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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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[R][R][F] in Stavanger


[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP ~ E-Journal - Vol.8
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004>
available online also on
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/e-journal.htm <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/e-journal.htm>
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editorial at the end of this text--->
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Features
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1 [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP - News!!
2. [R][R][F] in Stavanger
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1. News
.
The 4th presentation suite
includes in July/August two media festivals hosting
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
--->
West Coast Numusic & Electronic Art Festival Stavanger/Norway
18-22 August 2004 www.numusic.no <http://www.numusic.no>
.
& the recently held
public_media_space_festival Yerewan (Armenia)
23 JUly - 03 August 2004 www.accea.org <http://www.accea.org>
--->
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2. [R][R][F] in Stavanger
~E-Journal - Vol.8
contents
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1. New additions to VideoChannel
a) update of Antonio Alvarado's contribution of Spanish video works
from 7 May 2004
b) new video by Fish.tank
c) "Some minutes of a time" a suite of 10 video works by Agricola de
Cologne
curated by Melody Parter Carter
.
2. Recent calls
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1.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP is hopping from one to another part of the world,
from North to Sounth and East and West,
and in August from Yerewan in Armenia to Stavanger in Norway,
and in September to Australia.

On occasion of
West Coast Numusic & Electronic Art Festival in Stavanger/Norway,
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
and VideoChannel include some new additions
.
a)
an update of Antonio Alvarado's curatorial contribution of
video works from Spain:
-->a new work by Antonia Valero and Laura Amigo, entitled "11M"
a video which is reflecting the terror attack on 11 March in Madrid
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/vchannel.htm <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/vchannel.htm>
.
-->a video lecture by Antonio Alvarado in Spanish with English subtitles
explaning his curatorial concept and some details about the artists and
their included works.
<http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/lecture.htm>
.
b) a new video by an individual artist added to VideoChannel
---> artist (s): Fish.tank
fish.tank is a concept group founded by giovanni antignano[ITA 1971] and
fernanda veron[ARG 1978]. they have been created visual art and set for
theatre, made web.art and web.act, video and interactive installation,
photo and digital art.
-->work title: MEAT MUM...MEAT
video content: A sloughter-House. The decadence of the captured organism.
In internet we'll provide a continuously alive simulacra of the video
embodiment.
music : Lorenzo Brusci
-->Short work description
an analytic eye on the video piece:
A communication system which runs and overrules reality reducing its natural
informational complexity and variety and its natural vocation to the
inter-individual information exchange.
In particular we expose the redundant mechanism of the violent communication
or the communication of violence, mechanism that constantly attack-reduce a
free will; it has been stratified and connected to the symbol of an identity
abattoir where the mass-organism becomes pure meat, food, for the entire
system of mass vision. With this artwork we put ourselves in the same
spectator's visual perspective, an uneasiness that implies a critical
perspective; we designed a body contortion, in an absolute and constant
sacrifice. We are this body contortion, we watch it, but we overcome its
condition in order to de-touch ourselves from its passiveness (given data)
and start a critical, alternative and dynamic counter-thought.
This video artwork is in itself the representation of a contemporary mass
media embodiment.
.
The streaming video works can be
accessed directly via www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/vchannel.htm <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/vchannel.htm>
or
VideoChannel on www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/ <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/>
or www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/ <http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/>
.
DSL broadband Internet connection required!!
.
c)
A suite of 10 video works from an ongoing series
entitled "Some minutes of a time" by Agricola de Cologne
curated for VideoChannel by
Melody Parker Carter.
.
"Agricola de Cologne let the viewer share some minutes of his time,
participate in his personal observations and taking voyeuristic views on
situations.
The artist is active and passive at the same time,
he sets himself actively into a social context, but he is taking an
observing or even hidden position.
These observed situations happen mostly by chance. Many shots are made when
he is travelling.
The artist is always ready to shoot and take part in processes of any kind.
The situations are mostly non-spectacular every-day-life-scenes, but can
have also a special character as these shootings are mostly not planned.
The artist is interested in following a process from a certain more or less
dynamic position and point of view.
His videos are often filmed in one single shot, and by filming these minutes
of time as processes, he is documenting time.
The result, however, is expressively no kind of objective documentation.
By adding his personal comments, reflections and interpretations, these
documentations become very personal,
and follow the artist's specific ways of representing, the allegorical
principle.
Each of these small video works, which may have a running time between 1 and
5 minutes,
become metaphors of human life."
.
excerpt from "The allegorical principle - a contemporary way of approaching
art"
by Melody Parker Carter
.
About
Melody Parker Carter, is an art critic and media artist,
special assistant to Agricola de Cologne
and co-curator of [R][R][F]2004--->XP.
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.
"Some minutes of a time"
by Agricola de Cologne
.
1. Message to our neighbour
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume11/message.html>
.
2. Aquavit
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume11/aquavit.html>
.
3. 138 seconds of peace?
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume11/138.html>
.
4. Exercise
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume11/exercise.html>
.
5. [Meeting]
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume11/meeting.html>
.
6. Predator
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume11/predator.html>
.
7. Care
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume11/care.html>
.
8. Dont't rain on my parade
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume11/parade.html>
.
9. Truth- Paradise found
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume11/truth.html>
.
10. Performance
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume11/performance.html>
.
The streaming video works can be
accessed also via www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/vchannel.htm <http://wwwnewmediafest.org/rrf2004/vchannel.htm>
or
VideoChannel on www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/ <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/>
or www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/ <http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/>
.
DSL broadband Internet connection required!!
.
About the artist
Agricola de Cologne
is the creator, curator and director of [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP,
he is a virtual instance, a multidisciplinary media artists and creator and
founder of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
As an artist, he had more than 100 solo exhibitions in cooperation with for
than 70 museums throughout Europe, as a curator he organised between 1989
and 1994 several cultural projects in Europe and curates since 2001 the net
based New Media projects of NewMediaArtProjectNetwork.
He is participating in a variety of media exhibitions and festivals around
the globe with his online and offline multi-media works, details see on:
<http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de/bio/bio_agricola1.htm>
His net based works received several prizes.
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2. Recent Calls
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/calls.htm <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/calls.htm>
.
1. --->Call for submissions to VideoChannel - video works
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/call_videochannel.htm <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/call_videochannel.htm>
Deadline 30 October
.
2. --->Call for submissions to SoundLab Channel - soundart works
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/call_soundart.htm <http://www.newmediafestorg/rrf2004/call_soundart.htm>
Deadline 27 August, then ongoing
.
3.
--->Call for submissions to Iraq project
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/call_iraq.htm <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/call_iraq.htm>
Deadline ongoing

