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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

Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina


Woman: Memory of Repression in Argentina"
New Media project
curated by Raquel Partnoy and Agricola de Cologne
for
[R][R][F]2004--->XP
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
global networking project
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004>
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"Woman: Memory of Repression in Argentina"
is an Internet based multi-media project environment
realized in the framework of RRF Channel of
[R][R][F]2004--->XP
--->direct acces also via
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/argentina1.htm <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/argentina1.htm>.
The project is referring to the darkest period of Argentine history
when during the dictatorships countless husbands and sons disappeared,
and these women, better known as "Mothers of Plaza de Mayo"
took initiative and started their demonstrations against the military regime.
The project spotlights Past, Present and Future of these traumatic experiences, but
also the courage and power of the Argentine mothers
as an appeal that such inhuman circumstances must not happen again,
not in Argentina and not elsewhere in the world.

"Woman: Memory of Repression in Argentina"
consists of a curatorial statement by Raquel Partnoy,
her collection of testimonies of other mothers,
an extensive documentary "Portrait" of the Partnoy family,
and several Internet based works by young Argentine artists -
Andamio Contiguo, Irene Coremberg, Marina Zerbarini and Anahi Caceres -
curated by Agricola de Cologne.
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Raquel Partnoy, herself mother of a disappeared child and visual artist,
is an authetic witness of those traumatic experiences.
By collecting testimonies of many affected mothers who transformed all their grief
into works of art, like poetry, for instance, she is pointing also to a most essential meaning art may have -
by doing and experiencing - an healing effect on the violeted soul.

A excerpt of her curatorial statement:
>>As a mother of a "disappeared" child I experienced the horror of seeing how my family was gradually destroyed. From the day my daughter and her husband were kidnaped by the military forces during the military dictatorship in Argentina - 1976/1983, life was not the same for my husband, my son, or myself . Anguish, hatred, and depression overwhelmed us while we wondered if they were still alive, felt impotence because the military wouldn't give us any kind of information, spent endless nights without sleeping for fear that the evil ones would come to our house to take another family member.
At the beginning of our odyssey we did not know that we were not alone. Many parents,like us, were going through the nightmare of trying to find out where our children had been taken. We had gone to police stations and army posts; we had talked to priests and military chaplains; we had asked friends if they knew of contacts at the clandestine centers who would be able to say if our children were alive. But the army knew very well how to create a climate of terror in the family of the abducted victim. When we went to our city army headquarters to ask about our daughter, they denied she was there and showed him a paper, allegedly signed by her, stating that she was released. Where was she then? The scenario of the disappeared was in place, and the creator of this horrible concept, the manager of such horrendous drama was a terrorist state. At that time, many families felt miserable, with thousands of young couples disappeared along with their babies or little children. Most of them were murdered by the military forces.
The women whose works I have chosen for "Women: Memories of the Repression in Argentina" have endured the horror of that time. These mothers, daughters, sisters of disappeared people, or survivors of the dictatorship, express their feelings through poems, tales, letters, or testimonies. They express the pain of thousands of women from our country.
As individuals who survived genocide, writers, artists, sensitive human beings, we shall never forgive, we shall never forget. We have to raise our voices in order to alert humanity about what happened not only in Argentina and other Latin America's countries but also in the rest of the world, for such atrocities never to happen again. << (copyright

DISCUSSION

SoundLab Channel edition II - call for entries


Melody Parker-Carter,
Chief curator of SoundLab Channel
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/concerthall <http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/concerthall>
is currently preparing edition II of SoundlabChannel
and invites soundartists from all parts of the globe
to submit proposals.

