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Petri Dish is the new media platform of WALA. It aims to investigate concurrent media art technologies through immersive projects for the development and understanding of sound, moving image, and computer art experience. Part of the research undertaken by the department is interested on their possible practical applications that can be useful in everyday life. We hope that the spirit of DIY and DIWO is cultivated among the people we interact with through the appreciation and sharing of digital and electronic technology know-how.

Teka Natataeko Ah (2016)

Teka Natataeko Ah is WALA's experimental dabbling to the business of film-making. The group recorded people's conversations and also the sound – or occasionally their mimicking by a human voice – of buzzing machines, roaring vehicles and other various kinds of noise that can be heard usually in an urban setting. They are used as a material to an approach in creating a film montage that can be thought of as an inverted dubbing. The recordings are used as the main reference point in deciding which moving images will be put together for the work. What can be heard are dissociated to their usual interpretations because of connecting them to either found or taken videos not really related to their original contexts. Because of this seeming disjunction created, the work becomes a play with the relationship between what we percieve and the ideas we associate with them; leaving it to the viewers to create some sort of sense or/of narrative out of it – or just not to try at all.

CRAMORAMA

Cramorama | Petri Dish BETA Launch is an electronic media art event that attempts to create a happening that blurs the line between the act of watching presentations and participating within a performance. Also, it is an aspiration to provide you ghuys a high-quality corrupted experience that is very similar to viewing or listening to a glitched media file. There are three linear but overlapping acts with equipment installation performances in between and an open jam finale. The architectural and ambient quality of the W.A.L.A. HQ at the old UP Stud Farm, open audience participation, and sudden improvisations are parts of the process and play a crucial role on its execution.

 

Photos during set-up at WALA HQ old Stud Farm.
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