The third MAAP festival, held in September 2000, extended past festivals’ experimentation with online exchange, content and presentation.
The theme of ‘Presence and Place’ rejected the previous festival’s ideologies of geographical dissolution. Instead, the festival bolstered the role of site and local context in interpreting new media art.
The ‘Presence and Place’ forum was an amalgam of web-linked discussions, facilitated by new media theorist Geert Lovink, and panels scattered throughout the Asia Pacific region with participation from academics, curators and artists.
