A video excerpt from PlasTechnology's performance (2008)

captured on digital video by Stanley Castello


photos here
about the exhibition



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Boolean Float: Interactive Video Art by Mannet Villariba (Available at Sonic Mind Fields)

Available at Sonic Mind Fields!

Boolean Float Interactive Video Art (DVD Format)

by Mannet Villariba

Philippines, 2008

File under: Video art

(Rare/limited copies only)

To purchase a copy, please visit us at Sonic Mind Fields or e-mail sonicmindfields@gmail.com

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ASEUM - Asia-Europe New Media Art Symposium

ASEUM: The 1st International New Media Art Festival in the Philippines

On July 21-25, 2009, SABAW Media Art Kitchen (Philippines) in cooperation with KIBLA MMC (Slovenia) and the Asia-Europe Foundation brings together the largest delegation of new media artists for ASEUM - the first international new media art festival in the Philippines – that kicks off 6:00PM at Gweilos, Makati for everyone to experience what new media art is.


Fostering a Culture of Knowledge-Sharing

"The festival aims to become a catalyst for a cultural, educational, and technological exchange on emerging new media art practices in South East Asia and Europe," says Tengal, festival organizer for ASEUM "But more importantly to try and shape the way in which we think about and experience these technologies."

This is why ASEUM has partnered with several top universities such as the University of the Philippines-Diliman, De La Salle University-Dasmariñas and DLSU-CSB School of Design and Arts that actively support the development and growth of new media art.

Leading new and inter media art practitioners, researchers, curators and producers from all over the globe such as Peter Tomaz Dobrila [si], Jerneja Rebernak [si/sg], Emma Oto [jp/gb], Aether9 [global], Tad Ermitano [ph], Malek Lopez [ph], Angelo Vermeulen [be], Diego Maranan [ph], Brian O’ Reilly [us], Rick Bahague [ph], Lirio Salvador [ph], Visual Pond [ph], Tim O' Dwyer [au], Darren Moore [au], Vanini Belarmino [de/ph], and Noel de Brakinghe [ph] will hold lectures, workshops and discussions among the most versed of Filipino students in new media art to encourage them to pursue degrees in such field.

Topics such as Open Source Advocacy, Technology and Cultural Practices, Open Structures and Remote Real time Storytelling, Intersections of Art, Ecology, Gaming and Advocacy, Data Visualization: Making meaning in an Info-rich World, Computer music and video in a live setting, Media and the Creation Process, Sound Mapping: Circuit Bending, Pure Data: Practical Programming for Sound Art, Video Art and Experimental Moving Image, Electroacoustic improvisation, Mono- Multi- and Inter-Media, The Value of Exchange in Creative Interdisciplinary and Cross-Border Collaborations, and Why Numbers Make Sounds: Basic Introduction to Patching and Audio Synthesis using Max/Msp will be covered.

A Transformative Sound Experience

Change the way you perceive sound with five nights of rapid electrofringe experimentation on sound and moving image with VJing, intermedia performances, cutting-edge experimental music and related visual arts at ASEUM’s Ear2Eye Program.

“The E2E program wraps up the night with exciting performances from local and foreign guests,” says Tengal “Take this opportunity to be exposed to live improvised experimentations on sound and moving images while sipping a beer or two.”

Catch performances by Iron Egg, Rubber Inc, Caliph8 , Gangan Ensemble, Inconnu Ictu, Tengal, Aether9, Elemento, Ugong, Blend:er, Minister Zero, DJ Drumlander, Sgt. Vez, Edsel Abesamis, Tad Ermitano, Mannet Villariba, Drip, Eggboy, Autoceremony, Etniktronika, Angelo Suarez, Costantino Zicarelli, Nyabinghi, and Terraformer at Gweilos, Green Papaya, Espasyo Siningdikato, Penguin Café and Mogwai Cinematheque.


ASEUM is a project by SABAW Media Art Kitchen (Philippines) in cooperation with Multimedia Center KIBLA (Slovenia) and is supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation as a follow-up project of the Asia-Europe Art Camp New Media series. For more information on festival fees, schedule, and guests email sabawmediahub@gmail.com or call/SMS +639166188191 and visit the ASEUM website at http://aseum09.tk/.

