and curator based in Australia. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work prompts questions of field, perception and memory. English utilises a variety of approaches including live performance, installation and found sound/vision to create works that generate subtle transformation of space and ask audiences to become aware of that which exists at the edge of perception. Outside of his recording and art commissions, Lawrence English curates a number of ongoing sound and media programs including Mono at the Institute Of Modern Art and Syncretism at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts.

LIRIO SALVADOR [PH]

ELEMENTO is a multi-disciplinary art collective that is spear-headed by Lirio Salvador, a visual assemblage / sound artist. Salvador creates sound sculptures cum musical instruments out of metal pipes, stainless steel, bicycle parts and other industrial materials. These sound sculptures are being used by the group in their sound art/musical performances and are sometimes seen hanging on display on different museums and art galleries.

MARIKA GOOGLE HOUSE
by Stéphane Degoutin [FR] and Marika Demineur [FR]

Googlehouse is an online process that builds a house with images of domestic rooms (living room, tv room...) picked up on the Internet usingan image search engine. website

Stéphane Degoutin. Works in Paris. Artist and theorist, he is the author of the book "Prisonniers volontaires du rêve américain", about gated communities in Los Angeles. website

Marika Dermineur works as artist and independant curator on netart and digital art. Member of Incident and RyBN collectives. website

NEIL ARVIN JAVIER [PH]

Arvin “A.lien” Javier studied fine arts at TUP and has had solo exhibits in various local galleries. He has been making his plush toys called Sculptoys that are characterized by button eyes and crookedly stitched bi-fanged smiles. These evolved into painted wooden massage ball rollers. His paintings are tinged with crude whimsy as he paints on a variety of surface from found cardboard to chopping boards, mixing stencils with direct painting and doodling.

SAMUEL ANDRE [FR]

Born in 1978, Samuel Andre is a self-taught sound artist and video artist who has been travelling for more than two years around East Asia. After training in Mathematics, Cognitive Sciences and researching musical interfaces, he developed a project around sound under the name of ieva and started to compose music like imaginary journeys or short stories. Two years ago, he started to practice multicast (4 or more speakers) improvisation using multi-layered field recordings to create an intense emotionally-charged universe that you pass through as a waking dream, like cinema for the ear. He also directed several experimental films. After an initial approach, abstract and sensitive, playing on the body of the digital image (pixelization, compression). He developed his approach in films, more figuratively combining diary and man's relationship to the environment.

TATONG TORRES [PH]

Tatong Recheta Torres (b. 1979, Valenzuela, Metro Manila, Philippines) studied Architecture in college at Mapua Institute of Technology but decided to pursue a career in visual art. Since 1996 he has done numerous local and international solo and major group art exhibitions. He was shortlisted in the recent Ateneo Art Awards for his work in the virtual world Second life. Tatong also worked as a creature designer in a local feature horror film. website

E.X.I.S.T. [PH]

E.X.I.S.T. is a not-for-profit sound art collective and movement. It’s a loose organization among sound-artists and musicians. It aims to educate people about Experimental Music and Sound Art as an interdisciplinary art form. E.X.I.S.T. commonly engages in the use of found objects and environmental sound as a medium. Moreover, they explore with any of audio technologies (both analog and digital). They will be conducting a workshop on Circuit Bending.

‘Circuit Bending’ is the creative electronic manipulation or the process of creative audio short-circuiting. It is an integral part of sound art experimentation and involves the customization of the circuits of electronic devices for creative purposes, emphasizing spontaneity and randomness in the process.

KENNETH FEINSTEIN [US/SG]

Kenneth Feinstein is a multimedia artist & theorist. Both his written and art works address the relationship of the work of art and the audience. He has been exhibited in museums & galleries in China, Japan, Germany, South Africa, Russia as well as the United States. His last solo show was Telegeneric Realities at 2902 Gallery, Singapore in 2009. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Art, Design, & Media at Nanyang Technical University in Singapore. website

KRISZTIAN KELNER [HU]

Krisztian Kelner (KR!Z) is an architect and sound builder from Hungary. 

His sonic experimentations center around Noise of the Media. He makes use of different instruments, recordings and generated sounds, taking shape as performances, sonic installations, public art and collaborative contemporary dance projects. 

He is currently based in Vietnam.

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THIERRY BERNARD GOTTELAND [FR]

Thierry Bernard-Gotteland is a French artist who lives and works between France and Vietnam. A multimedia artist in the widest sense of the word, he chooses no one medium over another, but picks according to its functional relevance in the given situation, that is to say according to the physical place and the public present in that space. His work can thus be seen as a result of the situation.

http://tbgotteland.tumblr.com
http://www.galeriequynh.com/
http://www.myspace.com/moethern
http://www.wix.com/puremoeth/gate

AN XIAO MINA [US]

An Xiao Mina is an American design thinker, new media artist, and digital community builder. Her work has been featured in venues internationally, from the Brooklyn Museum to Shanghai’s Xindanwei, and in publications like The New York Times, The Guardian and LA Weekly. website | twitter @anxiaostudio.

