Isola Tong (@isolatong IG) is a Filipina Chinese Artist and Architect currently practicing in Manila. She engages in the boundaries between nature and technology, human and nonhuman, center and margin, north and south epistemologies challenging binarism, revealing worlds within worlds, conveying the interconnections of science, aesthetics, and politics, through the lens of a "transpinay" from maritime South-East Asia. Her work spans across a variety of media portraying a divergence from anthropocentrism towards interconnected biologies. She graduated cum laude at the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture. She also studied and worked in Osaka, Japan for four years. She has shown and performed in Korea, Slovenia, Serbia, and the United Kingdom. She currently teaches architectural design, theory, and history at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and the Arts in Manila. She is an incoming graduate student at the UC Santa Cruz in California. We welcome Isola Tong to the table.
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About Our Theme Music Composer, Olly Shelton:
Olly Shelton is a Brighton-based composer, producer, and pianist specialising in ambient, electronic, and alternative music. He is half of the UK band PELA and works alongside a range of up-and-coming artists and established acts around the globe. Contact Olly on Instagram @o_s_music and on the WEB at www.ollysheltonmusic.com.
