Artsee Networks
electrifying art. enabling activism.
“Art is activism. Creators change the world.”
~ Shemariah J. Arki
Our Latest Articles
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The Malay Myth from a Foreign Lens
Pushing the boundaries of theatre storytelling, Fragments of Tuah examines the myth and narrative of the legendary figure.
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Changi Prison Verses: The Last Poems from Death Row
A poetry collection written from the walls of Changi Prison’s death row is launched to a sombre crowd, but hope seeps through.
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Building a fantasy community in your neighbourhood
Exploring Malaysia’s small but close-knit TTRPG scene and the people that make it possible.
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The Artsee History
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.