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
memorial://april
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
{A Virtual Memorial} -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
~New Media art project environment~
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
.
commemorates in April 2004 -
the International Year to Commemorate
the struggle against Slavery and its Abolition -
.
09 April 1945 - Germany - execution of Dietrich
Bonhoefer
19 April 2004 Jom Hashoa
24 April 1915/2004 - Memorial Day for Genocide in Armenia
26 April 1986/2004 - Chernobyl Commemoration Day
30 April 1976/2004 - Vietnam - Reunification Day
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Table of Contents:
a) Features of the month April 2004
b) News
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New month - new subject
**********************************
b) ***Features of the Month
Subject--> Transit - transformation and movement
Feature--> Transit Camps
Featured Artist--> Fluid - net based project by Avi Ventura
ArtObject--> Go to the mountain top
Man--> Dalai Lama
Animal--> Mountain Gorilla
People--> Sinti and Roma
Chernobyl--> ]and_scape[
Chernobyl --> Poems by Liubov Sirota
City:--> Saigon
Desease--> Mouth & Foot Desease
***********************************
b) News in April
1.
on 11 March, the horrible terror attack in Madrid/Spain took place.
In order to commemorate the victims -->
"Memorial for the Victims of Terror"
is open for artists submissions.
Please find the submission form on
www.a-virtual-memorial.org/terrormemorial.htm
2.
On 5 March - {A Virtual Memorial} launched officially
.[R][R][F] 2004--->XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
online and in physical space at
National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest/Romania
www.mnac.ro/net.htm,
Electronic Arts Center Bergen/Norway www.bek.no and
finally at New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand
http://thailand.culturebase.org
(20-28 March).
.
Due to its success, the show in Bucharest
has been meanwhile prolonged until 30 April 2004
.
[R][R][F] 2004--->XP is an experimental
New Media art environment focussing on three main aspects
-->
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 during 2004and 2005.
Detailled information are available
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
See also the suit of calls to be accessed on
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
*****************************************
Until the next time
all the best,
.
{A Virtual Memorial}
www.a-virtual-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
info@a-virtual-memorial.org
.
corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
-the experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany
.
copyright
{A Virtual Memorial} -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
~New Media art project environment~
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
.
commemorates in April 2004 -
the International Year to Commemorate
the struggle against Slavery and its Abolition -
.
09 April 1945 - Germany - execution of Dietrich
Bonhoefer
19 April 2004 Jom Hashoa
24 April 1915/2004 - Memorial Day for Genocide in Armenia
26 April 1986/2004 - Chernobyl Commemoration Day
30 April 1976/2004 - Vietnam - Reunification Day
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////////
Table of Contents:
a) Features of the month April 2004
b) News
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////
**********************************
New month - new subject
**********************************
b) ***Features of the Month
Subject--> Transit - transformation and movement
Feature--> Transit Camps
Featured Artist--> Fluid - net based project by Avi Ventura
ArtObject--> Go to the mountain top
Man--> Dalai Lama
Animal--> Mountain Gorilla
People--> Sinti and Roma
Chernobyl--> ]and_scape[
Chernobyl --> Poems by Liubov Sirota
City:--> Saigon
Desease--> Mouth & Foot Desease
***********************************
b) News in April
1.
on 11 March, the horrible terror attack in Madrid/Spain took place.
In order to commemorate the victims -->
"Memorial for the Victims of Terror"
is open for artists submissions.
Please find the submission form on
www.a-virtual-memorial.org/terrormemorial.htm
2.
On 5 March - {A Virtual Memorial} launched officially
.[R][R][F] 2004--->XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
online and in physical space at
National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest/Romania
www.mnac.ro/net.htm,
Electronic Arts Center Bergen/Norway www.bek.no and
finally at New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand
http://thailand.culturebase.org
(20-28 March).
.
Due to its success, the show in Bucharest
has been meanwhile prolonged until 30 April 2004
.
[R][R][F] 2004--->XP is an experimental
New Media art environment focussing on three main aspects
-->
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 during 2004and 2005.
Detailled information are available
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
See also the suit of calls to be accessed on
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
*****************************************
Until the next time
all the best,
.
