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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

[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP in Bangkok


20 -28 March as a guest in in Asia---->
.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
global networking project
created and developed by Agricola de Cologne -
.
is participating in
New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand http://thailand.culturebase.org
(20-28 March)
.
On this occasion these new additions are featured

1. ongoing curatorial contribution by Winston Yang (Hongkong/China)
who is starting with the Beijing based artists group -8gg.

[R][R][F] version 2.0 -
the basic part of [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
includes now following curators
and their selection of artists --->
Gita Hashemi (Iran/Canada), Raul Ferrera-Balanquet (Cuba/USA)
Calin Man and Stefan Tiron (Romania), Eva Sjuve (Norway)
Bjoern Norberg (Sweden), Raquel Partnoy (USA/Argentina)
Agricola de Cologne & Melody Parker-Carter (both Germany)
and Winston Yang (China)

2. launch of the net art show
"I-Ocean - Netart from all Asia & Pacific area"
contributed by
JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org
for the "Program Channel" of [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP,

including following artists:
Nancy Mauro-Flude, Kirsty Boyle, Norie Neumark, MEZ, Melissa Rackham
JASON SWEENEY, Luke Duncalfe, Komninos Zervos, Lisa Cianci, Lisa Gye
Dileep Katiyar, Francesca da Rimini , Mireille Astore, Ricardo Mbarak
Adam Nash, Geniwate, Robert Finder, John Johnston, May Trubuhovich
Winston Yang, 8gg.com, Sachiko Hayashi, Kenji Siratori, Eric van Hove
Roopesh Sitharan, Nazrin, Wirecrossing, Tsunamii.net,
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Downwind Productions, Shilpa Gupta
Shirin Kouladjie, Gita Hashemi, Haleh Niazmand, Avi Rosen, Tamar Shori

This show can be accessed directly via
www.javamuseum.org/2004/asiafeature/index.html
or via the artistic body the "Program Channel"
in the framework of [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/

3.
Between 20 and 27 March,
Splintermind from Stockholm provides a program of
real time online streaming coming directly from
Museum of Contemporary Art Reykjavik/Iceland
includiing the Icelandic artist group
the Icelandic Love Corporation, the artist Egill Saebjornsson and the
Swedish artist groups AVCENTRALEN and Beeoff.
(Window Media Player required)

More details and access via www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004

4.
Since 5 March part of [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
BEK_dns -
audio streaming of electronic music from Bergen/Norway
and BEK _dns_audio_combat -
video stream
from Bergen Electronic Arts Center www.bek.no
--> for more details and/or joining go to www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
(Real Player required)
..
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
started the first suite of physical installations/presentations on
Friday, 5 March 2004
at National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti/Romania
www.mnac.ro/next.htm,
Bergen Center of Electronic Arts Bergen/Norway www.bek.no
.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP will be realized in collaboration and networking with
numerous virtual and physical locations and partners around the globe,
it will be developed and operating during 2004 and beyond.
.
All details are available on
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP info site
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
rrf2004@newmediafest.org
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[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
is corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
info@nmartproject.net

DISCUSSION

Call: Memorial for the Victims of Terror


Terror attack in Madrid - more than 200 victims of terror!
.
Artist are invited to show their solidarity!
.
The Memorial for the Victims of Terror
is open now for artists submissions
.
Please submit:
1.Your name
2. your email address
3. titel and URL of a net based work
or a digital work, i.e.
text: txt file or plain email
image:.jpg
animation/movie: .swf, .dcr, .mov
.
and send it to terrormemorial@a-virtual-memorial.org
.
or go to
www.a-virtual-memorial.org/terrormemorial.htm
.
All serious submissions will be included immediately.
.
A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
and
[R][R][F] 2004--->XP
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
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DISCUSSION