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[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
is part of --->
01. National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti/Romania (5 March - 30
April)
02. Bergen Electronic Arts Centre Bergen/Norway (5 March - 28 March)
03. New Media Art Festival Bangkok (Thailand) (20-28 March)
04. Now Music Streaming Festival Berlin - 7 April
05. Version'04 Festival - Invisible Networks - Chicago/USA - 16 April-01
May
06. Electronic Art Meeting - PEAM 2004 - Pescara (Italy) 19-23 May
07. BASICS Festival Salzburg/Austria - 8-16 May 2004 -
08. VI SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL - Havanna (Cuba)
21-24 June
09. International Festival of New Film and New Media Split/Croatia (26
June-2 July)
10. public_space_festival Yerewan/Armenia 23 July - 03 August
11. West Coast Numusic & Electronic Arts Festival Stavanger/Norway 17-22
August
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The next edition of ~E-Journal Vol.9 will be published on occasion
of [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP participation in
Biennale for Electronic Arts in Perth/Australia
www.beap.org <http://www.beap.org> 7 September - 17 November 2004
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Editorial
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[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
global networking project
by Agricola de Cologne,
media artist and New Media curator from Cologne/Germany
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/ <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/>
rrf2004@newmediafest.org <mailto:rrf2004@newmediafest.org>
.
As a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||Cologne,
the project will develop and operate during 2005 and 2006
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In case, you missed one of the email ~E-Journals,
all volumes of ~E-Journal can be found on
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/ <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/>
in the section ~E-Journal
.
As an extension of the global networking project,
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP ~ E-Journal
will be edited periodically
in order to feature projects, curators, artists and other networking
instances on a textual information basis.
.
copyright

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Biennale Internazionale dell'arte Contemporanea?


> Why do you figure only a few "go public"?

There are certainly a couple of different reasons.

