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Agricola de Cologne

launched on 1 January 2000 as an artist brand, is standing for the

--> interdisciplinary media artist, director of experimental shortfilms and videos, curator of media art
--> founder & director of artvideoKOELN – the curatorial initiative „art & moving images“ serving since 2010 as the operating platform for a wide range of activities around "art & moving images", running CologneOFF - Cologne International Videoart Festival and Le Musee di-visioniste - the new museum of networked art

Agricola de Cologne is standing also for a broad bandwidth of dynamic curatorial contexts he is initiating in physical and virtual space, the co-curator and co-organiser of external festivals and exhibitions, the jury member of divers festivals, and not to forget the designer of a cross-platform culture.

Since its/his launch in 2000, Agricola de Cologne was presented @ more than 600 festivals and media art events in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Knoxville, Pittsburgh, Mexico City, Caracas, Maracaibo, Buenos Aires, Rosario, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Santiago de Chile, Quito, Bogota, London, Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Madrid, Gijon, Sevilla, Valencia, Barcelona, Lisbon, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tampere, Kopenhagen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tokyo, Nagoya, Seoul, Manila, Hongkong, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, New Delhi, Guwahati, Mumbai, Jakarta, Perth, Melbourne, Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakesh, Istanbul, Ankara, Yerewan, Damaskus, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Bethlehem, Gaza, Basel, Zurich, Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Graz, Kiev, Kharkiv, Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Moscow, St.Petersburg, Kansk, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Sofia, Varna, Bukarest, Arad, Timisoara, Budapest, Belgrade, Zagreb, Split, Lubljana, Rome, Naples, Milan, Pescara, Venice, Torino, Bologna, Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, & elsewhere, but also on biennials like ISEA Nagoya (2002), Venice Biennale 2003, 2005, 2007, Biennale of New Media Art Merida/MX 2003, Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth/Australia (2004), Biennale de Montreal (2004), Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago de Chile (2005), ISEA Singapore 2008.

His media art projects and videos were honoured with prizes and awards.

Links

Agricola de Cologne --> http://www.agricola-de.cologne
artvideoKOELN --> http://artvideo.koeln
Cologne International Videoart Festival --> http://coff.newmediafest.org
Le Musee di-visioniste - the new museum of networked art - http://www.nmartproject.net
SoundLAB - http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
LMD Interview Project - http://interviews.newmediafest.org
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DISCUSSION

Global networking projects starts on 23 February 2004


on Monday, 23 February 2004 - it is so far!!
--->
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
global networking project
created and developed by Agricola de Cologne -
.
is starting with the online feature "Inflict" -
Internet performance created for RRF 2004
by the Swedish group "Beeoff" curated by Bjoern Norberg/Stockholm -->
online streaming 24 hours between 23 February and 15 March
from Stockholm/Sweden and Montreal/Canada
--> for more details and/or joining go to www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
(Window Media Player required)
.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
-->launch of the online body on 3 March 2004 on
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
.
-->physical start will be in March 2004 at
National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti/Romania www.mnac.ro/next ,
Bergen Center of Electronic Arts Bergen/Norway www.bek.no ,
New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand http://thailand.culturebase.org
.
Official physical start will be on 5 March at
National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti/Romania.
.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP will be realized in collaboration and networking with
numerous virtual and physical locations and partners around the globe,
it will be developed and operating during 2004 and beyond.
.
All details are available on
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP info site
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
rrf2004@newmediafest.org
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[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
is corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
info@nmartproject.net

DISCUSSION

Launch of "Slowtime?....part IV on Cinematheque


Cinematheque at MediaCentre -->Le Musee di-visioniste"
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/
mediacentre@le-musee-divisioniste.org
is happy to launch on Friday, 20 January 2004
part IV of its new showcase of streaming media art works
entitled

"Slowtime?........"
[Quicktime (.mov) as an artistic medium]

which is presented at the new space of "Cinema_B".