The curators and artists


-->10 March 2004<---
-->1st week feature<---
.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
global networking project
running until 29 March at
National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti/Romania
www.mnac.ro/next.htm
.
-->1st week feature<---
.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
consists of several "Memory Channels"
including subject related modules in form of media projects.
.
The basis of [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
forms [R][R][F] Version 2.0 as "Memory Channel 1"
including contributions from invited curators.
These curators selected following artists:
.
1.
curator: Gita Hashemi (Iran/Canada)
curatorial theme: "RealPlay"
selected artists:
Jaromil, Mireille Astore, Haleh Niazmand
Hardpressed Collective, Threadbare Coalition
.
2.
curator: curator: Raul Ferrera-Balanquet (Cuba/USA)
curatorial theme: "In[ter]vencion"
selected artists:
Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil), Ricardo Baez (Venezuela)
Santiago Perez Alfaro (Mexico), Eduardo Nava (El Salvador/USA)
Juan Devis and OnRamp Arts (Colombia/USA), Alex Riviera (Peru/USA)
.
3.
curator as interface: Calin Man (Romania)
curator as curator: Stefan Tiron (Romania)
curatorial subject: Romanian Young Guns
selected artists: all Romanian
Sergiu Negulici, Milos Jovanovic, Catalin Rulea
Daniel Gontz, Valentin Chincisan
.
4.
curator: Bjoern Norberg (Sweden)
curatorial subject: "Inflict"
artists: all Swedish
" Beeoff" --> Olle Huge, Tomas Linell, Mikael Scherdin
.
5.
curator: Eva Sjuve (Norway)
curatorial title: BEK_dns
selected artists:
Gijs Gieskes, Antti Sakari Saario, ARM with John Hegre
Fruit, Cosmic Jinxm, Christian Boen
Thorsen, Lossius, Bastiansen
and
BEK_dns_combat
selected artists:
Torgeir Nes, Tom Moland, Stefan Mitterer, Terje Urnes,
Peki Sinikoski, Rune Storetved, Marieke Verbiesen, Gijs Geiskes.
.
6.
curator: Agricola de Cologne (Germany)
curatorial theme: {nodes of identity}
selected artists:
Conor McGarrigle (Ireland), Maite Camacho (Spain)
Erkki Kirjalainen (/Santtu Rantanen) (Finland
David Clark (Canada), Melinda Rackham (Australia)
Nathaniel Stern (South Africa), Oliver Dyens (Canada)
Shilpa Gupta (India), Michael Sellam (France)/Garrett Lynch (Ireland)
JODY ZELLEN (USA)
.
7.
Melody Parker Carter (Germany)
curatorial theme: : >preconstructed transformations
selected artists:
Werner Cee (Germany), Sachiko Hayashi (Sweden)
Liz Miller (USA), Lisa Gye (Australia)
Mustafa Maluka (South Africa), Avi Rosen (Israel)
Irena Paskali (Macedonia), GAST BOUSCHET/Nadine Hilbert (Belgium)
Stephane Barron (France), Lisa Cianci (Australia)
.
8.
Special Feature:
title "Women :Memory of Repression in Argentina"
curatorial environment by Raquel Partnoy (USA/Argentina) and Agricola de
Cologne (Germany)
including testimonials of "Mothers of Plaza de Mayo" Bueno Aires/Argentina
and net based art works of following Argentine artists--->
Marina Zerbarini , Andamio Contiguo
Irene Coremberg, Anahi Caceres

All curatorial projects will be presented in detail in textual features
to be published during the coming weeks,
and can be accessed via the artistic body of [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
and "Memory Channel I" on www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
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--->
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
global networking project -
is created and developed by Agricola de Cologne,
media artist from Cologne/Germany
.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP will be realized in collaboration and networking with
numerous virtual and physical locations and partners around the globe,
it will be developed and operating during 2004 and beyond.
.
All details are available on
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP info site
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
rrf2004@newmediafest.org
*****************************
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
is corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
info@nmartproject.net
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DISCUSSION

Global networking project - 1st physical installation suite


--->
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
global networking project
created and developed by Agricola de Cologne -
.
is starting the first suite of physical installations/presentations on
Friday, 5 March 2004
at National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti/Romania
www.mnac.ro/next.htm,
Bergen Center of Electronic Arts Bergen/Norway www.bek.no
later -->20-28 March
New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand http://thailand.culturebase.org
.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
consists of an adimistrative and an artistic body.
The administrative body contains all basic project information,
the artistic body the "Memory Channels" of R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
--->all details on www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004

