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
AVM News December 2003 - 1 December World AIDS DAY
1 December 2003 - WORLD AIDS DAY
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The month December is dedicated to the victims of AIDS
on
A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne
******************************************************
Table of Contents:
a) Call for entries
b) News
c) Features of the month December 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
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Launch of the opening of this ongoing project:
3 December 2003
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The deadline is ongoing ---->
New art works are accepted now at any time ---->
Please find the complete text and the entry form on
start page of www.a-virtual-memorial.org
***********************************
b) News in December
1. Call for artists submissions for "My Mission".
More details on
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/exhibitionhall/2003/self/mymission.htm
Meanwhile 50 artists' statements could be added.
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,
received a prize in the categoy Net/Zin
on MAD'03 - Experimental Art Festival Madrid (Spain)
www.mad03.net
24 October-14 November
4. En ed
http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume6/encoded.html
( a net based work originating from A Virtual Memorial)
http://w3art.es/maem/
(needs DSL Internet connection)
participated in MAEM Festival Madrid-Mostoles(Spain)
4/5 November 2003
ESTAMPA Art Fair Madrid (Spain)
26-30 November 2003
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New month - new subject
**********************************
c) ***Features of the Month
The month December 2003 is dedicated to
to the Victims of AIDS
Memorial days in December
2003 International Year of Fresh Water
01 December 2003 - World AIDS DAY
03 December 2003 - International Day of Disabled Persons
08 December 1941 - Destruction Camp Celmno (Poland) opened
10 December 2003 - Human Rights Day
29 December 2003 - International Day for Biological Diversity
*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.*
*************************************************
Subject of the Month:
What is positive to be positive?
Intro: Karposi Park
Just Positive! - 4 HIV positive artists
Featured Project - Memorial f/ Victims of AIDS
Protection 1 - Artists with Aids
Protection 2 - AIDS & Women
Protection 3 - AIDS & Children
Protection 4 - AIDS & Human Rights
Protection 5 - AIDS & Medicine
Protection 6 - Jason's Legacy
Witnesses of Eternity - Siena
*****************************************
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
MS Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera
soundcard, Flash 7 required
*****************************************
A Newsletter
is a free InformationService of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
pr@nmartproject.net
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
-the experimental platform net based art -
copyright
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The month December is dedicated to the victims of AIDS
on
A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne
******************************************************
Table of Contents:
a) Call for entries
b) News
c) Features of the month December 2003
******************************************************
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
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Launch of the opening of this ongoing project:
3 December 2003
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The deadline is ongoing ---->
New art works are accepted now at any time ---->
Please find the complete text and the entry form on
start page of www.a-virtual-memorial.org
***********************************
b) News in December
1. Call for artists submissions for "My Mission".
More details on
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/exhibitionhall/2003/self/mymission.htm
Meanwhile 50 artists' statements could be added.
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,
received a prize in the categoy Net/Zin
on MAD'03 - Experimental Art Festival Madrid (Spain)
www.mad03.net
24 October-14 November
4. En ed
http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume6/encoded.html
( a net based work originating from A Virtual Memorial)
http://w3art.es/maem/
(needs DSL Internet connection)
participated in MAEM Festival Madrid-Mostoles(Spain)
4/5 November 2003
ESTAMPA Art Fair Madrid (Spain)
26-30 November 2003
**********************************
New month - new subject
**********************************
c) ***Features of the Month
The month December 2003 is dedicated to
to the Victims of AIDS
Memorial days in December
2003 International Year of Fresh Water
01 December 2003 - World AIDS DAY
03 December 2003 - International Day of Disabled Persons
08 December 1941 - Destruction Camp Celmno (Poland) opened
10 December 2003 - Human Rights Day
29 December 2003 - International Day for Biological Diversity
*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.*
*************************************************
Subject of the Month:
What is positive to be positive?
Intro: Karposi Park
Just Positive! - 4 HIV positive artists
Featured Project - Memorial f/ Victims of AIDS
Protection 1 - Artists with Aids
Protection 2 - AIDS & Women
Protection 3 - AIDS & Children
Protection 4 - AIDS & Human Rights
Protection 5 - AIDS & Medicine
Protection 6 - Jason's Legacy
Witnesses of Eternity - Siena
*****************************************
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
MS Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera
soundcard, Flash 7 required
*****************************************
A Newsletter
is a free InformationService of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
pr@nmartproject.net
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
-the experimental platform net based art -
copyright
Netart from all Asia & Pacific area - call for entries: new deadline
JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org
Call for entries:
Netart from all Asia & Pacific area
New deadline Monday 2 February 2004
Currently, JavaMuseum is planning new features for the "3rd of Java series"
2003/2004, focussing on netart
from particular cultural regions on the globe.
The feature will be prepared unter the
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org
Call for entries:
Netart from all Asia & Pacific area
New deadline Monday 2 February 2004
Currently, JavaMuseum is planning new features for the "3rd of Java series"
2003/2004, focussing on netart
from particular cultural regions on the globe.
The feature will be prepared unter the
"Slowtime?........" - new show at Cinematheque
Cinematheque at MediaCentre -->Le Musee di-visioniste"
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/
is happy to launch on 25 November 2003
its new showcase of streaming media art works
entitled
"Slowtime?........"
[Quicktime (.mov) as an artistic medium]
which is presented at the new space of "Cinema_B".
