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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

"Perspectives'03" - JavaArtist of the Year Award


JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org

launches with great pleasure
online on 14 October 2003
and on
Computer Space Festival 2003 Sofia/Bulgaria
www.computerspace.org
16-18 October 2003

>Perspectives'03<
- competition and showcase of net based art 2003 -
in co-operation with
Compter Space Festival 2003 Sofia Bulgaria
and Goethe Institut Sofia/Bulgaria.

"Perspectives'03" focusses on the net based art production of the years
2002/2003.

During the prize ceremony on 16 October 2003, the
"JavaArtist of the Year Award 2003 "
will be given to these three artists:

Annie Abrahams (France)
David Crawford (USA)
Tsunamii.net (Singapore).

They form the basis of "Perspectives'03" - the show -
together with these 9 artists, which are also honoured as
"Perspectives of Excellence"
Thomson & Craighead (UK), Gregory Chatonsky (France)
Jillian McDonald (Canada), Gair Dunlop & Dan Norton (K)
Babel (Canada), Bruno Samper (France), David Clark (Canada)
Sashiko Hayashi (France), Agence Topo (Canada)

and these featured artists:

Jonah Brucker-Cohen (Irland), Jody Zellen (USA),
Marcello Mercado (Germany), Nicolas Economos (USA)
Julian Alvarez (Spain ), Per Pegelow (Germany)
Adele Prince/Edward Hill (UK), Marcus Neustetter (South Africa)
Dimitre Lima (Brazil), Enrique Radigales (UK), Jurgen Trautwein (USA),
Roxanne Wolanczyk (USA) , Redcaiman

DISCUSSION

Call for proposals


Concern:
Call for proposals

for participating in

[R][R][F] 2004
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]

the new net based networking project,
Agricola de Cologne
is currently preparing for his participation in
Biennale de Paris 2004
( taking place from 20 February-15 March 2004
simultaneously in Paris, London, Tokyo, New York, Beyrouth, Berlin).

Deadline 30 November 2003
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[R][R][F] 2004 will be focussed on the main theme "Memory and Identity".

One basic part will form Version 2.0 of [R][R][F] Festival
which will include - besides artists selected by curators from
China, Iran/Canada, Romania, Germany and others -
also a section based on a open call in Internet curated by Agricola de
Cologne.

All artists, who use net based media for their artistic creations
are invited to submit one proposal for participating,
eg a net based art project which goes down to the subject "Identity"
with all its connected aspects.

The selected works will be included in [R][R][F] 2004,
which is planned to be presented simultaneously
at different cities during the Biennale de Paris 2004.

Only works will be accepted
which have an URL (Internet adress) of theirown.
All net based technologies are welcome.

Please use this form for submitting:

1. firstname/name of artist, email, URL
2. a brief bio/CV (not more than 300 words)
3. title and URL of the submitted work
4. a short work description (not more than 300 words),
5. a screen shot (max 800x600 pixels, .jpg)

Deadline 30 November 2003

Please send your proposal to
rrf@newmediafest.org
subject: Biennale de Paris

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[R][R][F] Festival Version 1.0
www.newmediafest.org/rrf/
had been participating in
Interactiva'03 -
Biennale for New Media Art -
Museum of Contemporary Art Merida/Mexico
10 July - 28 September 2003
www.cartodigital.org/interactiva
www.macay.org

[R][R][F] 2004
will be corporate part of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
- the experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany

DISCUSSION

My mission - call for submissions


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
(this is important)

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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

Netart from UK and Ireland - upate - new deadline


[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
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JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org
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Concern:
Feature: Netart from UK and Ireland
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The call for entries and the deadline of 30 September brought quite a good
result, eg
27 artists/groups will form the basis of the Netart feature to be launched
on 8 December 2003.

As there is still a lot of time until then, all artists from UK and Ireland
who did not join the show, yet
are invited to submit their proposal for participating.
All serious submissions will be included.
New deadline --->30 November 2003.

Please find the entry form at the end of the message.

These are currently the featured artists of the coming showcase of Netart
from UK and Ireland,
more are welcome:

Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Thomson & Craighead
STANZA, Jess Loseby, Susan Collins
Dan Norton, Marc Garrett, Ruth Cathlow
Enrique Radigales, Furtherfield, Brian Routh
Michael Szpakowski , Ken Davidson, Janet Vaughn
Jorn Ebner, Oliver Flexman, Adele Prince/Edward Hill
M Takeo Magruder, Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes
Ambient TV, Sarah Doyle, Gair Dunlop
Gair DunloP/Dan Norton, Stephen Bossonet, Blair Butterfield
Nick Barker, Jane Wingfield, Beverly Hood

For sending a proposal, please use following entry form for submitting:

1. firstname/name of artist, email, URL
2. a brief bio/CV (not more than 300 words)
3. title and URL of the max 3 projects/works,
4. a short work description for each work (not more than 300 words),
5. a screen shot for each submitted work (max 800x600 pixels, .jpg)

Deadline 30 November 2003

Please send your submission to
englishfeature@javamuseum.org

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JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org

is corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
the experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany.

DISCUSSION

AVM News October 2003


OCTOBER 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 October 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
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b) News in October

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

Call for artists submissions for "My Mission".
More details on
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/exhibitionhall/2003/self/mymission.htm

2. [R]-[R]-[F] Festival www.newmediafest.org/rrf/
Version 1.0 of the new festival environment of A Virtual Memorial
was participating until 28 September in
Interactiva'03 - Biennale for New Media Art at
Museum of Contemporary Art Merida/Yucatan (Mexico).
Within the three months of running time the project had more
than 50.000 hits and about 9.000 unique visitors.

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. Urban.early sunday morning_raw
http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume6/urban.html
( a net based work originating from A Virtual Memorial)
participates in
*FiFi Festival Paris
16-18 October 2003
www.fififestival.com

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New month - new subject
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c) ***Features of the Month

The month October 2003 is dedicated to
the refugees in all parts of the world

Memorial days in October

2003 International Year of Fresh Water

2 October 1869 Mahadma Ghandy Birthday (India)
3 October 1990 Signing of the German Reunification Treaty (Germany)
8 October 1912 Begin of 1st Balkan War (Europe)
24 October 2003 United Nations Day

*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:
Forced to Exile?

Featured Artist: Exile by Yuri Marder
Road 2 : Poet in Exile
Road 3: Exile by William Brenner
Road 4: The exile system of Gulag
Road 5: Deportation- enforced exile
Road 6: Expulsion- forced to exile
Road 7 : Goverment in Exile
Road 8 : Italian Silence

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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

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