<nettime-ann> MAAP - OUT OF THE INTERNET media art festival

[Kim Machan <kim@maap.org.au>]

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MAAP-Multimedia Art Asia Pacific
OUT OF THE INTERNET
www.maap.org.au/2006

features: *CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS (Fukuoka), Feng Mengbo (Beijing),  
LIM + PHUA (Singapore), Iain Mott (Melbourne) , YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY  
INDUSTRIES (Seoul)

opening: 6:00pm Thursday 30 November
exhibition: 1 December – 25 January 2007
State Library Queensland, Stanley Place, South Bank

OUT OF THE INTERNET as the theme for this years festival considers  
artists that are working in or connected through internet art  
practice. The festival explores locations and contexts that host the  
artists’ work to concretely realize the medium in a tiered series of  
situations. Without a whimsical word to say about cyberspace (the  
space in-between the physical location of a computer server and  
retrieval monitor) the task was set to realize presence in a range of  
locations from elite museums, galleries, library networks and into a  
cascade of urban spaces.
The central exhibition is mounted in the newly rebuilt State Library  
of Queensland in Brisbane while the Institute of Modern Art host  
Singapore artists LIM + PHUA. In Shanghai, The Zendai Museum of  
Modern Art hosts Iain Mott.
In New York the Museum of Modern Art host a presentation in their  
MediaScope series by *CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS in conjunction with 'out  
of the internet'. And 'out of the internet' coincides YOUNG-HAE CHANG  
HEAVY INDUSTRIES online commission by Tate, London.

OUT OF THE INTERNET as a global exhibition takes a further step into  
the exploration of how we might consider and engage with artworks  
that ‘breath the air’ of the information age. It draws back to a  
dialogue with Seth Siegelaub’s ground breaking exhibition ‘July,  
August, September 1969’ where he arranged 11 artists to show in 11  
different locations around the world and included artists such as  
Lawrence Wiener, Jan Dibbets, Joseph Kosuth and Sol LeWitt. A seminal  
figure of the conceptual art movement, Siegelaub was absorbed with  
the speed of communication and the transference of ideas rather than  
objects. In transcripts from an original interview by Patricia  
Norvell, Siegelaub describes the redundant nature of the museum space  
and challenges the New York centric nature of the art world. In some  
respects, the exhibition is putting to test working in reverse from  
Siegelaub’s position. The artists are circulating in the world  
through the internet already and it is not a simple mono cultural  
field in which these artists operate. The artists’ activities are  
apprehended through a span of online audiences, literature sites,  
university teaching programs, online gaming sites, information porn  
sites, nightclub entertainment, community workshops and galleries.  
The artwork is in fact apprehended by audiences in multiple fields  
simultaneously and puts challenge to Pierre Bourdieu’s pure sense of  
a singular view to the way art is perceived in its cultural field.  
The exhibition shepherds the work back into taking a material or  
contextual form in the museum to achieve an authority integrating  
different fields in which the artists operate and joining an official  
art history canon. Making a representation of all the works in the  
State Library of Queensland adds another dimension or escape route  
out of the closed museum context. ‘out of the internet’ then grafts  
onto the established library networks via links on library home pages  
all over the world, filtered through museum authority.

OUT OF THE INTERNET International Symposium:
Time: 1pm – 6pm Date: Sunday 3 December Place: slq Auditorium 2,  
State Library of Queensland
This symposium examines the position of online artwork and the  
implications of the internet in fine art culture and community cross  
overs in Australia, Asia and internationally.
A free event, essential to register: info@maap.org.au

MOVE ON ASIA - DVD Programme: The curators of twelve art spaces from  
six countries in Asia, presents 22 emerging artists.

OUT OF THE INTERNET (and into the world): Community workshops  
developed by Fatima Lasay focusing on open source software for  
artists working in the Philippines.

Artists’ Talk OUT OF THE INTERNET
Date: Friday 1 December Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Place: slq 2 auditorium State Library Queensland: A chance to hear  
international and national internet artists speak about their practice

Manhua Wonderlands Date: 1 December – 25 January 2007
A major media arts exhibition and education initiative involving  
established and emerging artist working directly with Asian  
communities and site-specific venues which include karaoke clubs and  
purikura sticker booths. Manhua Wonderlands has developed an  
extensive network of public presentations, screening and links over  
330 libraries, schools, museums, and urban sites in a common viewing  
experience. Manhua Wonderlands hosts major presentations by  artists;  
Jemima Wyman, Van Sowerwine, Alice Lang, Luke Ilett, Jean Poole:  
curated by Thea Baumann

FULL FESTIVAL DETAILS ONLINE AT:   www.maap.org.au/2006

Further information
info@maap.org.au

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