The basic part of [R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
is [R][R][F] version 2.0 including following curators
and their selection of artists --->
Gita Hashemi (Iran/Canada), Raul Ferrera-Balanquet (Cuba/USA)
Calin Man and Stefan Tiron (Romania), Eva Sjuve (Norway)
Bjoern Norberg (Sweden), Raquel Partnoy (USA/Argentina)
Agricola de Cologne & Melody Parker-Carter (both Germany)
Featured is the ongoing curatorial environment, entitled
"Women: Memory and Repression in Argentina".
Please find all curators and selected artists on
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/
.
Two curatorial online streaming projects are featured on the occasion of the
project launch--->
1.
Launch on 5 March --->
BEK_dns -
audio streaming of electronic music from Bergen/Norway
and BEK _dns_audio_combat -
video stream
both curated by Eva Sjuve, director of sound art at
Bergen Electronic Arts Center www.bek.no
--> for more details and/or joining go to www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
(Real Player required)
2.
"Inflict" - Internet performance created for RRF 2004--->XP
by the Swedish group "Beeoff" curated by Bjoern Norberg/Stockholm -->
online streaming 24 hours a day between 23 February and 15 March
from Stockholm/Sweden and Montreal/Canada
--> for more details and/or joining go to www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
(Window Media Player required)
..
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP will be realized in collaboration and networking with
numerous virtual and physical locations and partners around the globe,
it will be developed and operating during 2004 and beyond.
.
All details are available on
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP info site
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
rrf2004@newmediafest.org
*****************************
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
is corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
info@nmartproject.net

About the artist--->
Agricola de Cologne
www.agricola-de-cologne.de
is a virtual instance, a multidisciplinary media artists and creator and
founder of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
As an artist, he had more than 100 solo exhibitions in cooperation with for
than 70 museums throughout Europe, as a curator he organised between 1989
and 1994 several cultural projects in Europe and curates since 2001 the net
based New Media projects of NewMediaArtProjectNetwork.
He is participating in a variety of media exhibitions and festivals around
the globe with his online and offline multi-media works, details see on:
http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de/bio/bio_agricola1.htm
His net based works received several prizes.
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DISCUSSION

AVM in March---->[R][R][F] 2004


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
New Media art project environment by Agricola de Cologne

features
[R][R][F] 2004 -
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
global networking project
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Table of Contents:
a) News
b) Features of the month March 2004
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a) News in March
.
Since 23 February
[R][R][F] 2004
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004 is featuring "Inflict" by "Beeoff"
24 hours a day until 15 March online streaming from Stockholm and Montreal
curated by Bjorn Norberg
------------>on 3 March official online launch of [R][R][F] 2004
------------>on 5 March start of physical presentation at
National Museum of Contemporary Art/Kalinderu MediaLab Bucaresti/Romania
www.mnac.ro/next and Bergen Electronic Arts Center Bergen/Norway www.bek.no
--->New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand 20-28 March 2004.
The project will contain a changing 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), Eva Sjuve
(Norway)
and others to be nominated later.
-->
Basic subject -->"memory and identity"
Basic operational aspect -->"networking as artworking"
Basic presentation aspect-->"exchange between virtual and physical space"
--->
The project is a networking collaboration
with numerous institutions, organisations, curators, artists and
professionals
and
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne,
and will be developing and operating during 2004 and beyond.

Detailled information are available
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004

See also the suit of calls to be accessed on
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
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New month - new subject
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c) ***Features of the Month

Memorial days in March

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

08 March 2004 - World Women Day
21 March 2004 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination (UN)
22 March 2004 - World Day for the Water
23 March 1945 - Allied Foces cross the Rhine river near Cologne

*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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Features of the Month -->
Subject: Captured in despair - Tribute to the Victims of Torture
Featured Artist: 47 Reds by Christina McPhee (USA)
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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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

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