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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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OPPORTUNITY

Final call: Cologne International Videoart Festival


Deadline:
Mon Jul 30, 2012 00:00

Location:
Germany

Cologne International Videoart Festival
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3 Calls for entries
extended deadline: 30 July 2012
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CologneOFF VIII - Continental Drift
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=3791

animateCOLOGNE - Cologne Art & Animation Festival
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=4024

exDox - Experimental Documentary Film Festival
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=4283
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Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/
info (at) coff.newmediafest.org
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EVENT

A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh 2012


Dates:
Thu Jul 12, 2012 18:00 - Sun Jul 15, 2012

Location:
Cambodia

CologneOFF 2012 Cambodia
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2499
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- Freedom of Memory -
A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh 2012
videoart in a global context
12-15 July 2012 @ META House Phnom Penh - Cambodian-German Cultural Center
http://phnompenh2012.a-virtual-memorial.org
dedicated to the victims of the Cambodian genocide 1975-1979

is including a wide range of video works
dealing with memory in most different ways
The workshop "Freedom of Memory"
on 15 July 2012 is addressed to
Cambodian film and videomakers.

The list of videos to be screened can be downloaded as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_2012_Cambodia.pdf

A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh 2012
is a cooperation between artvideoKOELN and META House Phnom Penh
in collaboration with
Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/
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1#minuteCOLOGNE - Cologne One Minute Film Festival
animateCOLOGNE - Cologne Art & Animation Festival
exDox- Cologne Experimental Documentary Film Festival
SFC - Shoah Film Collection - http://dts.engad.org/blog/

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artvideoKOELN -
the international curatorial initiative "art & moving images"
http://video.mediaartcologne.org

artvideo (at) koeln.de

directed and curated by
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
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OPPORTUNITY

3 call for entries: Cologne International Videoart Festival


Deadline:
Mon Jul 30, 2012 00:00

Location:
Germany

Cologne International Videoart Festival
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3 Calls for entries
extended deadline: 30 July 2012
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CologneOFF VIII - Continental Drift
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=3791

animateCOLOGNE - Cologne Art & Animation Festival
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=4024

exDox - Experimental Documentary Film Festival
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=4283
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Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/
info (at) coff.newmediafest.org
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OPPORTUNITY

3 calls for entries: Cologne International Videoart Festival


Deadline:
Mon Jul 30, 2012 00:00

Cologne International Videoart Festival
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3 Calls for entries
extended deadline: 30 July 2012
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CologneOFF VIII - Continental Drift
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=3791

animateCOLOGNE - Cologne Art & Animation Festival
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=4024

exDox - Experimental Documentary Film Festival
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=4283
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Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/
info (at) coff.newmediafest.org
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EVENT

SFC - Shoah Film Collection @ A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012


Dates:
Thu May 31, 2012 19:00 - Fri Jun 08, 2012

Location:
Latvia

SFC_ Shoah Film Collection - http://dts.engad.org -
launched 2010 by Agricola de Cologne, director & curator of
artvideoKOELN & Cologne International Videoart Festival
received a special event context of its own
"A Virtual Memorial - Commemorative Interventions"
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artvideoKOELN -
the international curatorial initiative "art & moving images"
is happy to announce

A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 - Commemorative Interventions
featuring SFC _ Shoah Film Collection
1-8 Juni 2012 @ Culture & Arts Projects NOASS Riga
http://riga2012.a-virtual-memorial.org

as a complementary event in the framework of the
International Conference of Holocaust Museums 4-6 June 2012
organised by Riga Ghetto & Latvian Holocaust Museum
http://www.rgm.lv

in partnership between
Riga Ghetto & Latvian Holocaust Museum, Association of Jewish Culture SHAMIR Riga,
Culture and Arts Projects NOASS Riga & artvideoKOELN -
the international initiative "art & moving images" from Cologne/Germany

As a nomadic memorial, A Virtual Memorial - Commemorative Interventions
is representing the presentation context for
SFC - Shoah Film Collection - http://dts.engad.org
to be embedded in complementary exhibitions, lectures, workshops,
artists talks, discussions and other audience related interventions.

SFC _ Shoah Film Collection - a worldwide unique initiative -
would like to encourage young generations of artists to deal with the topic of SHOAH, and related themes like collective trauma caused by totalitarism, by using new technologies and contemporary approaches in art in order to discuss new ways for keeping vivid the memory.
Founded by Agricola de Cologne on 27 January 2010, the 65th return of the liberation of Auschwitz, SFC - Shoah Film Collection releases each year on 27 January a new call for the running year and includes meanwhile 40 exceptional experimental film and videoart works with a running time between 1 minute and 60 minutes.
The PDF catalogue can be downloaded - http://downloads.nmartproject.net/SFC_collection_2012.pdf

A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 - Commemorative Interventions
is the first of a series of events to be realised during the coming years
in Europe, Asia, North and South America.
The provisional event schedule can be downloaded as PDF.
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/AVM_CI_SFC_RIGA2012_en.pdf

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artvideoKOELN-
international curatorial initiative "Art & Moving Images"
http://video.mediaartcologne.org

Culture & Art Projects NOASS Riga/Latvia
http://www.noass.lv
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