--> Quicktime does not only represent a cross-plattform file format for
converting and distributing (analogue/digital) video
into an Internet compatible streaming format,
but has a lot of different features and characteristics which
predestine Quicktime to be a serious artistic medium beyond that <--

The show is launched in four parts
Part IV - launch on 20 February 2004
includes following artists
---->
Arlene Ducao (USA)
Kevin Hamilton (UK)
Marcello Mercado (Germany)
Cincia Cremona (Italy)
Spaceanus (USA)
Mica Scalin (USA)
Dana Cooley (USA)
Alyssa Rothwell (USA)
Ewan McDougall (UK)
Agricola de Cologne (Germany)

--->
Part III - launch on 19 January 2004
includes following artists
--->
Chiara Passa (Italy)
Adriana Sasali (Argentina)
John Belucci (USA)
Thierry Bregaint (Canada)
Claudia Sohrens (USA)
Rachel Dobbs (UK)
Adrian Miles (Australia)
Razvan Ion (Romania)
Ricardo Mbarak (Lebanon)
Jennifer Schmidt (USA)
Gabriel Otero (Argentina)

Part II - launched on 17 December 2003
includes following artists
--->
Avi Rosen (Israel)
Lane Last (USA)
Lasse Raa (Norway)
Raul Manrupe (Argentina)
Ari van Schutterhoff/Hans van Eck (The Netherlands)
Julie Andrejev (Canada)
David Crawford (USA)
Lucasz Lysakowsky (USA)
Tania V (Australia)
James Ford (UK)
Maggie Montgomery (UK)
Doron Golan (USA)

Part I - launched on 25 November 2003
includes following artists
--->
Daniel Vatski/Isabelle Jenniches (NL)
Oswaldo Cibils (Uruguay)
Malte Steiner (Germany)
Everson Godinho (Brazil)
Michael Szpakowski (UK)
Miklos Legrady (CA)
Melissa Ulto (USA)
Mogens Jacobsen (Denmark)
Marina Zerbarini (Argentina)
Meto Angelovski (Macedonia)
Christian Bermudes (Costa Rica)
Laurel Beckman (USA)

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The selection of
"Slowtime?........" [Quicktime (.mov) as an artistic medium]
is based on an open call in Internet
and curated and created for Cinematheque
by Agricola de Cologne
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/
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Visit also the previous streaming media shows at Cinematheque
which are presented now at "Cinema_A"
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/

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Cinematheque at MediaCentre
organises online show cases of streaming media
in the framework of Le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/
mediacentre@le-musee-divisioniste.org

Le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
is an online museum based on philosophical ideas,
and a corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne -
the experimental plattform for net based art -
founded by Agricola de Cologne,
media artist and New Media curator
operating from Cologne/Germany.
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Technical requirements
Recommended are:
DSL Internet connection, fast computer device PC or MAC
all latest browser versions
requested players/plug-ins:
Flash 7 (free download at www.macromedia.com)
Quicktime (free download at www.apple.com)

DISCUSSION

[R][R][F] 2004 - suite of calls


[R][R][F] 2004
suite of calls -->
1st deadline 26 February
2nd deadline 28 March
then ---> ongoing
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[R][R][F] 2004
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
global networking project
by Agricola de Cologne
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004

will start in March 2004 at
National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti/Romania www.mnac.ro
Bergen Center for Electronic Arts Bergen/Norway
www.bek.no
and
NewMedia Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand
http://thailand.culturebase.org

and will be developing and operating until the end of 2004 including a
number of presentations/participations in physical space and media events
during 2004.

This New Media art project consists of different Memory Channels
as RRF version 2.0, Violence XP, Globalisation, etc,
but also of a program of Internet related actions via online streaming.

[R][R][F] 2004 is looking
1. for artists/professionals who are interested in a long term
collaboration/networking until the end of 2004, for instance by providing
information material connected to art in general, Internet related or media
art, subjects as "memory and identity", violence, globalisation,
surveillance etc
Interested artists should contact rrf2004@newmediafest.org
subject: artisti's collaboration
The details can be discussed then.

2. [R][R][F] 2004 is looking continuously during 2004 for
proposals/submissions of net based or , general, works in Internet
compatible formats --> Memory Channels and subjects see below.

All serious (art) works - interactive or non-interactive - will be
included, either
on occasion of physical presentations or when they are made during physical
presentations the submissions will be included immediately.

