CY83RP1N45
Lei Sabaupan
What futures exist for the Filipino diaspora? CY83RP1N45 explores Filipino identity, culture, visual language, and ontologies, reclaiming futures through mirroring cyberpunk dystopias as both present and future realities. Navigating a speculative space in “Filifuturism”, it confronts colonial histories and the colonial present while celebrating how the Filipino diaspora adapts, rebels, and plays in resistance.
SL33PL355 N1GHT5
SL33PL355 N1GHT5 (Sleepless Nights) borrows its title from an old Philippines Department of Tourism advertisement called Sleepless Nights featured in the beginning of the video. Juxtaposing the advertisement along with the Philippines Department of Tourism’s slogan/jingle: “it’s more fun in the Philippines” with past and present Filipino life through archival footage, news broadcasts, and foreigners’ youtube content of the Philippines, it confronts the nature of neoimperialism and the corruption that comes with it. It reflects on what “sleepless nights” really means for Filipinos worldwide in past, present, and future states via adhacking, a speculative form of media broadcast signal intrusion.
We are children of the 1SLA,
CYB0RG5 of the diaspora
coded to sing, dance, laugh and play
R3B3L spirits
hardened by our hunger
for FR33D0M, for L1F3, for FUTUR35
armed with your technology, our HUM4N1TY and K4PW4
We’ll be the GL1TCH in your system |
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Precolonial Filipino symbols derived from precolonial Filipino tattoo practices (batok/batik/batek), rendered into cyberglitch, hologram hacker tags for digital warfare and digiffiti (digital graffiti).
Conceptual and Ontological Framework
