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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

NetEX: recent calls - 26 January 2006


NetEX- networked experience
http://netex.nmartproject.net

added recently some new calls
which might be of interest:
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New!!
1. International call for videoart Lamia/Greece
deadline 10 February 2006
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New!!
2. Call: Athens Videoart Festival
deadline: 15 March 2006
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New!!
3. Call: Shortfilm Festival Forli/Italy
deadline 31 July2006

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Still running!!
4. Arizona shortfilm & video festival
deadline: 10 February 2006
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5. Call: Freewaves Los Angeles/USA
deadline 15 February 2006
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6. The 3rd Con-Con movie festival (Japan)
deadline 28 February 2006
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7. Call from Kaliningrad/Russia
The 2nd International Festival of Multimedia Art 'The Salt of Water

DISCUSSION

VideoChannel's Selection'03 at Cec&CaC - New Dehli


VideoChannel's legendary SELECTION'03
now also at
CeC & CaC 2006, New Delhi, India 27-29 January 2006

29. Jan. 2006
SELECTION'03
video compilation
curated by Agricola de Cologne
for VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

featuring

Digital Snapshots by Daniel LoIocono (Germany) 2:30
Colossus by the Sea by Jens Salander/Mikael Stroemberg (Sweden) 10:00
SALT by Christina McPhee (USA) 9:26
Infern Domestic by Empar Cubells (Spain) 7:50
Sample City by Calin Dan (Romania) 10:00
Dana Levy (Israel) 10:00
Truth - Paradise Found by Agricola de Cologne (Germany) 3:00
No Title by Margerida Paiva (Portugal) 3:40
Smoke by Rafael Alcala (Puerto Rico) 3:00
Wo-men/Wo-rld by Li Hyung Kim (South Korea) 3:34

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CeC & CaC is The Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave, addressing the Creative Empowerment of Individuals by the burgeoning spread of Technology, across multiple streams of Creative Human Endeavour. CeC & CaC is presented by India International Centre and The Academy of Electronic Arts, New Delhi, India. CeC is the Carnival of e-Creativity, Public Forum, themed "Touch-e Feel-e" for 2006. The event will be largely open to the public, with breakout sessions in the Gandhi-King Plaza and the Annexe rear-garden. CaC is the Change-agents Conclave, Peer Forum themed "Quo Vadis?" for 2006.
http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/

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VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
is a corporate part of the global networking project
[R][R][F]2006--->XP
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org
created, directed and curated by Agricola de Cologne
[NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne
the experimental platform for art & New Media from Cologne/Germany
www.nmartproject.net

DISCUSSION

Call for videos--> gender identity - new deadline


Call for propsals
new extended deadline 1 March 2006
.
VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
is looking for video works on the theme
"gender identiy".
In a times when the traditional role of being "male" and "female" in society has lost its meaning, a male expresses his female, and a female her male components of their personality, when sexuality is not reduced to being straight or gay, but countless mixed forms of human existance
can be lived, defining oneself in a gender specific context may become
an essential question.
The call is inviting artists to reflect their own or the subject of male, female, gay, lesbian, transgender etc identity
via the medium of video.

The deadline is extended to 1 March 2006, as it planned to present the selection of "gender identity" on several video festivals.

For being reviewed, the videos should be preferably available online and have to be submitted as URL for download.
After a positive review, the artists/directors may be invited to send the video on a video as mpeg2 file on a data DVD.
Running time: 1-5 Minutes, exception may be possible.

Each artist can submit only one video for each theme.

Please use this form for submitting:

1.name of artist(s), email address(es), URL(s)
(in case of an artists collective plase credit all participants properly)
2. short biography/CV (not more than 300 words each)
3. 1 work/project only -->title, year of production
c) URL where the video can be reviewed on or is available for download
4. work description (story included, not more than 500 words)
5. screenshot (.jpeg, max. 800x600 px)
.
Confirmation/authorization:
The submitter(s) declares and confirms
that he/she/they is/are holding all rights on the submission
and give permission to include the submitted work
in "Cinematheque" online/offline environment until revoke.
Signed by (submitter)
.
Please send the complete submission to
videochannel@newmediafest.org
subject: "gender identity"
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Visit the online collection of VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
or
http://cinematheque.le-musee-divisioniste.org
& http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org/vchannel.htm

