MAAP99 Festival arrives with more artists, more media, more partners and more projects!

MAAP presents a rich range of creative cultural content through diverse applications of art and technology in Brisbane and Online – MAP’s web site will strive to deliver an enlivened Online Festival experience all through September, launching fresh content dally with reporting, critiques, netcast and streaming of several events.

MAAP’s key project for this year, Net. work’s/Online Artists Residency, reflects a strong online regional focus for our organisation. The four artists selected for this project come from Bejing, Seoul, Perth and Melbourne and will commence work, meet here in Brisbane and continue for some months to develop this space.

MAAP has entered new partnerships this year, as a peak event for Online Australia, partner to the Third Contemporary Art Asia Pacific Triennial, Screen Culture and Virtual Triennial and joining The Asia Pacific Information Technology Magazine as the official festival publication.

The festival holds a myriad of partnerships and networks crossing through a broad spectrum of the community.
These vibrant links to industry, education and government create a hybrid engine to propel fresh vision and dialogue.

This festival is the culmination of a huge force of people. My sincere thanks to the many energetic individuals, government, institutional and corporate bodies that have excelled to meet here in MAAP99 and to all those participating to generate and enjoy this festival.

I acknowledge the MAAP Inc. Committee members for their guidance and support: Beth Jackson, Karen Montagu, Jeffery Sams, Priscilla Jeffery, Brendan Harkin, Brett Leavy, Paul O Kane, Paul Brown and Di Ball, along with our past members Stuart Glover and Jane Doyle for their commitment.

Thanks also to the MAAP Advisory Committee Shiralee Saul, Rick Mason, Rhana Devenport, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Alessio Cavallaro, Sam de Silva and Linda Wallace for their expertise and advice to MAAP.

Also a special thanks to the dedicated volunteers who have helped make MAP possible, especially our core team: Sharon Berry (Volunteer Coordinator) and Lina Effifi, Sam Allcock, Melissa Fox and the staff at Communication Design Dept at QUI, Nisar Keshvani and the festival web site team; Kenneth Lyons, Izabella Chabrowska, Tiffany Patterson, Rachael Pickup, Simon Quah, Eva Sim, Dave Kuan. And lastly a very special acknowledgment to Karen Montagu, under the guise of Publicist, who has been my right hand collaborater in the lead up to the MAAP99 Festival.