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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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AVM News - November 2003


November 2003

A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne

**Hot Memory page**
features this month
Shilpa Gupta (India) and her net based project
"diamondsandyou.co"
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Table of Contents:
a) Call for entries
b) News
c) Features of the month November 2003
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a) Call for entries:
Rainforest Memorial -
5 minutes before 12 - Memorial for the protection and preservation of the
natural environment on Earth and its inhabitans
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Deadline 28 November for being included on 1 December
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please find the complete text and the entry form on
start page of www.a-virtual-memorial.org

Rainforest Memorial will be included in the
new global networking project "[R][R][F] 2004 -
initiated by A Virtual Memorial -
which will start on Biennale de Paris 2004 in February 2004
and will be operating until the end of 2004.
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b) News in November
1. Call for artists submissions for "My Mission".
More details on
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/exhibitionhall/2003/self/mymission.htm

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

2. [NewMediaArtprojectNetwork] :||cologne,
[R]-[R]-[F] Festival www.newmediafest.org/rrf/
Version 1.0 of the new festival environment of A Virtual Memorial
and
Violence Online Festival www.newmediafest.org/violence
are participating in MAD'03 - Experimental Art Festival Madrid (Spain)
www.mad03.net

3.. "Hot Memory " page features this month again another artist
who is accepted to participate in future versions of [R]-[R]-[F] Festival
but is still waiting. This feature will help to abbreviate the time of
waiting:

Shilpa Gupta (India) and her net based work "diamondsandyou.co"
Entrance on www.a-virtual-memorial.org

4. En
 ed
http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume6/encoded.html
( a net based work originating from A Virtual Memorial)
participates in MAEM Festival Madrid-Mostoles(Spain)
http://w3art.es/maem/
(needs DSL Internet connection)

5. Urban.early sunday morning_raw
http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume6/urban.html
( a net based work originating from A Virtual Memorial)
is participating in
*Nth ArtExhibitit.001 - Nth Art Collective London/UK - www.nth-art.org
and *Moving Media Multiplicator Vienna (Austria) - www.mmm.ok.ag
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New month - new subject
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c) ***Features of the Month

The month November 2003 is dedicated to
to the Victims of State Terror

Memorial days in November

2003 International Year of Fresh Water

04 November 1995 - Yitzak Rabbin assassinated
07 November 1917 - Begin October Revolution Russia
09 November 1938 - Kristall Nacht - Night of Broken Glass
09 November 1989 - Fall of Berlin Wall
16 November 2003 - International Day of Tolerance

*The Features of the Month are monthly changing
collections of multimedia works and links which form in the
totality of the composition an artwork of theirown
to be created on a webpage of theirown
within the Memorial project.*
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Subject of the Month:
A never ending nightmare -
Commemorating the Victims of State Terror

Camp1 - Artist of the Month
--> Raquel Partnoy
Camp2 - Project of the Month
--> Memorial for the Victims of <state>Terror
Camp3 --> Elie Wiesel speeches
Camp4 --> Night of Broken Glass
Camp5 --> 54 Synagogues
Camp6 --> Gulag - an instument of state terror
Camp7 --> Genocide - a result of state terror
Camp8 --> Degenerated Artist - Felix Nussbaum
Camp9 --> Terezin
Camp10 --> Mortabene
Camp11 --> Lodz - Witnesses of Eternity
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Until the next time
all the best,

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

Optimized for 1024x768 VGA resolution,
latest browser versions of
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is a free InformationService of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
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[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
-the experimental platform net based art -

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DISCUSSION

Call for entries


A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org

calls artists for contributing to
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rainforest Memorial -
5 minutes before 12 - Memorial for the protection and preservation of the
natural environment on Earth and its inhabitans
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Deadline 20 November for launch on 1 December
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes, when there are new horror news about the environmental situation
on Earth, sometimes when we hear one of our favorite animals or plants are
threatened with instinct, be honest, most of us swear to become actively
somehow in order to do something for the preservation of our natural
enviroment, but when these reports are out of news, the daily life goes on
as if nothing had happened.

The Rainforest as one of the most important and endangered natural
environments represents a symbol for the entire threatened nature and the
indigenous peoples who are living in, each of these enviroments are much
closer to us than we think. The human himself is said to be his biggest
enemy, so it is up to all of us to protect the world we are living in and
safe and preserve it for future generations to prevent such negative effects
of globalization as exploitation of the natural resources through globally
operating companies, for instance, which work only for there private or
corporate profit on short notice,
but not for longterm social and public benefit.

The Rainforest Memorial would like to invite artists of all genre and media
but also any other people who feel solidarian
to take another short second of responsability by contributing an artwork,
a privat or political statement etc
and express this way the active solidarity against the insane desctruction
of the natural environment on Earth.