This event is brought to you by with partnership of Media Arts Manila, House of Natural Fiber (HONF), Experimentation in Sound Art Tradition (EXIST), Visual Pond Artspace, Inc, TAOINC, Computer Professional’s Union (CPU), Biomodd [LBA2]
Un.Plug UP Linux User’s Group, UP Asterisk, Sweetspot Studios, Expansions, Aether9; with the support of UNO Magazine, Status Magazine, Circuit, Advocacy Photographers, PinoyCentric, Metapixel, YOCard, Juice.ph, Flippish, Click the City, UR 105.9, NU 107, Stonehouse Hotel, ICAII, Ginebra Premium Gin, Philippine Society of IT Educators and International Open Source Network, Belarmino & Partners, N3krozoft Ltd.



MORE INFO ON: http://aseum09.tk/




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ASEUM

ASIA-EUROPE NEW MEDIA ART SYMPOSIUM



ASEUM is an international network of new media art practitioners initiated by SABAW Media Art Kitchen (Philippines) and Multimedia Center KIBLA (Slovenia) that aims to become a catalyst for a cultural, educational, and technological exchange on emerging new media art practices in South East Asia with Europe.

The symposium initiated with the support of Asia-Europe Foundation will consist of a series of workshops, presentations, performances, video screenings, open-studio sessions, round-table discussions, and policy meetings with cultural foundations by both participating organizations, in an effort to advance artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural impacts of new technologies and artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but also try to shape the way in which we think about and experience these technologies.



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SOUNDCHECK: A sound and multimedia art exhibition by four interdisciplinary artists

SOUNDCHECK
A sound and multimedia art exhibition by four interdisciplinary artists

In cooperation with the Adamson University - Gallery

Opening Reception: 7 July 2009, Tuesday at 2:00 P.M.
Exhibit runs until July 30, 2009

This exhibition aims to show an equal blend of both visual and sound as means of access to the artist's art making process. With an objective to intercalate experimental sound as an interdisciplinary art form, notably extending art practices by developing unique mediums in parallel with new technologies. The exhibit aspires to burgeon the audience's understanding of art to this day. The constant development of art having its own language and fresh approach to aesthetics is continuously developing its own methodology. It shatters the tradition, disrupts the order, repels, invigorates, brings out a different perspective... and disrupts it again.


Participating artists in alphabetical order are:

Sherwin Carrillo is a musician by profession, Carillo plays rhythmic sounds with his djembe, a West African musical instrument assembled locally and popularly used for world music. With this instrument, he strives to investigate the nature of communication in a global sense, knowing that music is fundamentally a universal language that expresses the emotional faculties of humankind. Sherwin experiments with deconstructing primal sound and reconstructing it, combining modern influences and merging them into sound art that can be characterized as unified diversity. As a sessionist specializing in percussions, he has participated in numerous bands, performance art events and painting exhibitions.

Marlon Magbanua is an avid musician and abstractionist, who uses various musical instruments and accessories for his performances. Having come from a musical background, much of Magbanua’s work has involved an interplay of aural and visual constructs. The past few years, however, have seen an increased fascination with translating sound into color and form—literally, assigning both numerical and visual equivalents to the elements of sound. Given the functional quantification of visual elements (most familiar in digital imaging software), sound, Magbanua exerts, may very well find direct translation in images, given the right set of values and equations.
Magbanua is a graduate of Fine Arts at the Technological University of the Philippines. He has been an active participant in paintings and performance art festivals and exhibits across Asia, including two major art events in Taiwan and Japan, and has been distinguished in several abstract art competitions.

Lirio Salvador is a sculptor, inventor, instrument builder and the prime mover of E.X.I.S.T. One of the Philippines’ pioneer in experimental music. Salvador has been doing Sound Art and Experimental Music since the late 80's and early 90's with his punk band Publiko, then the interdisciplinary art group Intermidya. Eventually, he formed Elemento; a multi-disciplinary experimental and sound art collective, where he creates his music using his assemblage of musical instruments made out of bicycle parts, stainless steel tubes and other industrialized materials which he commonly called 'Sandata'.

