"New Media Art, Technology and
Education"
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MAAP 2004 Conference
27-28 October 2004
Nanyang Executive Centre, NTU, Singapore
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Welcome Address
[here]
Keynote Speakers:
New Media Arts Education and its Discontent
Prof Trebor Scholz, Artist and teacher in the Department of Media Study, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
[abstract]
Computer Graphics Technologies for Art, Cultural Heritage
and Edutainment
Prof José L. Encarnação, Director of the INI-GraphicsNet Foundation, Darmstadt, Germany
[abstract]
Publications:
MAAP has an in-principle agreement to publish a selection of papers in
an Leonardo Electronic Almanac (MIT Press ISSN #1071-4391) Special; New
Media Art, Technology and Education. The papers will be
selected after the conference presentations.
MAAP (Multimedia Art Asia Pacific)
is an organisation and festival that explores
New Media Art across a range of art forms and practices emphasising interactive
multimedia, Internet, digital media, animation and projects integrating new media.
MAAP was established to bring focus to the "unmapped" cultural new media content
emerging from Australia and the Asia Pacific regions and is now an Asia Pacific
touring new media arts festival and web site resource, partnering with key
organisations in our region. MAAP's inaugural festival in 1998 was based in
Brisbane and Online and continued till 2001 when it progressed its commitment
to regional partnerships. MAAP stepped offshore to Beijing in 2002 and after the
resounding success of 'MAAP in Beijing' we are planning our next major program
in Singapore.
October 2004
will see 'MAAP in Singapore', partner with the Singapore National
Arts Council and the Singapore Art Museum to produce a core New Media exhibition
surrounded by a network of exhibitions and events. GRAVITY as the central festival
theme will be linking the weightless code of digital media to the conceptual weight
of ideas in a concentrated examination of New Media Art. This international exhibition
will explore underlying themes of GRAVITY – the gravity of real and virtual space,
social gravity, and the gravity of ideas referenced and linked to the Conceptual
Art movement.
MAAP in Singapore
has a range of Partner Programs sourcing content from MAAP's
regional networks with additional exhibitions and screenings managed by cooperative
local venues and collaborators. The Substation, The Earl Lu Gallery along with other
galleries will combine to bring their GRAVITY program to the mix.
Other events
include a live broadband event linking Singapore, Brisbane and
Beijing, in an event that will see digital art works beaming and performance exchanges
melting into a VJ/DJ event between the cities. Also programmed in Singapore at the
Nanyang Technological University, a refereed conference focusing on New Media Art
Education while further symposium and artists talks held at The Singapore Art Museum
and The Substation examines the GRAVITY of other new media issues.
As MAAP oscillates between the gravitational pull of online and physical spaces,
MAAP is planning an online residency that will physically locate four artists in
Singapore for the festival and then continue support and training over a
twelve-month period - net/works.- will be calling for expressions of interest
in December.
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