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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

SoundLAB: call for soundart


Deadline:
Fri Jun 02, 2006 02:01

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SoundLab: call for soundart
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
deadline 30 June 2006
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Soundlab
the sonic art environment of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
will launch EDITION IV online
in October 2006
and is inviting sound artists for submitting
proposals of soundart works (.mp3) to be included.
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All entry information are available on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
or can be downloaded as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/soundLAB_call_2006.pdf
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SoundLab - can be accessed directly via
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
or via
SoundLab Channel/Memory Channel 7-->
corporate part of [R][R][F]200x--->XP
global networking project
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org

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DISCUSSION

[week 29 May - 04 June 2006] - new interviews on JIP


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[week 29 May - 04 June 2006]
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JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog

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JIP is featuring this week following 4 interviews with

-->Dagmar Kase (Estonia) , Simon Fildes & Katrina McPherson (UK)
Jeremy Blank (Australia), Robert Kendall (Canada)
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Dagmar Kase
born 1974, Tallinn, Estonia, Media artist, researcher and lecturer.
Works mainly with video (music and live), texts, photography, (interactive) installation and net-performance.

Simon Fieldes & Katrina McPherson
live and work in Scotland/UK and collaborated in 2001 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. In 2004 they received funding from Scottish Arts council to develop their Hyperchoreography concept further.

Jeremy Blank
is an artist, lecturer and curator of BEAP '04 & '07 - Biennale of Electronic Art Perth (Australia)

Robert Kendall
was born and raised in Canada. He earned an MA degree from New York University, sojourned in New Jersey for ten years, and currently lives in Menlo Park, California. He is on the Literary Advisory Board of the Electronic Literature Organization, and he supervises the Organization's Electronic Literature Directory. He is codeveloper of Connection Muse, an adaptive hypertext authoring system for Web poetry and fiction. He has been creating interactive multimedia poetry since 1990, making him one of the earliest practitioners of the form.

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About JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project

JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org/
is currently preparing a new project, entitled:
JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://jip.javamuseum.org
to be launched in September 2006

Agricola de Cologne, director of JavaMuseum
invited for an interview a number professionals &
artists active in the field of Internet based art
who participated in the "1st phase",
the 18 JavaMuseum showcases 2001-2004,
in order to spotlight their professional background, activities and visions.
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The deadline for the survey: 10 questions on Internet based art ended on 1 June.
The entry rules and the questions (cut & paste) are still available on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog&catE
or as PDF as free download
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/JIP_10_questions_on_Internet_based_art.pdf
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JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
will be released on an ongoing basis, whereby
the selection of the most interesting answers can be found
a) online on the new project site - http://jip.javamuseum.org , but
b) immediately also in form of one interview per week on the new weblog -
JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog
and
c) to be published in a printed form at a later stage.
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Until now interviews /answers by
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Babel (Canada), Andrea Polli (USA), Jorn Ebner (UK),
Roberto Echen (Argentina), Jeremy Hight (USA), Ian Page-Echols (USA),
Humberto Ramirez (Chile/USA), Enrico Tomaselli (Italy)
Carlos Katastrofsky (Austria), Paivi Hintsanen (Finland)
Shankar Barua (India), Luke Duncalfe (New Zealand)
FilH (France), Nadja Kutz (Germany), Yvonne Martinsson (Sweden),
Avi Rosen (Israel), Letizia Jaccheri (Norway), Tamara Lai (Belgium,
tobias c. van Veen (Canada), DLSAN (Italy), Irene Coremberg (Argentina)
Carla Della Beffa (Italy), Peter Lind (Denmark),
Philippe Langlois (France), Salvatore Iaconesi (Italy),
Pat Badani (USA), Calin Man (Romania), Myron Turner (Canada)
Domenica Quaranta (Italy), Juan Manuel Patino (Argentina),
Alison Williams (South Africa), Rahima Begum (India),
Anahi Caceres (Argentina), Raivo Kelomees (Estonia),
santo_file (Spain), Sachiko Hayashi (Sweden), Jody Zellen (USA),
Caterina Davinio (Italy), Reiner Strasser (Germany),
Glorious Ninth (UK), Tomasz Konart (Canada), Alvaro Ardevol (Spain)
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have been issued on http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog
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.
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DISCUSSION

Call for videos: image vs. music


Call for propsals
Deadline 1 July 2006
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VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
videochannel@newmediafest.org

organiser of
1st Cologne Online Film Festival (CologneOFF)
http://coff.newmediafest.org
featuring film & videos on the theme "gender identity".

is now planning the
2nd Cologne Online Film Festival (CologneOFF)
to be launched in October 2006
in the framework of KlangDrang Festival Cologne (6-7 October 2006)
www.klangdrang.org
and to be screened in the framework of VideoChannel screenings during the festival

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VideoChannel
is looking for digital films/videos
dealing with the interaction of image & music/sound,
a theme which is referring to the character of the festival of sonic art (KlangDrang)
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Film and video are basically visual media.
Even if used and recognized as an important component,
has music in this context mostly rather a colorizing and atmospheric character.
The films/videos VideoChannel is looking for
should give image & music an equal or music even a dominating status,
which may be worked out in most different ways, for instance--->
music as the theme of the story, films reflecting music through images and viceversa, the visalization of music, and much more.
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There are no restricting categories, the submission of experimental works is encouraged.
The call is inviting artists to submit up to three proposals.
The deadline is 1 July 2006
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The entry information can be found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT

but can be also downloaded as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/videoCHANNEL_call_image_vs_music.pdf
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Visit also the online collection of VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

VideoChannel started recently a complete
reconstruction and will be relaunched in September 2006

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VideoChannel is a joint venture between
Cinematheque at MediaArtCentre
http://cinematheque.le-musee-divisioniste.org
and [R][R][F] 200X - global networking project
http://rrf200x.newmediafest.org
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.
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DISCUSSION

Call: Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina


Version espanola abajo
Spanish version below
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Call: Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina
is looking for digital artwork
deadline 1 September 2006

24 March 2006 -->30th return of the military coup in Argentina (1976)

Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina (W:MoRiA)
http://argentina.engad.org

is an Internet based art project about the "disappeared" (desapararecidos) in Argentina and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
in the framework of the global networking project [R][R][F]2006---XP - http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org
initiated & created by Agricola de Cologne, media artist & New Media curator from Cologne/Germany

On occasion of 30th return of the military coup in Argentina on 24 March (2006/1976),
the project is planned to be re-constructed and re-launched later in the year 2006.

For this occasion, W:MoRiA
is inviting artists not only from Argentina, but any country on the globe
for submitting a proposal in form of an Internet based work, digital video and soundart,
dealing with the military dictatorships in Argentina and other South America countries,
the persecuted & "disappeared" people, and
how the society, family and friends were reacting on the traumatic experiences.

Please find all project information and the entry form on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT

Contacts:
rrf2006 (at) newmediafest.org
subject: argentina

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Version espanola

Convocatoria:
Mujeres: Memoria de la Represion en la Argentina
esta buscando arte digital
Cierre de convocatoria: 1

DISCUSSION

private: Agricola de Cologne in May/June


private: Agricola de Cologne
May/June 2006
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The experimental videos
Distortion Projected 4'.50
House of tomorrow 3'
Truth - Paradise Found 3'
Inability of Being Nude 2'
were presented on Pixeldance Festival Thessaloniki/Greece
http://www.pixeldance.gr/micro-site/view\_site.php?mode=artist&id6
12-15 May 2006

3 short films
were presented in the framework of the
Streaming Festival The Hague
www.streamingfestival.com
12-14 May
interesting interview!! on
http://www.streamingfestival.com/artists.php?idP

The short film
Truth - Paradise Found
was shown on
Confluencias 2006
Art and Technology Festival Huelva/Spain
www.confluencias.org
9-12 May 2006

Selection 1 by VideoChannel
curated by Agricola de Cologne
was screened on
MAF'06 - Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand
http://www.thailand-maf.org/MAF06
2-4 May 2006
including the shortflm
"Predator"

--->June
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D-NEFF - experimental video festival Vitoria-Gasteiz/Spain
12-13 June 2006 - www.neffestival.com
"Distortion Projected" - experimental video

Camargo Cibernetico -
Electronic Art Festival Camargo/Spain
29 May - 02 June 2006
"Distortion Projected" - experimental video
www.camargocibernetico.org

VIII SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL -
digital art festival in Havanna/Cuba
19 June - 16 July
http://www.artedigitalcuba.cult.cu

Colloquium on 20-23 June
subject of lecture:
[R][R][F]2006--->XP - gloabl networking project
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org

Agricola de Cologne will be in Havanna between 10 and 24 June

More info on
http://bio.agricola-de-cologne.de
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.
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