Kakakompyuter Mo Yan! is an exhibition, project, and neverending karaoke party celebrating third world internet & networking cultures.
It is curated & produced by Chia Amisola, as a project of Developh and the Philippine Internet Archive.
Artists
KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN
Kaka-kompyuter mo yan! is a phrase cried out across Filipino households: “It’s because of the computer.” This karaoke machine hosts an exhibition of Philippine internet art created by Amisola in collaboration with over twenty local and diasporic Filipino artists.
Its ‘songs’ are represented as various artworks: an elegy for Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz and St. Peter; a shrine to Onel de Guzman; a simulated filesharing client; and zipbombs from USA & FILIPINA DATING Facebook groups, among others. These counter-narratives articulate an online third-world. From exploitation, to queerness, to appropriation, to bootlegging, many of these stories would not have been possible without the internet. Contained within the karaoke machine, the internet becomes an urgent medium for works that speak to its potential for resistance.