{A Virtual Memorial}
www.a-virtual-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
info@a-virtual-memorial.org
.
corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
-the experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany
.
copyright
Recent Interviews by Agricola de Cologne
Recent Interviews by Agricola de Cologne
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30 March-->
TekneMedia (Torino/Italy)
Interview (text in Italian/English)
http://www.teknemedia.net/
http://www.teknemedia.net/magazine/dettagli.html?magazine_id'0
20 March-->
Polvo Magazine Chicago (extract from the printed version)
http://www.subaltern.org/magpage3.htm
15 March--->
Santillana Universitad (Spain)
Net zine - El Batiscafo
Article based on an interview (Spanish language)
http://mpd2003.gssi.es/user/template2/pages/articulo.php?id_seccion=4&id_articulo9&id_periodico
Previous interviews can be found online on:
Interview on Gluebalize - ASAC of Venice Biennale - www.gluebalize.com
Interview on Artcogitans -
http://www.artcogitans.com/Interview/AgricoladeCologne.pdf
Interview on AWCR.org www.awcr.org/interview001.htm
Interview on Wigged.net (Seth Thompson) -
http://www.wigged.net/html/news/cologne/cologne.html
Argentine Television Canal (a) - Arteweb - Interview - -now on AGRICOLA TV
http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de/tv/inter001/index.html
Interview on Soundtoys -
http://www.soundtoys.net/a/journal/texts/interview/agricola.html
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
experimental platform for netbased art -
operating from Cologne/Germany
info@nmartproject.net
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
30 March-->
TekneMedia (Torino/Italy)
Interview (text in Italian/English)
http://www.teknemedia.net/
http://www.teknemedia.net/magazine/dettagli.html?magazine_id'0
20 March-->
Polvo Magazine Chicago (extract from the printed version)
http://www.subaltern.org/magpage3.htm
15 March--->
Santillana Universitad (Spain)
Net zine - El Batiscafo
Article based on an interview (Spanish language)
http://mpd2003.gssi.es/user/template2/pages/articulo.php?id_seccion=4&id_articulo9&id_periodico
Previous interviews can be found online on:
Interview on Gluebalize - ASAC of Venice Biennale - www.gluebalize.com
Interview on Artcogitans -
http://www.artcogitans.com/Interview/AgricoladeCologne.pdf
Interview on AWCR.org www.awcr.org/interview001.htm
Interview on Wigged.net (Seth Thompson) -
http://www.wigged.net/html/news/cologne/cologne.html
Argentine Television Canal (a) - Arteweb - Interview - -now on AGRICOLA TV
http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de/tv/inter001/index.html
Interview on Soundtoys -
http://www.soundtoys.net/a/journal/texts/interview/agricola.html
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
experimental platform for netbased art -
operating from Cologne/Germany
info@nmartproject.net
JavaMuseum ://updates
JavaMuseum://updates
*******************
JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org
**********************
announces:
1. Some sad new arrived recently, as
Ana Maria Uribe, web and poetry artist from Argentina
died on 5 March at a young age.
Ana Maria Uribe participated in the feature
"LatinoNetarte.net -
Netart from Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal"
and could unfortunately not follow
planned collaborations in future projects.
We all will miss her.
JavaMuseum will post in short a small Memorial page
in order to keep vivid the Memory of this artist
in the framework of its net based art environment.
2.
The latest update of the show:
--> "Current Positions of French Netart".
www.javamuseum.org or
www.javamuseum.org/2002/2nd/frenchfeature
is online now,
featuring currently 54 artists and two new additions
--->Armelle Aulestia and 20000 Volt.
3.
Since 20 March online and featured recently during
New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand
(20-28 March) in the framework of
[R][R][F] 2004--->XP
--->"I-Ocean - Netart from all Asia and Pacific area"
featuring currently 34 artists from Hawai, Australia, New Zealand,
China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, India
Iran, Lebanon and Israel
4.
The next features of JavaMuseum
will be launched in coming May
--> Netart from Northern European Countries
-->Netart from Spain
realised and organised by Agricola de Cologne.
Copyright
*******************
JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org
**********************
announces:
1. Some sad new arrived recently, as
Ana Maria Uribe, web and poetry artist from Argentina
died on 5 March at a young age.
Ana Maria Uribe participated in the feature
"LatinoNetarte.net -
Netart from Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal"
and could unfortunately not follow
planned collaborations in future projects.
We all will miss her.
JavaMuseum will post in short a small Memorial page
in order to keep vivid the Memory of this artist
in the framework of its net based art environment.
2.
