SABAW media art kitchen is a not-for-profit, artist-run initiative and likes to see itself as a platform for all kinds of information and communication carried via modern electronic media, with an emphasis on the region of South East Asia.


SABAW is translated as "soup" in Filipino. It's a mixture of food ingredients; with openness to experiment or to use existing recipes with combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables with boiling hot water, until flavor is extracted, spices are added, forming a delicious broth. This could be analogous to what SABAW is supposed to do with media art, experimental and electronic music, and cross-platforms between media art and other art practices. A soup is formless and takes shape with the bowl or container that holds it. Also, soup can be served cold.


SABAW focuses to address the lack of proper dissemination of information in media art, experimental and electronic music, and media culture in South East Asia to the general public and candid exchanges between sub-cultural and academic initiatives. SABAW is also dedicated towards the facilitation, publication and exposure of creative and experimental works of innovative new media artists, interdisciplinary artists, contemporary musician-composers who find it difficult to release their material through more conventional channels.
Founded by Tengal in 2005.