Mannet Villariba is a grand prize winner of the NCCA’s Websining Digital Art competition in 2007. Villariba explores his medium with an enthusiasm for electronics as it relates to the realm of sound and visuals. After a fine arts education, corporate environment, and with a self-confessed anti-synth ideology in his garage-band days, Villariba's exposure on new media led to an advantageous and favorable understanding of these unforeseen forces underlying electronic sound with its mystical, ambient and chaotic appeal, eventually shifting his ideals, which in turn rejuvenates his expression in visual art as well. Interactive visual interpretations of these forces are increasingly the main focus of his work. He actively participates in various performance art events locally as well as several festivals abroad, such as the Tupada Xing, Wunderspaze, Singapore 2006 / Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Japan, Summer 2007 / Asean Contemporary Art Exchange, Yangon Myanmar, January 2009 / Changwon Art Festival, South Korea, April 2009 / Gwangju International Performance Art Festival, South Korea, May 2009.

Adamson University Art Gallery
900 San Marcelino Street, Ermita, 1000 Manila
Tel. nos. 524-20-11 loc 255 and 383-37-35
Exhibit runs until July 30, 2009
Open Mondays to Fridays, 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.

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Field Trip: field recordings and soundscapes of corporeal and imagined environements

Media Arts Manila in cooperation with Green Papaya Art Projects presents


FIELD TRIP
field recordings and soundscapes of corporeal and imagined environements


February 25 (Wed) 9 p.m.
Green Papaya Art Projects
41 T.Gener St cor Kamuning Road, Quezon City (near Brahma Kumaris) MAP
FREE ADMISSION


Media Arts Manila
Green Papaya Art Projects




The M.A.M. tour bus stops over at the Green Papaya Art Projects and ushers us through an acoustic safari of feral atmospheric fauna. Featured artists present their original phonographs, creating immersive environments through the manipulation and playback of captured ambient sounds.


autoceremony, Blend:er, Grnd Ctrl, Mark Laccay, Mannet Villariba serves us their own brand of improvised acoustic ecology.


Improvised video by Edsel Abesames and Tad Ermitaño.

This show is supported by Globe.






Edsel Abesames is a video editor / motion graphics person / director / racketeer / guitarist / poser / anime fan /overweight 32 year old / discontent drunkard.

autoceremony a.k.a. Jing Garcia sound artist and award winning music producer. He established the Children of Cathode Ray backed in 1989, one of the early experimental and sound art groups in the country. Produced several music albums for different alternative music artists in the 90s. He is currently the tech editor for The Manila Times and Speed Magazine. He also hosts a tech segment on the late evening news on TV5

BLEND:ER a.k.a. Cris Garcimo is an electronic music creator and a noise enthusiast who lives in Cavite, Philippines. He started experimenting with audio acrobatics and technoid sonic landscapes in 1999. Being included in various album anthologies like Mood Swing Theater Volume 1 (2004) released by Kittenwhip Compilation and S.A.B.A.W. Anthology of Noise, Electronic, and Experimental Music (2004), Blend:er has often collaborated with E.X.I.S.T., SABAW and Electronica Manila artists.

Tad Ermitaño is a media artist, writer and filmmaker. As far as the media art goes, he is interested in algorithmic/procedural editing and composition, new uses for the moving image and have been lately drifting into elementary robotics. His work "Quartet" was exhibited in the recently concluded International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA) in Singapore.

Grnd Ctrl a.k.a Christian Martelino Concepcion, a manila based art director, experimental musician, DJ and event organizer. His breed of work roots from his propensity in the field of music and design. It is his passion for avant-garde films, art, fashion, experimental music and bizarre imagery that led him to create audible pieces as well as to do graphic design work. It wasn’t until implementing his studies of traditional fine arts and his enthusiasm with avant-garde music that began his realization of his ideas, philosophies and visions by combining dissected sound textures with rhythm, to create soundscapes that pierce images inside our minds. His currently an active band member for the ambient/experimental/industrial band "The Slave Drum", busy with his own electro industrial act "Decay Transit" and does solo performances as "Grnd Ctrl". Uses both traditional and non-traditional sound sources with using samplers, synthesizers, transducers, effects and anything he can get his hands on. Has participated in several events from various production outfits and his group called "Circa1849".