--> Quicktime does not only represent a cross-plattform file format for
converting and distributing (analogue/digital) video
into an Internet compatible streaming format,
but has a lot of different features and characteristics which
predestine Quicktime to be a serious artistic medium beyond that <--
Due to the large quantity of excellent submissions
the show will be launched in three parts
Part I - launch on 25 November 2003
including following artists
Daniel Vatzki/Isabelle Jenniches (NL)
Oswaldo Cibils (Uruguay)
Malte Steiner (Germany)
Everson Godinho (Brazil)
Michael Szpakowski (UK)
Miklos Legrady (CA)
Melissa Ulto (USA)
Mogens Jacobsen (Denmark)
Marina Zerbarini (Argentina)
Meto Angelovski (Macedonia)
Christian Bermudes (Costa Rica)
Laurel Beckman (USA)
Part II will be launched in December 2003
and Part III will complete the show in January 2004.
The launch of these shows will be announced in time.
********************
The selection of
"Slowtime?........" [Quicktime (.mov) as an artistic medium]
is based on an open call in Internet
and curated and created for Cinematheque
by Agricola de Cologne
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/
*********************
Visit also the previous streaming media shows at Cinematheque
which are presented now at "Cinema_A"
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/
*********************
Cinematheque at MediaCentre
organises online show cases of streaming media
in the framework of Le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/
mediacentre@le-musee-divisioniste.org
Le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
is an online museum based on philosophical ideas,
and a corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne -
the experimental plattform for net based art -
founded by Agricola de Cologne,
media artist and New Media curator
operating from Cologne/Germany.
**********************
Technical requirements
Recommended are:
DSL Internet connection, fast computer device PC or MAC
all latest browser versions
requested players/plug-ins:
Flash 7 (free download at www.macromedia.com)
Quicktime (free download at www.apple.com)
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/
is happy to launch on 25 November 2003
its new showcase of streaming media art works
entitled
"Slowtime?........"
[Quicktime (.mov) as an artistic medium]
which is presented at the new space of "Cinema_B".
--> Quicktime does not only represent a cross-plattform file format for
converting and distributing (analogue/digital) video
into an Internet compatible streaming format,
but has a lot of different features and characteristics which
predestine Quicktime to be a serious artistic medium beyond that <--
Due to the large quantity of excellent submissions
the show will be launched in three parts
Part I - launch on 25 November 2003
including following artists
Daniel Vatzki/Isabelle Jenniches (NL)
Oswaldo Cibils (Uruguay)
Malte Steiner (Germany)
Everson Godinho (Brazil)
Michael Szpakowski (UK)
Miklos Legrady (CA)
Melissa Ulto (USA)
Mogens Jacobsen (Denmark)
Marina Zerbarini (Argentina)
Meto Angelovski (Macedonia)
Christian Bermudes (Costa Rica)
Laurel Beckman (USA)
Part II will be launched in December 2003
and Part III will complete the show in January 2004.
The launch of these shows will be announced in time.
********************
The selection of
"Slowtime?........" [Quicktime (.mov) as an artistic medium]
is based on an open call in Internet
and curated and created for Cinematheque
by Agricola de Cologne
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/
*********************
Visit also the previous streaming media shows at Cinematheque
which are presented now at "Cinema_A"
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/
*********************
Cinematheque at MediaCentre
organises online show cases of streaming media
in the framework of Le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/
mediacentre@le-musee-divisioniste.org
Le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
is an online museum based on philosophical ideas,
and a corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne -
the experimental plattform for net based art -
founded by Agricola de Cologne,
media artist and New Media curator
operating from Cologne/Germany.
**********************
Technical requirements
Recommended are:
DSL Internet connection, fast computer device PC or MAC
all latest browser versions
requested players/plug-ins:
Flash 7 (free download at www.macromedia.com)
Quicktime (free download at www.apple.com)
MAEM at Estampa Art Fair Madrid
MAEM 2003 os invita a asistir a su presentacion en
ESTAMPA
SALON INTERNACIONAL DEL GRABADO Y EDICIONES DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO
26 al 30 de Noviembre, Recintos Feriales de IFEMA, Casa de Campo. Madrid:
Presentacion de las obras en el stand A19, del Ayuntamiento de Mostoles.
El dia 28 de noviembre a las 19 horas 30 minutos, sera
presentada en el salon de actos de Estampa.
Estos son los autores presentados:
- Antoni Abad. "Z". Barcelona. Espana.
- Gustavo Aguilera. "Ferias". Madrid. Espana.
- Agricola de Cologne. "en ed". Cologne. Espana.
- Carlos Alcala.
ESTAMPA
SALON INTERNACIONAL DEL GRABADO Y EDICIONES DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO
26 al 30 de Noviembre, Recintos Feriales de IFEMA, Casa de Campo. Madrid:
Presentacion de las obras en el stand A19, del Ayuntamiento de Mostoles.
El dia 28 de noviembre a las 19 horas 30 minutos, sera
presentada en el salon de actos de Estampa.
Estos son los autores presentados:
- Antoni Abad. "Z". Barcelona. Espana.
- Gustavo Aguilera. "Ferias". Madrid. Espana.
- Agricola de Cologne. "en ed". Cologne. Espana.
- Carlos Alcala.
Agricola de Cologne interview on Gluebalize Magazine
Agricola de Cologne -
Interview for the Gluebalize Magazine of the
ASAC - L'Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee
of the Venice Biennale
now on
www.gluebalize.com
****************************************
recommended by ------>
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne -
experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany
Interview for the Gluebalize Magazine of the
ASAC - L'Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee
of the Venice Biennale
now on
www.gluebalize.com
****************************************
recommended by ------>
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne -
experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany