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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

Final call for videos--> gender identity


Call: videos on the theme "gender identity"
final deadline: 1 March 2006

VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

is looking for videos on the theme of "gender identity",
to be included in the online collection on
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org,
as well as the DVD video collection to be presented on festivals and media exhibitions.

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In times when the traditional role of being "male" and "female" in society
has lost its meaning, a male expresses his female, and a female her male components of
their personality, when sexuality is not reduced to being straight or gay,
but countless mixed forms of human existance can be lived,
defining oneself in a gender specific context may become
an essential question.
The call is inviting artists to reflect their own or the subject of male, female, gay,
lesbian, transgender etc identity via the medium of video.

Details and entry form can be found on
NetEX - internal announcements
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
also available as PDF for download
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/call_gender_identity.pdf
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EVENT

SoundLab: call for soundart


Dates:
Fri Oct 06, 2006 00:00 - Fri Feb 10, 2006

Call for soundart
deadline 30 June 2006
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
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Soundlab
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
is invited to launch its 4th edition
in the framework of the Cologne based soundart event
KlangDrang Festival www.klangdrang.org
6-7 October 2006 and be part of the interactive media exhibition
by [R][R][F]2006--->XP - http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org
on the same occasion.
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--->Call for submissions
Deadline 30 June 2006
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SoundLab
is looking for soundart works of
a) experimental character
b) electronic music
c) Voice -sound/music integration
d) and other forms
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Theme : "Memoryscapes"
based on the subjects: ---> "memory" and "identity"
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The submission has to be posted on a webpage for download,
please do not send it as an email attachement.
Submission format: .mp3
Size: Max 5MB, exceptions possible, but on request.
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The authors/artists keep all rights on their submitted works.
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Deadline 30 June 2006
Please use this form for submitting:
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1.name of artist, email address, URL
2. short biography/CV (not more than 300 words)
3. works (maximum 3), year of production, running time
a) URL for download
4. short statement for each work
(not more than 300 words each)
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Confirmation/authorization:
The submitter declares and confirms
that he/she is holding all author's rights
and gives permission to include the submitted work
in "Soundlab" online environment until revoke.
Signed by (submitter)
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Please send the complete submission to
soundlab@newmediafest.org
subject: Soundlab edition IV
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Deadline 30 June 2006
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This call can be also found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
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editions I - III of SoundLab -
can be found on
SoundLab Channel/Memory Channel 7-->at
[R][R][F]2006--->XP
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org via the artistic body
or separately also via
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org/schannel.htm or
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org

Both are corporate parts of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
the experimental platform for art and New Media
operating from Cologne/Germany

and its common weblog is
NetEX - networked experience
http://netex.nmartproject.net

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DISCUSSION

RRF2006: call - new deadline - new context


Revised
call for submissions
extended deadline: 1 April 2006
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
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On 31 December 2005,
the global networking project
[R][R][F]2005--->XP by Agricola de Cologne
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org expired,
but it was reborn on 1 January 2006 as
[R][R][F]2006--->XP
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org

Since its start in March 2004, the RRF project
(Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting)
has become one of the most successful
Internet based project environments of its kind.
Dealing with the thematical aspects of "memory & identity",
it represents a unique collection of collective memory
by including artworks by more than 650 artist, 50 curators and
numerous virtual and physical organisations and institutions from all parts on the globe.
RRF was presented until these days nearly 50 times
in virtual and physical space in most different constellation -
details see also NetEX - networked experience
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
all recent news can be found also on http://netex.nmartproject.net

For the new season 2006/2007, but particularly also for a new context in Cologne/Germany
- [R][R][F]2006--->XP is invited to become a part of
KlangDrang Festival 2006 www.klangdrang.org, a Cologne based soundart festival,
in form of an interactive media exhibition to take place in October 2006 -
is inviting artists working with New Media to submit their
latest Internet based projects
dealing with the theme "memory" in a narrow or wider sense,
including aspects of identity, violence, human rights, controll (surveillance),
globalisation and much more, see also the "Memory Channels" on
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org

All details and the entry form can be found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT

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http://netex.nmartproject net
is a free information service provided by
[NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
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info(at)nmartproject.net

DISCUSSION

Call: a show for Bethlehem


A Call for Artists
--->
://selfportrait - A Show for Bethlehem
Deadline: 1 March 2006

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After presenting his global networking project
[R][R][F]2005--->XP - http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org
in 2005 in Bethlehem/Palestine as an interactive media exhibition,
Agricola de Cologne, media artist and director of
[NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net
is invited to curate in 2006 another exhibition to be inaugurated in July 2006
at Al Kahf Art Gallery/Bethlehem International Center Bethlehem/Palestine
which will be shown later in September 2006 also in Cologne/Germany,
This exhibition is focussed on the classical theme of "selfportrait",
but executed in New Media.
During 2006, the 10th anniversary of the twincityship Cologne-Bethlehem is going to be celebrated.
Cologne is the only German city which has an official partnership with a municpality in Palestine.
The exhibition at both places is the official part of the one year lasting anniversary program.

Through its relevance in three world religions,
Bethlehem was during more than 2000 years a symbol for peace also beyond,
but since some time Bethlehem and the entire Holy Land on the Westbank
is vanishing behind a huge wall as the result of a conflict in Middle East
which is threatening world peace since many years.

Just by being presented in Bethlehem -
"Selfportrait" - a show for Bethlehem -
has also a political dimension in different concern,
It does not bring only the message of solidarity,
but also the idea of a free and independant culture without borders,
in this way the show becomes an action for supporting the effords for peace in Middle East.
The current political developement in Palestine asks even more for solidarity.
Each artist involved becomes a messanger of peace!

The "call for proposals" is addressed to all artists working with digital/electronic media,
for submitting one single "selfportrait" for exhibition purposes as digital print, digital video,
multi-media works based on Cd-Rom and Internet, and soundart -
focussed on how they - these "new artists" - see themselves
and the environment they are living in.
Due to the limits of exhibition space,
only a selection of submissions can be included.

In order to spread the message of solidarity and peace,
It is planned to present this show also at other places around the globe.

You find the "call", the submission details and the entry form on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT

Deadline 1 March 2006

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DISCUSSION

The collection: new additions


The Agricola de Cologne Moving Picture Collection
http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/

added recently the first streaming movies
Agricola de Cologne filmed during his visit in in South America in 2005
http://impact.newmediafest.org,
completed in 2005 and 2006

2006
1. Home so near, Home so far
a meditation from Mapuche land
http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/volume12/mapu/index.html

2. Hommage a Victor Grippo
http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/volume12/grippo/index.html

3 Orfeo Negro
http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/volume12/orfeo/index.html

2005
4. Soccer for peace
http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/volume11/soccer/index.html

5. Evolution - Involution
http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/volume11/sechi/index.html

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http://netex.nmartproject.net
is a free information service by
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
the experimental platform for art & New Media from Cologne/Germany
www.nmartproject.net
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