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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

Prison of Love--->tour in Spain continues


Prison of Love" --continues touring in Spain
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After the venues-->Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida/Spain - 3 - 29 November
http://www.paeria.es/cultura/cast/museos/panera/NprensaCAmor.pdf
and -->Filmoteca Canaria del Gobierno de Canarias. Tenerife y Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria. 28 November - 4 December
http://www.culturadecanarias.com/filmotecac/carceldeamor/carceldeamor.html
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"Prison of Love" (carcel de amor) http://www.carceldeamor.net
and its online part "Violence without Bodies" (violencia sin cuerpos)
http://www.carceldeamor.net/vsc/,
the contemporary art show on the theme of gender violence,
continues touring through Spanish museums and stops between
13 - 22 December 2005 at Contemporary Art Centre Parraga, Murcia /Spain
http://w3art.es/weblog_archivos/000498.php

"Violence without bodies" includes also
Agricola de Cologne's interactive net play
Compressed Affair
http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/collections/compressed_affair1htm

Of particular relevance is the online part curated by Remedios Zafra, not only due to the focus on "violence on women", but basically because it represents one of a few examples, that net based art is recognized as an equal form of contemporary art working among all the existing traditional forms, a status which has net based art, not yet generally. So, this show has an emancipatory character in different concern und deserves particular attention, including net based works by Francesca da Rimini, Natalie Bookchin, Margot Lovejoy, Tina La Porta, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Igor Stromejer etc, see also list further ahead.

"Prison of Love" -
Cultural stories on Gender Violence
(Carcel de amor. Relatos culturales sobre la violencia de genero)
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A presentation curated by Berta Sichel, Virginia Villaplana and Remedios
Zafra, and Rosa M

DISCUSSION

Call for Internet based projects


Call for submissions
Deadline: 1 March 2006
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On 31 December 2005,
the global networking project
[R][R][F]2005--->XP by Agricola de Cologne
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org will expire,
but will be reborn on 1 January 2006 as
[R][R][F]2006--->XP
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org.

Since its start in March 2004, the RRF project
(Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting)
has become one of the most successful
Internet based project environments of its kind.
Dealing with the thematical aspects of "memory & identity",
it represents a unique collection of collective memory
by including artworks by more than 650 artist, 50 curators and
numerous virtual and physical organisations and institutions from all parts on the globe.
RRF was presented until the end of 2005 nearly 50 times
in virtual and physical space
details see also NetEX - networked experience
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?catU
all recent news can be found also on http://netex.nmartproject.net

For the new season 2006, [R][R][F]2006--->XP
is inviting artists working with New Media to submit their
latest Internet based projects
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://rrf2005.newmediafest.org

The RRF project is planned to be active also beyond the year 2007
and will remain for permanent online.

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 their own,
but there is an option (on request) to accept also cloned projects (including all necessary files)
for being hosted on RRF server (recommended in case a project is not planned to remain for permanent online)
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
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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://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
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[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
info(at)nmartproject.net

DISCUSSION

PF 8 spotlights "afterscience"


Project Features"
http://features.nmartproject.net
is happy to present as a Christmas special
during December 2005 until February 2006
its 8th feature:
--->
afterscience -
Zev Robinson & Adrian Marshall (USA)
and their net based piece, entitled:
"Randomness & Certainty"
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Project statement
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Randomness and Certainty is a year long project interviewing scientists and
asking them how their experience as a scientist has affected their personal
understanding of life. Clips of their answers are then played randomly in a
Flash movie, together with video and stills of a variety of subject matter,
including nature, science, technology, and everyday life.
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About the artists
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artafterscience is a video, new media and time-based art project formed in
2001 by artist Zev Robinson and computer programmer Adrian Marshall,
exploring the intersection between art, science, and technology. Much of the
focus has been on random juxtaposition of images, music and words, and how
it affects its meaning.

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"Project Features"
http://features.nmartproject.net
is featuring since Januray 2005 periodically
another exciting art project
using net based media for artistic expression.
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The 1st issue was featuring in January 2005 -->
Doron Golan (USA)
and his streaming video
"Tale of Crow" (2004)
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The 2nd issue was featuring in February 2005--->
Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson (UK)
and their interactive piece, entitled:
"Ardnamurchan Zillij" (2004)
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The 3rd issue was featuring in March 2005--->
Mary Flanagan (USA)
and her interactive net piece, entitled:
"[six.circles]" (2004)
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The 4th issue was featuring in April/May 2005--->
Emily Hermant (CA)
and her interactive net piece, entitled:
"The Lies Project" (2004)
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The 5th issue was featuring in June 2005--->
Geert Dekkers (the Netherlands)
and his interactive weblog, entitled:
"a drawing a day on nznl.com" (ongoing)
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The 6th issue was featuring in July/August 2005--->
Marc Lee (Switzerland)
and his interactive net piece, entitled:
"Loogie.net News"
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The 7th issue was featuring in September/November 2005--->
Michael Makeo Magruder (USA/UK)
and his interactive net piece, entitled:
"<event>"
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all projects and more details on http://features.nmartproject.net
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This release can be found also on
NetEx - networked experience
http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=1&catV
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"Project Features"
http://features.nmartproject.net
is curated by Agricola de Cologne
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[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
experimental platform for Art and New Media
operating from Cologne/Germany
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contacts and artists proposals:
info@nmartproject.net

Feature

DISCUSSION

NetEX_December news


December 2005 - Christmas release
NetEx--->:||nmapn||:Cologne ~ networked experiences
http://netex.nmartproject.net
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Contents:
--->NetEX - internal calls
--->NetEX - external calls
--->2005 - A review -
IMPACT'SA and more

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NetEX - internal calls
1. [R][R][F]2006--->XP
on 31 December 2005, [R][R][F]2005--->XP
will expire and will be reborn on 1 January 2006 as [R][R][F]2006--->XP.
For the new season 2006, [R][R][F]2006--->XP
is looking for Internet based projects and works
dealing with the thematical complex of "memory"
in all its aspects and components.

