MAAP WEBSITE - EXCITING UPDATES

14th June 2008

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MAAP is currently working with Melbourne-based design studio Portable Content, on a new web identity and user-friendly website incorporating a great CMS designed by emerging Australian developers, Blueprint.

The site will enable our MAAP community of artists, researchers, and audiences a more direct engagement with MAAP projects, resources, and services to artists, including the MAAP Media Bank. Keep your eye out for the launch!

MAAP IN BEIJING OLYMPICS CULTURAL PROJECT

16th May 2008

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Brisbane based MAAP-Multimedia Art Asia Pacific is heading to China this month to collaborate with a consortium of 17 media art specialist organizations including ZKM Centre for Media Art Karlsruhe; FACT Liverpool; V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam; Eyebeam New York, MoMA , New York and Tate London .

"SYNTHETIC TIMES: Media Art China 2008' is a Beijing Olympics Cultural Project.

MAAP is supporting the participation of artists from Australia and the SE Asian region. Artists include Stelarc with his interactive intelligent 'Prosthetic Head' and his extrovert 'Walking Head' robot. Brisbane artists Keith Armstrong, Guy Webster and Lisa O'Neill from Transmute Collective will present their work 'Intimate Transactions' in what MAAP director Kim Machan collectively describes as "a survey of some of the most significant media art installations created in this decade". Kim Kichul from South Korea presents the latest configuration of his 'Sound Drawing' series of interactive audio drawings. Paul Lincoln from Singapore has further developed an augmented reality air conditioned installation titled 'Citizen's Comfort'. Over 40 major works will be on display at the National Art Museum of China opening 9 June until 3 July 2008.

MAAP's participation in this project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; Arts Queensland, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Artists participation was also assisted by the Singapore National Arts Council and the Korea Cultural Foundation

Full exhibition details at www.mediartchina.org

'VIDEO GROUND' TOURING PROGRAM

22nd February 2008

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MAAP presents Video Ground: Recent moving image work from Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Curated by Rachel O'Reilly.

Practicing on uncertain ground and negotiating diffracted and bi-cultural regimes of representation, media artists from Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand work outside of stable cinematic genres to rethink historical and narrative accounts of place. Stella Brennan reflects on the role of wartime visualization technologies in abstracting South Pacific oceanic space. Government, corporate and migrant takes on suburban belonging are played out ironically through documentary tropes in Peter Alwast’s At the Rotunda. Merilyn Fairskye uses non-synchronous audio and stylized visuals to conjure under-documented operations at the joint US military facilities known as Pine Gap, in Central Australia. Australian indigenous artist Vernon Ah Kee, video artist John Gillies, and Maori new media artist Rachel Rakena engage performance in different ways to explore the legacies of cartography, colonial allegory, and the contemporary Pacific Island diaspora.

Video Ground screens first at the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival March 25-30, and the Chicago Film Studies Center, April 11. Later touring venues will be announced.