MAAP Media Bank

The MAAP Media Bank re-purposes audio-visual equipment from its exhibition program, to help artists with creative projects.

The Media Bank grew organically from MAAP’s existing resources that accumulated from exhibitions. The program promotes the sharing and loan of MAAP’s used equipment as a strategy to support the visual art and new media art community, and encourage sustainable attitudes towards the consumption of technology.

The MAAP Media Bank is available for local, national and international projects pending the meeting of the following criteria:

• Compatibility with MAAP’s curatorial strategies (artistic merit of the project must be demonstrated)
• Availability of requested equipment during proposed project times
• Demonstrated safety and security of MAAP equipment during transportation and exhibition
• Non-profit and artist-driven projects are a priority
• Not available for student projects

Successful project applications gain access to equipment free of charge, recognizing the considerable and often prohibitive costs associated with the production and exhibition of media art. Projects outside of the criteria may be available with the provision of a stipulate maintenance fee.

The Media Bank includes TV monitors, DVD players, speakers, amplifiers, digital video and still cameras, headphones, data projectors, and computer and electrical cabling.

The MAAP Media Bank has been established through the generous support of Arts Queensland, and considerable donations of equipment from individuals, companies and organisations. The MAAP Media Bank brings very clear short and long-term benefits to visual and media artists and to local artistic experimentation, resulting from increased access to a more extensive range of reliable media technology.

Launched in 2007, the MAAP Media Bank sees MAAP join its traditional role as an exhibition and project organizer with the capacity to support artists, small organizations, and technologically under-resourced exhibition projects throughout the year.

Documentation of projects supported by the MAAP Media Bank can be viewed on the MAAP Media Bank website

Visit www.maapmediabank.org

**To book equipment, you will need to fill out our online loan request**

If you have not borrowed equipment from the MAAP Media Bank previously, wish to discuss a complex equipment loan, or would like to donate to the MAAP Media Bank, please contact us.

All equipment loans through the MAAP Media Bank must be acknowledged by way of logo recognition on promotional material. Logos can be downloaded here:

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