The latest update of the show:
--> "Current Positions of French Netart".
www.javamuseum.org or
www.javamuseum.org/2002/2nd/frenchfeature
is online now,
featuring currently 54 artists and two new additions
--->Armelle Aulestia and 20000 Volt.
3.
Since 20 March online and featured recently during
New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand
(20-28 March) in the framework of
[R][R][F] 2004--->XP
--->"I-Ocean - Netart from all Asia and Pacific area"
featuring currently 34 artists from Hawai, Australia, New Zealand,
China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, India
Iran, Lebanon and Israel
4.
The next features of JavaMuseum
will be launched in coming May
--> Netart from Northern European Countries
-->Netart from Spain
realised and organised by Agricola de Cologne.
Copyright
E-Journal vol.1 - Raul Ferrera-Balanquet curates "In[ter]vencion"
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP ~ E-Journal - Vol.1
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[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
global networking project
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/
announces the first edition of
.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP ~ E-Journal,
an extension of the global networking project,
will be edited periodically
in order to feature projects, curators, artists and other networking
instances
on a textual information basis.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
E-Journal Vol.1 - Features
.
1. Raul Ferrera-Balanquet curates "In[ter]vencion"
2. [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP - News!!
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1. Raul Ferrera-Balanquet curates "In[ter]vencion"
.
"In[ter]vencion"
is the title of Raul Ferrera-Balanquet's
curatorial contribution to [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/
or direct access also via
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/rrfv2.htm
.
Curator: Raul Ferrera-Balanquet
Selected artists:
1. Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil)
2. Ricardo Baez (Venezuela)
3. Santiago Perez Alfaro (Mexico)
4. Eduardo Nava (El Salvador/USA)
5. Juan Devis and OnRamp Arts (Colombia/USA)
6. Alex Riviera (Peru/USA)
.
In[ter]vencion
Essay by Raul Ferrera Balanquet
.
Navigating up the stream of data flow in the current state of disinformation
requires an extreme cultural training. The constant manipulation of
stereotypical images -the image of the terrorist is a good example-, the
increase of access to the information networks in the so called "third
world", and the imposition of English as a dominant language in network
technologies are workings to erase the fight for preserving and renovating
our cultural traditions.
In[ter]vencion presents six Latinos artists living in diverse regions of the
Americas: Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela and Los Angeles, all of them Latinos
territories. This curatorial effort creates a glimpse to a body of work
produced by cultural warriors of their own time who, as conscious of the
need for cultural intervention in the space of flow, have confronted the
language and technological dominant paradimgs to employ interventionist
tactics such as the game, the electronic magazine, the recycling of the
database and the reconstruction of traditions. No matter how difficult is to
be a net artist; we are here, overcoming the obstacles, perpetuating,
recycling and creating the digital myths of Las Americas.
.
About the curator:
Raul Ferrera-Balanquet
was born in Havana, Cuba in 1958. MFA, Multimedia and Video Art Department,
University of Iowa, 1992. Ferrera-Balanquet has curated major media arts
exhibits in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico, among them
InteractivA'03 and 01 for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACAY), Merida,
Yucatan. Mexico, 2001 and 2003; "Huellas de un Corazon Sangrante en
Tropicana", MIX-Brazil, for the Museum of Sound and Image, Sao Paulo,
Brazil; "Videos That Unmask, Test and Invade the Colonial System", Program
I, Video In, Vancouver B.C., Canada. He has exhibited his work at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, Randolph Street Gallery-Chicago, Brisbane
Powerhouse Art center, Australia, Video IN-Vancouver, Canada, Museo de Arte
Actual, Bogota, Colombia, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Centro de
Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACAY),
Merida, Mexico. In addition to a Fulbright Fellowship, Ferrera-Balanquet has
been awarded grants from US/Mexico Cultural Fund, Moon Radio Webtv
Commission, The Australian Network of Art and Technology, the National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA), The Lyn Blumenthal Video Foundation, and the
Noetic Science Institute/Fetzer Institute. His writings have appeared in the
Australian based The Media Circus Reader, Artpapers, Radical Teacher,
Cinematograph, Felix, the Mexican literary magazine El Juglar, the Miami
based Perra! La Revista and the British/German art magazine Guestroom.
The selected artists:
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1.
Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil)
About artist/work
Giselle Beiguelman is a new media artist and multimedia essayist from Brazil
who teaches
Digital Culture at the Graduation Program in Communication and Semiotics of
PUC-SP (Sao Paulo, Brazil).
