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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
Discussions (473) Opportunities (77) Events (64) Jobs (0)
DISCUSSION

Launch of SoundLab Channel edition II


ConcertHall at
Le Musee di-visioniste
<http://concerthall.le-musee-divisioniste.org>

is very proud to launch edition II of.
SoundLab Channel -
.
a joint-venture with
[R][R][F]2005--->XP
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org> ,
"Memory Channel 7" of this
global networking project by
by Agricola de Cologne, media artist and
New Media curator from Cologne/Germany, -
and part of the physical events series in Palestine, Israel and Germany,
entitled: IMPACT ME'05 starting on 17 February at
CAVE Gallery at Bethlehem International Center/Palestine
http://www.annadwa.org/cave/agricola.htm <>
-
SoundLab Channel,
a project environment which is focussing
on non-visual aspects of "collective memory"
manifested in soundart -

is happy to include on this occasion online
three (3) new curatorial contributions -
.
a) from Sofia/Bulgaria -->
Ivan Bachev, curator and soundartist
is curating soundart works by these Bulgarian artists
.
1. popcrash
2. skylined
3. navn
4. ambient anarchist
.
b) from Montreal/Canada - a second curatorial contribution
by Tobias Van Veen
.
who is curating soundart works by
.
1. Esther Bourdages
2. I8U
3. Tomas Phillips and Dean King.
.
c) soundart works by individual artists
curated by Melody Parker Carter
based on an open call in Internet

---> featuring
Benjamin B. Kinsley, Peter Prautzsch
Caroline de Lannoy, Serge Smilovich
eduardo paz carlson, Marcello Mercado
Simon Longo , Ludovic Guerry
Catherine Clover, Lee Welch
Arie van Schutterhoef , gregory chatonsky
Cezary OSTROWSKI, nick barker and rob jacobs
Matt Rogalsky, Nicholas Ruiz III
ricardo miranda zuniga, Herve Constant
Trevor Thomas, Oren Ben Yosef
Jennifer Helia DeFelice, Miika Nyyssonen
Darko Vuckovic, Cheryl HENG and WhooKiat HENG
Trond Lossius, AGGTELEK
Abinadi Meza, Future Remix
Beat Suter and Rene Bauer, Colin Black
KPHB, Helga's Ephemeris
Maria Blondeel, Le Tuan Hung
yosuke hayashi, Jonathan Cardillo
Maral Yakshieva, Alexander Kharkovsky
Les Riches Douaniers, (((controller-band
Gildardo Cruz Rojas & Alfredo Ramirez Castruita
Igor Baskin, HarS - Harold Schellinx
Jeanne Fremaux, mutantlab.

d) a soundart feature
extracted from soundart programs of Internet radio stations:
this time again from Kunstradio (Vienna/Austria)
featuring radio and soundartists from Serbia
including Arsenije Jovanovic, Gordan Paunovic, Ivana Stefanovic,
Aleksandar Vasiljevic, Robert Klajn and others.

--->
SoundLab Channel will be part of the interactive installation at
CAVE Gallery in Bethlehem, both online and offline from DVD..

SoundLabChannel - edition I
includes 6 curatorial contributions by
Tobia Van Veen (Canada), John Kannenberg (USA),
Eva Sjuve (Norway), Juan Antonio Lleo (Spain),
Zoe Drayton (New Zealand) and
Melody Parker Carter (Germany) -
and a feature of Australian Radio & Soundart.

Both SoundLab Channel editions incorporate more than 100 artists
from 25 countries and more than 100 soundart works
and form a unique collection of non-visual art
related to the theme "memory and identity"

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SoundLab Channel
can be accessed via
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1. [R][R][F]2005--->XP project site -
artistic body - Memory Channel 7
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org <>
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2. or directly
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org/schannel.htm>
.
3. or directly ConcertHall site
<http://concerthall.le-musee-divisioniste.org>
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<http://concerthall.le-musee-divisioniste.org>
is part of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net <http://www.nmartproject.net>
info@nmartproject.net <mailto:info@nmartproject.net>
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DISCUSSION

Cinematheque - launch of new VideoChannel edition


Cinematheque at MediaCentre
<http://cinematheque.le-musee-divisioniste.org>
announces

