DECODE - new media exhibition in Manila, Philippines

[Fatima Lasay]

DECODE
14 August - 9 September 2003
Opening Reception 14 August 6PM
ATENEO ART GALLERY
Manila, Philippines

The curatorial agenda for DECODE springs from the Ateneo Art Gallery's
mission to provide a forum where various perspectives in contemporary
Philippine visual expression can meet. The Gallery brazenly approaches this
mission unmindful of the canons, pantheons or histories that commonly
implicate and complicate the relationships between and among artists and
their works.

In DECODE, the introduction of new media in the Gallery, not only side by
side, but in direct dialogue with the Gallery’s permanent collection of
Philippine modern art, sets the stage for an interpretive framework for an
art form that is always in flux. With new media in the cradle of modern art,
critical insights and connections ignite.

DECODE is a boldly speculative and experimental exhibition. The works are
diverse, from sculpture to software, and the exhibition space enfolds beyond
the Gallery, into the Internet. Such openness and hybridism embraced in
Philippine art mainstream, through the initiatives of the Ateneo Art
Gallery, is indeed one giant leap in the unyielding commitment to engage
distances between tradition and innovation, between human and technological
complexity, between art and life media.

DECODE
Exhibition curated by Fatima Lasay
With essays by Fatima Lasay and Jose Tence Ruiz
Ateneo Art Gallery Curator Ramon E.S. Lerma
Exhibition Coordinator Joel Alexander S. de Leon
DECODE On-Line coordinated by Martin Gomez
Catalog Design and Lay-out by Doubleslashmedia

DECODE
14 August - 9 September 2003
Opening Reception 14 August 6PM
ATENEO ART GALLERY
Ground Floor, Rizal Library
Ateneo de Manila University,
Loyola Hts., Quezon City, Philippines 1108
Phone +63 2 4266488
Fax +63 2 4266088
Email: rlerma at ateneo.edu


"The orchestrated embrace of Philippine modern art and new media in DECODE
presents an intriguing bifurcation of use of technologies in art, revealing
how new media takes art in new directions. By looking at relationships
between Philippine modern art and new media, DECODE explores the fertile
ground where old and new media overlap."

* NOËLL EL FAROL * JOHN MARIN FLORES * MARTIN GOMEZ * ALFREDO MANRIQUE *
JOSH NIMOY * CLARO RAMIREZ * JOSE TENCE RUIZ * RODOLFO SAMONTE * MARC SAN
VALENTIN *

DECODE //From the Ateneo Art Gallery permanent collection:

* ABDULMARI IMAO * JOSE JOYA * "MADMAN" FROM MALLILIPOT, ALBAY * VICENTE
MANANSALA * ALFREDO MANRIQUE * ILDEFONSO MARCELO * RAMON ORLINA * NENA
SAGUIL * RODOLFO SAMONTE * BEN-HUR VILLANUEVA *

"DECODE offers a vivisection of the nature and realities of technological
developments through critical forms of expression, bringing us much closer
to the cultural significance of media technologies."

DECODE-Online http://decode.ateneo.edu
Coordinated by Martin Gomez

* ELEMENTO * BATCH83 * CARL CHUA * AJ DIMARUCOT * MIK GOCOCO * JOSEPH MAYOL
* JOSH NIMOY * BONG SEGOVIA * DENMARK YANEZA * HAROLD KHAN *

DECODE //From the Ateneo Art Gallery permanent collection:

* JOSE TENCE RUIZ * JEHO BITANCOR * ANGELITO ANTONIO * VICENTE MANANSALA *
VIRGINIA FLOR AGBAYANI * VICTOR OTEYZA * ROMEO V. TABUENA * ROBERTO
RODRIGUEZ CHABET * ARTURO LUZ * JOSE JOYA *

"In a 'high-tech' age where there is more to see than believe, DECODE is a
challenge to examine the biases and the influences of media technologies."

DECODE
14 August - 9 September 2003
Opening Reception 14 August 6PM
ATENEO ART GALLERY
Ground Floor, Rizal Library
Ateneo de Manila University,
Loyola Hts., Quezon City, Philippines 1108
Phone +63 2 4266488
Fax +63 2 4266088
Email: rlerma at ateneo.edu

Note: There is also a catalog/CD-ROM available for purchase from the
gallery. Please get in touch with the gallery [Email: rlerma at ateneo.edu] for
details on getting a copy of the catalog/CD-ROM.