Mark Laccay is an award winning Audio Engineer who is the CEO of Sonic Logo Multimedia Inc. and a managing partner of Sweetspot Studios. He has worked as a Sound Designer for various films and is the main audio consultant for the "Dr. Jose Maceda Collection Digitization" Project. As an educator he taught audio classes at DLSU-CSB. He recently returned from the Austrian Academy of Sciences where he acquired a certificate of Audio Tape Restoration and Digital Audio Archiving.

Mannet Villariba is a performance artist, painter, sound artist, visual programmer and designer. He has been active in diverse fields of art and design - including research and development. Yielding the outputs of sounds, images, and light through analyzing and transforming the numerical values gained from various sensors and input devices, he is a visual artist pursuing sensual peculiarity and interaction.

Audiolage

Featuring sound artists:


Aurora Borealis vs. Joee Mejias of Stormy

Blend:er vs. Ugong vs. Mark Zero

Nyabinghi vs. Inconnu Ictu

Etniktronika

Down Boy Down

Elemento



video art by:


Mannet Villariba

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grnd+ctrl



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February 10, 2009
9:00 PM
Mag:net Cafe Katips, 335 Katipunan Avenue Loyola Heights Quezon City, Philippines


MAP

SABAW presents Fete de la Wasaque

SABAW Media Art Kitchen presents FETE DE LA WASAQUE
a 2-night festival for adventurous music and related visual art

SCHEDULE

OCT 14, 2008 (tue)
9PM
Mag:net Cafe Katipunan,
AGCOR Bldg. 335 Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines
(150 php)


OCT 15, 2008 (wed)
8PM
Green Papaya art projects,
41 T.Gener St. cor. Kamuning Rd., Quezon City, Philippines
(Free)

Presenting two nights of handmade music that blur the lines between electro-acoustic, free improvisation, industrial, free jazz, performance art and freeform-noise, and will be paired with the intensity of live video performances (vjing), exquisite homemade machines, real guitars, absurd costumes, and even more live action on stage. FETE DE LA WASAQUE will be hosted by SABAW Media Art Kitchen in cooperation with Greenpapaya art projects and Mag:net Galleries.

Expect two nights of insanity going on and on till the break of dawn at Green Papaya art space and Mag:net cafe Katipunan - including one of the very extreme and rare performances from Australia's Justice Yeldham. Cavite's E.X.I.S.T. sound art collective will electrify our nerves thru their homemade electronics and circuit-bend gadgets, while Manila's New Media Arts Manila (N.M.A.M) will surely melt your brain with rapidfire audiovideo-shrapnel. Alongside the live video performances of N.M.A.M., performance and media artist Mannet Villariba and editor Edsel Abesamis will provide video assualt as well.

On the first night, Tengal's Gangan Series Project will manifest itself this time as the Gangan Trio featuring Tengal on no-input mixer, drums and objects, Blums Borres on guitar, Caliph8 on turntables, while Tad Ermitano takes off his vj hat and conducts the trio. Circuit-bender wiz Erick Calilan (Ugong) will challenge his old band mate from the now defunct Sound Existence, PJ Soliven (Nyabinghi), alongside the live script video programming of Mannet Villariba. Not to mention the avant-jazz/punk outfit, Radioactive Sago Project will perform improvised electro-acoustic "WASAK" music written and conducted by Francis de Veyra; while walls of industrial soundscapes of doom will break room walls with the heavy-hitters, Trojan Whores.

On the following night, Blums Borres will invite you to his all live, all improvised ambient solo guitar lounge. Tengal and Tad collaborate on an audio-visual "cooking show": Tengal stirs the complex and unstable nature of the sonic textures from the mixer, both live and processed - letting it boil and simmer; while Tad Ermitano who literaly "cooks up" non-newtonian fluid (i.e. ketchup, starch, suspensions, paint, blood and shampoo) into a "visual soup" using a loudspeaker, face-up, as a pot with cameras positioned on top of it. Elemento will drive some nerve-shattering noise with their intricately-crafted sonic machines, while analogue noise maker Inconnuictu will team up with ambient electronica ace Blend:er, and Ugong.

