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Ctrl+P was founded in 2006 by Judy Freya Sibayan and Flaudette May V. Datuin as a response to the dearth of critical art publications in the Philippines. It is produced in Manila and published on the Web with zero funding. Circulated as a PDF file via email, it is a downloadable and printable publication that takes advantage of the digital medium’s fluidity, immediacy, ease and accessibility. Ctrl+P provides a testing ground for a whole new culture/praxis of publishing that addresses very specifically the difficulties of publishing art criticism in the Philippines.

Ctrl+P's 'publishing' process is not pegged at coming out weekly, quarterly, monthly, bi-annually; thus, we need not wait for a long time for a number of essays to make up an issue. Once there are enough essays ready for 'publication,' they are uploaded and labeled through a tracking system that looks something like: Uploaded Issue No. 2 Articles 9 and 10, 2006.

Ctrl+P also participates in a project involving around 90 magazines, art journals and online media from all over the world, aiming to form a network that explores and discusses topics of current interest and relevance. The debates will be published in print and online versions of documenta 12 Magazine in 2007.

To help us reach as many readers as possible, please hit the Ctrl+P buttons and reproduce as many hard copies as needed or as your printer can manage and/or forward the electronic file to as many recipients in your address book as possible. This way, you help make the number of Ctrl+P's readers grow exponentially.

For feedback, please write to ctrl_p_artjournal@yahoo.com.

Flaudette May V. Datuin
Varsha Nair
Judy Freya Sibayan

Editorial Board

Editorial Board

Flaudette May V. Datuin is an Associate Professor of the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines and founding chair of the House of Comfort Art Network, Inc (ART HOC). She is the author of Home Body Memory: Filipina Artists in the Visual Arts, 19th Century to the Present (University of the Philippines Press, 2002). The book is based on her dissertation for her PhD in Philippines Studies degree.

Datuin is the recipient of the Asian Scholarship Foundation and Asian Public Intellectual Fellowships, which enabled her to conduct research on contemporary women artists of China and Korea in 2002-2003, and Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan in 2004-2005. She is currently curating and organizing an international and interdisciplinary exhibit-conference-workshop called trauma, interrupted to be held in Manila in 2007.

Datuin currently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the contemporary arts of Asia, art theory and aesthetics, gender issues in the arts, and special topics on hypermedia and art, among others.

Varsha Nair lives in Bangkok, Thailand. Her selected shows include Exquisite Crisis & Encounters, New York, 2007 (www.apa.nyu.edu); Subjected Culture-Interruptions and Resistances on Femaleness, venues in Argentina till 2008 (http://www.planoazul.com/default.php?idnoticias=1390); Sub-Contingent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, Fondazion Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2006; EMAP - media in ‘f’, 5th EWHA Media Art Presentation, Seoul, Korea, 2005; In-between places, Si-Am Art Space, Bangkok, 2005; Video as Urban Condition, Austrian Culture Forum, London, 2004; From My Fingers–Living in the Age of Technology, Kaohsiung Museum of Art, Taiwan, 2003; With(in), Art In General, New York, 2002; Home/Dom, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, 2002; Free Parking, Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 2002 (www.thingsmatter.com/project.php?proj=0234&mediaID=13) She performed at Saturday Live, Tate Modern London, 2006; and at National Review of Live Art, at Tramway in Glasgow, 2006, at the Arches in Glasgow, 2004 (www.newterritories.co.uk), and at National Review of Live Art Midland, at the Railway Workshops in Perth, 2005 (www.swan.wa.gov.au/nrla/) Nair has co-organized/co-curated various art events and projects; she was also instrumental in setting up the Womanifesto website in 2003 (www.womanifesto.com). The last three projects for Womanifesto: Womanifesto Workshop 2001, Procreation/Postcreation 2003 and the recently completed net-art project No Man’s Land, were conceptualized by her. She was the Bangkok curator for 600 Images/60 artists/6 curators/6 cities: Bangkok/Berlin/London/Los Angeles/Manila/Saigon, an exhibition that was simultaneously exhibited in all 6 cities in 2005. She was invitee speaker at the conference Public Art In(ter)vention, Chiang Mai, 2005; Women’s Art Networks: Varsha Nair and Wu Mali in Conversation, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, 2004; Presentation for EMAP, 5th Media Art Presentation held in conjunction with 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, held at EWHA University, Seoul, Korea, 2005; Art and Public Spaces by SEAMEO-SPAFA Regional Centre for Archeology and Fine Arts, Bangkok, 2002; Asia Now: Women Artists’ Perspectives, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2001; Exhibition symposium Women Breaking Boundaries, Hillside Forum, Tokyo, 2001; co.operation, a conference on feminist art practice and theory, Dubrovnic, Croatia, 2000. Her writings have been published in art and architecture journals such as n.paradoxa, Art AsiaPacific, and art4d.

Born in Kampala, Uganda, Nair has a BFA from Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda, India.

Judy Freya Sibayan, a performance and conceptual artist, received her Master of Fine Arts from the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design. She is the recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines 1976 Thirteen Artists Award and is former director of the erstwhile Contemporary Art Museum of the Philippines. The City of Manila where she lives and works, recently awarded her the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinagnan sa Bagong Pamamaraan Award.

She performed and curated Scapular Gallery Nomad, a gallery she wore daily for five years and is currently curator and the Museum of Mental Objects (MoMO), a work proposing that her body be the museum itself.

Although Sibayan’s major body of work is a materialist and institutional critique of art, she has also exhibited and performed in museums, galleries and performance venues such as the The Tramway, Glasgow; the Vienna Secession; the Hayward Gallery, London; PS 1 Institute of Contemporary Art, New York; The Farm, San Francisco; Sternersenmuseet, Oslo; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; The Kiasma Contemporary Art Center, Helsinki; The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm; Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen; X-Ray Art Center, Beijing; Fukuoka Art Museum; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; Hong Kong Art Centre; and at the capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux. She has participated in two international art biennales, the 1986 3rd Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh and the 2002 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea.

Also an independent curator, she conceived and was lead-curator of xsXL Expanding Art held at Sculpture Square, Singapore in 2002 and 600 Images/60 Artists/6 Curators/6 Cities: Bangkok/Berlin/London/Los Angeles/Manila/Saigon (curated entirely through the internet and held in all 6 cities in 2005). Both projects investigated the possibilities of developing large scale international exhibitions mounted with very modest resources.

She currently teaches as an Assistant Professor of the Department of Communication, De La Salle University where she has taught for twenty years.

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