About MAAP

MAAP - Multimedia Art Asia Pacific is a Brisbane based not-for-profit organisation that develops critical exhibition and research initiatives to engage the region's major and emerging practitioners and producers.

MAAP is a platform for contemporary art development, presentation and critique. MAAP operates internationally as a team of agents, researchers, artists and curators.

Since 1998, we have produced 7 international media art festivals across Brisbane, Beijing and Singapore.

In addition, MAAP supports a community of visual artists with Media Bank equipment loans, online resources including artist and curatorial networks.

All the artists, curators and organisations entered into our database are there because we have had some direct connection with them. The database reflects the history of people and places that, in the end, define MAAP.

MAAP is dedicated to linking practitioners, curators and organizations to resources, opportunities, and international audiences through:

• Festivals
• Touring Exhibitions
• Projects & Research
• Residencies & Mentorship Programs
• Media Bank Equipment Loans
• Online Resources - including Artist and Curatorial Networks

MAAP has been operating since 1998. In this time, we have produced 7 international multimedia festivals across Brisbane, Beijing and Singapore. We have established an international reputation as a critical multimedia platform for both emerging and mid-career practitioners.

MAAP Multimedia Art Asia Pacific explores media art through critical exhibition and research initiatives that engage the region's major and emerging practitioners and producers. Aiming to bring focus to “unmapped” media art activity from Australia, Asia and the Pacific, MAAP has developed into an internationally recognized Asia Pacific touring new media art festival, independent curatorial and production hub, and artists' resource.

MAAP has produced major festivals encompassing 14 countries, including exhibitions in Brisbane, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore.

It is still the only art organisation with an Asia Pacific focus specially dedicated to Internet, interactive, digital and screen-based art practices integrating new media technology.

MAAP projects have commissioned new work by many of the region’s most important contemporary media artists, including: Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Zhang Peili, Yang Zhenzhong, Feng Mengbo, Charles Lim (tsunami.net) and *CANDYFACTORY PROJECTS.