As far as I know, artists receive this invitation via snail mail in form of
a portofolio.
Most of all contacted artists are working with analogue media as painting
etc
Whether analogue or not,
I could imagine,
an artist may feel honoured by receiving a personal invitation,
and he/she may feel they deserve such an invitation
they are happy that people finally recognize their artistic quality, or
whatever.
And this feeling of honour will also not vansih completely
when the artist recognizes the financial consequences.
The fact that they receive a personal invitation will probably not let get
them the idea
they are among of thousands of other artists collegues who are in the same
situation.
Many of them will not see a way how to go public.

Even if some of them know a way to go public,
some might even feel ashamed to ask any question.

But, I think many, especially the less experienced artists (who most have
also a less developed self-confidence) are afraid of the eventually negative
consequences of going public.
It is an unwritten rule, that an artist has to keep his/her mouth shut
and such events are speculating properly that artists behave like that.

On the other hand, many artists receive many invitations like that one from
Florence and take for granted,
that the art scene works like that
that an artist has always to pay the requested price.
Then, there is no reason to go public.

Others may even see such events as the only chance to present their work to
an audience, at all.
they would also not see any reason to go public.

Other artists who have their individual professional progression
will delete such invitatons immeditely, because they give no relevance to
them.

However, I would propose all those artist who take their invitation more
serious,
to write a letter to the organisation in Florence asking a lot of questions,
like I did three years ago,
even if I did not receive an answer, but I received also no further
invitation.

But, I would like to point to some further aspects, which must not be
forgotten--->

As an event, Florence Biennale does not represent anything extraordinary
unusual in the art scene as such,
and it is further an event typical for Italy and its specific cultural
system.

Each European country has a specific cultural system.
In Italy, generally the artist has to care for him/herself,
there is no general public(state based) funding system for individual
artists,
if there is any funding at all then only by some privat foundations.
In Italy, an artist has principally to pay for any exhibition, besides in
some major public museums or galleries, where, however, only some priveleged
ones have access to, of course.
So, actually from an Italian point of view,
paying, and paying even a lot of money for being exhibited is most normal.
In so far, Florence Biennale is a product of this system
and the organisers do not see anything wrong in their doing.

Florence Biennale represents further a perfect instrument for the City
Council
of Florence
(although it is not official organiser or holder of the Biennial,
however it is an essential part of the Biennial by making space of the
municipality
available)
to extend the touristic infrastructure
without investing much money and taking any risk.

Florence is principally not a place for contemporary art,
it has never been, and the Florence Biennial does also
to change this situation, in contrary.
The existing structures of a romantic medieval and Renaissance town
are only further developed by adding a new tourist attraction, by organising
a
kind of artists fair, an advanced form of the already existing bazaar of
street artists which is now placed from the narrow streets into the more
exclusive context of a well known historical
and romantic pallazzo.

It is the attempt to bring a more contemporary component into the historical
profile of the city.
So, the Biennial event is not made for people interested in contemporary
art and does therefore also not attract the artscene to come to Florence,
but for the tourist of the historical city (this is not bad, at
all of course)
which feel stimulated by this new bazaar to buy some souvenirs,
and why not one of the exhibited works.
But this is also actually the only chance, the Biennial has to offer to an
participating artist.

The City of Florence might even feel itself as a strong supporter of
contemporary art
by offering the artists this chance.

best,

AdC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Van Anden" <jason@smileproject.com>
To: <list@rhizome.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:22 PM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Biennale Internazionale dell'arte Contemporanea?

> I am glad Wilfried posted the last bit online.
>
> Wilfried Agricola de Cologne wrote:
> > >Each year a lot of artists receive such invitations. Unfortunately only
a
> > >few go to public like you.
>
> Why do you figure only a few "go public"?
>
> Jason Van Anden
> www.smileproject.com )
> +
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DISCUSSION

Fw: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Biennale Internazionale dell'arte Contemporanea?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Van Anden" <jason@mail.smileproject.com>
To: "Agricola de Cologne" <info@agricola-de-cologne.de>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Biennale Internazionale dell'arte
Contemporanea?