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BONG RAMILO [PH/AU]

Bong Ramilo is currently Executive Officer of Darwin Community Arts (DCA). He is also Project Officer for DCA's Frontline project, which fosters locative media for community cultural development. He has worked as a community artist since the late 1970s in the Philippines where he was born, and in Australia, where he migrated in 1986. He has been exploring new technologies and new media for more than ten years, initially through a New Media grant in 1999 and a Fellowship in 2000-2002 from the Australia Council for the Arts. He worked full-time as a system administrator and programmer for an ISP and other ICT companies from 2002 to 2006. He returned to working in the arts full-time in 2007, to lead the reinvention of DCA into a grassroots arts development organisation.

He has a BA in Humanities (Philippine Literature, Theatre Arts) from the University of the Philippines Baguio. He currently has an installation, made in collaboration with his sister Ling Quisumbing Ramilo, called "Ugong" in "Nothing To Declare", at the Vargas Museum, UP Diliman, from 18 November 2011 to 7 January 2012.

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DIEGO MARANAN [CA/PH]

Diego Maranan is an artist, academic, and activist interested in the intersection of motion, bodies, technologies, and cultures. He divides his time between Manila, Philippines and Vancouver, Canada and is passionate about trying to bridge gaps when possible using the arts, technology, and the body as framing contexts.

IAN PARKER [UK]

Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University where he co-directs the Discourse Unit, is managing editor of Annual Review of Critical Psychology, and secretary of Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix. He is a practising psychoanalyst, member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, the London Society of the New Lacanian School, and the College of Psychoanalysts – UK. His books on psychoanalysis include Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction (Pluto Press, 2004) and Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity (Routledge, 2011). email

1escV [SG]

Sebastien Szczyrk comes from the North Eastern part of France. After his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Mulhouse, he graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris with honors in 2005. His work is a multi-disciplinary one, and goes from visual researches to his sound experimentations.

BENT LYNCHPIN

is a 4-piece band that focuses on a few contrasting qualities; improvisation and presequncing, rhythmic/tonal modality and aural abstractions. The members are Malek Lopez on synth, Fred on guitars and effects, El Ministro on bass and Albatross on drums. The band members are all molecular biologists and are responsible for the discovery of molecules that react to a specific audio frequency and the fuzz wah sound.

BLACK ZENITH [AU/SG/US]

Black Zenith is Darren Moore & Brian O’Reilly. The duo performs using analogue modular synthesizers & moving images. They produce dense sonic textures that generate live visuals through the transformation of audio signals into images. Black Zenith draws as much influence from noise music & the electroacoustic music tradition as they do from the foundations of abstract video art.

BOTTLESMOKER [ID]

Bottlesmoker takes the concept of bedroom music, producing music in their own room using custom toy equipment and keyboards to create simple electronic sounds. Mum, Manitoba, Tunng, The Album Leaf and Isan has influenced their music. Net-label artists such as observatoryonline.org have become main influencse and important examples for them to create music. On the internet, Bottlesmoker has been walking confidently in the world of myspace. Through the myspace method of SASE (self-addressed stamped envelopes), Bottlesmoker spread their music, complete with sleeve cover, to listeners for free. With their room-made music, no recording company suited their music concept. On January 2008, Bottlesmoker finally signed with the net label "probablyworse" records from the USA to release their album slow mo smile. Download it for free. website

CALIPH8 [PH]

Caliph8 a.k.a. Arvin Nogueras, is a beat smith, graffiti purveyor, and soothsayer. For more than a decade now, he has been active in the music scene, the local hip-hop culture in particular. A graduate of the UP College of Fine Arts, his interests and activities also extend to the visual arts—celebrating hip-hop culture traditions by merging his influences with other art forms. He is a founding member of the leftfield hip-hop collective A.M.P.O.N., electronica outfit Drip, and was part of Downearf back in 1997. He is also a member of the Gangan Orchestra (composed of 16 of the best local improvising sound artists, electronic DJs and musicians). website

FRED SANDOVAL [PH]

GANGAN SYNTH ORCHESTRA [PH]

GOODLEAF [PH]

Initially composed of Ian Cruz as bass guidance, dub organizer/melodica/mutated vocals Edy Varde, keyboards/stony fingers Jolly Navarro, and Felix Peloton percussion/spoken dub manifesto, Goodleaf is now rounded off with the additional ambient guitar parts of Ryan Goan, plus the propulsion drum beats of Jas Sonido and percussion banging's of Bobby 'Dubby' Maltizo. Goodleaf minister their music with various heavy influences, such as Ambient, Trip Hop, Post Punk, Vintage Dub from King Tubby to Jah Shaka, their first release Dub Pilipinas album, was their first LP to be released on Inity Records.