Please fill in the small submission form below and send it to
rrf2004@newmediafest.org
by indicating the respective channel and subject you are submitting to. You
find the accepted digital file formats at the end of this text.

Call -->
1. Channel: Violence XP
is [R][R][F] 2004's special version of Violence Online Festival
(Versions 10.0+)
see previous versions on www.newmediafest.org/violence/
subject1: "violence"
:::::Memorial for the victims of terror
subject2: "terror"

Call -->
2. Video Channel
video works, movies, animations
subject: "memory and identity"

Call -->
3. "Self_representation"
subject1 : "self" and identity
subject2: my mission as an artist (only textual statements)

Call --->
4. Globalisation Channel
--->Rainforest Memorial
subject: globalisation, rainforest

Call --->
5. Surveillance Channel
subjects: surveillance, privacy, totalitarism

Call--->
6. Program Channel
contributions in streaming formats video/audio in form of
interviews, reports, Internet radio, Internet performance etc
subjects: "memory and identity", relevant matter in social, cultural and
political concern.
Details on request.

Call --->
7. History Channel
subject: "memory and identity"

Call--->
8. Papers on subject "memory and identity" and other subjects mentioned
above
----->see accepted text file types

Please use this submission form and use for each submitted work a seperate
form:

1. firstname/name of artist, email, URL
2. a brief bio/CV (not more than 300 words)
3. title and URL or type of media file,
4. a short work description (not more than 300 words),
5. one screen shot (max 800x600 pixels, .jpg)

Please give each submitted file:
yourname_title.extension

Please indicate the respective "Memory Channel" and the "subject" you are
submitting to and send it to
rrf2004@newmediafest.org

1st deadline 26 February
2nd deadline 28 March
then --->ongoing

Submissions are accepted in following formats:

a) net based ---> URL ( no limits)
b) Internet compatible media files --->

1. text -->.txt, WORD .doc, RTF, plain email
2. image-->.gif, .jpg, png (max. 1024x768 pixels)
3. movies/animations--->Quicktime, Window Media, mpeg, Real Video/Audio,
Flash, Shockwave
(max. 5MB per submission)
4. Web page ---HTML/Javascript and embedded applets/images (max 5 MB per
submission)

Please give each submitted file:
yourname_title.extension

1st deadline 26 February
2nd deadline 28 March
then --->ongoing
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[R][R][F] 2004
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
global networking project
by Agricola de Cologne
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
rrf2004@newmediafest.org

[R][R][F] 2004 is corporate part of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne -
the experimental platform for netbased art
operating from Cologne/Germany

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DISCUSSION

Call for entries: Net Art from Northern European countries


Netart from Nordic (Northern European) countries
-->
this new feature of
.
JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org <http://www.javamuseum.org>
.
will be launched on occasion of
Pescara Electronic Art Meeting - PEAM 2004 - Pescara/Italy - May 2004
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.
Call for entries:
Netart from Nordic (Northern European) countries
Deadline 31 March 2004
.
JavaMuseum will continue in its "3th of Java series" the features of netart
from particular cultural regions on the globe.
For May/June 2004, a feature exhibition will be prepared unter the working
title, "Netart from Nordic countries".
.
All artists, who work netbased and are born or
have their residency in one these countries
Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and the
Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
are invited to submit and participate.
All works to be submitted must have an URL of theirown.
All serious submissions will be included.
.
Deadline 31 March 2004
Please use following entry form for submitting:

1. firstname/name of artist, email, URL
2. a brief bio/CV (not more than 300 words)
3. title and URL of the max 3 projects/works,
4. a short work description for each work (not more than 300 words),
5. a screen shot for each submitted work (max 800x600 pixels, .jpg)

Deadline 31 March 2004
Please send your submission to
nordicfeature@javamuseum.org <mailto:nordicfeature@javamuseum.org>

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Visit also the show cases of

1. Lauched on 8 January 2004
Netart from Great Britain and Ireland
www.javamuseum.org/2003/englishfeature/index.html <http://www.javamuseum.org/2003/englishfeature/index.html>