> Hi,
>
> Thank you for the advice.
> Why didn't you post this on RAW?
>
> J
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Agricola de Cologne" <nc-agricowi@netcologne.de>
> Reply-To: "Agricola de Cologne" <info@agricola-de-cologne.de>
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:52:00 +0200
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >Each year a lot of artists receive such invitations. Unfortunately only a
> >few go to public like you.
> >
> >I am myself a media artist, and I received three years ago such an
> >invitation.
> >they wanted me to pay for piece of net based art 2000 Euro.
> >
> >This Biennale is no serious event, it is a market place which takes place
> >every two years, therefore "Biennial", a kind of bazaar where you have to
> >hire a stand.
> >Besides the hire fee, you have to pay for everything, transport, travel,
> >accomodation etc
> >and the result will be nothing, as everybody is laughing about this
event,
> >and afterwards you will be much poorer than before.
> >
> >Be very careful, not artistic quality or a curatorial concept counts-
there
> >are no curators, but only whether you are willing to pay. Everybody who
is
> >willing can present his stuff. It maybe nice for some rich amateurs, who
> >have otherwise no chances, and a Biennale in the CV is looking also very
> >well.
> >
> >Of course, it can be quite nice to spend some holidays in Florence, but I
> >would propose you the spare the money and take it for a longer stay in
this
> >beautiful city, or stay at home and invest the money into a professional
> >project like a really professional portofolio or something similiar.
> >
> >Again, be very careful.
> >Good luck and best,
> >
> >Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
> >***********************
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jason Van Anden" <jason@smileproject.com>
> >To: <list@rhizome.org>
> >Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 3:21 PM
> >Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Biennale Internazionale dell'arte
Contemporanea?
> >
> >
> >> Yesterday, I received an email inviting me to participate in the
"Biennale
> >Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea" to be held in Florence, Italy in
> >December of 2005. They(?) "selected" me based entirely upon my website.
It
> >appears to be a total scam; from the web I have gathered that you pay
around
> >$2,000 to be included, you have to use their shipping company, etc...
Then
> >again, who is to say what is a scam and what is not in the entirely
> >subjective world of art? Maybe it's the world's biggest rent-a-show?
> >What's the difference?
> >>
> >> There were only a couple of postings on Rhizome, most notably the one
> >below from a couple of years ago... I am interested to find out who else
> >was selected, and if anyone has any feedback.
> >>
> >> Jason Van Anden
> >> www.smileproject.com
> >>
> >> Heather James wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > has anyone ever heard of this exhibition? a friend of mine asks:
> >> >
> >> > "I received an invitation today to participate in the Biennale
> >> > Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea to be held in Florence at the
> >> > end of
> >> > 2003, on the basis of paintings on my website. I had not heard of
> >> > this
> >> > Exhibition before, and as it is expensive to register, I would be
> >> > grateful
> >> > if you can tell me : Is it a recognized reputable Organization ? "
> >> >
> >> > any insight into Biennale Internazionale dell'arte Contemporanea
> >> > appreciated!
> >> >
> >> > ~h
> >> >
> >> +
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> >> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> >> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> >> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> >> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
> >> +
> >> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> >> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
> >
> >
>

DISCUSSION

SoundLab Channel calls


SoundLab Channel:// call for submissions
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On occasion,
of its participation in
Biennale for Electronic Art Perth/Australia
7 September - 17 November 2004
www.beap.org <http://www.beap.org> ,
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
global networking project
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/ <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/>
will add in September 2004
a new "Memory Channel",
contributed by ConcertHall/le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org <http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org>
.
Its name is SoundLab Channel, which
will be dedicated exclusively to soundart in its various forms,
and will consist of three main components

a) a program of soundart consisting of
existing programs of sound art of Internet radio stations around the globe
b) curatorial contributions
c) individual artists submissions via open call

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-->Call for submissions
Deadline Friday, 27 August 2004.

soundartists, composers etc are invited for
submitting works of soundart of

a) experimental character
b) electronic music
c) Voice -sound/music integration
d) and other forms

Subject: in a narrow or wider sense ---> memory and/or identity.

The original work can, but must not be developed in a digital format,
but the work(s) to be submitted
a) have to be published either already on a specific webpage
with an URL of theirown (without any size limitations)
or
b) available in this one digital submission format --->.mp3
(file size limit about 5MB for each work, exception possible, but on
request)

The authors/artists keep all rights on their submitted works.

Deadline Friday, 27 August 2004.