Work:
Her work, entitled "Poetrica" is an investigation about
reading and reception in cybrid and entropy situations. It involves a series
of visual poems conceived by myself with non-fonetic fonts (dings and system
fonts) and a teleintervention mediated by creations made by the public using
the same typographic background.
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2
Ricardo Baez (Venezuela)
About artist/work
Born in Caraca, Venezuela, 1950. M.A. in Mathematics, University
of San Diego, 1978.
His work "Los Diablos Danzantes de Yare" (The Dancing Devils of Yare).
is a colorful festivity on occasion of Corpus Christi
at San Francisco de Yare, a small town close to Caracas, symbolizing the
eternal struggle between Good and Evil. Its roots may be traced back to the
Middle Ages in Europe.
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3.
Santiago Esteban Perez Alfaro (Mexico)
About artist/work
Born in Merida, Yucatan, 1984. Computer technictian graduated
from Centro de Bachilleres Tecnologicos Industriales y de Servicios (CBTIS)
No. 120. He studies Computer System at the Instituto Tecnologico de Merida.
His work, entitled "Ti' Kiimil" (From Death)
is representing the hybrid colonial process Mayan-Spanish, a
traditional altar become the point of departure of this imaginary collective
landscape that measure the dimensionality of the sky (Ka'an), the underworld
(Mitnal) and the traditions around death, which have survived colonial times
and take place during October 31 and November 1 and 2 in the state of
Yucatan, Mexico.
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3
Eduardo Navas (El Salvador/USA)
About artist/work
Navas started to develop on-line projects in 1997.
Eduardo Navas received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design
(1998), and his MFA from California Institute of the Arts (2000).
His work, entittled "Re_cycled_Views"
is a project appropriating previously
published critical writings in Net Art Review,
an online collaborative that was founded in February of 2003 as a public
resource for
diverse Web and Internet communities to learn about and share their
interests in Net Art and its crossover to the wider New Media Field.
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4
Juan Devis and OnRamp Arts (Colombia/USA)
About artist/work
Colombian-born Juan Devis writes, directs, and produces collaborative
multimedia projects focusing on social and political accountability.
OnRamp Arts is a digital arts organization in central Los Angeles that
creates, produces and distributes collaborative new media projects with
community members and artists.
His work: "Tropical America" is an online video game
that traces the genesis of the 1981
massacre of El Mozote in El Salvador. It fuses the new world of video games
to a compelling past through a journey to unravel the mysteries of the
Americas. Developed in collaboration with Los Angeles artists, teachers,
writers and high school students, the game features a bilingual, thematic
gameplay, accompanied by an online database of educational resource
materials, source texts and imagery.
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5.
Alex Riviera (Peru/USA)
About artist/work
Alex Rivera is a New York based digital media artist and
filmmaker. Through the past 5 years he,s made work in digital video and on
the internet that addresses concerns of the Latino community through a
language of humor, satire, and metaphor.
His work, entitled: "Invisible America" is not a web site. IA is a media
company, a corporation,
and a nation. IA's mission is to use any and all forms of media -internet,
animation, documentary, narrative- to contemplate our new, twisted, and
ultimately surreal American Reality. Invisible America is the home of
"Satirical Realism."
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2. News
a)
First some really sad news-->
Ana Maria Uribe, net and poetry artist from Argentina
http://amuribe.tripod.com
http://vispo.com/uribe
died on 5 March, before she was able to join
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP - Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina.
.
b)
Due to ist success,
the physical show/presentation of [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
at National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest/Romania
www.mnac.ro/net.htm
has been prolonged until 30 April 2004.
.
c) A comprehensive article about [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
was published on 15 March on Net-Zine
"El Batiscafo"
http://mpd2003.gssi.es/user/template2/pages/articulo.php?id_seccion=4&id_articulo9&id_periodico
Santillana University (Spain)
.
d)
On 17 March,
Agricola de Cologne was talking about his project
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP during the NetMeeting at
The University of Illinois at Chicago - School of Art and
Design (M/C 036) Electronic Visualization Laboratory
http://www.evl.uic.edu/seminar/index.php3
.
e)
on 26 March
Agricola TV published --->
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
video lecture by Agricola de Cologne
realized on occasion of the presentation on
New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand
(20-28 March)
www.agricola-de-cologne.de/tv/agricola_lecture.html
.
