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BIO

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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EVENT

CologneOFF 2011 on CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity in India


Dates:
Fri Feb 18, 2011 00:00 - Sun Feb 20, 2011

Location:
India

CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
nomadic festival project
1 January - 31 December 2011
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CologneOFF 2011 Sattal/Uttarakhand-India
18-19-20 February 2011
at CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity
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While CologneOFF 2011 is still being present
at Keuruu Museum, in Finland,
http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=170
it is also already on the way to India for
making a stop at Sattal,
a magnificent place in the Himalaya mountains not too far from New Delhi,where since some years in February each year -
CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity  - is taking place,
a festival of digital and electronic art
where Western and Eastern art and philosophy meet each other
http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=175
In India - CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context -
is presenting not only the entire festival program of CologneOFF VI
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=752
including more than 80 videos, but also the series of compilations of videoart fromUSA (Alysse Stepanian, Los Angeles), Norway (Margarida Paiva, Oslo Screen Festival), Italy (Giorgio Fedeli, Visual Container Milan), South Africa (Kai Lossgott, City Breath Festival Cape Town, RSA) andPortugal (Pedro Almeida & Sergio Gomes, VideoLab Project Portugal)
The same programs were previously presented on
Delhi International Art Festival
in the framework of "Edgelogue" at
Alliance Francaise, New Delhi - 12-13 December 2010.
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/Edgelogue_New-Delhi_CologneOFF2011.pdf

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CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
1 January 2011 - 31 December 2011
http://coff.newmediafest.org
is collabortative project between
--> Le Musee di-visioniste - the new museum of networked art
http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
--> Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org
powered by
--> artvideoKOELN - the initiative "art & moving images"
http://video.mediaartcologne.org
contact --> info (at) coff.newmediafest.org
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EVENT

Focus: USA II - CologneOFF 2011


Dates:
Tue Feb 01, 2011 00:00 - Mon Feb 28, 2011

Location:
Germany

CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
nomadic festival project
1 Jan - 31 Dec 2011
February 2011 - Focus: USA 2
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1st feature: SOLO --> 6 videos by US artist Henry Gwiazda
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Now online!
The 2nd US feature is entitled:
“Horror Vacui? - What is Happening Next?”
including experimental works - art and moving images -
by these artists
Bill Domonkos
David Jakubovic
Jay Needham
Arthur Reynolds
Jym Davis
Erika Yeomans
Heidi Kumao
Jon Rubin
Enter this feature via SCREEN 3 on
http://coff.newmediafest.org or http://www.nmartproject.net
or directly also on VAD - Video Art Database
http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=2258
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10 February - start of CologneOFF 2011 - Finland 1
screenings in Jyvaskyla & Keuruu - until 31 March 2011 - more info -->
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/COFF2011_Finland1.pdf
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CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
is powered by
Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org
&
artvideoKOELN - the initiative "art & moving images"
http://video.mediaartcologne.org
artvideo (at) koeln.de
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OPPORTUNITY

Call: CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context


Deadline:
Sun May 01, 2011 00:00

Location:
Cologne, Germany

Call for entries
extended deadline: 1 May 2011
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CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
is a world wide unique festival project by
 - Cologne International Videoart Festival -
starting on 1 January 2011 and lasting until 31 December 2011
simultaneously in physical & virtual space.

It's goal is to show during one year at many venues around the globe
the diversity of the creative potential of “art and moving images”
transported via the global medium of “video”.

The videos can be submitted only online.
Selected works will be featured on CologneOFF individually online
and will become later in 2011 the
7th edition of CologneOFF - Cologne International Videoart Festival.

CologneOFF 2011 is inviting creators in the field of “art and moving images” -this may be experimental forms of film and video art - to submit up to 3 works –>

Please find the entry details and form on
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2729

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CologneOFF - Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org

is powered by

artvideoKOELN
the curatorial initiative "art & moving images"
http://video.mediaartcologne.org

2011 (at) coff.newmediafest.org
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EVENT

