23/07/2026
๐๏ธ Tad Ermitaรฑoโs ๐๐ค๐ข๐๐ฉ๐ค๐๐๐ก๐๐: Opening on August 5 at the Ateneo Art Gallery
features a selection of works that span several decades of electronic media exploration by Tad Ermitaรฑo, an artist and educator whose pioneering work in sound, experimental film, creative mechatronics, and coding continues to shape the cultural imagination of technology. This includes his live video installation โTwinning Machine,โ acquired by the Ateneo Art Gallery in 2012 through a Purchase Fund from SMART Communication, Inc.
Ermitaรฑo's works invite viewers to encounter machines as responsive systems that listen, repeat, and engage. Guided by algorithmic logicโthe dry operational kind that drives code and copperโhe manages to transform these mechanical processes into something closer to poetry. His machines do not simply runโthey perform, exploring how technology, sound, and moving image can become sites for experimentation, perception, and embodied experience.
The exhibitionโs title, ๐๐ค๐ข๐๐ฉ๐ค๐๐๐ก๐๐, literally means "body-manifesting." Rather than asking viewers to read through the theory behind the works first, Ermitaรฑoโs works aim to reach the body directly and let the head catch up later.
๐๐ค๐ข๐๐ฉ๐ค๐๐๐ก๐๐ also reminds us that even the most advanced technologies remain rooted in the physical world, with every chip, screen, and circuit in this exhibition running on siliconโthe dust of this planet, ground down and reshaped.
Read more at https://www.ateneo.edu/news/2026/07/aag-somatodelic
โ๏ธ Main exhibition text by Ian Carlo Jaucian
๐๐ค๐ข๐๐ฉ๐ค๐๐๐ก๐๐ opens on Wednesday, 5 August 2026, and will be on view until 10 October 2026 at the Wilson L Sy Prints & Drawings Gallery, 2F .
Join us for the Opening Reception
๐๏ธ 5 August 2026, Wednesday
๐ Wilson L Sy Prints & Drawings Gallery, 2F Ateneo Art Gallery
๐ Program starts at 5:00 PM
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