About Jeryc Garcia

Jeryc Garcia (publishes as G Goodrich Garcia) is an Artist-Researcher, Assistant Professor, and creator of the Drawn Negative Process, a cameraless methodology that uses hand-drawn marks to produce photographic negatives that can be printed through various analog photographic processes. Originated during his MFA at the University of the Philippines Diliman and developed since through published research, DNP grounds his work at the intersection of semiotics, decolonization, and myth in the Barthesian sense. He argues from these artifacts toward two claims: synthetic indexicality, whether a sign can carry meaning without a causal link to its referent, and synthetic residue, whether a hand-drawn mark can carry photographic trace, with a case study applying DNP to images of Philippine WWII veterans and colonial photographic archives. Before graduate study, Jeryc spent nearly two decades in Advertising and Publishing, including a founding editorship and senior creative roles across the Philippines and Vietnam. He has taught at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde since 2012 and is currently an Assistant Professor and Research Coordinator for Creative and Artistic Research of the School of New Media Arts, with recent writing forthcoming in the Art Studies Journal of UP Diliman.