MAAP – Mentor Program

MAAP – Multimedia Art Asia Pacific is calling for applications from young and emerging media art curators and practitioners working with a focus on projects that intersect or consider connections with the Asia Pacific regions to undertake a three-month mentorship.

The mentorship enables an emerging artist or curator to explore new creative directions, to expand technical skills and increase knowledge of networks, debates and business practice. Applicants are invited to select a mentor and develop a program of activity spanning a three-month period. The mentor may be accessed locally, nationally or internationally. If required MAAP can provide contact details of suitable mentors who are willing to participate in the program.

Applicants must be Australian media art practitioners or curators who are 30 years or under. The mentorship will provide a fee for the mentee ($7,200 excl GST) and a fee for the mentor ($1,800 excl GST). The mentorship program should be completed by February 2008.

Other Australian Media Arts organsiations ANAT, d.lux and Experimenta are also offering mentorships: + ANAT will encompass distributed, portable, online, wearable, gaming, mobile and emerging platforms, contact Gavin Artz manager@anat.org.au + d.lux will hold their mentorship inside Second Life or a similar online virtual community, contact malcolm@dlux.org.au for more information + Experimenta’s focus is on Site Related and/or Public Work, contact kentia@expeirmenta.org for more information.

MAAP APPLICATIONS CLOSE Friday 17 AUGUST 2007 For further information, guidelines and an applications form please contact:

Kim Machan, director kim@maap.org.au MAAP-Multimedia Art Asia Pacific