And finally Australia's leading audio artist and founder of the pioneering Australian record label Dual Plover, Lucas Abela (Justice Yeldham), will kill off whatever brain cells you have left on both nights!

SABAW ends the year with a wall shaking acoustic-meets-digital assault stirring acts on two nights of positive madness.

PERFORMERS

Lucas Abela aka JUSTICE YELDHAM has been performing for well over 15 years and is one of the leaders of Australian "noise music".
His early performances were crazed extensions of turntablism. Instead of turntables he'd use motors turning metal discs at 2000 rpm, and instead of record needles he'd use skewers or knives. He once used a glove that he had imbedded with record needles - Freddy Krueger style.
Incorporating everything from electro-acoustic trampolines, amplified samurai swords to high powered turntables constructed from sewing machine motors into his performances, in recent years he's been using sheets of glass that he blows through, screams through, bites and breaks.
Lucas has toured over 30 countries with this new act, appeared on numerous television shows, and even crashed a John Peel session at the BBC.

BLEND:ER is an electronic music creator and a noise enthusiast who lives in Cavite, Philippines. He started experimenting with audio acrobatics and technoid sonic landscapes in 1999. Being included in various album anthologies like Mood Swing Theater Volume 1 (2004) released by Kittenwhip Compilation and S.A.B.A.W. Anthology of Noise, Electronic, and Experimental Music (2004), Blend:er aka (Cris Garcimo) has often collaborated with E.X.I.S.T., SABAW and Electronica Manila artists.

BLUMS BORRES guitarist and media artist who experiments with sound, video, and animation. Formerly a technical director at Toei Animation Philippines, he has a BA in Multimedia Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His work has been featured at the Australian Center Moving Images (ACMI), and in cinemas and television in Japan. His career in post production spans over 14 years and has involved himself in both professional productions and education. He currently teaches 3d animation at DLSU-CSB.

CALIPH8 is a beat smith, graffiti bomber and soothsayer. A lynch-pin of various groups and ensembles, he's probably the most sought after sound manipulator in the Philippines. A graduate of the U.P. College of Fine Arts, his output extends to more than just sniffing aerosol paint and flexing wrists with fat markers--he also creates visuals and projects them while manipulating audio and creates sound collage.
He is a member of A.M.P.O.N. hiphop collective, electronica group Drip, and was part of Downearf, a trueschool hiphop trio back in 1997.

EDSEL ABESAMES is a video editor / motion graphics person / director / racketeer / guitarist / poser / anime fan / overweight 32 year old / discontent drunkard. That about sums it up.

ELEMENTO is the brainchild of experimental multi-media artist Lirio Salvador, and has created a number of experimental electronic instruments based on his own concept of ethno-industrial art/music. Probably the most influential and astonishing homemade circuit-benders and instrument builders in the country, he established the E.X.I.S.T. sound art collective back in 2002. He creates his assemblage of musical instruments using day to day materials that are found in his present environment, including bicycle gears, drain cleaning springs and stainless steel tubes.

INCONNU ICTU a.k.a Roger Llagas Lopez is a post-musician, experimental composer-improviser, multi-instrumentalist, visual art enthusiast who resides in the shoe capital of the Philippines. "Inconnu Ictu(s)" means an "unknown man's blow or a stroke", as a sound constructor he explores his interest by using obsolete electronic gadgets, pedal fx boxes, defective rhythm consoles, found objects, d.i.y microphones and circuit-bent electronics.

MANNET VILLARIBA is a performance artist, painter, sound artist, visual programmer and designer. He has been active in diverse fields of art and design - including research and development. Yielding the outputs of sounds, images, and light through analyzing and transforming the numerical values gained from various sensors and input devices, he is a visual artist pursuing sensual peculiarity and interaction.

NYABINGHI (PJ Soliven) and UGONG (Erick Calilan) used to perform together as a duo called Sound Existence back in 2005. They are active leaders and members of E.X.I.S.T., taking part in producing shows, worshops, exhibitions both in Cavite and Manila. While Nyabinghi utilizes mainly a laptop as an instrument, UGONG performs using home-made "cracked" electronics that are circuit-bent and rewired to make electronic squeels, blips, hisses, and clicks.

