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DMF2001

 From October 1-5, 2001, Digital Media Festival 2001 began presenting
digital works by various artists from all across the globe, with five
workstations and two webcams installed in the Corredor Gallery of the
College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines. On October 8, 2001 at
11:00AM (+0800), DMF2001 kicks off a series of Artists Forums, Workshops,
Demos and Video Screenings, and an exhibition of digital prints and digital
photographs. The events will be streamed live (RealPlayer required) on the
Internet through the DMF2001 website at http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/

The October 8 Artists Forums include lectures and presentations on Digital
Photography by Jim Ayson and Ben Razon. The forum entitled "Photography
Goes Digital" will introduce the audience to the history, current
technologies and the future of digital photography in the Philippines.
Digital photos taken by Jim and Ben will be shown, alongside an exhibition
of prints of Ben's digital photographs courtesy of FUJIFILM-YKL.

Next is a forum with Al Manrique, a pioneer on digital art in the
Philippines, who will present early and recent works and his photographs
from Samar and Polomolok.

Electronic music comes next with a demo by Lionel Zivan Valdellon and a
talk on how computers can be used to produce music.

October 9 is a day devoted to video. Starting 9:00AM, Singaporean Nisar
Keshvani will present fineArt forum's 15th Anniversary Travelling Screening
Programme, a 1-hour programme consisting of digital, multimedia, film works
(2-5 minutes) by global artists. Nisar's lecture on how a news service can
aid the cause of the artist accompanies the programme.

The internationally recognized Japanese film and video artist Takahiko
Iimura, whose CD-ROM of collected works from 1975 to 1998 is presented in
DMF2001, comes next with a 1-hour programme and forum. Takahiko,
accompanied by his Art Coordinator Kazuyo Yasuda, also presents prints of
digital works at the Corredor Gallery.

After the forums, Computer Devices Corp. takes over with a Canopus Workshop
Demo on Non-Linear Video Editing. The event is free and open to all video
enthusiasts.

On October 10 at 9:00AM, College of Saint Benilde-DLSU professor Ronnie
Millevo will conduct a lecture-demo on Flash followed by a brief forum
about Opportunities in Flash by Flashpro.org.

More artists videos will be presented on October 11 and 12, along with the
Multimedia Art Asia Pacific's video programme curated by Yi Won Kon
(Korea), Wu Meichun (China) and Experimenta Media Arts (Australia).
Screening hours are 11:30AM to 2:30PM (Thursday) and 10:00Am to 11:30AM
(Friday).

DMF2001 is made possible through the generous support of the Office of the
Chancellor, University of the Philippines-Diliman, the Office of Initiative
in Culture and the Arts (OICA), and the UP College of Fine Arts, with
technical support provided by the UP Computer Center and Dilnet. DMF2001 is
organized by Fatima Lasay, lecturer of digital media at the UP College of
Fine Arts.