Please use this form for submitting:
*******************
1.name of artist, email address, URL
2. short biography/CV (not more than 300 words)
3. works (maximum 3), year of production, running time
a) URL or
b) mediafile, name
4. short statement for each work
(not more than 300 words each)

Confirmation/authorization:
The submitter declares and confirms
that he/she is holding all author's rights
and gives permission to include the submitted work
in "Soundlab" online environment until revoke.
Signed by (submitter)

Please send the complete submission to
concerthall@le-musee-divisioniste.org <mailto:concerthall@le-musee-divisioniste.org>
subject: Soundlab Channel

Deadline Friday, 27 August 2004

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[R][R][F] 2004--->XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004>
and
Le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org <http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org>
are corporate members of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
the experimental plat for for net based art
founded, directed and curated by
Agricola de Cologne.

Copyright 2000-2004. All rights reserved.
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DISCUSSION

memorial://august 2004


memorial://august2004
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
{A Virtual Memorial} -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
~New Media art project environment~
www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>

commemorates in August 2004
the late Ignatz Bubis (died on 13 August 1999)
former President of Central Jewish Council of Germany
.
2004 as the
the International Year to Commemorate
the struggle against Slavery and its Abolition -

and the selected memorial days
.
01 August 1975 - Helsinki Treaty
06 August 1945 - first atomic bomb over Hieroshima
09 August 2004 - International Day of Indigenous Peoples
13 August 1960 - errection of Berlin Wall
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Table of Contents:
a) Features of the month August 2004
b) News
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New month - new subject
*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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b) ***Features of the Month August
"The month August on "A Virtual Memorial"
is entirely dedicated to
Ignatz Bubis (died on 13 August 1999)
former President of Central Jewish Council of Germany.
Without him and his encouragement by taking patronage
in 1995 over my memorial project "A Living Memorial" (1995-1998),
my extensive artistic working on memorial environments,
and "A Virtual Memorial" -the net based memorial environment -
as the starting point for any of my net based activities
would have never started, but also my entire course of life
would have developed completely differently.
I will never forget him!"
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
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Subject--->Solitude between inspiration and despair
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Featured Artist -->Damar Kase: Absolute Loneliness
Emotion 1 -->Mirror at the Bottom - artists portraiting themselves
Emotion 2-->Graffiti-Fields of Identity
Emotion 3-->The artist and his studio
Emotion 4-->My loneliness and the bomb
Emotion 5-->Solitude behind the curtain
Emotion 6-->Seconds for ever
Emotion 7-->Sexual abuse
Emotion 8-->urban.early sunday morning_raw
Enter this feature environment via www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
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b) News
{A Virtual Memorial} is proud to launch in August the next
physical presentation of it latest project environment
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
global networking project
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/ <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/>
during
West Coast Numusic & Electronic Art Festival
Stavanger/Norway 18 - 22 August
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[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP will be further part of
Biennale for Electronic Art Perth/Australia
7 September - 17 November 2004.
On this occasion, Agricola de Cologne will be "artist in residence" in Perth
for several weeks in September/October.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP will launch on occasion of the Biennale
a new "Memory Channel", eg
SoundLab Channel, which will be entirely dedicated
to soundart in its various forms.
An open call is addressed to all artists who work on soundart and electronic
music
to submit to SoundLab Channel
Detailled information and entry form on
www.newmediafest.org/call_soundart.htm <http://www.newmediafest.org/call_soundart.htm>
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[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004>
rrf2004@newmediafest.org <mailto:rrf2004@newmediafest.org>
started in March 2004 and
is part of --->
01. National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti/Romania (5 March - 30
April)
02. Bergen Electronic Arts Centre Bergen/Norway (5 March - 28 March)
03. New Media Art Festival Bangkok (Thailand) (20-28 March)
04. Now Music Streaming Festival Berlin - 7 April
05. Version'04 Festival - Invisible Networks - Chicago/USA - 16 April-01
May
06. Electronic Art Meeting - PEAM 2004 - Pescara (Italy) 19-23 May
07. BASICS Festival Salzburg/Austria - 8-16 May 2004 -
08. VI SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL - Havanna (Cuba)
21-30 June
09. International Festival of New Film and New Media Split/Croatia (26
June-2 July)
10. public_space_festival Yerewan/Armenia 23 July - 03 August
11. West Coast Numusic & Electronic Arts Festival Stavanger/Norway 18-22
August
12. Biennale of Electronic Art Perth (Australia) (7 September - 17
November )

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Until the next time
all the best,
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{A Virtual Memorial}
www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
award wining Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity -
since 2000 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>
info@a-virtual-memorial.org <mailto:info@a-virtual-memorial.org>
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corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
-the experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany
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