Soundlab Channel and its first edition -
were launched and installed in the framework of
[R][R][F]2004--->XP
global networking project
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004>
on occasion of
Biennale of Electronic Arts in Perth/Australia
www.beap.org <http://www.beap.org> -- 1 September -1 November 2004

The 2nd edition will be launched in February 2005
on occasion of a physical presentation series
of [R][R][F]2004--->XP
in Palestine, Israel and Germany.
--->
--->Call for submissions
Deadline 18 December 2004
.
SoundLab Channel
is looking for soundart works of
a) experimental character
b) electronic music
c) Voice -sound/music integration
d) and other forms
.
Subject: there is a general subject---> "memory and identity"
and special subject for edition II ---> "separate/unite"

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.
.
The authors/artists keep all rights on their submitted works.
.
Deadline 18 December 2004.
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)
.
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)
.
Please send the complete submission to
concerthall@le-musee-divisioniste.org <mailto:concerthall@le-musee-divisioniste.org>
subject: Soundlab Channel
.
Deadline 18 December 2004
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SoundLab Channel -
a joint venture between
le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org <http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org>
and
[R][R][F]2004--->XP
global networking project
by Agricola de Cologne
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004>
Memory Channel 7-->Soundlab Channel -
can be accessed directly via
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/concerthall/start1.htm <http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/concerthall/start1.htm>
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/schannel.htm <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/schannel.htm>
.
Both instances are corporate parts of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net <http://www.nmartproject.net>
-- directed and curated by --
Agricola de Cologne.
Copyright 2000-2004. All rights reserved.
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DISCUSSION

Streaming video - final call


Final call: Streaming video
Subject: "Memory & identity" and/or "Violence"
deadline: 30 October 2004.
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VideoChannel
a common project environment of
-->
Cinematheque at MediaCentre
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org <http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org>
and
[R][R][F]2004--->XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/ <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/>
.
invites video artists for participating
and submitting proposals of video works
.
Subject: "Memory & identity" and/or "Violence"
Running time: minimum 1 minute - maximum 10 minutes
Dimensions: 320x240 pixels
deadline: 30 October 2004.
.
Following digital formats are accepted-->
URL, in case the work is posted online or for
download-->
mpeg, Quicktime (.mov), with DiVX compression (.avi), Real Video (rm)
Windows Media (.wmf), Flash video (.swf).
.
Selected artists maybe invited to send their work on DVD
for optional offline screening.
.
Due to the optionally large size of the videos,
please do not attache any video work to the submission,
but make the media file available for download from your server.
.
Only works combining an excellent artistic expression
with an excellent image quality will be selected.
.
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. 1 work only -->title, year of production, running time
a) URL of the posted work online
or
b) URL from where the media file can be downloaded
4. short work description
(not more than 300 words each)
.
The artists or owners of the video works will keep all rights
on their submitted works
.
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 "VideoChannel" online environment until revoke.
Signed by (submitter)

Please send the complete submission to
mediacentre@le-musee-divisioniste.org <mailto:mediacentre@le-musee-divisioniste.org>
subject: Video Channel
.
deadline 30 October
.
The video submissions to this call will be launched on occasion
of the physical installation during 404 New Media Art Festival
Rosario/Argentina
which will take place in December 2004.
.
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As part of the global networking project
[R][R][F]2004--->XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/ <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/>
.
VideoChannel will collect during the coming months
a) curatorial contributions of video works from many countries on the globe
b) video works of individual artists
which are based on the subjects "memory & and identity" and "violence"
.
VideoChannel is that "Memory Channel" within
[R][R][F]2004--->XP, which is always installed sepearately
in all physical installations,
all accepted videos will be screened in physical space
.
[R][R][F]2004--->XP will be developing and operating through 2006.
.
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Cinematheque at Media Centre
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/ <http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/>
and
[R][R][F] 2004--->XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004>
the progressive project environment
in the framework of
A Virtual Memorial
www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
.
are corporate members of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
the experimental platform for netbased art
-->founded, directed and curated by
Agricola de Cologne.
.
Copyright 2000-2004. All rights reserved.
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DISCUSSION

24 h of Nuremberg/Germany


VideoChannel
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre <http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre>
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004>

is presenting 7 video works on
24 h of Nuremberg, International Shortfilmfestival 15/16 October.
<http://www.filmbuero-franken.de/html/programm.html>
.
These are the selected works

Waiting Room by Nita Mocanu
curated by Raluca Velizar & Florin Tudor (Romania)
.
Multiple Trace Memories by Lorenz Oggiano
curated by Laura Chiari (Italy)
.
Each Teenager has a Price by Aldo Peredo
curated by Isabel Aranda Yto (Chile)
.
Time with Franz by Dana Levy (Israel)
curated by Stephanie Benzaquen (Netherlands)
.
Reflection by Liew Seng Tat
curated by Roopesh Sitharan (Malaysia)
.
1/2 porcillo by JosephWelmo
curated by Heidi J. Figueroa Sarriera and Marianne Ramirez-Aponte (Puerto-Rico)
.
"C" by Cecilia Lundquist
curated by Bjoern Norberg (Sweden)

