Friday, November 29, 2025 - 19:30h
Casa del Lector Auditorium
Collaborative prototype presentation

Mac Andre Arboleda, Hsiang-Yun Huang, Sergio Pinilla Lopez, Anuphong Sup-adulchai, Ginevra Mazzoni.

The Institute of Alice Guo Studies (copy) is a research and production agency concentrating on pirate strategies, mediatic capacities, and governance networks that condition "another" Philippine life. Fugitive mayor and fraudster Alice Guo is our person of interest, using her as a medium to investigate our extreme realities. What do we take from love scam operations, fictive identities, and seductive Tiktok propaganda in the formation of new institutes that could face our current conditions?

This prototype has been developed collaboratively based on an initial proposal by Mac Andre Arboleda

Webinar 

About Mac Andre Arboleda 
 

Mac is an artist interested in exploring the sickness of the Internet through research and dialogue, art and text, organizing and publishing. They are the Founding President of the UP Internet Freedom Network and co-founder of the Artists for Digital Rights Network. A recipient of the 2024 Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award, they have previously completed residencies hosted by Beta Festival, transmediale, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and the ESRC Digital Good Network. Their texts have appeared in ACM Interactions, fine print magazine, and ADJACENT, among others. "ILOVEYOU: 25th Anniversary" is a radio special they recently programmed inviting tech saboteurs, trade unionists, and cultural workers to commemorate the legacy of the computer virus, broadcasted on Manila Community Radio and Radio Alhara. Previously, they co-organized Zine Orgy (2015-2020) and Munzinelupa (2018-2020), both events-based platforms for artists and independent publishers held in Los Baños and Muntinlupa City, Philippines respectively. 
 

Pollaborators profile 

Ideal collaborators are artists, technologists, designers, community organizers, and influencers sick of the art world, the academia, and/or the NGO industrial complex, with experience in disbanded collectives, criminalized or outsourced labor, and/or failed movements.  

We're especially interested in those who are able to think with, through, and beyond the extreme conditions of the Philippines to test the building blocks for an institute fit to respond to the current global crises. Tech tinkerers, meme-makers, gender dissidents, and tech unionists are especially encouraged to join the project team.