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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
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DISCUSSION

SoundLab - open call for edition III


Soundlab Channel
<http://concerhall.le-musee-divisioniste.org>
is currently preparing its 3rd edition to be launched
in June 2005.

SoundLabChannel is a joint-venture between
[R][R][F]2005--->XP
global networking project
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org>
and Le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-dovisioniste.org <http://www.le-musee-dovisioniste.org>
and is focussed on soundart and its various forms.
.
--->
--->Call for submissions
Deadline 16 May 2005.
.
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 III ---> "pleasure/grief"- "love/hate"
.
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 16 May 2005.
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 edition III
.
Deadline 16 May 2005.
.
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editions I and II of
SoundLab Channel -
can be found on
Memory Channel 7-->at
[R][R][F]2005--->XP
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org>
or can be accessed directly via
<http://concerhall.le-musee-divisioniste.org>
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org/schannel.htm>

"[R][R][F]2005--->XP"
and "le Musee di-visioniste" are corporate members of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net <http://www.nmartproject.net>
-- founded by --
Agricola de Cologne.
Copyright 2000-2005. All rights reserved.
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DISCUSSION

Project Features|| March'05 featuring Mary Flanagan


Project Features"
http://features.nmartproject.net <>
is happy to present during March 2005
its third feature:
--->
Mary Flanagan (USA)
and her interactive netart piece, entitled:
"[six.circles]" (2004).
.
[six.circles] is a networked one or two player turn based game which
explores the consequences of cooperation and competition through the
construction of simple geometry objects. Players interact with the game
by construct groups of shapes which eventually are built up into
complete circles, but they do so amidst attacks by virus objects which
invade the community. In the abstracted space, there are virus objects
and "good juju" pieces that can often cure disease. As the game
progresses, players must attach illness pieces to some shapes every so
many turns, and as players build circles, illness spreads down the
chain, infecting it turn by turn. When all the pieces of a given chain
are infected, the infection changes with each turn to a full-blown
diseased piece that can no longer be assimilated into a circle. If an
entire chain is diseased, it spawns new disease pieces with each turn.
Players have to negotiate and sacrifice to cooperatively solve the
problem, prevent the spread of the disease, while still attempting to
win the game by creating six circles

