ABOUT MAAP

MAAP is the new media cultural backbone of the Asia Pacific regions linking technology with culture.
Now in its 5th year, MAAP has established itself as the Asia Regions pre-eminent new media arts festival. MAAP encompasses 14 countries in the region and is the only new media festival to focus on Australia and the Asia Pacific regions.

New Media Art - Broadband content - Interactive Media - Net Art - Digital Video - Animation - Convergent Media

The MAAP Story
MAAP was established to bring focus to "unmapped" new media cultural content emerging from the Asia Pacific regions.
MAAP has now grown into an Asia Pacific touring new media art festival and web site resource partnering with key organisations in the region.
MAAP will continue regional festivals in Beijing 2002, Seoul 2003, Singapore 2004, and Brisbane 2005 to expand exposure and research in the region.
MAAP specialises in showcasing the work of the region's major new media arts practitioners, creating new networks, introducing the artists and their work to audiences, and increasing cultural contact and understanding through the experience of new media arts. MAAP is the atlas of the new world - the place where culture, art, technology, and the dynamism of the Asia region come together.

MAAP links these dynamic innovations and cutting edge cultural experiences into its network of partners in Europe and North America to create an international community of artists and audiences sharing and participating in the creation of new art forms, new communities, and new cultural experiences and expressions.

What does MAAP do?
· Brings annual international focus to New Media Arts in the Asia Pacific regions.
· Promotes and utilises the latest New Media technologies through the festival and web site.
· Creates contact and collaboration to support the development, presentation and promotion of new media art and technology
· MAAP produces a high profile annual festival program surveying the region.

Achievements

· MAAP'98 "Mapping the Region" Festival
· Establishment of the first new media festival in the region
· Program event Sydney Olympic Arts Festival

· MAAP'99 "Collapsing Geographies" Festival
· Third Asia Pacific Triennial partner - Virtual Triennial and Screening Program
· Artists international residency program implemented
· 41% increase in audience participation
· 48% increase in online participation

· MAAP2000 "Presence and Place"
· Extensive research travel through Asia
· 21% increase in audience participation
· 24% increase in online participation

· MAAP'01 "EXCESS" Festival
· Satellite events in the region, partnered MAAP events in Manila - Digital Media Festival, Seoul - Art Centre Nabi, Beijing - Loft New Media Art Space, Sydney - Art Space Contemporary Art Centre and Melbourne - Experimenta Media Arts.
· 120% increase in audience participation
· 68% increase in online participation