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MAAP 01 EXCESS Festival on Friday 12 October, 2001 6.30pm (EST) at the Brisbane Powerhouse , Australia. If you can't make it to Brisbane, join us online as we netcast the night from 6.30pm Eastern Standard Time.
The exhibition program focuses on new media work from Australia and the Asia Pacific regions. Please visit our site for detailed programming. www.maap.org.au

Opening night will provide a mix of launches, performances and previews of key projects in the festival.  Toy Satellite, 2Loops and Eyedrink Collective perform "undercurrents" that was part of the opening of the Taipai International Arts Festival incorporating electronic sound and vision mixing. Taiwanese collaborators Jimi Chen and DJ Ty will inject their own personal melodic harmonies of Goa and Psy-Trance with change-inspired visuals later in the running of events as part MAAP opening.

MAAP in partnership with the Insitute of Modern Art present Gong Xin Wang, and his DV installation "My Sun" (2001), which will open at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley from Friday 12 October - 10am. The exhibition is also showing at Artspace Sydney untill 28 October.

"AO:Audio Only" Sound Gallery - where audio art will be played in a dedicated darkened room with masks provided to experience total visual deprivation and surround sound. A selection of Australia/Asia works curated y Andrew Kettle and work from other audio festvials - d'art audio program; SOUND SPACES curated by Hannah Clemen; Chinese program SOUND2 curated by Li Zhenhua and Qui Zhijie.

Free screenings will feature 9am-6pm Saturday and 11.00 - 5.30pm Sunday -
from China, Hong Kong, Korea, Phillipines, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia.

The Missile Web Launch is well under way releasing a new site daily in the run up to the festival.

MAAP01 will hold its annual forum, online webcasting panels connecting to Art Center Nabi,Seoul; The Loft New Media Space, Beijing;The Digital Media Festival, Manilla Experimenta Media Arts Melbourne . Log on 2:00pm - 5pm EST Sunday 14 October  to see the netcast www.maap.org.au to share ideas and work between artists and new media watchers. MAAP is attempting to netcast thoughout the festival, so log in for a chance to enter the ambience here in Brisbane.

Macromedia Monday 15th October - “Advanced Techniques” hosted by Macromedia in the Powerhouse’s Courier Mail Rooftop Terrace from 10am-4pm. This open to artists by registration only info@maap.org.au

 

THE COMPETITION
If you are collecting MAAP MAIL codes to check the 'COMPETITION' section of the Festival website www.maap.org.au to collect this weeks final codes! It is buried in the maap site - once you find the codes - you can email back for your chance to win Dreamweaver4 and Flash5. Macromedia has sponsored this hunt.
 
MAAP is a not for profit organisation that promotes excellence in art and technology in Australia/Asia Pacific regions.

Major Sponsors: Platinum - Macromedia, Gold - CITEC, Silver - Infinite Systems
Government Sponsors: Brisbane City Council, Australia Council, Arts Queensland, Brisbane Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts, Australian Film Commission, Cinemedia,
supported by: QUT-Communication Design, The Institute of Modern Art - Brisbane;Artspace - Sydney, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, IdN Magazine, Malaysian Video Awards Festival - Kualar Lumper, Artworkers Alliance - Brisbane, Videotage - Hong Kong, Art Center Nabi - Seoul, The Loft New Media Art Space - Beijing, Digital Media Festival - Manilla, Experimenta - Melbourne, dLux - Sydney , Inst. of Modern Art - Brisbane, Art Space - Sydney, Metro Arts - Brisbane, Griffith University,- Brisbane, fineArtforum - ezine.
 
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