RADIOACTIVE SAGO PROJECT 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. Instead of playing their usual popular hits, they will perform an experimental electro-acoustic piece by Francis de Veyra, the group's main composer. Francis studied atonal and modern composition in the conservatory of music in the University of the Philippines where he was almost sued and banned from the university for his infamous recital piece called "Wasakan".
"TACSIYAPO", is a new piece which will premiere on the 14th. The composer explains: "TACSIYAPO is an expression in kapampangan [a local dialect] meant and used to vent out anger and frustration. The piece was inspired by an interesting phenomena in a restaurant in Tarlac where they have people throw anything in a wall be it cups, plates, cats, or even TVs. Upon throwing them on the wall (that is painted with vandals of the words that are 'cancers' of our society), they shout 'Tacsiyapo!'. This piece tries to 'throw' an array of sounds and textures, wherein the performers will try to vent out their angst, not physically, but thru sound. The group will use electronic music, spoken word, bass and electric guitars, kaoss pads, percussions and the audience."

TAD ERMITANO is a media artist, writer and filmmaker. As far as the media art goes, he is interested in algorithmic/procedural editing and composition, new uses for the moving image and have been lately drifting into elementary robotics. His work "Quartet" was exhibited in the recently concluded International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA) in Singapore.

TENGAL is a Manila-based interdisciplinary media artist, composer-musician, media art impresario, and filmmaker. He curates and organizes media art projects, has collaborated with various artists, and has performed in various shows in the Philippines and abroad. He attended the Berlinale Talent Campus 2006, in Berlin, Germany; the 5th Asia-Europe Foundation Art Camp: Re-Vision Bangkok | New Media Art and Interactivity, in Thailand; and most recently at Cellsbutton II: Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival, in Indonesia. He founded SABAW in 2005.

TROJAN WHORES is composed of Pow Martinez, Sam Kiyoumarsi, and Thomas Mcwalter, and they create harsh industrial soundscapes with doom metal elements.

More info at: http://wasakfete.tk/ or email tengald@gmail.com

PlasTechnology

PlasTechnology: A Sound Art Exhibition
July 23, 2008
CEAT, Exhibit Hall, De La Salle University - Dasmariñas
Cavite, Philippines

Featured artists:


Lirio Salvador for 'Sandata ni Jonjie'
Mannet Villariba for 'Ultra-Fried'
Erick Calilan for 'Project Sabotage'
Etniktronika for 'Uyabon Sound Art Machine'
& 'Wanggo ni Uyabon Sound Art Machine'


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Erick installing his work

Mannet Villariba's 'Ultra-Fried'

Erick Calilan's 'Project Sabotage'


Ros harassing Etniktronika's 'Uyabon Sound Art Machine'

Lirio Salvador's 'Sandata ni Jonjie'

'Sandata'

Etniktronika's 'Wanggo ni Uyabon Sound Art Machine'

The Philippines' first Solar-powered car, 'Sinag' (back)
'Wanggo ni Uyabon Sound Art Machine' (front)

Project Sabotage
photo cell

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PlasTechnology / E.X.I.S.T. would like to thank the following: College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology (CEAT)
CEAT Student Council
Paul De Guzman
Kae
Ryan Dave Remulla
Mannet Villariba
Lirio Salvador
Etniktronika (Mai Pavillar, Uway Sarona, Tambu Pendiodai and Mel Araneta)
PJ Soliven and Nyabinghi
Ros Veluz and Crucio
Dok Natividad and Lakbay Lahi
Cris Garcimo
Roger Lopez
Jon Romero
Stan Castello for video documentation
Shiela Geranco for providing the Video Camera
La Salle Filipiniana Dance Company
De La Salle University - Dasmariñas Mountaineering Society
La Sallian Pop Band
SABAW
Tengal
New Media Arts Manila
Blums Borres
Tad Ermitano
Jing Garcia
Pow Martinez
Yanna Verbo Acosta
Pauline Arellano
Chelot Belan
Mimille Guzman
Erich Diolola
Jonjie Ayson
Mean Jimenez
Bogs
Joseph Perjis
and for all those students, faculties, artists and friends who came to the exhibit.
Cheers!

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photos by Mannet Villariba and Ros Veluz