"Celebrate!" - netart features - 10 Years JavaMuseum


Dates:
Tue Feb 01, 2011 00:00 - Sat Apr 30, 2011

- Celebrate! -
netart features 2010
10 Years JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology
http://2010.javamuseum.org
Between 1 January  and 31 December 2010,
JavaMuseum was celebrating its 10th anniversary by releasing
the ongoing journal "Celebrate",
featuring 102 artists and including more than 300 netart pieces
Now after its completion, "Celebrate!" is representing another
excellent resource of netart created by JavaMuseum,
dedicated this time to the periode since 2004.
"Celebrate!" includes netart works by following artists
001.Lederman, Russet - 002.Perrin, Natalie - 003.Qohtaiwoo
004.Andre Sier - 005.Rebecca Young - 006.Ida Julsen
007.Erika Lincoln  - 008.José Vieira  - 009.Michael Cousin
010.Adam Trowbridge  - 011.xname  - 012.Ubermorgen.com
013.Marcello Mercado  - 014.Isabel Aranda Yto  - 015.Carmen Olmo
016.Jeremy Hight  - 017.Alan Bigelow  - 018.Mark Cypher
019.Aleksandar Janicijevic  - 020.Chris Basmajian
021.Jing Zhou  - 022.Grégoire Zabé  - 023.Marc Lee
024.Timo Kahlen  - 025.Curt Cloninger  - 026.Susanne Berkenheger
027.Jurgen Trautwein aka jtwine  - 028.Carlo Sansolo  - 029.Reginald Brooks
030.York Is Us Collective  - 031.AND-OR and Johannes Auer
032.Osvaldo Cibils  - 033.KPHB  - Philippe Bruneau  - 034.Ian Flitman
035.Katty Vandenberghe  - 036.Ethan Ham/Benjamin Rosenbaum
037. Adele Prince  - 038.Jihyun Ahn  - 039.Lily & Honglei
040.Christophe Bruchansky  - 041.Henri Gwiazda
042.Michael Takeo Magruder  - 043. Julian Konczak  - 044.Santo File
045.J.R.Carpenter  - 046.DLSAN  - 047.MEZ - Mary Anne Breeze
048.80/81  - 049.Gaya Gajewska  - 050.Pat Badani
051.Tirso Orive Liarte  - 052.Jane Crayton  - 053.Simon Fildes & Katrina McPherson
054.Andrea Polli  - 055.Indira Montoya  - 056.Gregory Chatonsky
057.Myriam Thyes  - 058.Tomas Rawski  - 059.ui uuii
060.Evelin Stermitz  - 061.David Boardman & Paolo Gerbaudo
062.Tamar Schori & Oded Perry  - 063.Calin Man  - 064.Lisa Cianci
065.Nanette Wylde  - 066.Dawid Marcinkowski  - 067.Greg Giannis
068.Constant Dullaart  - 069.Mike Ruiz  - 070.Videored Collective
071.Sean Hovendick  - 072.Roberto Echen  - 073.Nicole Stenger
074.Ayman Alazraq  - 075.Doron Golan  - 076.Westbrook/Trowbridge
077.Michiel Koelink  - 078.Dida Papalexandrou  - 079.Hyeseung Yoo
080.David Morneau  - 081.E.W.Walters  - 082.P. J. Moskal
083.Ana Carvalho  - 084.Ximena Alarcón  - 085.Mark Beasley
086.James B. Pollack  - 087.Panayiotis Payiatis  - 088.Miriam Needoba
089.Roderick Coover  - 090.Agam Andreas  - 091.Gonzalo Cueto
092.Stefan Baltensberger  - 093.Matias Giulani  - 094.Ernesto Rios Lanz
095.Aaron Oldenburg  - 096.Matthieu Cherubini  - 097.Volkslesen.tv
098.Andrei Thomaz & Martin Heuser  - 099.Yota Morimoto
100.Aleksandar Janicijevic  - 101.Vesna Srnic  - 102.David Colagiovanni
JavaMuseum and its creator and director
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne would like to thank all artists and supporters
for helping to establish "netart" as an art genre of its own. Time will show,
whether 10 Years of JavaMuseum activities will have such a desired lasting effect.
On 1 January 2011, JavaMuseum became part of the new museum of networked art
"Le Musee -di-visioniste", a virtual museum with extensions in physical space
which is currently under construction - http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
In this way, JavaMuseum will remain completely available online
as an historical monument and document, including the option to
face also recent developments occasionally.
You are invited to visit "Celebrate!" - netart features 2010
http://2010.javamuseum.org
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JavaMuseum - Forum of Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
http://www.javamuseum.org
corporate part of
Le Musee di-visioniste - the new museum of networked art
http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
info (at) javamuseum.org
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EVENT