THE HERMETIC ORDER [PH]

The Hermetic Order is a collaborative effort that fuses elements of doom, industrial, drone, noise and metal—inbreeding distorted sounds of minding the null. It is composed Sam Kiyoumarsi, Gani Simpliciano, Arvie Bartolome, Ryan Quiray and Rallye Ibañez.

KAI LAM [SG]

Kai Lam's interdisciplinary art practice in the mediums of drawings, paintings, sculptures, mixed-media installations, sonic works and performances are manifestations of art that are inspired and derived from the artist's immediate living environment. As president of alternative art group, The Artists Village from 2000 to 2003, he initiated 'Artists Investigating Monuments', presenting installations and performances in various public sites. This was later presented again in Singapore Art Museum, 2004 and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and House of World Culture, Berlin, 2005. website

MALEK LOPEZ [PH]

Malek Lopez is a sound designer and electronic musician, and was behind popular electronic music groups such as Drip and Rubber Inc — and is considered as one of the pioneers of electronica in Manila. His collaborations with kindred artists such as electro-acoustic composer Chris Brown, Jazz group, HumanFolk (featuring New York’s Susie Ibarra), computer-network improvisation collective, The Gangan Ensemble, and Germany’s minimal techno meisters, The Teichman Brothers. He was part of the critical electronic music collaboration anthology, Asia-Pacific Plate, and has brought Manila’s underground electronica culture to venues of convergence in Berlin, Cologne, Kuala Lumpur and Indonesia. website

MOETH [SG/VN]

Two-piece drone doom experimental band with French visual artist and musician Thierry Bernard-Gotteland and Singaporean drummer Mohamad Wahid.

MOON FEAR MOON

JUAN MIGUEL SOBREPEÑA, the Hermetic Lord of Filipino IDM, who is either Moon Fear Moon or Mu Arae Transmission, depending on the phase of his luminous namesake (T. Ermitano), composes haunting and eerie instances of IDM (Intelligent Dance Music). Endless horizons and barren wastelands. Ambient washes and pulsing glitch rhythms. Beautiful chords with sombre melodies, quiet polaroids with red-eye distortion. Lullabies and alien distress signals.

NIGHTS OF RIZAL [PH]

Migi de Belen is a singer-songwriter and producer who is involved in a number of bands and collaborations. As electronic act Nights of Rizal, he borrows from the catchy nostalgia of 8bit and chiptune genres to formulate his own unmistakable hybrid of lo-fi and hi-fi, analogue and digital, human and machine.

PASTA GROOVE/ILL PRIMITIVO [PH]

There's a quiet revolution brewing in a small personal recording studio in Quezon City. Behind the revolution is Paolo Garcia... What Paolo does is to get a hold of old tunes and then give these musical pieces a new touch - reconstructing their groove and styling -through modern technology, in a way that makes it palatable to today’s youth. Paolo Garcia, vinyl junkie/beat producer, is a practitioner of the art of sample-based music. The music is a blend of hip hop/soul/jazz which incorporates sounds from the 60’s and 70’s. website

RADIOACTIVE SAGO PROJECT [PH] is probably the country’s most successful avant bands that crossed over to mainstream music, having released 3 successful albums and have been radio darlings ‘til this day. They’ve been influenced by Metro Manila pollution, videoke, Project 2 lassitude, highbrow cinema (Tito, Vic, and Joey + Joey Marquez + Chiquito), John Zorn and Naked City, Coltrane, Davis, Monk, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Rico J. Puno, Yoyoy Villame, Black Sabbath, Jorge Luis Borges, Dead Kennedys, Juan dela Cruz Band, Vim Nadera, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kamau Daaood, Hendrix, Squarepusher, Stockhausen, John Leslie, Glen Miller, Tower of Power, Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, Stereolab, isaw manok, tokwa, gin pomelo, Tanduay 5 years, afro- cubano/latin grooves, spy film soundtracks, unbridled passion for Red Horse, Emperador, cigarettes, The Simpsons, Esquivel, easy listening, old TRC cassettes, fishball/squidball outside Abelardo Hall, swinging sixties, bossanova, vintage porn, provincial big bands, Barely Legal Vol. 12, Jesus Miracle Crusade, la dolce vita, paranoia, White Flower Eucalytus Oil, pepex, alien abduction, UFO sightings, Satan, etc. website

SIMILAR OBJECTS [PH]

