New typologies of ‘digitized’ art supporting HIV-AIDS-related advocacies in the Philippines

This study, funded by the National Research Council of the Philippines and completed in 2018, investigated the nature of, notions behind, and types of art that makes use of digital technology. After interviewing 70, mostly male, artists involved in HIV-AIDS advocacy in the Philippines, selected via convenience, diversity, and saturation sampling, it was found that a distinction must be made between "digital" and "digitized" arts. The ontology of six new contemporary typologies of "digitized" art were constructed as an alternative to the technologically deterministic genres applied to "digital" arts.