Video Artist Tad Ermitano at Mag:net Cafe

Cinekatipunan is proud to feature video artist Tad
Ermitano’s single channel works this November. The
90-minute program for Tuesdays will include Ermitano’s
short videos Cathode Jam, Sausage, The
Retrochronological Transfer of Information, and
Hulikotekan v. 2.1, the last two of which have been
screened at a number of international festivals,
including the Yamagata International Film Festival,
and the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Tad graduated from the Philippine Science High School,
and studied Biology at the University of Hiroshima. He
holds a Bachelor`s degree in Philosophy from the
University of the Philippines, but trained in film and
video at the Mowelfund Film Institute. He currently
designs and mixes sound for digital features and
produces video for projection in a variety of
stage/concert contexts. He has collaborated with
choreographers of Ballet Philippines in the creation
of several video dance pieces. His own unaccompanied
single-channel videos are distinguished by an
audiovisual sensuousness underpinned by a rigorous
sequential logic that reflects his training in
philosophy and the sciences.

His facility with a broad range technologies has
caused the focus of his work to expand to include the
use of computers in performance and installation
contexts. He was the lone Filipino media artist at the
2006 Ogaki Biennale in Japan, which featured
Hulikotekan v. 2.1 and his computer video installation
Shift Register. Alone and in collaboration, he
exploits the malleability that sound and video acquire
when transformed into digital data, exploring new ways
of using sound and image, both in the studio and in
real time. Aside from creating computer-video
installations, he performs audiovisual pieces, both
solo and as part of the experimental media group The
Children of Cathode Ray.

Video performances by the artist will be integrated in
the program.

Cathode Jam, Sausage, The Retrochronological Transfer
of Information, and Hulikotekan v. 2.1 will screen
from 5:30 to 7:00 PM on November 7, 14, 21 and 28 in
Mag:net Café. The complete schedule of screenings for
November will be posted at www.magnet.com. ph
Calendar/leaflets will be available in all Mag:net
branches. Gate entrance is at P50.