DISCUSSION

memorial://march 2005


memorial://March 2005
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
{A Virtual Memorial} -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
~New Media art project environment~
www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
.
Commemorates in March -
the victims of torture.
Not only in totalitarian systems, but also in Western democracies,
torture seems to be and become an appropriate way
to deal with people who do not fit in the respective system
.
08 March 2005 World Women Day
21 March 2005 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN)
22 March 2005 World Day for the Water
23 March 1945 Allied Forces cross the Rhine river near Cologne
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Table of Contents:
a) Tsunami - call for artists submissions
b) Features of the month
c) News
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March 2005
.
a) Tsunami - a call for submissions- an invitation to artists
.
Tsunami -
call for submissions
1st deadline 31 March 2005
.
The current Asian tsunami disaster made it again evident:
the human being cannot control the destructive powers of nature.
.
A Virtual Memorial
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
and [R][R][F]2005---XP
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org>
initiate on occasion of this disaster
and in solidarity with all affected people in this human tragedy
a net based art project environment, entitled: Tsunami.
.
The title: "Tsunami" does thematically not only refer to this or similiar
disasters in Present or Past,
but beyond that "Tsunami" is primarily also understood as a symbol for the
Inevitable, the Immutable,
for Powers of Nature, Powers of Destiny which cannot be controlled by the
human being,
situations of helplessness the human being is irrevocably at the mercy of.
Has he any chance to escape or take influence?
.
Nearly everybody whereever he may live has made experiences of that kind in
one or the other way already.
.
Artists around the globe are invited to reflect these traumatic conditions
of human life and submit art works, documents, texts or any other material
connected the thematical context
which can be submitted as digital file .
.
"Tsunami" -
this collaborative project will be published and featured on
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
and <http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org>
simultaneously and will take part
in all coming physical events of [R][R][F]2005--->XP,
global networking project by Agricola de Cologne.
.
Following file typs are accepted:
Text: .txt, .rtf, plain email
Image: .jpg,.gif., png
sound: .mpg3
movie: .mov, .avi, wmv, .swf, .drc, .mpeg2
.
The submission can consist of different parts, works or documents but must
not exceed 5MB.
All serious contributions will be accepted.
.
1st deadline 31 March 2005, afterwards ongoing,
to be continously updated.
.
Please use this form for submitting
.
1.Name, Email, URL
2.brief bio (not more than 50 words/English)
3.work(s) (number of entries, titles, year of origin, medium of original
work, submitted media file types)
4. Short description for each submitted work (not more than 50
words/English)
.
Please send the submission
as individual files attached
to
info@a-virtual-memorial.org <mailto:info@a-virtual-memorial.org>
subject: tsunami
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New month - new subject
*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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b) ***Features of the Month March
Subject: -->
Captured in despair - Tribute to the Victims of Torture
Featured Artist: -->47 Reds by Christina McPhee
TextObject: -->Torture (poem) by Wislawa Szymborska
Women. -->Dalia Gilboa's -Mass Rape: War on Women
ArtObject: -->Watch: Seconds: Forever (video)
Animal: -->Siberian Tiger
People: -->Siberian peoples
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Enter this feature environment via www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
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d) News
.
In MARCH,
[R][R][R]2005--->XP and {A Virtual Memorial}
continue the physical event series to be realized in
Palestine, Israel and Germany,
entitled IMPACT ME'05.
.
On 2 March,
[R][R][R]2005--->XP lecture at
Camera Obscura Academy Tel-Aviv/Israel

All and the next following events are listed on
[R][R][R]2005--->XP site
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org>
-->
Videoformes - International Festival of Video and New Media
Clermont-Ferrand/France - www.videoformes.com <http://www.videoformes.com>
14-19 March 2005
show two net based works by Agricola de Cologne
originating from [R][R][R]2005--->XP environment
a) En (code) ed
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume6/encoded.html>

b) 138 seconds of peace?
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume6/138seconds.html>
.
--->
The net.art show "Violencia sin cuerpos" at
National Museum for Contemporary Art Reina Sofia Madrid/Spain
MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA. <http://www.carceldeamor.net/>
is including the netart piece "Compressed Affair"
<http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/collections/compressed_affair1.htm>
another work by Agricola de Cologne from "A Virtual Memorial" environment.
31 March - 8 May 2005
.
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Until the next time
all the best,
.
{A Virtual Memorial}
www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
award wining Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity -
since 2000 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>
info@a-virtual-memorial.org <mailto:info@a-virtual-memorial.org>
.
is a corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
www.nmartproject.net <http://www.nmartproject.net>
-the experimental platform for New Media art -
operating from Cologne/Germany
.
copyright

DISCUSSION

Cinema_C: call for submissions - extended deadline


Cinematheque at MediaCentre
<http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre>
.
announces the opening of Cinema_C
by launching a special call for submissions
(can be also downloaded from
<http://service.nmartproject.net/calls/call_cinemac.htm> )
-->
Title:
O-C-I-N

DISCUSSION

RRF2005--->XP in Palestine, Israel and Thailand


[R][R][F]2005--->XP
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org>
global networking project
created and realized by Agricola de Cologne,
media artist and New Media curator from Cologne/Germany
.
is happy to launch a new project version
on occasion of the first suit of physical project related events
entitled: IMPACT ME'05,
which will take place in 2005 in
Palestine, Israel and Germany.
.
These event series will start on 17 February 2005
with the exhibition of the interactive project installation
at CAVE Gallery - Bethlehem International Center
(17 February - 14 March 2005)
<http://www.annadwa.org/cave/agricola.htm>
followed by two lectures
at Bethlehem University on 17 February and
Bethlehem International Center on 19 February
<http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/events.php?ed