*******************************************
[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/
rrf2004@newmediafest.org
.
As a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||Cologne,
the project will develop and operate until deep in the year 2005.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
///////////////////
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
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
global networking project
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/
announces the first edition of
.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP ~ E-Journal,
an extension of the global networking project,
will be edited periodically
in order to feature projects, curators, artists and other networking
instances
on a textual information basis.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
E-Journal Vol.1 - Features
.
1. Raul Ferrera-Balanquet curates "In[ter]vencion"
2. [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP - News!!
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1. Raul Ferrera-Balanquet curates "In[ter]vencion"
.
"In[ter]vencion"
is the title of Raul Ferrera-Balanquet's
curatorial contribution to [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/
or direct access also via
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/rrfv2.htm
.
Curator: Raul Ferrera-Balanquet
Selected artists:
1. Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil)
2. Ricardo Baez (Venezuela)
3. Santiago Perez Alfaro (Mexico)
4. Eduardo Nava (El Salvador/USA)
5. Juan Devis and OnRamp Arts (Colombia/USA)
6. Alex Riviera (Peru/USA)
.
In[ter]vencion
Essay by Raul Ferrera Balanquet
.
Navigating up the stream of data flow in the current state of disinformation
requires an extreme cultural training. The constant manipulation of
stereotypical images -the image of the terrorist is a good example-, the
increase of access to the information networks in the so called "third
world", and the imposition of English as a dominant language in network
technologies are workings to erase the fight for preserving and renovating
our cultural traditions.
In[ter]vencion presents six Latinos artists living in diverse regions of the
Americas: Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela and Los Angeles, all of them Latinos
territories. This curatorial effort creates a glimpse to a body of work
produced by cultural warriors of their own time who, as conscious of the
need for cultural intervention in the space of flow, have confronted the
language and technological dominant paradimgs to employ interventionist
tactics such as the game, the electronic magazine, the recycling of the
database and the reconstruction of traditions. No matter how difficult is to
be a net artist; we are here, overcoming the obstacles, perpetuating,
recycling and creating the digital myths of Las Americas.
.
About the curator:
Raul Ferrera-Balanquet
was born in Havana, Cuba in 1958. MFA, Multimedia and Video Art Department,
University of Iowa, 1992. Ferrera-Balanquet has curated major media arts
exhibits in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico, among them
InteractivA'03 and 01 for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACAY), Merida,
Yucatan. Mexico, 2001 and 2003; "Huellas de un Corazon Sangrante en
Tropicana", MIX-Brazil, for the Museum of Sound and Image, Sao Paulo,
Brazil; "Videos That Unmask, Test and Invade the Colonial System", Program
I, Video In, Vancouver B.C., Canada. He has exhibited his work at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, Randolph Street Gallery-Chicago, Brisbane
Powerhouse Art center, Australia, Video IN-Vancouver, Canada, Museo de Arte
Actual, Bogota, Colombia, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Centro de
Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACAY),
Merida, Mexico. In addition to a Fulbright Fellowship, Ferrera-Balanquet has
been awarded grants from US/Mexico Cultural Fund, Moon Radio Webtv
Commission, The Australian Network of Art and Technology, the National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA), The Lyn Blumenthal Video Foundation, and the
Noetic Science Institute/Fetzer Institute. His writings have appeared in the
Australian based The Media Circus Reader, Artpapers, Radical Teacher,
Cinematograph, Felix, the Mexican literary magazine El Juglar, the Miami
based Perra! La Revista and the British/German art magazine Guestroom.
The selected artists:
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1.
Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil)
About artist/work
Giselle Beiguelman is a new media artist and multimedia essayist from Brazil
who teaches
Digital Culture at the Graduation Program in Communication and Semiotics of
PUC-SP (Sao Paulo, Brazil).
Work:
Her work, entitled "Poetrica" is an investigation about
reading and reception in cybrid and entropy situations. It involves a series
of visual poems conceived by myself with non-fonetic fonts (dings and system
fonts) and a teleintervention mediated by creations made by the public using
the same typographic background.
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2
Ricardo Baez (Venezuela)
About artist/work
Born in Caraca, Venezuela, 1950. M.A. in Mathematics, University
of San Diego, 1978.
