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net.works/Artists On The Web
06.09.99
Metro Arts, 109 Edward St, Brisbane

MAAP's online artists' in residence project meet for the first time to discuss their projects. Artists are Feng Mengbo (Beijing), Young-Hae Chang (Seoul), Rick Verney (Perth), and Tina Gonsalves (Melbourne). Other online artists will also be discussing their work.

Bookings can be made by phoning Metro Arts on (07) 3321 1527.

Macromedia Seminar
08.09.99
Brisbane Convention Centre, South Brisbane

Speak to and hear the experts in web and new media technologies. During the day a preview of the MAAP Missile Sites will be shown.

Registration essential. Tel: 1800 111 777 111 http://www.macromedia.com/ap

The Online Australia Agenda Series: Culture Online
09.09.99

The Culture Online Agenda Forum is a high-level planning forum that brings together a small number of key stakeholders from the areas of business, industry, community and government in order to develop ideas and propositions about Australia's online cultural development. (Invited delegates only)

10.09.99 - 12.09.99
Brisbane Convention Centre, South Brisbane

'Beyond the Future' is the Conference's central theme, chosen to allow participants to develop and extend ideas of art and contemporary culture in the Asia-Pacific region at this time. MAAP99 is sponsoring new media expert Niranjan Rajah to speak. 'Beyond the Future' will also focus on the role of art and the artist in the 21st century. A key element of this will be the online discussion forum, 'Beyond the Future Online' where participants will focus debate around issues of art and society in the Asia-Pacific region.

For registration details see the Queensland Art Gallery Asia Pacific Triennial website. http://www.apt3.net

MAAP99 Conference: "Collapsing Geographies"
Sponsored by Macromedia
11.09.99
Brisbane Convention Centre, South Brisbane

New technologies are reconfiguring the spatialised and chronological relations of the social and of power. Flows of information have superseded the flow of bodies, as intellectual properties exponentially regenerate their own immaterial presences through the channels of bandwidth into the realms of screen real-estate. The traditional landmarks, borders and gatekeepers of the Nation State are giving way to transnational territories of corporate capital. Discourses of nationalism are in crisis as local-global wars erupt in ethnic violence and paranoid retaliations.

What are the emergent modes of subjectivity in this new media-saturated, transnational network? What shapes and forms are cultural and artistic practices taking on? What zones of space and time are they occupying? What are the new modes and discourses of governmentality in the post-nation state? Are there any sign-posts in this sea of hypermediated communication? What are the new collective tools of social and cultural activity? What are the costs - economic, social, political, cultural - of access?

Session 1 - 11:30-1:15

Emergent Methodologies: On-Line Collaborations

Artists on-line are experimenting with and celebrating the potentials of the World Wide Web as a medium, while critiquing it and bringing to it wider conceptual concerns. A central characteristic of the internet is its connectivity, its network, a mechanism and medium of information sharing and exchange, made for multiple users and for multiple deliveries. The web is also a space to be inhabited, a space from which to proceed, to commence a dialogue, to speak an idea, to live and work.

Chair:
Beth Jackson (Director, Griffth Artworks, Griffith University, Chair, MAAP)

Speakers:
Young-Hae Chang / Jeff Sams (participating artist/web manager 'net.works/', MAAP99 on-line residency project); Amy Lee / Keith Armstrong (representing the Arterial Group project - Double Happiness: Xi'an-Ipswich online exchange); Rick Vermey (curator and participating artist in 'CONTACT', on-line artists exchange project Perth-Bandung)

lunch

Session 2 - 2:30-3:45

Old Regimes/New currencies

The Internet has been described as both: a tool for liberation - a local, organic, and rhizomatic structure empowering individuals and communities, accepting and facilitating difference; and also as the major contemporary force for cultural imperialism, homogenisation, alienation, and Western capitali9st domination. What are the impulses and interests behind the emergence of new media artforms and practices? And what is their relationship with the ' art establishment'? What are the viral effects in the transnational network?

Chair:
Paul Brown (Lecturer, Com-Design, QUT; Editor, fineArt forum; Chair, ANAT; artist-in-residence, Queensland Sciencentre; curator "Sci-Art")

Speakers:
Brenda Croft (Curator, Indigenous Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia); Amanda McDonald Crowley (Director, Australian Network for Art and Technology)

Keynote Address:
Niranjan Rajah (Critical Studies Department, Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

afternoon tea

Performance 4:00

William Ray Lagenbach "Re-engineering the Society of Mind: The Work of Lan Gen Bah"

Lagenbach is an American performance and installation artist, and lecturer, who has lived and worked for the past eleven years in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. He has recently been researching the interface between art, cognition and ideology of the 'Beijing-MIT-Singapore circle', and associated Asian artists, including the poet and psychologist, Chiang Mo-Jo. This performance piece explores the work of Lan Gen Bah in the areas of cognitive research and propaganda.

Session 3 - 4:15-5:30

Screening Culture: convergence and collision

Many new media artists have backgrounds in film and video. Film industry funding bodies such as the AFC have supported the development of new media art the is 'screen based', recognising that the future of film is embedded in digital, multimedia, on-line, and interactive technologies. However the screen itself is a volatile hotspot and gateway to the virtual. While Screen Culture is multiplying, complicating, releasing other forms and pathways, Screen Real Estate is the competing marketplace and market item for public discourse.

Chair:
Laleen Jayamanne (lecturer, Cinema Studies, Cept of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney)

Speakers:
Shiralee Saul (Curator, "Pre Fab", MAAP99 virtual exhibition); Fion Ng (Manager, Videotage, Hong Kong); Feng Mengbo (artist, China); I-LannYee (artist, Malyasia)

For further information, tel: (07) 3391 3569,email: info@maap.org.au To register online www.maap.org.au
Cost: $50.00 and $45.00 concession.