1. new edition of VideoChannel -
interactive installation at Bethlehem Cave Gallery/Palestine
2. physical presentation of VideoChannel on
New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand
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1.
Cinematheque at MediaCentre
is very proud to launch a new edition of
.
VideoChannel -
.
a joint-venture with
[R][R][F]2005--->XP
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org>
global networking project -
as part of the physical events series in Palestine, Israel and Germany,
entitled: IMPACT ME'05
starting on 17 February at
CAVE Gallery at Bethlehem International Center/Palestine
<http://www.annadwa.org/cave/agricola.htm> <http://www.annadwa.org/>
-
VideoChannel is happy to include on this occasion
three new curatorial contributions
.
a) from Valencia/Spain
videoraum.net - www.videoraum.net <http://www.videoraum.net> , i.e.
Gudrun Bittner and Pau Pascual Galbis
are curating videoworks by
.
Empar Cubells , Juan Domingo
Gudrun Bittner, Pau Pascual Galbis
.
b) from Sao Paulo/Brazil
Brocolis VHS - a video initiative
www.brocolis.org <http://www.brocolis.org>
.
is curating videos by
.
Cassiah Kallenah, Omar Emir Barquet,
Neide Jallageas, Fabio Oliveira Nunes,
Brocolis VHS
.
c) Rogier van Benteghem (Belgium/Germany)
is curating videos by
.
Petra Lindholm (Sweden) , Scott Becker (USA)
Claudia Sohrens (USA), Elia Alba (USA)
Larry Caveney (USA)

VideoChannel will be installed from 10 DVDs
as the offline part of the
interactive installation at Bethlehem CAVE Gallery.

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2.
VideoChannel is proud to present offline a selection of 16 videos -
16 curators represented by one curated video each,
.
on MAF05 - New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thainland
<http://thailand.culturebase.org/maf05/>
25-29 February 2005
.
including
.
1. Calin Dan (Romania)
Curated by Raluca Velizar and Florin Tudor (Romania)
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2. Lorenzo Oggiano (Italy) - curated by Laura Ciari (Italy)
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3. Aldo Perredo (Chile) - curated by Isabel Arando Yto (Chile)
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4. Antonia Valero & Laura Amigo (Spain)
Curated by Antonio Alvarado (Spain)
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5. Fishtank (Italy) -curated by Agricola de Cologne (Germany)
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6: Ji-Hyung Kim (S. Korea) - curated by Won-Kon Yi (South Korea)
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7. Agricola de Cologne (Germany)
curated by Melody Parker Carter (Germany)
.
8. Petra Lindholm (Sweden)
curated by Rogier van Benteghem (Belgium)
.
9. Tan Chui Mui (Malaysia) -
curated by Roopesh Sitharan (Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia)
.
10. Juan Domingo Ferris (Spain)
Curated by videoraum.net (Valencia/Spain)
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11. Liat & Ariel Shechter-Mayrose (Israel)
curated by Stephanie Benzaquen (Netherlands)
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12. Cassia Kallenah (Brazil)
Curated by Brocolis VHS (Sao Paulo/Brazil)
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13. Welmo E. Romero Joseph (Puerto Rico)
Curated by Heidi Figuroa and Marianne Ramirez -Aponte (Puerto_Rico)
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14. Margerida Paiva (Portugal)
Curated by Agricola de Cologne (Germany)
.
15. Jens Salander & Mikael Stroemberg (Sweden)
Curated by Bjoern Norberg (Sweden)
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16. Caitlin Berrigan (USA)
Curated by Alex Haupt (Germany)
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VideoChannel
can be accessed via
.
1. [R][R][F]2005--->XP project site -
artistic body - Memory Channel 5
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org>
.
2. or directly
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org/vchannel.htm>
.
3. or directly Cinematheque site
<http://cinematheque.le-musee-divisioniste.org>
.
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<http://cinematheque.le-musee-divisioniste.org>
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[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net <http://www.nmartproject.net>
info@nmartproject.net <mailto:info@nmartproject.net>

DISCUSSION

Project Features|| Feb'05 featuring Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson


Project Features"
<http://features.nmartproject.net>
is happy to present during February 2005
its second feature:
--->
Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson
and their netart piece, entitled:
"Ardnamurchan Zillij" (2004).

Between July and September 2004 Simon Fildes was New Dynamics Artist in Residence in the dispersed communities of Ardnamurchan as part of the Scottish Arts Council supported programme for Social Inclusion Partnership Communities. This was a part-time role to develop new 'new media' work with young people. Whilst staying there the award-winning video-maker Katrina McPherson worked along side Simon to create a new work called 'Ardnamurchan Zillij'.
The artists created a collaborative work with individuals from the geographically diverse groups in Ardnamurchan, Scotland . They built up a bank of over 130 digital tiles based on looping moving images. The interface allows a user to select tiles and design a constantly moving colourful mosaic of small video clips. The video clips were created by designing, choreographing and videoing the movement of individuals in the communities of Ardnamurchan and the environment around them, and reducing the clips to near abstract shapes and sounds . The idea to create an interactive moving digital mosaic was inspired by the artists fascination with Islamic Moroccan tradition which relies on geometry and endless repetition as an outlet for expression using shapes called fourmah to create intricate patterns, Zillij. Katrina and Simon were interested in exploring some cultural parallels in this non representational form of art with the west coast of Scotland.