His work "Los Diablos Danzantes de Yare" (The Dancing Devils of Yare).
is a colorful festivity on occasion of Corpus Christi
at San Francisco de Yare, a small town close to Caracas, symbolizing the
eternal struggle between Good and Evil. Its roots may be traced back to the
Middle Ages in Europe.
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3.
Santiago Esteban Perez Alfaro (Mexico)
About artist/work
Born in Merida, Yucatan, 1984. Computer technictian graduated
from Centro de Bachilleres Tecnologicos Industriales y de Servicios (CBTIS)
No. 120. He studies Computer System at the Instituto Tecnologico de Merida.
His work, entitled "Ti' Kiimil" (From Death)
is representing the hybrid colonial process Mayan-Spanish, a
traditional altar become the point of departure of this imaginary collective
landscape that measure the dimensionality of the sky (Ka'an), the underworld
(Mitnal) and the traditions around death, which have survived colonial times
and take place during October 31 and November 1 and 2 in the state of
Yucatan, Mexico.
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3
Eduardo Navas (El Salvador/USA)
About artist/work
Navas started to develop on-line projects in 1997.
Eduardo Navas received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design
(1998), and his MFA from California Institute of the Arts (2000).
His work, entittled "Re_cycled_Views"
is a project appropriating previously
published critical writings in Net Art Review,
an online collaborative that was founded in February of 2003 as a public
resource for
diverse Web and Internet communities to learn about and share their
interests in Net Art and its crossover to the wider New Media Field.
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4
Juan Devis and OnRamp Arts (Colombia/USA)
About artist/work
Colombian-born Juan Devis writes, directs, and produces collaborative
multimedia projects focusing on social and political accountability.
OnRamp Arts is a digital arts organization in central Los Angeles that
creates, produces and distributes collaborative new media projects with
community members and artists.
His work: "Tropical America" is an online video game
that traces the genesis of the 1981
massacre of El Mozote in El Salvador. It fuses the new world of video games
to a compelling past through a journey to unravel the mysteries of the
Americas. Developed in collaboration with Los Angeles artists, teachers,
writers and high school students, the game features a bilingual, thematic
gameplay, accompanied by an online database of educational resource
materials, source texts and imagery.
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5.
Alex Riviera (Peru/USA)
About artist/work
Alex Rivera is a New York based digital media artist and
filmmaker. Through the past 5 years he,s made work in digital video and on
the internet that addresses concerns of the Latino community through a
language of humor, satire, and metaphor.
His work, entitled: "Invisible America" is not a web site. IA is a media
company, a corporation,
and a nation. IA's mission is to use any and all forms of media -internet,
animation, documentary, narrative- to contemplate our new, twisted, and
ultimately surreal American Reality. Invisible America is the home of
"Satirical Realism."
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2. News
a)
First some really sad news-->
Ana Maria Uribe, net and poetry artist from Argentina
http://amuribe.tripod.com
http://vispo.com/uribe
died on 5 March, before she was able to join
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP - Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina.
.
b)
Due to ist success,
the physical show/presentation of [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
at National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest/Romania
www.mnac.ro/net.htm
has been prolonged until 30 April 2004.
.
c) A comprehensive article about [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
was published on 15 March on Net-Zine
"El Batiscafo"
http://mpd2003.gssi.es/user/template2/pages/articulo.php?id_seccion=4&id_articulo9&id_periodico
Santillana University (Spain)
.
d)
On 17 March,
Agricola de Cologne was talking about his project
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP during the NetMeeting at
The University of Illinois at Chicago - School of Art and
Design (M/C 036) Electronic Visualization Laboratory
http://www.evl.uic.edu/seminar/index.php3
.
e)
on 26 March
Agricola TV published --->
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
video lecture by Agricola de Cologne
realized on occasion of the presentation on
New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand
(20-28 March)
www.agricola-de-cologne.de/tv/agricola_lecture.html
.
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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/
rrf2004@newmediafest.org
.
As a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||Cologne,
the project will develop and operate until deep in the year 2005.
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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
New feature: I-Ocean - Netart from all Asia & Pacific area
[Press Release]
.
JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org
.
is happy to launch its next net.art feature in 2004, entitled
"I-Ocean // Netart from all Asia & Pacific area",
this time on occasion of
NewMedia Art Festival Bangkok/ Thailand (20-28 March)
http://thailand.culturebase.org
in the framework of
[R][R][F] 2004 -->XP-
the global networking project
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/index.html
.
