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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

Final call for proposals


call for proposals
finals deadline 20 September 2006
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://selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem - a show for peace
http://self.engad.org
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After the successful presentation of this interactive media art exhibition
at Al Kahf Art Gallery in Bethlehem/Palestine 6-30 July 2006,
the show is planned to be presented
afterwards at numerous places around the globe,
starting at Officyna Art Space Szczecin/Poland on 20 October 2006.

For this purpose it is planned to extend the exhibition through some new
artists contributions.
Artists are invited to submit the proposal of a selfportrait,
a selfreflection - how they see themselves in the environment they are living in -
executed in the media:

digital print and digital video.

Entry details on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
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DISCUSSION

9/11 & Memorial for the Victims of Terror


11 September 2006
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The
Memorial for the Victims of Terror
http://terror.a-virtual-memorial.org

an ongoing art environment -
is inviting artists again for showing solidarity with the victims of terror
by submitting a digital art work. More entry info on the project site
http://terror.a-virtual-memorial.org

The Memorial was created as a reaction on the
11 September 2001 terror attacks in USA and
about 200 submitting artists form now the basis of this memorial,
but also as a reaction on a terror attack on
the creator of this memorial, Agricola de Cologne,
which took place on 11 September 1998, only few years earlier
without any public attention.

The 9/11 attacks changed the world profoundly,
as the Western societies became aware that they are no islands of happiness any longer,
but vulnerable as they are a predestined playground for terrorists.
Since then many really spectacular terror attacks took place, most, however, are less spectacular
and do not take any public attention,
but all of them are causing always a lot of innocent victims,
whereby most of them do not survive.

In contrary to the assassins, whose names are running continuously through the media
and are kept in public awareness this way, the victims remain an anonymous mass
having lost any individuality. Nobody is thinking of their families and their suffering,
although in their small circles the lost family members are never forgotten
as the human individuals they were.

The Memorial for the Victims of Terror
is not only dedicated to the victims of 9/11,
but to all victims of terror
as all of them have the same destiny to be forgotten.

The Internet, itself a gigantic memorial space,
is a perfect space for this remembrance,
as it is open and available to those who are looking for their personal remembrance space
which is driven by the solidarity of so many people carrying the idea of this memorial.

Memorial for the Victims of Terror
http://terror.a-virtuual-memorial.org

is a corporate part of the memorial project
A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org

and

Violence Online Festival
http.//violence.newmediafest.org

a New Media art project environment ( launched in 2002)
incorporating more than 350 artists from 40 countries
who reflect the phenomeon of violence in most different ways.
Violence Play Station, for instance,
was launched on the day, when the Iraq war began in 2003.

All the mentioned projects are initiated and created by
Agricola de Cologne, media artist & founder and director of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
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DISCUSSION

"Moving pictures" in autumn 2006


moving pictures" -
shortfilms and videos in autumn 2006
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Since some time, Agricola de Cologne,
Cologne based media artist, is turning his artistic focus more and more to
moving pictures. These are certainly no films or videos in a classical sense,
but in a technological concern they are digital videos anyway.

Besides the development of the global context of his
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net and all the associated projects, environments and sites,
which he defines as his specific "net" artworking -
dealing with moving pictures became most relevant since 2003,
thus, not so long time ago.

The numerous festival participations give evidence of a very active working
(see also http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de/blog/?page_id)
just to mention some most recent ones,
"House of Tomorrow" (see also streaming on
http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/volume11/hot/index.html)
on Moskow International Film Festival 2006
in the category experimental film in July, the same movie was participating in
FILE - Electronic Language Festival Sao Paulo/Brazil in August.
The European Festival of the Experimental Film
in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain/Basque country) in June, and
International Panorama of Independant Film & Video
Patras /Greece in September
show "Distortion Projected" (see also streaming on
http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume11/distortion/index.html
More info on http://bio.agricola-de-cologne.de

In 2005, Asolo Art Film Festival was presenting
"Message from Behind a Wall" (see also streaming on
http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/volume11/wall.html)
and in 2006, this festival is showing this film in Italian television
for promoting the festival which is taking place in Asolo/Italy
4-8 October - more info on http://bio.agricola-de-cologne.de

The Agricola de Cologne Moving Picture Collection
added another two moving pictures recently, which are based on film material
the artist shot during his visit on Cuba past June.
You find them on http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de

But Agricola de Cologne is dealing with moving pictures also in another way and from another position,
as a curator. VideoChannel - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org -
once installed as an artwork and a corporate part of his global networking project
[R][R][F]200x--->XP http://rrf200x.newmediafest.org,
VideoChannel is incorporating currently 20 curators, 200 artists and more than 200 videos -
is currently better known as an individually acting instance -
he is chief curating -
due to its selections on the theme "memory and identity",
and its presentations online and on divers festival.

