MAAP has officially moved!

Our offices and Media Bank are now located at:

Collins Place (at South Bank rail station, opposite Queensland College of Art) 271 Grey St, South Bank

Our new office number is: +61 7 3161 7960

MAAP is in the interim of moving from our former office at the Judith Wright Centre. If making contact with the MAAP office is difficult at this time, please be patient. For urgent inquiries, please phone 0411 591 058. All other requests can be made to info[at]maap.org.au

The MAAP Media Bank will support Brisbane artist Ross Manning with equipment for his solo exhibition at Milani Gallery 20th August - 5th September.

Earlier this year, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley were engaged in the MAAP artist-in-residence program.

Janet Burchill, presents a her new exhibition Equivalence at Anna Schwartz Gallery, between 30th July and 29th August.

Burchill continues her investigation of colour and sign systems in works such as UTOPIA and Thwarted Monochrome for J.G. Ballard. Also presented is Domeville, a collaborative work with Jennifer McCamley, which explores the Geodesic Dome as an emblem of failed utopian visions (see R. Buckminster Fuller). This motif will be further examined in their work for MAAP's 2010 exhibition Light From Light, 2010.

Image: Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Domeville 2009. Media: steel, steel mesh, corkboard and pins. Image courtesy: the artists and Anna Schwartz Gallery.

光源自光 Light from Light - is an exhibition based on solar technologies, considering light as a metaphor for knowledge.

MAAP is currently developing the exhibition that will engage artists to present works specifically made for the context of the State Library of Queensland and in Shanghai in 2010.

The libraries will display 'Light from Light' to coincide with the Shanghai World Expo 2010.

Melbourne based artists Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley are undertaking a MAAP residency to produce a central work for the exhibition. They are researching new solar technologies to create a renewable energy geodesic dome.

MAAP Media Bank supports Australian artists Shaun Gladwell and Vernon Ah Kee with equipment at this year's Venice Biennale.

Brisbane based artist Ah Kee will be presenting a new 3 channel video work as part of Once Removed, curated by Felicity Fenner, and alongside artists Ken Yonetani, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro. Gladwell's work MADDESTMAXIMVS: Planet & Stars Sequence will be exhibited at the Australian Pavilion.

This is the first partnership between the Australia Council and MAAP Media Bank on an international event. We look forward to continuing this relationship in the future.

Image: Vernon Ah Kee, Cant Chant (Wegrewhere) , 2007-2009 The Ludoteca, Castello 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia Video, painted surfboards and printed text on canvases Dimensions variable Video (DV PAL) Director: Suzanne Howard Photography: Ella Condon Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery

December 2008 saw MAAP present the 5th Bangkok Experimental Film festival at the Judith Wright Centre. Over 100 works from Thai artists and filmmakers were screened in a massive playlist of alternative screen culture, nestled amongst tropical palms and flickering out onto busy Brunswick st.

MAAP supported curator David Teh in Bangkok through our mentorship program funded by the Australia Council and also commissioned emerging curator Rachel O'Reilly to produce a program in the festival that she titled 'Video Ground'.

MAAP invited Danni Zuvella to speak 'in conversation' with David - it was poignantly engaging especially in light of the current political situation in Thailand.

The 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, 2008-2009

MAAP would like to wish you all a very happy new year!

We have a number of exciting projects in the pipeline for 2009 - the first of which is a new website. It will be launched in the coming weeks, and will expand upon the online resources offered on this current site. We have also managed to properly archive the incredible backlog of projects that MAAP has produced since our inception in 1997.

A big thank-you to all who supported the 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival. We were very excited to have curator David Teh in conversation with Danni Zuvela - their insights shed much light on the recent political turmoil in Bangkok.

COMING SOON: MAAP presents the 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (BEFF 5). 10th - 13th December

Over 150 works from Thai and international artists and filmmakers will be served simultaneously in a massive playlist of alternative screen culture. MAAP invites you to the Judith Wright Centre's temporary experimental film library, in a media-art-surround-video-post-capitalist shop, where everything is free!

BEFF 5 exposes a rich independent film culture that seeks to give voice to the political and cultural realities of contemporary Thai life. Film, animations and video mash-ups from Thailand and around the world collide together in a radical cross-cultural dialogue. The event brings together artist's films, video art, animation and experimental documentaries for local audiences to sample and engage with.

This year's festival, "The More Things Change...", curated by David Teh, interrogates cycles of contemporary life in Thailand, and considers issues of politics, place and spirituality in a digital age.

Open Wed 10 Dec - Fri 12 Dec: 4.30pm - 8pm Sat 13 Dec: 12 noon - 8pm

Please join us for drinks on Friday 12th December and Saturday 13th 6pm - 8pm, and catch curator David Teh who will be talking with Danni Zuvela on Saturday 13th from 4pm onwards.

Free entry to patrons over 18 years. ID required to gain entry.

The 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, 2008-2009

Brisbane based artist Paul Bai will produce a site specific three channel video projection for the Shop front windows of the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts.

On this occasion, Bai explores the notion of "space" in the format of video projection. The artist utilises parts of the glass windows as the projection screen, leaving other parts to remain clear and untouched, so the viewer could also see through the window space while the projection is playing.

Each of the window screens "presents two visually different spaces at the same time".

The work is visible from 6pm nightly.

1st to 9 September 2008 Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts Shop Front installation 420 Brunswick Street Fortitude Valley, Brisbane

Please come and join us for drinks 6pm - 8pm Friday 5 September.

This project is supported by MAAP Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts.

The Sky is the Limit, 2008