These are the participating artists
--->
Nancy Mauro-Flude, Kirsty Boyle, MEZ
Norie Neumark& Maria Miranda, , Melissa Rackham
Jason Sweeney, Luke Duncalfe,
Komninos Zervos, Lisa Cianci, Lisa Gye
Francesca da Rimini , Mireille Astore, Ricardo Mbarak
Adam Nash, Geniwate, Robert Finder,
John Johnston, May Trubuhovich
Winston Yang, 8gg.com, Sachiko Hayashi,
Kenji Siratori, Eric van Hove
Roopesh Sitharan, Nazrin, Wirecrossing, Tsunamii.net,
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Downwind Productions, Shilpa Gupta
Shirin Kouladjie, Gita Hashemi, Haleh Niazmand,
Post Exile Collective Avi Rosen, Tamar Shori
.
The show can be entered via
www.javamuseum.org
or also directly via
www.javamuseum.org/2004/asiafeature/index.html
.
The show is realized and organised by Agricola de Cologne
for
JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org
.
Flash 7 plug-in/player required
and some other plugins as Quicktime, Real and Cortona (3D)
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Artists who are not participating, yet
are invited to make their submission
at any time to this ongoing show.
The entry form can be found on
www.javamuseum.org/2004/asiafeature/index.html
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Visit also the show cases of
1.
I-Islands -
Netart from Great Britain and Ireland (online since January 2004)
on
www.javamuseum.org/2004/asiafeature/index.html
2.
"Perspectives'03" - competition and show 2003
and the winners of JavaArtist of the Year Award 2003
on
www.javamuseum.org/2003/perspectives03/index.html
3.
"I-Highway - Netart from Canada" on
www.javamuseum.org/2003/canadafeature/index.html
4.
"I-rivers" - Netart form German speaking countries
on 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
6.
"Current Positions of Italian Netart" on
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
and much more on
www.javamuseum.org
************************
JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org
info@javamuseum.org
is corporate member of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
- the experimental platform for netbased art -
operating from Cologne/Germany.
.
JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org
.
is happy to launch its next net.art feature in 2004, entitled
"I-Ocean // Netart from all Asia & Pacific area",
this time on occasion of
NewMedia Art Festival Bangkok/ Thailand (20-28 March)
http://thailand.culturebase.org
in the framework of
[R][R][F] 2004 -->XP-
the global networking project
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/index.html
.
These are the participating artists
--->
Nancy Mauro-Flude, Kirsty Boyle, MEZ
Norie Neumark& Maria Miranda, , Melissa Rackham
Jason Sweeney, Luke Duncalfe,
Komninos Zervos, Lisa Cianci, Lisa Gye
Francesca da Rimini , Mireille Astore, Ricardo Mbarak
Adam Nash, Geniwate, Robert Finder,
John Johnston, May Trubuhovich
Winston Yang, 8gg.com, Sachiko Hayashi,
Kenji Siratori, Eric van Hove
Roopesh Sitharan, Nazrin, Wirecrossing, Tsunamii.net,
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Downwind Productions, Shilpa Gupta
Shirin Kouladjie, Gita Hashemi, Haleh Niazmand,
Post Exile Collective Avi Rosen, Tamar Shori
.
The show can be entered via
www.javamuseum.org
or also directly via
www.javamuseum.org/2004/asiafeature/index.html
.
The show is realized and organised by Agricola de Cologne
for
JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org
.
Flash 7 plug-in/player required
and some other plugins as Quicktime, Real and Cortona (3D)
***************************
Artists who are not participating, yet
are invited to make their submission
at any time to this ongoing show.
The entry form can be found on
www.javamuseum.org/2004/asiafeature/index.html
***************************
Visit also the show cases of
1.
I-Islands -
Netart from Great Britain and Ireland (online since January 2004)
on
www.javamuseum.org/2004/asiafeature/index.html
2.
"Perspectives'03" - competition and show 2003
and the winners of JavaArtist of the Year Award 2003
on
www.javamuseum.org/2003/perspectives03/index.html
3.
"I-Highway - Netart from Canada" on
www.javamuseum.org/2003/canadafeature/index.html
4.
"I-rivers" - Netart form German speaking countries
on 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
6.
"Current Positions of Italian Netart" on
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
and much more on
www.javamuseum.org
************************
JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org
info@javamuseum.org
is corporate member of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
- the experimental platform for netbased art -
operating from Cologne/Germany.