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>From mollybh@netspace.net.au Fri Sep 15 03:23:35 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000
Subject: MAAP WWWeb Jam 2000 - Forum
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. Dear Friends of Multimedia Art Asia-Pacific,
Join us on-line September 17th from your location!
MAAP/ MULTIMEDIA ART ASIA-PACIFIC
MAAP2000 WWWEB JAM! - A Forum/Discussion
"Crossing Cultures: Presence and Place"
MAAP in the New Millenium
Multimedia Art Asia Pacific
Net.cast Forum " live" from
the Brisbane Powerhouse and Online @
http://www.maap.org.au
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MAAP2000 Net.cast Sunday 17th 11:00 --5.30pm EST
Facilitator: New Media theorist, Geert Lovink
w/ Molly Hankwitz, curator of Screen Culture, co-coordinator
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Artists and curators from the region are invited to join our discussion
at the Web Jam 2000.
Crossing Cultures--
Presence and Place: MAAP in the New Millenium
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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 "virtual geographies"
between regions. Yet, cyberspace and culture 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 a 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 theWorld Wide Web.The now common 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, Seoul and Tokyo will be netcast
"live" presenting and discussing new media content and issues.
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Join the On line Chat - ask questions and respond to
presentations "live" on the net.
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...... .............. Participants include:
* Feng Mengbo, new media artist and Pi Li, video curator - Beijing,
China *
* Kim Sun-Jung, curator and Young-hae Chang, artist/Art Songe--Seoul,
Korea *
* Fion Ng , director, Videotage - Hong Kong, China
with Hung Keung *
*Tetsuo Kogawa , net homeless project, artist- Tokyo, Japan*
*Shilpa Gupta, new media artist - Mumbai, India*
* W Christiawan, artist - Bandung, Indonesia*
*Kathy Cleland, writer/curator of ' Cyber Cultures', Sydney, Australia*
* arTok I pacific arts an ABC-Arts Online Radio initiative
w/ Mirielle Vignol, Arts & Culture On-line,
Andrew Garton, artist, toy satellite,and Lorindo Garcia, ABC
- Melbourne, Australia*
*Simon Quah, artist -Singapore*
*Kathy Cleland, curator - Sydney*
*Kim Machan, festival director, MAAP, Brisbane, Australia *
*Beth Jackson, Australia Council/director, Griffith Artworks, Brisbane,
Australia *
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...... ....... *MAAP 2000 Web Jam*
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...... ....... 'Crossing Cultures: Presence and Place'
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invites panels from around the region
to relate current opinions and ideas,
examples and case studies in
a lively on-line exchange!
-- Molly Hankwitz, Forum 2000
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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/theorist-- Geert Lovink
14:15 - 16:30 "Presence and Place" Presentations
and case studies presented by forum participants projects,
responses, dialogue from international participants and a
panel of presenters in Brisbane.
16:30 - 17.30 "Free For All" - open discussion - questions --
comments from the Bulletin Board Online at the MAAP website
17.30-17.50 "Summary" Beth Jackson, Director of Griffith
Artworks and Australia Council board member.
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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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...... ............. 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
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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 ....................... 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.
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BIOS:
Geert Lovink was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1959. After
graduating from political science at Amsterdam University he worked as an
independent media theorist and radio-maker. He is an organizer of
conferences, online forums, publications and projects such as community
Internet providers, mailinglists and media laboratories. Over the last
fifteen years he has lived and worked in Berlin, Budapest and throughout
Central and Eastern Europe, teaching media theory and supporting
independent media and new media culture. He is a former editor of the new
media arts magazine Mediamatic (1989-1994) and is a member of Adilkno,
the
Foundation of Illegal Knowledge from which two books have appeared in
English translation: Cracking the Movement (1994) and The Media Archive
(1998). In 1995, together with Pit Schultz, he founded the international
mailinglist Nettime, from which material was brought together in the
"README!" anthology (1999). He is now based in Canberra.
Molly Hankwitz is a curator, activist, architect and media artis born in
the United States in 1959. She graduated from the Whitney Museum of
American Art Independent Study Program in 1989 andhas lived in San
Francisco for the past nine years teaching and organizing exhibitions
through Artists Television Access a film and video collective. Her
writings on art, media, theory, and architecture have appeared in
ArtForum, net.time, Leonardo Digital Reviews, YLEM News letter,
Forum,ARTPAPERS,toysatellite and other web and art press publications.
She
is a contributing editor to Leonardo Digital Reviews and former editor of
'avantmedia'--webzine. She is on the Advisory Board of YLEM and teaches at
Queensland University of Technology in Visual Arts and Architecture. She
is based in Brisbane.
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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