Artsee Networks

Artsee Networks started pre-2000 as Artseefartsee.com, the very first Malaysian arts and culture website in the era of the dial-up modem, JARING.MY and the Netscape browser. It popularised email and web-marketing for greater Kuala Lumpur’s nascent arts industry that had limited funds to put behind artistic and creative efforts. There’s a whole story behind how this accidentally happened but we’ll leave it for another webpage. As others attempted to follow its lead, founder, Vernon Adrian Emuang, never a fighter, always a lover, quickly reconfigured the brand to shift-shape into something more useful and necessary for the arts and culture scene, helping it evolve in new ways. Some of the trailblazing legacies in the wake of Vernon’s #artsfluffing shenanigans include:
1. Pioneer funding and critical enabling for the indie filmmaking (#artsfluffing for Amir Muhammad, James Lee and Yasmin Ahmad);
2. Spotlighting cross-cultural artmaking and its champion enablers and producers, off-stage and behind the scenes (#artsfluffing for Ken Takiguchi (2002), Beth Cardosa (2003), Janet Pillai (2004), Angela Hijjas (2005), Dr Joseph Victor Gonzales (2006), and Pang Khee Teik (2007) through the creation and sponsorship of the ARTSEEFARTSEE Cross-Cultural Champion of the Arts Award at the yearly BOH CAMERONIAN Arts Awards;
3. Executive producing for groundbreaking multidisciplinary art projects such as the pop-up exhibition WHAT DO YOU SEE? at the National Art Gallery, Rohaizad Suadi’s award-winning OPS OPHELIA: A FASHION OPERA; and Hayati Mokhtar & Dain Said‘s panoramic video installation at the Sydney Biennale 2006. (more coming)