In our first broadcast this year, Mirjam shares with us her digital and installation works that generates a lively discussion about disinformation, internet humor, digital literacy, national politics, conspiracy theories, and a collective call to reevaluating daily media. She also generously tours us around Second Life — apparently a pre-metaverse wasteland that today hosts the residual communities of the mid-aughts — and there, we scuba dive, visit an art show, and crash a karaoke party.
This livestreamed event was hosted on and livestreamed from Eternal Conferences' Twitch channel! Eternal Conferences' first livestream was moderated by artist and educator Alfred Marasigan. Sign Language Interpretation by Jerwin Darag.
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About Conference No. 7's Mirjam Dalire
Mirjam Dalire is a multidisciplinary artist based in Negros Oriental, Philippines. She works with photography, internet-based installation, video, sound, and painting. Mirjam often uses virtual spaces as a staging point for confrontations with her immediate environment, employing satire and humor in her process.
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Jerwin Darag is a Corporate Researcher Analyst. In this capacity, he does a lot of research regarding different people and companies online. He has previously worked in the LGU of Makati under Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, Administrative Section. He finished my Bachelor's degree in Office Administration at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He has also studied sign language in the Philippine Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc (PRID) in Pasay City. But even before that, he has already been actively involved in teaching the deaf about the Bible since way back 2008. Actually, even during the pandemic and now, they are reaching people who are deaf via virtual meeting or Zoom. With that said, as an Interpreter, he seeks to deliver the message accurately and clearly for our audiences who are deaf.
