Fatima is an artist and writer/researcher. She studied fine arts at the University of the Philippines where she also taught industrial design, art history/theory and computer art (1996-2004). In 2004, she retired from teaching to become a full-time artist.

In 2004, Fatima was invited as artist-in-residence at Ecole Cantonale d’Art Du Valais in Sierre, Switzerland and at the Networking Initiatives for Culture and Arts in Yangon, Myanmar. She has been awarded grants to present her work and conduct workshops in Taiwan, Singapore, Myanmar, India, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

She has also written chapters for the following books: “PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice” published by Cambridge Scholars Press (2006); “Tanaw: Perspectives on the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Painting Collection” by the Central Bank of the Philippines (2005); and “Read_Me 2004 Software Art and Cultures Conference”, Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University in Arhus, Denmark.

Fatima lives in the Philippines with her husband, British computer artist Trevor Batten.

You can contact Fatima thru this address:

Fatima Lasay
San Roque, Baclayon,
6301 Bohol
Philippines

Or thru email: fats@crochetology.net