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Press Release

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MAAP2000   WWWEB JAM! - A Forum/Discussion
Crossing Cultures: Presence and Place
MAAP in the New Millenium
Net.cast Forum " live"
 from the Brisbane Powerhouse and Online @
http://www.maap.org.au

On-line participation requested!


MAAP2000 Net.cast
Sunday 17th 11:00 --5.30pm  EST
Facilitator: new media theorist, Geert  Lovink
Forum Coordinator: Artist/Curator of  Screen Culture, Molly Hankwitz
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Artists and curators from the region are invited to  join the Web Jam 2000
"Crossing Cultures: Presence and Place"  forum and discussion.

"Crossing Cultures--Presence and Place: MAAP in the New Millenium"

New  technologies have made a significant dent on most cultures. Web
presence  and  the Internet offer media artists, visual artists,   curators
and theorists the unique opportunity  to show work  on-line  and to work
inter-culturally in new "virtual geographies"  between regions.  Cyberspace
is no longer new. It has history. It has  become a household word and is
more or less understood as  "developing"  and as modern and flourishing.
Telecommunications  is the  frontier  of change in the New Millenium.
Curiously enough, along with new  abilities  to keep in touch and to
"culture jam" ,  such as   wireless modems and streaming media-- contexts in
which more artists from more  cultures will traffick in  ideas  more
immediately-- the  intellectual baggage of  "cultural specificity " of the
work of art and  its place of origin within a global economic system  are
even more  apparent! The artist has to be present, in a sense where the art
is being  made, or the art has to be FROM a specific place.

"Presence and Place"  is a step past the MAAP99 Forum Collapsing Geographies
where issues of new media space dissolving traditional geographical and
hierarchical space were examined. This year we will  discuss artistic
practice that
connects to alternate community and individual  places in the virtual space
of the
World Wide Web.The nowcommon idea of new  media is one that destroys
boundaries and melts
countries - a globalisation.  However the reality is that art and ideas
are made "somewhere" and that the  local and specific environment are
still at the core of how artists perceive and  express their ideas.    The
idea of "presence" is related to context - What  is the identity/persona
of the creator? Who is the work talking to? How is it  perceived? Is the
personalised ownership of artistic authorship once again  needed to
humanise new technologies?    The idea of "place" is related to context -
Where  is the work seen? Who owns the place and identity of power? What is
the sense of  place in a global and local reading? How do we name the new
places emerging?     Panels in Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing, Soul and  Tokyo
will be netcast live presenting and discussing new media content  and
issues.

Join the On line Chat - ask questions and respond to presentations "live".

Participants include:

  * Feng Mengbo, artist,  Gongxin Wang, Pi Li - Beijing    * Young-hae
Chang ñ/Art Songe--
Seoul    * Fion Ng , Director Videotage - Hong Kong    * Tetsuo Kogawa
(net homeless)-Japan*  Simon Quah -Singapore*
Kim Machan, Beth Jackson, Paul Bai -Brisbane  *

MAAP 2000 Web Jam! ' Crossing Cultures: Presence and Place'  invites panels
 from around the region to relate current  opinions and ideas, examples and
case studies in
a lively exchange!     SEE MORE, SEEK MORE AND SPEAK MORE @
info@maap.org.au and www.maap.org.au   GPO Box 2505,BRISBANE Q 4001
AUSTRALIA   Tel: (07) 3348 7403  Fax: (07) 3348  4109
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SCHEDULE - MAAP2000 - WWWEB JAM! -
Crossing Cultures: Presence and  Place--A Forum/Discussion
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11.00 -12:00 "Hello World!" - an introduction to participants
This part  of the Forum will introduce participants and give general
background as to where  they are and what they are doing.
An informal approach to build an overview of  activity in the
Asia Pacific regions.

12.00 - 13:00 "Streaming Media" A selection of projects
presented by Geert Lovink and Molly Hankwitz

13:00 -14.00 Lunch break

14.00- 14.15 "Focus Profile"
 Interview highlights with new media specialist  Geert Lovink

14:15 - 16:30 "Presence and Place" Presentations and case studies
presented  by forum participants projects, responses, dialogue form
international  participants and the panel of presenters in Brisbane.

16:30 - 17.30 "Free For All" - open discussion - questions --comments
>from  the Bulletin Board Online interactions with audiences online

17.30-17.50 "Summary" Beth Jackson, Director of Griffith Artworks
and Australia Council board member.
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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 - Choice
Connections,
Apple Computers Government  Sponsors: Arts Queensland, Brisbane City Council,
Brisbane Powerhouse Centre  for the Live Arts, Cinemedia

Supported by: Asia Pacific Magazine,  Firmware, FDnet services, IdN Magazine,
 MalaysianVideo Awards Festival, QUT-  Communication Design, QANTM, QPIX,
ANAT, Videotage - Hong Kong, Institute  of Modern Art, Metro Arts.

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Kim  Machan
Director
Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Inc
ABN 28 453 510  851
phone 61 - 7 - 33487 403
fax      61 - 7 -  33484 109
mobile 0411 591 058

Karen Montagu
Publicist
Tel: 0411 479  006
Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Inc
ABN 28 453 510 851

Molly Hankwitz
MAAP Forum Coordinator
mollybh@netspace.net.au
61 -7 -  3846 5457
61 - 7- 0438 050759

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www.maap.org.au   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 - Choice Connections, Apple
Computers
Government
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Sponsors: Arts Queensland, Brisbane City Council
Brisbane Powerhouse Centre  for the Live Arts
 Cinemedia
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Supported by:
QUT-Communication Design
 Asia  Pacific Magazine
 IdN Magazine, Malaysian Video Awards Festival,
 QANTM, QPIX,  ANAT, Videotage - Hong Kong,
 Institute of Modern Art, Metro  Arts.


Molly Hankwitz
Archimedia/Leonardo
Queensland University of Technology
Lecturer/Studio Instructor
School of Visual Arts and School of Architecture
0438 050759 (mobile)
3864 3250 (office at QUT, Tuesdays only)
3846 5457 (office at home)
mailing:
2/60 Brighton Road
Highgate Hill 4101 QLD
Australia




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