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MAAP Press-Release Archive2000, September 11: Forum Crosses Cultures 2000, September 05: Art With Electricity 2000, August 25: Students Launch New Arts Website 2000, August 01: Online Arts Festival Previews New Media Work From Region 1999, November 19: Festival Website Wins National Award Forum Crosses Cultures: September 11, 2000Brisbane arts organisation MAAP (Multimedia Art Asia Pacific) takes on a major technical feat this Sunday 17th - broadcasting an all day forum focusing on how new technologies have made a significant dent on most cultures Crossing Cultures - Presence and Place: MAAP in the New Millennium is a free event with a host of local experts at the Brisbane Powerhouse discussing this topic with artists and new media experts beaming in from Beijing, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan. According to Festival Director, Kim Machan, web presence and the Internet offer media artists, visual artists, designers, web developers, curators and theorists the unique opportunity to show work on-line and to work inter-culturally in "virtual geographies" between regions. "Presence and Place is a step past the MAAP99 Forum Collapsing Geographies where issues of how new media space dissolved traditional geographical and hierarchical boundaries," she said. The idea of "presence" is related to context - What is the identity /persona of the creator? Who is the work talking to? How is it perceived? Is the personalised ownership of artistic authorship once again needed to humanise new technologies? The idea of "place" is related to context - where is the work seen? Who owns the place and identity of power? What is the sense of place in a global and local reading? How do we name the new places emerging? "An issue which will no doubt be discussed in detail is the technology problems. We expect with the Olympics on and the bandwidth problems not only here in Australia, but in countries such as China, there will be problems - which is unavoidable." "But if we pretend they don't happen, we won't learn from the mistakes technology can throw up at us," she said. "The biggest challenge will be working in different times zones and with other telecommunication networks. MAAP has gathered a team of new media experts together to map out the broadcast - local IT firms ICE Media, Dialog Information technology, and tertiary institutions QUT and Griffith University. "Forums, conferences and meetings such as these will be a more common exercise in the future and what better way to test the technology but with a cultural event discussing the presence and place of individuals," Ms Machan said. The panels presenting and discussing new media content and issues consist of: Feng Mengbo, new media artist and Pi Li, video curator - Beijing,
China Art With Electricity: September 05, 2000Quirky, funny, serious, thought provoking and experimental are a collection of video works presented as part of the screening program at the MAAP2000 Festival. The films will be presented on Saturday 16 September at the Brisbane Powerhouse and comprise of a selection of short works by artists and professionals from the Asia Pacific region. The multimedia pieces have been created by artists, professional and student film makers, designers, animators, video artists and web designers. Spend the day watching short films while experiencing the culture of our neighbours - sit back for a few minutes or a full-day. Prizes will be given to those who can complete the 9:30am-6:40pm filmfest. Highlights include a documentary from Chinese artist, Feng Xiaoying called "Ma Gen Ma" which compares and contrasts the Beijing promotion of a bicycle-riding-software-genius with the launch of multinational software company Windows 98. Also not to be missed is the Finalists from the Malyasian Video Awards Festival and the premier event in the calender for artists, graphics designers and animators, COMGRAPH 2000. See new work from educational Institutions such as QUT, Griffith University and Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore. The MAAP Festival brings together artists and professionals who experiment and create cultural work with technology such as graphic design, video, film, interactive CD-ROM and web works. The Festival has a free public program presented in three streams: See, Seek and Speak. SEE all day cinema-screenings in the Powerhouse Theatre on Saturday 16. SEEK - online web works and Interactive CD ROMs at the Brisbane Powerhouse. SPEAK - one-day forum discussing Art and Technology with the theme focussing on Presence and Place. Panels and presenters from Brisbane will discuss their Presences and Place with panel's netcast from Beijing, Korea and Hong Kong. SEE MORE, SEEK MORE AND SPEAK MORE Students Launch New Arts Website: August 25, 2000New media arts organisation, M.A.A.P. Inc (MULTIMEDIA ART ASIA PACIFIC) has officially unleashed its new 2000 Festival website designed and created by a team of students in the Communication Design course at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). "The team have put in a great deal of dedication and commitment to the MAAP2000 Festival Site and I think the site speaks for itself showcasing the creativity they have put into it," Festival Director, Kim Machan said. "The students have spent an incredible amount of hours building the site with the suite of Macromedia software and have brought it all together in their own spare time," she said. The MAAP website broadcasts the Festival at www.maap.org.au or for the "web-less" the works can be seen at the Brisbane Powerhouse from 15-17 September 2000 where all events are free. The MAAP site is a portal for anyone interested in exhibiting, playing, viewing and experimenting with electronic art. It houses a variety of works created for a number of platforms, such as web based artworks, interactive CD ROM, video, installation pieces, photography, 3D animation, and film. "The students who created the MAAP99 Festival website took out the award for the Best Student Work at the AIMIA (Australian Interactive Multimedia Association Industry) Awards last year which I think is an indication of the talent coming out of QUT," Ms Machan said. Another MAAPer artist Lucy Francis was nominated for her site "Living in Aphasia" which was part of the MAAP99 Missile Web Launch - www.wethink.com.au/aphasia. Lucy was in a tough pool for Best Cultural/Arts site with ABC website "The Space", National Library of Australia, CD-Rom "Captain Cooks Endeavor", ABC web site "Head