CologneOFF 2011 --> February 2011


Dates:
Tue Feb 01, 2011 00:00 - Mon Feb 28, 2011

CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
nomadic festival project
1 January - 31 December 2011
http://coff.newmediafest.org
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After its official launch on 1 January 2011,
CologneOFF 2011 has now all basic components installed online
and it's ready for its physical and virtual tours around the world.
The virtual tour started when CologneOFF 2011 was launching on 6 Januaryits basic festival program - CologneOFF VI - Let's Celebrate
including all videos selected by the international jury
http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=153
The physical tour started on 26 January 2011 in the framework of
Rotterdam International Film Festival at CUCOSA Art Space Rotterdam
with the special selection "Attracted by the Opposite?"
more info on netMAXX http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=161
February 2011
1. virtual tour
geographical focus: USA
solo feature: Henry Gwiazda, USA
In February, CologneOFF 2011 starts its program series of videoart
from different geographical regions around the globe - with videoart fromNorthern America, basically USA.
The first released component represents the solo feature of 6 videos bythe US media artist - Henry Gwiazda, who is following his own individual artistic path.
In his animated 3D worlds he pays attention to the minimal physical and psychological movementsof his  protagonists in an everyday world, and makes hidden secrets visible,always fascinating the viewer who does not know what is coming next.
Henry Gwiazda's solo feature can be accessed via the main festival application on
http://coff.newmediafest.org, but also via
Screen 3 on http://www.nmartproject.net or
Screen 4 on http://www.newmediafrest.org
During February 2011, each week additional aspects of video art from Northern Americawill be posted and featured online.
2. physical tour
1.
Rotterdam continues until 6 February 2011
http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=161
2. CologneOFF 2011 is jumping to Finland presenting in collaboration withLive Herring 2011 two compilations under the themes
"Privat Space -Open Space?" & "Imagining the Real" to be presented between10 Feb and 31 March in Jyvaskyla and Keuruu - more info on netMAXXhttp://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=170
3. Between 18 and 20 February, CologneOFF 2011 is making a short visitin India, where CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity is being celebrated in Sattal,a place not far from New Delhi, but located deeply in the Himalaya mountains.
Agricola de Cologne, the creator and curator of CologneOFF 2011,
who is also co-curator of this event of digital art, is presenting CologneOFF 2011as it was previously shown on Delhi International Arts Festival 12-13 Dec 2010,consisting of the basic festival program CologneOFF VI and the programs by 5 curatorsincluded in the curatorial programs of CologneOFF 2011 -Margarida Paiva (Norway), Alysse Stepanian (USA),Pedro Almeida & Sergio Gomes (Portugal), Kai Lossgott (South Africa)and Giorgio Fedeli (Italy)
More details on netMAXX - http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=175
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CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
is organised online via multi screens.
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The Mains Screen 1 - http://coff.newmediafest.org
offers the entire project of CologneOFF 2011 in one single application
while the additional screens display individual components separately.
Here is the list of currently available screens
Main screen 1 - CologneOFF VI
http://coff.newmediafest.org
Screen 2 - interactive -
the interactive component of CologneOFF VI
http://www.javamuseum.org
Screen 3 - geographical
this monthly changing geographiocal focus is under construction, yet.
http://www.nmartproject.net
Screen 4 - solo features
from February 2011 on, each month an individual videoartist
from another country will be featured with a selection of 5 video works
http://www.newmediafest.org
Screen 5 - curatorial
will be containing all info and lists videos & artists
selected by about 40 participating curators, under construction
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
Screen 6 - topical
This screen is displaying from February 2011 on
each month  other video selections under different topics
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
Screen 7 - special
This screen will feature special videos from CologneOFF VI
and the future CologneOFF VII (see also the current call for entries)
http://cinema.nmartproject.net
Screen 8 - contextual updates & info
This is the festival blog where all textual info can be found
the ideal pleace to keep oneself updated
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/ (English)
http://2011.newmediafest.org (Deutsch)
Screen 9 - exhibition details
This screen will display the info about the programs of the
physical venues
http://maxx.nmartproject.net

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CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
nomadic festival project
1 January - 31 December 2011
powered by
artvideoKOELN  - the curatorial initiative
"art & moving images"
http://video.mediaartcologne.org
&
CologneOFF -
Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org
2011 (at) coff.newmediafest.org
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