This year MAAP declares its program of public and site-specific art, MAAP Republic.

To make it official, we have installed Paul Brown's Kinetic Painting 4^15: Studies in Perception on a 9m x 1.5m purpose-built projection space at South Bank (ABI Group Building, Stanley Street Plaza in the Parklands).

In this installation, Brown uses an artist-created software program, based on Cellular Automata (Artificial Life), to generate randomised and evolving geometric forms. The works reference European kinetic, conceptual and systems art, as well as an aesthetic he finds in tiling and patterns of symmetry.

The work can viewed between 5pm-2am daily over the summer period.

MAAP is seeking artist's proposals for further MAAP Republic projects.

MAAP wishes everyone a happy holiday and brand new year! We're certainly looking forward to a mammoth 2010!

The office will be closed from December 24th to January 11th, then business as usual from the 12th.

We'll be sure to keep you all updated with news from our forthcoming 2010 exhibition 'Light from Light' in the new year. Until then...

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.