Jorge Wieneke used to sing for a punk band, but was inspired by minimalism, abstract art, and hiphop to create beats and produce more art-driven music. His current project, Similar Objects, documents moments and emotions that are universally experienced and is inspired by Jung’s belief in the existence of a second psychic system of a collective and impersonal nature. website

TAD ERMITAÑO [PH]

A media artist, writer-critic, and filmmaker who is interested algorithmic/procedural editing and composition, new uses for the moving image and have recently drifting into elementary robotics.His work “Quartet” was exhibited in the recently concluded International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA) in Singapore. Tad’s motto: “Enough with pixels and gossamer logics. I want to give logic a body.” website

TARSIUS [PH]

Tarsius is a Manila-based band composed of Diego Mapa on laptop and Jay Gapasin on drums. Both individuals are active musicians and are involved in two of the most exciting bands in the Philippines. Diego sings for Pedicab and Jay plays drums for The Radioactive Sago Project. They met several years ago when both groups were touring Geneva, Switzerland and Hong Kong in support of a non-goverment organization. Mapa and Gapasin instantly hit off with their common interest with electronic music.

TERENCE LAU [SG]

wyxmm, an emergent esoteric sound artist, excels at disarming melody lines and using random sound samples to add texture to his pieces. His works can be said to be a cross between music and soundscape. wyxmm is Terence Lau.

Terence Lau has been providing technical support for various arts groups in the Singapore for the past six years. Formerly technical manager at The Substation, he has worked on productions for groups such as Arts Fission, TheatreWorks, The Necessary Stage, Wild Rice, Stages and Objectifs. He has a strong interest in sound design, and has created works for clients such as Tiger Translate and deploydigital.com. Terence also performs as a sound artist, and has shared the stage with other performers such as One Man Nation, Sonicbrat, Zulkifle Mahmod, Cyril Wong, ‘10’/Itta + Mariqo (Korea) and Tengal (Philippines)

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WENDY ANN MANSILLA [PH]

W. A. M. works on the interdisciplinary field of digital media, experimental art and science. Her research interests and art productions explore the psychology of visual illusion, synthetic reality, social media and the aesthetics of failure. Some of her latest works or performances were presented and exhibited at Piksel Bergen, STRP Technology Festival Eindhoven, ACM Multimedia, Siggraph Asia, Campus Party Brazil, Factory of Art and Design Copenhagen and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial.

per-poRNomance is an audio-visual experimental performance that narrates the sexual cybernetification and pornal immunification brought by the Internet.

WILDERNESS [PH]

This is a story of people who decided to come together and play with themselves for the love of their parents. Comprised of its core members Maurice Torralba on guitar, Allan Malabanan on bass, Miguel Hernandez on drums, Chiko Hernandez and Pat Sarabia on percussion -- Wilderness is not limited to being just a band, but a family of musicians who share the same vision; that music remain honest and created with integrity.

YUZURU MAEDA [JP/SG]

Yuzuru Maeda is born in Japan in 1978. She received a BA in Music from LaSalle College of Arts, Singapore in 2009 and currently lives in Singapore. In her daily musical practice, she produces soundtracks, jingles and music compositions for independent films, commercials and her own video works. She performs mainly with the Sanshin (Japanese), Sarod (Indian) and Violin (Classical) with electronic sound compositions. Her musical lineage is La Monte Young and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. She explores music and sound in cross cultural contexts and her musical works are described as ‘Beyond time and space’ which experess about divine energy and spirituality.

Besides her musical practices, Yuzuru Maeda has been making video-based works under the title of Zentai Art Project. These video works are visual explorations that are extended from her practice as a contemporary musician. In Zentai Art Project, the artist uses the ‘Zentai’ sub-culture to investigate into the human conditions of identity, spiritual connections with cosmic energy in the universe and as a means to come to terms with one’s living environment.

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EPJEY PACHECO [PH]

Epjey Pacheco has earned his fine arts degree from the University of Sto.Tomas and works as a freelance graphic designer. Hailing from Valenzuela City, he has been exhibiting since 2005. He makes detailed pen drawings of muerte de los dias skulls and luchador heads.

JP CUISON [PH]

JP graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication from the University of the Philippines. As a young talent, he was awarded with the Best Thesis recognition. JP is also recognized highly in the field of advertising as he is a two-time Philippine representative to the prestigious Cannes Young Lions International Advertising Festival. Though he has a hectic schedule as a senior art director, he still manages to pursue non-advertising endeavors. He just concluded his 1st solo exhibit entitled "GIGZILLA" (a collection of his gig posters) at Pablo Gallery, Cubao X last May, 2010. He is also half the group that produces the underground comix sensation, PUNNX COMIX.