Space" and the award winner NIDA for their CD-Rom "Stage Struck". The annual AIMIA Awards showcase the creative talent of developers of interactive multimedia content for the Internet and CD ROMs in the games, entertainment, entertainment, and education and reference sectors. The AIMIA web site can be found at www.aimia.com.au. The 2000 AIMIA AWARDS close Friday 8 September with the Awards Ceremony and Dinner Thursday 2 November at the Melbourne Convention Centre. "As a non-profit organisation recognition in the industry by our peers is important to help attain our goal of showcasing and promoting electronic artforms from the region," Kim said. "We seek out partnerships with organisations that assist artistic and audience development of electronic artforms. "Partnerships with QUT, the Queensland Art Gallery's Asia Pacific Triennial, the National Office of Information Economy Online Australia Year and the 1998 Olympic Arts Festival are helping us to reach this goal," she said. See more, Seek more and Speak more @ MAAP. Online Arts Festival Previews New Media Work From Region: August 01, 2000Australian new media arts organisation, M.A.A.P. Inc (MULTIMEDIA ART ASIA PACIFIC) proudly presents online and live from 15-17 September its third Festival featuring innovative digital artworks from the Asia Pacific region. Starting out as a small community based event in 1998 MAAP has grown to be a premier digital arts festival with strong partnerships in Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore expanding the Festival even further. These alliances have paved the way for artists in the region working with new technology to have the space to exhibit new works, and critical exposure. The public program is presented in three streams: See, Seek and Speak. :: See exhibitions, performances, installations, interactive and online works; :: Seek out exhibitions and partnerships with satellite events in the local and international arena; :: Speak at an online forum with a host of experts in digital art. SEE: A free all day cinema screening program in the Powerhouse Theatre on Saturday 16. Spend the day watching innovative and new experimental movies comprising of video, animation and CD ROMS - a collection of the best screen-based artwork from the region. :: New Chinese Video - a program by Beijing curator, Pi Li of emerging new video from China. :: Videotage Selection - curated by director Fion Ng a selection of new works from Hong Kong · D'art from dLux - international screen culture produced annually to showcase new media work :: Malaysian Video Awards Festival - a selection of the winners and grinners from the 2000 Awards. :: Singapore Chapter of Siggraph - SIGGRAPH (the name is drawn from Special Interest Group for Graphics) features screen-based work from artists, and animators in Singapore. :: Digital Degrees Student program graduating student work from Australian Universities and other institutions in the region. SEEK: Accessible online and live from the Brisbane Powerhouse during the Festival are large screen projections featuring interactive works and new web art from the Missile Website Launch propelling a new work daily onto our screens. :: Opening night event 15 September the launch of New Singapore Digital Art Portal "artsVOX" and the World Premiere of Chinese artist GongXin Wang new video work. :: The MAAP web site hosts a number of links, tools, reference material, critical writings and more. See, Seek and Speak at www.maap.org.au SPEAK: New media practitioners and students interested in discussing online culture and new media work should not miss the forum on Sunday 17 September netcast live @ www.maap.org.au. The forum features international artists, curators and commentators from arts centres in Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo, Bandung, Bangkok, and Seoul - all beaming in live from the various time zones to the Brisbane Powerhouse. More events are being added to the program as we go to press, to find out more about the Festival and work in the region go to www.maap.org.au or email info@maap.org.au. Festival WebSite Wins National Award: November 19, 1999The MAAP99 Festival site won the Best Student Work at the AIMIA (Australian Interactive Multimedia Association Industry) Awards held on the Gold Coast recently. Students from Queensland University of Technology's Academy of the Arts Communication Design constructed the MAAP99 Festival site and according to Festival Director, Kim Machan, the team was naturally a great contender for the award. "The team put in a great deal of dedication and commitment to the MAAP99 Festival Site," she said. "They have been rewarded for their hard work and I think the site speaks for itself by showcasing the creativity they all put into it." Another cause for celebration in the MAAP camp was the nomination of MAAP99 Missile Web Launch artist Lucy Francis and her site "Living in Aphasia" www.wethink.com.au/aphasia. Lucy was in a tough pool for Best Cultural/Arts site with ABC website "The Space", National Library of Australia, CD-Rom "Captain Cooks Endeavour", and ABC web site "Head Space". Winning the award was NIDA for their CD-Rom "Stage Struck". The QUT students were Coordinated by Ken Lyons (tittle) with interface, graphic, information design and implementation and the Flash animations by Izabella Chabrowska, Tiffany Patterson, and Rachael Pickup. The Technical Design, video streaming, Chat Room, and the Opening Flash Animations were created by Dave-Ming Howe Kuan, Simon - Khian Lam Quah, and Eva - Yen Ling Sim. "This award is a great recognition of the talent in the Queensland multimedia industry and the graduates coming out of QUT will surely be snapped up by employers in no time," Kim said. "MAAP was great experience for the students. They got to run around our events and netcast onto the web - delivering the Festival experience in cyber space around the world. The annual AIMIA Awards showcase the creative talent of developers of interactive multimedia content for the Internet and CD ROMs in the games, entertainment, entertainment, and education and reference sectors. Twenty-one awards are handed out in five major categories, celebrating creative design, development and production excellence across all fields of digital multimedia and on-screen production in its many forms from interactive CD ROM to online presentations. Congratulations to these amazing and talented people. Stay tuned for the more hot developments in the MAAP camp - big
moves abound.
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