VideoChannel is currently preparing additions of a new
video contribution from Malta curated by Vince Briffa &
and a showcase on the theme "self-portrait", which is currently already online for preview
but not complete yet. The complete project is expected
to be launched at the end of September.
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VideoChannel is a joint venture between
Cinematheque at MediaCentre
http://cinematheque.le-musee-divisioniste
and [R][R][F] 2005 - global networking project
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org
in the framework of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
.
info & contact
info@nmartproject.net
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technical requirements
DSL Internet connection
Flash7 plug-in
cross-browser

DISCUSSION

Call for Internet based work


Call for submissions
Deadline: 1 March 2006
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On1 January 2006
the global networking [R][R][F]2005--->XP
modified its name and URL into
[R][R][F]2006--->XP
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org.

Since its start in March 2004, the RRF project has become one of the most successfull
Internet based projects of its kind and was presented until now nearly 50 times
in virtual and physical space
details see also http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?catU
Currently, the project is part of the exhibition "Global Groove" at
The Art Gallery of Knoxville/USA - www.theartgalleryofknoxville.com

For the new season 2006, [R][R][F]2006--->XP
is inviting artists working with New Media to submit their
latest Internet based projects or works
dealing with the theme "memory" in a narrow or wider sense,
including aspects of identity, violence, human rights, controll (surveillance),
globalisation and much more, see also the "Memory Channels" on
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org

The RRF project is planned to be continued after 2007 and beyond..
As a most unique source of collective memory RRF project will remain online for permanent.

A single artist or an artist collective can submit up to 3 projects/works.
The projects have to be submitted as URL, thus must have an Internet address of there own,
but there is an option (on request) to accept also cloned projects (including all necessary files)
for being hosted on RRF server.
The use of following plug-ins is accepted:
Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime, Real Player, Cortona (3D)
(other plug-ins on request)

Please use this entry form for submitting:

1.name of artist(s), email address(es), URL(s)
(in case of an artists collective please credit all participants properly)
2. short biography/CV (not more than 300 words each)
3. 3 work/project max. -->
a) title
b) year of production
c) used technology
d) URL for review and inclusion
4. work description ( not more than 500 words)
5. 2 screenshots(.jpeg, max. 800x600 px) for each submitted work
.
Please send the complete submission to
rrf2006@newmediafest.org
subject: [R][R][F]2006--->XP submission

For the option of submitting a cloned project,
please contact rrf2006@newmediafest.org for details
subject: cloned project submission

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This calls is also issued on
NetEX - networked experience
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
the free information service provided by
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
info(at)nmartproject.net

DISCUSSION

call: a show for Bethlehem


A Call for Artists and a New Years message
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A Show for Bethlehem
1st Deadline: 13 February 2006

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After presenting his global networking project
[R][R][F]2005--->XP - http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org
in 2005 in Bethlehem/Palestine as an interactive media exhibition,
Agricola de Cologne, media artist and director of
[NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net
is invited to curate in 2006 another exhibition in
Bethlehem at CAVE Gallery/Bethlehem International Center
to be inaugurated in July 2006,
this time focussed on the classical theme of "selfportrait",
but executed in New Media.

Through its relevance in three world religions,
Bethlehem was during more than 2000 years a symbol for peace also beyond,
but since some time Bethlehem and the entire Holy Land on the Westbank
is vanishing behind a huge wall as the result of a conflict in Middle East
which is threatening world peace since many years.

Just by being presented in Bethlehem -
"Selfportrait" - a show for Bethlehem -
has also a political dimension in different concern,
It does not bring only the message of solidarity,
but also the idea of a free and independant culture without borders,
in this way the show becomes an action for supporting the effords for peace in Middle East.
Each artist involved becomes a messanger of peace!

The "call for proposals" is addressed to all artists working with digital/electronic media,
for submitting one single "selfportrait" for exhibition purposes as digital print, digital video,
multi-media works based on Cd-Rom and Internet, and soundart -
focussed on how they - these "new artists" - see themselves
and the environment they are living in.
Due to the limits of exhibition space,
only a selection of submissions can be included.

In order to spread the message of solidarity and peace,
It is planned to present this show also at other places around the globe.

You find the "call", the submission details and the entry form on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT

1st Deadline 13 February 2006

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NetEX - networked experience
http://netex.nmartproject net
is a free information service provided by
[NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
.
info(at)nmartproject.net