Art, as such, cannot change the world, but art can support the will to make
the changes, changes which are necassary for mankind to survive in an
environment which is worth to be living in.

Please submit your work or statement in one of the following digital file
formats:

URL of an existing net based work
text: .plain email or .txt
image: .jpg, .gif, png
max size 800x600 pixels and 200 Kb
movie: .mov (Quicktime), rm,ram (Real Video)
.swf (Flash), .dcr (Shockwave)
max. size 1MB

All serious submissions will be included.

Please send your submission together with your
1.First and family name
2. email address and homepage URL
3. Work title
4. Work URL or mediafiles
to rainforestmemorial@a-virtual-memorial.org

Deadline 20 November, if you want to be included
when the project is launched onlne on 1 December
afterwards the project will be ongoing and
submission will be included immediately.

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Visit also the
Memorial for the Victims of Terror
and
Memorial for the Victims of Aids
and
[R]-[R]-[F] Festival
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
on
A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org

corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne

DISCUSSION

"My mission" and {self}_representation


Le Musee di-visioniste
www.-le-musee-divisioniste.org

informs:

On 30 September,
le Musee di-visioniste launched the large show
"{self}_representation 2003"
including the new initiated net based ongoing project
---> "My Mission"
collection of textual self-representations in form of artistic
statements.

The statements of these artists had been added meanwhile:

Daniel Young, David Crawford, Cendres Lavy
Gita Hashemi, Barry Smylie, Sergeij Jakovlev
Igor Ulanovsky, Rene Joseph, Mr. Robert Montini
Robin Miller, Eva Lewarne, Eric Van Hove
Jorn Ebner, Dr. Hugo, Wendy Lu
Richard Ellis, Harriet Jameson Pellizzari, RAnders
Xavier Malbreil, Graham Thompson, Alvaro Ardevol
Lisa Ndejuru , Cezar Lazarescu, Julie Andreyev
Carla Della Beffa, Catherine Daly,
Xavier Pehuet, Kristin Calabrese, Solveig Kjok
Michael Crane, Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, Blair Butterfield
Anthony Lealand, gintas k, Luigia Cardarelli
Ksenija Kovacevic

Enter the project via
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org or
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/start1.htm
or go directly also to:
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/exhibitionhall/2003/self/mymission.htm

But there are much more artists who have a mission.
Come and join the project by responding to this call:

"My Mission" - call for submissions
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"{self}_representation 2003" -
the new show on Le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org or
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/start1.htm
- launched on 30 september 2003 -

invites artists to submit to the recently initiated project
"My Mission",
collection of textual self-representations in form of artistic statements.

Please send your statement as a short text in plain email format (not more
than 500 words),
how you see your mission as an artist, if you have any.

"My mission" is an ongoing project with an open end, so you can send your
statement at any time. No deadline.

All serious submissions will be immediately included.

Please send your submission to
info@le-musee-divisioniste.org
subject line: My Mission

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"{self}_representation 2003"
is curated by Agricola de Cologne

for Le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
- corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne -
the experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany.

DISCUSSION

Violence - Version 9.0


Violence Online Festival
www.newmediafest.org/violence/

is happy to launch its latest version online, eg
Version 9.0

on 24 October 2003
on occasion of the opening and the participation in
MAD'03 - Festival for Electronic Art Madrid /Spain
24 October - 14 November 2003
www.mad03.net

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Violence really goes round - and now already for the second year -
join and celebrate together 300 participating artists virtually!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Violence Online Festival
is an ongoing New Media art project in form of an online festival based on
participatory and networking components, created, curated and organised by
Agricola de Cologne,
media artist and New Media curator operating from Cologne (Germany).
Meanwhile more than 300 artists from 42 countries
reflect the phenomenon of violence from all its aspects.

The project was initiated for and formed the online part of
Violence Festival 2002 Tabor (Czech Republic) and was launched online on 10
August 2002.
Now, more than one year later Violence Online Festival is proud to
launch Version 9.0,

including a new department of "Violence Media Incorporated"
----> Violence Library
which will be collecting papers, articles etc of authors
who deal with the multi-facets of violence.
And these are the first authors included --->
Joseph Nechvatal, Andy Deck, Sergej Jakovlev, Klaus Schrefler and Jeremy
Newman

and these are the new artists featured on "Violence Magazine"
Isabel Aranda Yto, Nikki Johnson, Stephen Lawler, Rober Praxmarer

Find all further information on the administrative and artistic body of
Violence Online Festival!

Have a fantastic time with violence!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Violence Online Festival
www.newmediafest.org
violence@newmediafest.org
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DISCUSSION

Interview with Agricola de Cologne (Englisch)


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