These activities started in 2005, and are consequently continued also in 2006,
for instance - by initiating Cologne OFF - Cologne Online Film Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org - a festival directed by Agricola de Cologne and
organised online, as well as offline
but acting without a static physcial festival location.

After its launch in April 2006 -
Cologne OFF I - 1st edition of Cologne Online Film Festival
featuring 40 shortfilms and videos
under the umbrella of the theme "identityscapes" ,
the 2nd edition of Cologne OFF is planned to be launched
under the theme "image vs music" online on 12 October,
and offline in the framework of
PI 5 Video Festival Szczecin/Poland - 20-22 October 2006.

VideoChannel which forms the basis of Cologne OFF, is presenting
selections of the 1st & 2nd edition of Cologne OFF, not only
on this festival in Poland, but also later - 16-18 November
at Festival International de Arte Digital Rosario/Argentina,
Chroma - Festival de Arte Audiovisual Guadalajarra/Mexico
12-17 November 2006,
and the selection "genderscapes" on
Teknikunst Festival Melbourne/Australia
28 October - 3 November.

VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

Cologne OFF
http://coff.newmediafest.org

Agricola de Cologne Moving Picture Collection
http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de

Agricola de Cologne BLOG
http://bio.agricola-de-cologne.de

[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
experimental platform for art & New Media
operating from Cologne/Germany

DISCUSSION

JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project


[4 September 2006]
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JavaMuseum
Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
http://www.javamuseum.org

proudly announces the launch of

JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
on its new site - http://jip.javamuseum.org

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Between 2001 and 2005,
the curator and director of JavaMuseum
Agricola de Cologne, better known also as
the founder and director of
of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne,
the experimental platform for
art and New Media from Cologne/Germany, -
realised 18 showcases of "netart",
a specific form of digital art using
communicating technology for artistic creations.
JavaMuseum is presenting about 350 artists
and more than 1000 artworks which are showing
"netart" as an expression of a real global culture
and contemporary art form.

After the "1st phase" of activities was finalized in 2005,
JavaMuseum started in March 2006
the preparations for its re-launch in 2007
by initiating JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project.

For this purpose, Agricola de Cologne
invited for an interview and a survey: 10 questions on Internet based art -
professionals & artists active in the field of Internet based art -
many of them participated in the "1st phase",
the 18 JavaMuseum showcases 2001-2004 -
in order to spotlight their professional background, activities and visions
and give an undervalueted art form a new forum for discussions.

Most of the incoming results - about 60 currently -
were featured until July 2006 on a temporary space on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog
but moved meanwhile to its final destination, the new website on
http://jip.javamuseum.org,
others will be featured in sequence.

JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
is not only a conceptual extension for the coming JavaMuseum activities,
but also the attempt to personalize information and intensify the linkage
in the framework of the already existing JavaMuseum project environments
and further the entire Network, i.e. [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
and many associated sources on the net.

JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
will be continously extended through new interviews
and is open to all people interested in Internet based art.
The survery: "10 questions on Internet based art"
is now accepting again answers - more info on--->
http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?cat=2
or
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog&catE
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JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
http://www.javamuseum.org

JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://jip.javamuseum.org

JAP - JavaMuseum Article Project
http://www.javamuseum.org/blog/?page_id
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DISCUSSION

Cologne OFF - "identityscapes"


Hello,

Due to a programming & updating error
the films and videos participating in

Cologne OFF -
Cologne Online Film Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org

were partially not available online for some time.

Now,
1st edition of Cologne OFF - "identityscapes"
can be viewed again completely!!

Sorry for any inconvenience,
and enjoy!!

Cologne OFF
http://coff.newmediafest.org

VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org