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Opening Event
03.09.99
Upper Stage, Queen Street Mall, Brisbane
6:30pm
Bytes of colour, sound, and visuals light up the official launch of the 1999 MAAP festival. Snippets and previews will be displayed as a program warm up.
Online Australia announces the Online Cultural Festival and invites cultural organisations and artists to work together online. www.culture.com.au
PreFab: Invisible Cities and Photon Palaces
3D Virtual Architiecture Exhibition: explores digital architectural practices currently being developed by Australian artists and architects and compares them with those of their Asian peers. Curated by new media expert Shiralee Saul and architect Helen Stuckey.
DIKI
International virtual popstar DIKI launches her latest music clip at MAAP99.
Cyber Poet Komnimos
First live performance in Brisbane by Cyber Poet Komnimos who will project his concrete poetry in a multimedia presentation.
His website also features in the missile web launch project.
Richard Grayson
Artist Richard Grayson creates a playful digital word work for the immense walls of the Queensland Performing Arts Complex. The projection beams nightly 3-12 September and is best viewed crossing the Victoria Bridge from the Brisbane City.
Artist Club @ The Zoo
711 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley
open daily
1:00pm - 5:00pm then 8:30pm - 2:00amOpen daily, the Artist Club is a space for local and visiting artists to sit back, have a drink, meet friends, and enjoy free pool or internet access. The night program features bands, DJs, installations, performance and multimedia entertainment featuring new electronic music.
Night program includes:
04.09.99 New Zealand band Shihad.
05.09.00 Jimmie Little with special guests Grant MacLennan and Ed Kuepper.
06.09.99 "Subterfuge" - Music students from the Queensland University of Technology present a multimedia experience featuring new electronic music, computer animation, dance and visual art displays.
07.09.99 "The Turing Test" - Premier electroacoustic artists Adam Donovan, Kettle and seo challenge you to take the Turing Test: an experiment in sculpture, spatialised physical sound and ritual.
http://www.overlobe.com/turing08.09.99 "Ether" with DJ Fluent JB.
09.09.99 The official post Asia Pacific Triennial launch party with special guest DJs.
10.09.99 Brisbane band The Far Out Corporation and Saturn South.
11.09.99 Get down to The Zoo tonight for a special Artist Cabaret Night "Glam Slam". Definitely an event not to be missed.
12.09.99 The post APT3/MAAP Artist Club closing party with special guest DJs.
For more information, contact:
The Zoo, Tel: 3854 1381. http://www.thezoo.com.au
Email: zoocrew@thezoo.com.au
Official Opening
"Double Happiness 2_nations youth culture exchange"
04.09.99
Global Arts Link, Ipswich St, Brisbane
6:30pm
Arterial and Global Arts Link present an interactive installantion reflecting the results of a cross-cultural internet exchange project between young people and artists in Ipswich, Queensland and the Xi'an Translators College in China. The six-month project developed a virtual youth space through the joint design of a website, which represents the ideas/experiences/perceptions/opinions shared between the two groups.
For more information, contact:
Arterial Director, Therese Nolan-Brown,
Tel: (07) 3876 6177, Email: arterial@gil.com.au.
"The Road to Cherbourg"
Opening Exhibition and CD-ROM launch
05.09.99
Global Arts Link, Ipswich St, Brisbane
6:00pm"The Road to Cherbourg" by Vincent Serico with Campfire Group curated by Fire-Works Gallery.
For more information, contact:
Michal Eather
Tel: (07) 3216 1250,
Email: michael@fireworksgallery.com.au
Bus Trip to Global Arts Link and Griffith Artworks
07.09.99
10:00am - 5:00pmJoin this day trip which includes lunch at Global Arts Link and afternoon drinks at Griffith Artworks, Griffith University. Global Arts Link is a newly developed facility in Ipswich, which is attempting to integrate art, community, and new technologies into a future social vision. Griffith Artworks will officially launch the online catalogue of the Griffith University Art Collection, a project that has been years in development, and is one of the most comprehensive online databases of contemporary Australian art.
To book a seat, tel: (07) 3875 7414.
Cost: $10.00 (includes lunch and drinks)
Theatre Sports
07.09.99
The Hub Internet Cafe, 125 Margaret St, Brisbane
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Current Season: "6 of the best" presents "The Doll Diaries" every Tuesday night at The Hub.
For more information, tel: (07) 3229 1119
Sci-Art 99
08.09.99 - 22.09.99
Queensland SciencentreOfficial Opening 08.09.99
5:30pm - 7:30pmSci-Art 99 is an exhibition of works by artists who are using scientific ideas or methodologies and by scientists who are creating visual artefacts as part of their work. Exhibitors include: Trish Adams; Tracy Benson; Simon Biggs; Emily Brigham; Justine Cooper; Adam Donovan; Alex Gillespie; David Malik; Mount Glorious Butterfly Centre; Wayne Stamp; Roy Stringer; Gary Zebington; Marie Velonaki; Mary-Lou Pavlovic and others. Sci-Art is curated by Paul Brown as part of a one-year artist-in-residency program at the Queensland Sciencentre.
For opening times and admission, Tel: (07) 3320 0166 or go to http://www.sciencentre.qld.gov.au
The website acts as a catalogue of the exhibition held during the festival while offering additional links and web artworks by the artists involved in the show.
"Sonorous Bodies"
08.09.99
Brisbane City Gallery,
Ground floor, King George Square
5:00pmIn a multicultural collaboration between Judith Wright (video-installation artist) and Liza Lim (Composer) and Satsuki Odamura (Master of the Koto) the artist's examine through video sequences and music a realm of inaudible and invisible vibrations that surround the acts of touching and sounding.
For more information, Tel: (07) 3403 4355.
Adapt - analogue digital and physical technologies
08.09.99 - 11.09.99
Metro Arts Cinema Space, 109 Edward St, Brisbane
6:00pm - 9:30pmA four night program promoting recent applications of analogue, digital, and physical technologies to the Australian Independant Electronic Music and Art Industry. Comprises of masterclasses and demonstrations, a curated sound gallery program, and open public performance showcase.
11.09.99: Adapt artist's showcase an audio and visual performance with all artists involved in the first night of the progam. A public celebration and presentation showcase of the event.
For more information, http://warping.to/adapt
Tel: (07) 3844 2032, Email: adapt1999@hotmail.com
"Discovery"
09.09.99
The Hub Internet cafe, 125 Margaret St, Brisbane
7:00pmSee what you can find Thursday night at The Hub Internet Cafe.
Thursday 02.09.99: discover music on the net, MP3, net radio.
Thursday 19.09.99: discover webcam - at work or in your lounge room.For more information, phone Karen at The Hub on (07) 3229 1119 to book now.
"Launch Sites" Exhibition
11.09.99
Palace Gallery, 46 Merivale St, South Brisbane
5:00pmBrisbane artists Di Ball, Tracey Benson, and Linda Carroli launch new web works during MAAP99. See your future with Krystal Ball, visit Carmen's shop of tricks and trade or check out Linda Carroli's hypertext work in which writing "speaks".
For more information, tel: 0412 442631
http://thehub.com.au/~dibbles/launch