About MAAP

Our purpose.

MAAP was founded in 2016 to advance, strengthen and promote the media arts community in the Sovereign Indigenous Nations’ Traditional Territories, British Columbia, The Yukon, the Pacific region and Canada. MAAP serves media artists and media arts organizations through advocacy, development opportunities and connecting media artists and media arts organizations across the region.

Our vision.

Media arts in British Columbia and The Yukon are advanced through strengthened connections, increased public awareness, and improved capacity. MAAP builds a diverse, equitable, and sustainable media arts community in British Columbia and The Yukon and contributes to a vibrant national and international arts sector.

Our values.

  • Media arts are foundational to British Columbia and The Yukon’s identity, culture, and society.

  • Equitable representation of our communities is essential to a healthy arts sector and society.

  • Pacific stories and perspectives are valuable to the public regionally, nationally, and internationally.

  • Media arts organizations and artists deserve sustainable funding and support.

  • Pacific media arts organizations and artists are stronger as a unified community.

Our mission.

  • To create opportunities for collaborative exchange and knowledge sharing among emerging, mid-level, and experienced media arts organizations, collectives and other artist-driven projects.

  • To support and promote British Columbia and Yukon artists and organizations with a focus on underserved communities including Indigenous, Black, People of Colour, and people living with disabilities.

  • To respond to the needs of the British Columbia and Yukon media arts communities with advocacy and action-based initiatives including presentation, production, and discourse.

  • To represent British Columbia and Yukon independent media arts organizations in front of agencies from the government and private sector.

  • To provide community, linking organizations and artists in order to support a strong cultural ecosystem.

  • To support infrastructure, governance and organizational development for media arts organizations.

  • To advocate for better living conditions for artists.