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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

[message1] Launch of new show: Netart from UK and Ireland


[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
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8 January 2004
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JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org
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is happy to launch its first feature in 2004, entitled
"I-Islands // Netart from Great Britain and Ireland".
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These are the participating artists
--->
Ambient.TV, Stephen Bossonet, Dan Norton
Gair Dunlop, STANZA, Marc Garrett, Furtherfield
Ruth Catlow, Thomson & Craighead, Adele Prince/Edward Hill
Michael Szpakowski, Jonah Brucker-Cohen,
Glorious Ninth = Kate Southworth/Patrick Simons
Nick Barker, Oliver Flexman, James Ford
Jess Loseby, Susan Collins, Talking Birds
M. Takeo Magruder, Jorn Ebner, Conor McGarrigle
Dennis McNulty/Cliona Harmey, Enrique Radigales
Sarah Doyle, K. McPherson/S.Fildes, Ken Davidson
Brian Routh, Beverly Hood, Jane Wingfield
.
The show can be entered via
www.javamuseum.org
or also directly via
www.javamuseum.org/2004/englishfeature/index.html
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The show is realized and organised by Agricola de Cologne.
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Flash 7 plug-in/player required
and some other plugins as Quicktime, Real and Cortona (3D)
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Artists who are not participating, yet
are invited to make their submission
at any time to this ongoing show.
The entry form can be found on the index page of
www.javamuseum.org

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JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
www.javamuseum.org

is corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
the experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany.

DISCUSSION

AVM January 2004


To all our friends a
Happy and Peaceful New Year 2004!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne
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Table of Contents:
a) News
b) Features of the month January 2004
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News in January
1.
[R][R][F] 2004
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
is the title of the new global networking project
organized in the framework of [NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne
starting at 20 February 2004
at National Museum of Contemporary Art/Kalinderu MediaLab Bucaresti/Romania
and developing and operating until the end of 2004.
The project will contain a large number of Memory Channels, among them
[R][R][F] v.2.0 including these curators
Raul Ferrera Balanquet (Cuba), Gita Hashemi (Iran/Canada), Winston Yang
(China),
Raquel Partnoy (Argentina), Bjorn Norberg (Sweden), Agricola de Cologne
and others to be nominated later.
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Basic subject -->"memory and identity"
Basic operational aspect -->"networking as artworking"
Basic presentation aspect-->"exchange between virtual and physical space"

More details at a later stage.

2.
Call for artists submissions for "My Mission".
More details on
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/exhibitionhall/2003/self/mymission.htm
Meanwhile more than 50 artists' statements could be added.

Since 30 September, the new show
"{self}_representation 2003,
a co-operation with Le Musee di-visioniste
is online on www.le-musee-divisioniste.org or
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/start1.htm
including 250 artists from 40 countries

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New month - new subject
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c) ***Features of the Month

Memorial days in January

2004 International Year to Commemorate
the struggle against Slavery and its Abolition

02 January 1959 - Victory of Cuban Revolution (Cuba)
19 January 2004 - Martin Luther King Memorial Day (USA)
22 January 1905 - First Russian Revolution St. Petersburg
27 January 1945 - Liberation of the Concentration Camp
Auschwitz

*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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Subject of the Month:
Again 2004: Voices of a new age

Project of the Month: Who are the pioneers?
Featured artists: Michael von Karkowski
VoiceObject 1: Martin Luther King
VoiceObject 2: Harry Truman
VoiceObject 3: Adolf Hitler
Animal: Snow leopard (Irbis)
People: Sami
Witnesses of Eternity: Worms/Germany

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Until the next time
all the best,

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
info@a-virtual-memorial.org
www.a-irtual-memorial.org
Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity -
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

Optimized for 1024x768 VGA resolution,
latest browser versions of
MS Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera
soundcard, Flash 7 required

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is a free InformationService of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
-the experimental platform net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany

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DISCUSSION

---> "My Mission" - Christmas update - 22 December 2003


---> "My Mission"
The ongoing collection of textual self-representations in form of artistic
statements ----> as part of
"{self}_representation 2003" -
the new show on Le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org or
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/start1.htm
------> launched on 30 september 2003

These are the Christmas additions of artists statements:
------>X Rokeby, Michael Branthwaite, Boel Olsson,
Cyrill Duneau, Domenico Olivero

They form the basis of "My Mission":
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Daniel Young, David Crawford, Cendres Lavy
Gita Hashemi, Barry Smylie, Sergeij Jakovlev
Igor Ulanovsky, Rene Joseph, Mr. Robert Montini
Robin Miller, Eva Lewarne, Eric Van Hove
Jorn Ebner, Dr. Hugo, Wendy Lu
Richard Ellis, Harriet Jameson Pellizzari, RAnders
Xavier Malbreil, Graham Thompson, Alvaro Ardevol
Lisa Ndejuru , Cezar Lazarescu, Julie Andreyev
Carla Della Beffa, Catherine Daly,
Xavier Pehuet, Kristin Calabrese, Sol Kjok
Michael Crane, Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, Blair Butterfield
Anthony Lealand, gintas k, Luigia Cardarelli
Ksenija Kovacevic
Pino Boresta, Dizzy, Aikaterini Gegisian, Jeremy Newman,
Carole Loeffler, Michael Haskett, Ida Dominici, kosmoagonia,
Alberto Frigo , Heather J. Tait, Miss C Johnston,
Nitin Shroffs, Shaukat Khan, Ann Tracy,
Luna Nera, Clemente Padin, Nigel Petherick

Enter the project via
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org or
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/start1.htm
or go directly also to:
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/exhibitionhall/2003/self/mymission.htm

But there are much more artists who have a mission.
Come and join the project by responding to this call:

"My Mission" - call for submissions
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invites artists to submit to the recently initiated project
"My Mission",
collection of textual self-representations in form of artistic statements.

Please send your statement as a short text in plain email format (not more
than 500 words),
how you see your mission as an artist, if you have any.

"My mission" is an ongoing project with an open end, so you can send your
statement at any time. No deadline.

All serious submissions will be immediately included.

Please send your submission
including your name and email address, to
info@le-musee-divisioniste.org
subject line: My Mission

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"{self}_representation 2003"
is curated and created by Agricola de Cologne

for Le Musee di-visioniste
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
- corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne -
the experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany.

DISCUSSION

Season's greetings from Cologne


Agricola de Cologne,
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
and its virtual team

wish all their friends in all parts of the world

a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
health, much success and peace on Earth.

See also the personal message to you on
www.nmartproject.net/xmas.htm

DISCUSSION

Fw: VIERNES CURVADOS - Sede Madrid


----- Original Message -----
From: Centro de Arte Moderno
To: Centro de Arte Moderno
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 7:56 PM
Subject: VIERNES CURVADOS - Sede Madrid

EL VIERNES CURVADO

viernes 19 de diciembre de 2003 a las 20 horas

El viernes curvado es un espacio que se desarrollara un viernes de cada m=
es, en donde se proyectaran obras realizadas por diferentes artistas a tr=
aves del ordenador.
En esta primera ocasion se presentaran algunos trabajos correspondiente=
s a
MAEM 2003, siendo los artistas participantes los siguientes:
Gustavo Aguilera
Agricola de Cologne
Carlos Alcala.
arc_naif
Astas Romas
Dulcimira Capisani
Juan Carlos Carrazon
Juan Antonio Lleo
Josh Nimoy
Avi Rosen
Antonio Alvarado

Idea y coordinacion: Antonio Alvarado

CENTRO DE ARTE MODERNO
Gobernador,25 - esquina San Pedro
Madrid
91 429 8363
www.cam.org.ar
centrodeartemoderno@telefonica.net