The call and entry form can be found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT

Deadline 1 March 2006
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2. The "Memorial for the victims of AIDS"
http://aids.a-virtual-memorial.org
is waiting for your solidarity on occasion of WORLD AIDS Day on 1 December.
Dear artist, the recent call invites you to make a submission
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT

Deadline 31 December - afterwards ongoing
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3. VideoChannel is looking for video works on the themes
"gender identity", "identity of colour" and " totalitarism"

The calls and the forms can be found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT

Deadline 31 December 2005
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NetEX - external calls

There are currently these calls posted for

1. Next Festival Vilnius/Lithuania (video) - deadline: 10 January 2006
2.Arizona Short Film and Video Festival - deadline 10 February 2006
3 Con-Can Movie Festival Japan - deadline: 28 February 2006
4.Blue Room - Open Video projects - deadline: ongoing
5. globale06 Berlin - deadline 31 December

Please find all calls and submission information on
http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat%

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---> 2005 - A review

Dear friends in art,

in 2005, [R][R][F]2005--->XP continued its sucessful development,
and nearly 50 events were organised focussing on [R][R][F]2005--->XP
or its components since its start in March 2004
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catU
At the end of the second year, it is time again to thank all you,
whether you are participating as artists, curators or corporate instances like organisations or institutions,
or whether you belong "just" to the audience, a very large audience fortunately,
for all the confidence in what I was initiating by realizing the RRF project.

The year 2005 was very turbulent and allowed me to extend my activities in physical space,
my project related travels to Israel and Palestina in February/March 2005, to Italy in June 2005
and most of all the most recent travel to South America (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Brazil)
in October/November 2005, see also the event series project IMPACT http://impact.newmediafest.org
They were the results of the sucessful ideas of networking,
thanks to all who followed them.

By attending also a lot of prominent and less prominent festivals,
I got an idea of the current stand of media art on a global level,
and not all what I could see made me really enthusiastic, unfortunately.

I recognised a certain stagnation in nearly all fields of New Media art,
especially in what is called "electronic art".
In "net based art", the stagnation became visible already earlier,
and at the end of 2004, I stopped my activities for developing JavaMuseum
www.javamuseum.org further on, as you know.
Although I see an unexplored potential especially in "Internet based art",
most artists working in this field however reduce the thematical aspects
just to reflecting the Internet, thus themselves, and following this during many years,
it is just boring and no audience in the world will give such a direction any chance.
Of course, this ideological restriction is also supported by certain curators
and other people who follow personal interests in this field of art.

Something similiar can be also observed on other areas,
but eventually not the art and the artists as such are in a certain crisis,
but the system itself.

I would wish that artists would use their creative potential much more and experiment
and would determine the course of an art development by themeselves, this way.

The most promissing and developing fields in the framework of RRF project
became in 2005 SoundLab Channel ( three editions) and
VideoChannel (meanwhile more than 16 curators and 150 artists)
especially VideoChannel included a lot of new exciting artists and artworks,
and was beyond that very successful in presenting numerous selections in media exhibitions and mediafestivals
see also list of RRF venues.

By posting a call for [R][R][F]2006--->XP
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
I would like to invite artist working with New Media, especially the field of "Internet based art"
to overcome ideological limitations in this unique project environment,
and I would wish they would use the networking potential of this environment more consequently
than in 2004 or 2005. The deadline of 1 March 2006, gives even time and space
to consider the creation of completely new works.

Many thanks again to all of you.
I wish you a "Merry Christmas" and a "Happy and Successful New Year",
yours sincerely,

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne

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NetEX - networked experience
http://netex.nmartproject.net
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8
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released recently several calls in the external section-->
http://netetx.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat%
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internal calls by Cinematheque and others can be found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
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This newsletter is also released on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat&
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NetEx--->:||nmapn||:Cologne ~ networked experiences
http://netex.nmartproject.net
is a new and free information service by
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net -
the experimental platform for
Art and New Media from Cologne/Germany
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info & contact:
info@nmartproject.net

DISCUSSION

Call for submissions - World Aids Day


Call for submissions
Deadline 31 December 2005 - afterwards ongoing

1 December - WORLD AIDS Day

1 December is every day all over the year.
Every day people become infected by the HIV virus.
The number of infected people is rapidly increasing.
Although AIDS became meanwhile a desease of the poor with millions of infections and people who died of AIDS in Africa, Asia and South America,
the number of HIV infections in the Western countries started increasing again, as well,
and the young generations are mostly not aware of the security risks of unprotected sexual contacts.

Dear artists,
show your solidarity with the HIV infected people,
by making a submission to the "Memorial for the Victims of AIDS"
http://aids.a-virtual-memorial.org , and
by supporting in one or the other way
one the numerous local humanitarian organisations dealing with AIDS and HIV infected people.

Send an image (.jpg), text (plain email, .txt), movie (Quicktime, Flash) or URL related to AIDS together with your name and email address to
aids@a-virtual-memorial.org

All serious submissions will be included and posted immediately.

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This call is also released on
NetEX - networked experience
http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT