**Toolkits for Counterparts** is an interdisciplinary virtual collaboration between two teams of UK and Philippine-based artists culminating in an online exhibition of six original new media, digital art, and video works. These works share a probing and playful approach to investigating disinformation, disability justice, and the logics of code, anatomy, and infrastructures. Taking the final form of games, an interactive dictionary, video, maps, and archives, the intention is for the visitor to allow themselves to enter into the logics and affects of world-building contained within each artist’s piece. Laying the foundation for these pieces is an iterative series of workshops centred around the ways that art can be produced in a transnational digital context as a creative response straddling differing but parallel sociopolitical realities. Asking the questions **“Why do we need a toolkit?”**, **“Why do we build with and for others?”**, and **“How will this support them?”** we grounded the creative process as contributing to a relational practice of solidarity. Alongside active sharing and listening, artists and curators continuously exchanged resources throughout the project, which have been collated into a public library that visitors can access via Gather.town and Google Drive, found via the [Library](https://www.toolkits-for-counterparts.xyz/#library) page. Details for the public launch event, where we will be discussing the process and works in-depth, can be found on the [Event](https://www.toolkits-for-counterparts.xyz/#event) page.

Yifan He is an interdisciplinary artist. They send out edible letters, animate sculptural objects and make videos and prints. Yifan’s practice explores our extended avatars across different worlds. They are interested in challenging the borders between bodies and initiating intimate relationships with every'body' involved in the process of making/playing/eating. Yifan is the appointed artist in residence at UCL SPiDER (the Sustainable Physical and Digital spaces for Education and Research project), currently building a chatbot for people to talk to in public toilets. Their writing Embodiment and Disembodiment in Tech will soon be published in the new issue of Broad Street Humanities Review. Yifan is also a cohort at Dark Study (inaugural), Shades of Noir (Phase 5), and the online residency spur.world.  [Website](https://he-yifan.com/) | [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/mzhyff/)

cj is a queer Filipina artist living with chronic illness. Her work as an animator has been shown in various local and international film screenings and festivals. She has recently finished her thesis film, [oombilicus](https://frameweaver.com/welcome-oombi), an internet-oriented intermedia installation anchored on the theme of a garden of loops — where every loop is an expression of hope and showing up amidst a time of dire uncertainty. She is currently committed to engaging with animation as a practice of invoking and working with the intimacies and animacies of the multitudinous human and more-than-human world. [Website](https://frameweaver.com/) | [Instagram](https://instagram.com/frameweaver)

Kate Frances Lingard lives and works in Glasgow. At the moment, they are taking time to play with their work again, experimenting with different kinds of games across digital and table-top form and researching the social impacts of data-driven technologies. Previously, they have thought about how to enact an ethics/politics of care within the digital commons working with digitally created images, objects, environments and playing around with programming. They have mainly worked with friends and collaborators, discussing the possibilities and complexities of decentralised and distributed technologies as shared infrastructure. Generally, they hope to question systems that define how we act and live together. [Website](https://k-f-l.com/) | [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/kfrancesling/)

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. [Website](http://www.mirjamdalire.tumblr.com) | [Instagram](https://instagram.com/troutygram)

Paolo Lorenzo is a music producer and artist from the Philippines. A proponent of sonic non-creation, he works primarily under the epithet, Mocksmile. Lorenzo’s works and body of research explore concepts of cybernetics, neoliberalism, and Maoism. With a mishmash of influences, Lorenzo samples with recklessness to bring together sounds that aim to imagine possible futures while underlining the dystopian present. Recently, his essay [The Digital is Physical](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1STI52GDAA0_pVSx9US8ccpY3Zm0rOnis) which was published as a component of the exhibition [Portraits (Proxies)](https://www.drawingroomgallery.com/events/portraits-proxies/) joins _Namamahay_ at the first Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial Research Exhibition Series. He is co-founder of netlabel [NOFACE RECORDS](https://nofacerecords666.bandcamp.com/). He is also a member of the labor-centric cultural mass organization, [Tambisan sa Sining](https://www.facebook.com/TambisanSaSining), established in 1979.  [Instagram](http://instagram.com/mocksmile) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/mocksmile)

"I'm a multidisciplinary artist from Liverpool, mostly making music, videos + writing. I like using the digital aesthetic, and AI tools, to explore themes of disintegration + mysticism. Last year I made The Magic Tree, a website that generated over 450 collaborative artworks using neural style transfer. Visitors are invited to upload any photo, which will then be applied as a "style" to the most recent iteration. You can still play it at [www.the-magic-tree.co.uk](http://www.the-magic-tree.co.uk/). My next project is a Mystic SMS Bot, launching on 3rd December. You will be able to text a number and receive a randomly selected mystical aphorism produced by a GPT-2 bot trained on mystical texts, poetry and lyrics from around the world. The common thread between these two pieces is a desire to use technology as a way to relinquish control and instigate hybridity, bringing together elements that might be naturally contradictory." [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/nil00151/)