All works are also streaming from VideoChannel
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004 <> or
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/ <>
or directly www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/vchannel.htm <>
.
contacts: mediacentre@le-musee-divisioniste.org <>
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[R][R][F]2004--->XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004>
global networking project

DISCUSSION

JavaMuseum - final show announced - final call


Newsflash!!
.
JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org <http://www.javamuseum.org>
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
.
will stop by 31 December 2004
all its activities for net based art as they had been since 2000.
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Contents:
- A resume
- The final show - call for entries - deadline 31 December 2004
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A resume
-
JavaMuseum
was founded in 2000 by Agricola de Cologne,
New Media curator and media artist from Cologne/Germany,
in order to find out what net based art could represent in a global context.
The features and exhibitions organized and published online by JavaMuseum
focussing on cultural areas on the globe made this evident.
This obviously successful idea brought suddenly a lot of artists into the
spotlight.
.
In 2001, 2002 and 2003, JavaMuseum organized an annual program
including a competition of net based art and a number of features of
different kind which were continued in 2004, to mention only some-->
netart from Latin American countries, Northern Europe, Asia and Pacific
area,
German speaking countries, Italy and many more.
JavaMuseum gave as a highlight 2001-2003 "the JavaArtist of the Year Award",
an honorary award for outstanding artistic working in the field of net based
art, among the awarded artists were
Mary-Anne Breeze, Jody Zellen, Tiia Johannson, Calin Man,
David Crawford, Annie Abrahams and Tsunamii.net.
.
During the years, Agricola de Cologne, director & curator of JavaMuseum
and founder of [NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne
was a critical observer not only of the global "netart" scene,
but particularly the development of the Internet
as a free and independ platform for a specific art working.
.
Even if JavaMuseum and many other net based instances were intensively
engaging for net based art during the years,
net based art did not emancipate and did not become
widely accepted as a specific and serious form of New Media art in
contemporary art working,
but is still remaining in a kind of ghetto and going round continuously
in circles.
The countless definitions of "netart" and its use and misuse make this more
than evident.
.
The reasons why Agricola de Cologne decided to stop all activities as they
had been in the Past,
are various and cannot explained in a few words,
but he does not see this far-reaching decision as the
end of JavaMuseum, rather the end of a first phase to be followed
after some time of re-thinking by a next, the second phase based on a new
program or concept.
.
In this way,
JavaMuseum will keep all published projects, features, artworks
and artists archived
which will remain online for permanent and free access to this
historical recource of net based art between the years 2000 and 2004.
In the beginning of 2005, JavaMuseum will receive a completely new interface
and will be closer integrated in the museum environment of
Le Musee di-visioniste www.le-musee-divisioniste.org <http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org>
.
In order to complete the 1st phase, JavaMuseum will organize a final show,
focussing on net based art working of 2003 and 2004.
All those artists who work net based and are not represented in JavaMuseum
yet, and all those who are already represented, but have new work
originating from 2003 and/or 2004, which is not already part of JavaMuseum
are cordially invited to submit up to three works/proposals to this final
show
which hopefully will become a last highlight of this 1st phase.
.
This final show will be launched in February 2005
in the framework of a series of physical presentations of
the global networking project
[R][R][F]2004--->XP www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004>
in Palestine, Israel and Germany.
.
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Call for proposals
.
Dear artists,
.
In order to particpate in this show of net based art,
please fill out the entry form.
and use for each work to be submitted a separate form.
.
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 originate from 2003 and 2004
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 31 December 2004
please send the images and completely filled in form to
finalshow@javamuseum.org <mailto:finalshow@javamuseum.org>
.
Alternatively, you can also go to the
JavaMuseum site www.javamuseum.org <http://www.javamuseum.org>
and use the entry form posted there.
.
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JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org <http://www.javamuseum.org>
.
contact: info@javamuseum.org <mailto:info@javamuseum.org>