The 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival

17th November 2008

COMING SOON: MAAP presents the 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (BEFF 5). 10th - 13th December

Over 150 works from Thai and international artists and filmmakers will be served simultaneously in a massive playlist of alternative screen culture. MAAP invites you to the Judith Wright Centre's temporary experimental film library, in a media-art-surround-video-post-capitalist shop, where everything is free!

BEFF 5 exposes a rich independent film culture that seeks to give voice to the political and cultural realities of contemporary Thai life. Film, animations and video mash-ups from Thailand and around the world collide together in a radical cross-cultural dialogue. The event brings together artist's films, video art, animation and experimental documentaries for local audiences to sample and engage with.

This year's festival, "The More Things Change...", curated by David Teh, interrogates cycles of contemporary life in Thailand, and considers issues of politics, place and spirituality in a digital age.

The festival will be open daily from 12 pm - 6pm. Please join us for drinks on Friday 12th December and Saturday 13th 6pm - 8pm, and catch curator David Teh's talk on Saturday 13th from 4pm onwards.

The Sky is the Limit - video installation projection by Paul Bai

28th August 2008

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Brisbane based artist Paul Bai will produce a site specific three channel video projection for the Shop front windows of the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts.

On this occasion, Bai explores the notion of "space" in the format of video projection. The artist utilises parts of the glass windows as the projection screen, leaving other parts to remain clear and untouched, so the viewer could also see through the window space while the projection is playing.

Each of the window screens "presents two visually different spaces at the same time".

The work is visible from 6pm nightly.

1st to 9 September 2008
Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
Shop Front installation
420 Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley, Brisbane

Please come and join us for drinks 6pm - 8pm Friday 5 September.

This project is supported by MAAP Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts.

MAAP WEBSITE - EXCITING UPDATES

14th June 2008

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MAAP is currently working with Melbourne-based design studio Portable Content, on a new web identity and user-friendly website incorporating a great CMS designed by emerging Australian developers, Blueprint.

The site will enable our MAAP community of artists, researchers, and audiences a more direct engagement with MAAP projects, resources, and services to artists, including the MAAP Media Bank. Keep your eye out for the launch!