2. Online since 14 October 2003
"Perspectives'03" - competition and show 2003
and the winners of JavaArtist of the Year Award 2003
on
www.javamuseum.org/2003/perspectives03/index.html <http://www.javamuseum.org/2003/perspectives03/index.html>

3.
"I-Highway - Netart from Canada" on
www.javamuseum.org/2003/canadafeature/index.html <http://www.javamuseumorg/2003/canadafeature/index.html>

4. "I-rivers" - Netart form German speaking countries
on www.javamuseum.org/2003/germanfeature/index.html <http://www.javamuseum.org/2003/germanfeature/index.html>

5. Update from Friday, 8 January 2004
"Current Positions of French Netart" on
www.javamuseum.org/2002/2nd/frenchfeature/index.html <http://www.javamuseum.org/2002/2nd/frenchfeature/index.html>

6.
"Current Positions of Italian Netart" on
www.javamuseum.org/2002/2nd/italyfeature/index.html <http://www.javamuseum.org/2002/2nd/italyfeature/index.html>

7.
"LatinoNetarte.net" - Netart from Latin American countries, Spain and
Portugal
on www.javamuseum.org/2003/latinofeature/index.html <http://www.javamuseum.org/2003/latinofeature/index.html>

and much more on
www.javamuseum.org <http://www.javamuseum.org>

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JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org <http://www.javamuseum.org>
info@javamuseum.org <mailto:info@javamuseum.org>

is corporate member of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
- the experimental platform for netbased art -
operating from Cologne/Germany.

DISCUSSION

AVM in February 2004


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
New Media art project environment by Agricola de Cologne
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Table of Contents:
a) News
b) Features of the month February 2004
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a) News in February
1.
On 20 February 2004 the global networking project, entitled
[R][R][F] 2004
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
provisional website on www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
will be starting simultaneously with the physical presentations at
National Museum of Contemporary Art/Kalinderu MediaLab Bucaresti/Romania
www.mnac.ro
and BEK Bergen/Norway and FOLLY Lancaster (UK)
The project will contain a changing number of Memory Channels, among them
[R][R][F] v.2.0 including these curators
Raul Ferrera Balanquet (Cuba), Gita Hashemi (Iran/Canada), Winston Yang
(China), Raquel Partnoy (Argentina), Bjorn Norberg (Sweden), Eva Sjuve
(Dennark)
and others to be nominated later.
-->
Basic subject -->"memory and identity"
Basic operational aspect -->"networking as artworking"
Basic presentation aspect-->"exchange between virtual and physical space"
--->
The project is a networking collaboration
with numerous institutions, organisations, curators, artists and
professionals
and
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne,
and will be developing and operating until the end of 2004.

Detailled information are available on the provisional project site on
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
to be updated continuously until the official launch on
18 February 2004.

In a few days, a series of calls will be published.

2.
Call for artists submissions for "My Mission".
More details on
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/exhibitionhall/2003/self/mymission.htm
Meanwhile more than 70 artists' statements could be added.

Since 30 September, the new show
"{self}_representation 2003,
a co-operation with Le Musee di-visioniste
is online on www.le-musee-divisioniste.org or
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/start1.htm
including 250 artists from 40 countries

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New month - new subject
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c) ***Features of the Month

Memorial days in February

2004 International Year to Commemorate
the struggle against Slavery and its Abolition

06 February 1904 - First Russian-Japanes War
08 February 1940 - Lodz Ghetto established by the Nazis
13 February 1945 - American and British bombs destroy Dresden
21 February 2004 - International Mother Language Day (Unesco)

*The Features of the Month are monthly changing
collections of multimedia works and links which form in the
totality of the composition an artwork of theirown
to be created on a webpage of theirown
within the Memorial project.*

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Subject of the Month -->Hidden and visible??
Featured Artist -->Antarctica by John Murphy
TextObject -->Kashmir
ArtObject -->Carnaval
Witnesses of Eternity -->Trebic (part 1)
Animal of the month -->Condor
People of the month -->Bushmen
Perceptions of the month -->Speech Exercises
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Until the next time
all the best,

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
info@a-virtual-memorial.org
www.a-irtual-memorial.org
Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity -
ongoing New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne
A short description as PDF file for free download from
http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/downloads/pdf/pdf.htm

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