About the artists:
Katrina McPherson
has made many single video-dance works that have been broadcast and shown at festivals across the world; 'Moment' was awarded the prestigious 'Best Screen Choreography' award at the IMZ Dance Screen Festival. Katrina received the prestigious Creative Scotland award in 2002. As well as editing many of the video-dance works directed by Katrina.
Simon Fildes
is involved in the on-going development of New Media works in public spaces and in 2000 he was awarded one of the Scotland's Year of the Artist residencies. Simon has just completed two new media artist in residency projects in the Highlands of Scotland this year. In 2001 Katrina and Simon collaborated on making a web dance work 'big' for the funding scheme Alt-W at hyperchoreography.org; and made a series of works about the Scottish road A889 for the 'Remote' residencies project for New Media Scotland in 2002. They produced a new 30 minute dance film "the Truth" with Ricochet Dance Productions in 2003. In 2004 they received funding from Scottish Arts council to develop their Hyperchoreography concept further.

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"Project Features"
<http://features.nmartproject.net>
which will feature during 2005 each month
another exciting art project
using net based media for artistic expression.
.
The first issue on http://features.nmartproject.net <>
was featuring is January 2005 -->
Doron Golan (USA)
and his streaming video
"Tale of Crow" (2004)
more details on http://features.nmartproject.net <>
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"Project Features"
http://features.nmartproject.net <>
is curated by Agricola de Cologne

New!!
the article on the new Italian magazin of digital culture
DigiMag01 - issue 1 - February 2005, entitled:
"Agricola de Cologne - e la memoria virtuale"
to be found on the frontpage of
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/ <>
.
[NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net <>
experimental platform for New Media art
operating from Cologne/Germany
.
contacts and artists proposals:
info@nmartproject.net <>

DISCUSSION

memorial://february 2005


memorial://february 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 also in February -
the recent Tsunami disaster in South Asia
resulting a human tragedy of unknown dimensions,
and further the victims of the US and GB tortures on Iraqi prisoners.
.
selected memorial days in February
.
06 February 1904 First Russian-Japanes War began
08 February 1940 Lodz Ghetto established by the Nazis
13 February 1945 American and British bombs destroy Dresden
21 February 2005 International Mother Language Day (Unesco)
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Table of Contents:
a) Tsunami - call for artists submissions
b) Features of the month
c) News
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February 2005
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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 <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
and [R][R][F]2005---XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005>
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 <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
and www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005> 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,
but the project will be already launched on 1 February 2005 and from then
on continuously 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 January
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Subject: Hidden and visible??
Featured Artist: Antarctica by John Murphy
TextObject : Kashmir
ArtObject : Carnaval
Witnesses of Eternity : Trebic (part 1)
Animal of the month: Condor
People of the month: Bushmen
Perceptions of the month: Speech Exercises

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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 February,
[R][R][R]2005--->XP and {A Virtual Memorial}
will start a physical event series to be realized in
Palestine, Israel and Germany,
entitled IMPACT ME'05.
.
On 17 February,
CAVE GALLERY at Bethlehem International Center/Palestine (BIC)
will open the exhibition of the interactive installation of
[R][R][R]2005--->XP (17 February - 17 March 2005)
.
Additional events/lectures at Bethlehem University (16 February)
and BIC (19 February).
.
All and the next following events will be listed on
[R][R][R]2005--->XP site
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org>
.
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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>
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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
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DISCUSSION

Project Features - call for proposals


[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net <http://www.nmartproject.net>
installed a new site, entitled:
"Project features"
<http://features.nmartproject.net>
and plans to feature during 2005 each month
another of the best projects on the net..
.
The projects to be featured can be works
by single artists or collaborative works of any subjects and contents
and any technology, however,
they must have a URL of theirown
and available online for at least one year
from the start of the respective feature,
the projects must originate from 2003 or 2004,
and most important is the quality of the artistic workout.
.
During January, "Project Features"
is featuring "Tale of Crow"
a streaming movie by Doron Golan (USA)
--->
<http://features.nmartproject.net>
.
Dear artist(s),
You can submit one project as a proposal
Please use this entry form:
.
1. firstname/name of artist, email, URL
2. a brief bio/CV (not more than 300 words)
3. title and URL of one project originating from 2003 or 2004
4. a short work description of the work (not more than 300 words),
5. a screen shot of the submitted work (max 800x600 pixels, .jpg)
.
Deadline 28 February 2005.
.
Please send the completely filled in form to
info@nmartproject.net <mailto:info@nmartproject.net>
subject: "project features"
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[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net <http://www.nmartproject.net>
is the experimental platform for New Media art
from Cologne/Germany
founded and directed by Agricola de Cologne.
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