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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

Call for proposals by VideoChannel


VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
relaunched a suit of calls for videos

1. theme: gender identity
2. theme: identity of colour
3. theme: totalitarism
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1. call for videos on theme "gender identity
deadline 31 December 2005
--->
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.

Details and entry form can be found on
NetEX - internal announcements
http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
or http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=3&cat

2. call for videos on the theme "identity of colour"
deadline 31 December 2005
-->
The theme is going down to the essential role and influence of colour
on any part of human life. The strong symbolism of the colours expresses itself
in language and art, the signal effect of colour is used in advertiosing and design,
colour take psychological influence on the unconsciousness, perception and emotion.
What would be the world without colour? So what is the identity of colour?

Details and entry form can be found on
NetEX - internal announcements
http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
or http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=3&cat

3. call for videos on the theme "totalitarism"
deadline 31 December 2005
As a part of the global networking project [R][R][F]2005--->XP,
the view on "totalitarism" may be historically related as well as reflecting
"totalitarian" structures nowadays.
And while looking closer, one will recognize that traces of totalitarism can be found
anywhere in society, politics and culture and everybody's life.
But totalitarism can only exist if people let it happen actively or passively.

Details and entry form can be found on
NetEX - internal announcements
http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&catT
or http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=3&cat
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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
and is acting basically online, but also offline in cooperation
with media festivals and other cultural events worldwide.
.
info & contact
info@nmartproject.net
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technical requirements
DSL Internet connection
Flash7 plug-in
cross-browser

DISCUSSION

NetEX_November_events


Event dates in November -
participations, lectures & presentations

--->Agricola de Cologne
and his [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net

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18-28 November
Biennale of Video and New Media Santiago/Chile
www.bienaldevideo.cl
[R][R][F]2005--->XP - interactive installation
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org
--->

*SELECT Media 4 Festival Chicago/USA - 3-13 November -
http://selectmediafestival.org

*Mezipatra - Filmfestival Brno /Czech Republic 17-20 November -
http://www.mezipatra.cz/

*MAEM - Electronic Art Festival Madrid/Mostoles 17-19 November
- www.maem.info

*VAD - Festival for Video and Digital Art - 9-12 November Girona/Spain
www.vadfestival.net

*MICROPOLIS - International contest for Digital Film & Video Athens/Greece -
http://www.netodyssey.gr/

*Asolo Art Film Festival - Asolo (Italy) - 5-12 November
www.asolofilmfestival.it -

*FONLAD - Festival for Digital Art Coimbra/Portugal 22 Oct - 30 Nov -
http://www.aaa-euac.org/english/fonlad/fonlad.html

*V-Art05 - Videofestival Cagliari/Sardinien - 25-29 October -
http://arte.tiscali.it/mediart/2005/10/vart.html
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"Groundworks" -
Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art
14 October - 11 December 2005
at Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburg/USA
is presenting [R][R][F]2005--->XP as an interactive installation
http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/~miller/exhibitions/online.html
http://3r2n.cfa.cmu.edu/groundworks/background/background.htm

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IMPACT'SA 05 - coordinates the event series in South America
http://impact.newmediafest.org
Agricola de Cologne was visiting on invitation
Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay
between 8 October and 8 November and
[R][R][F]2005--->XP - and its global activities in art and New Media
are subject of these event series
--->
Chile
Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago de Chile - 18-28 November-
interactive installation at Museum of Contemporary Art - www.bienaldevideo.cl
Finis Terrae University Santiago 25 October - lecture/presentation

Brazil
Univercidade - IAV Rio de Janeiro/Brazil - lecture 7 November
State University Rio de Janeiro/Brazil - lecture 7 November
FILE - Electronic Language Festival/FILE Hipersonica Sao Paulo -
www.file.org.br
31 October- 30 November
FILE - Symposion Sao Paulo - lecture 02 November
http://www.goethe.de/br/sap/kultur/pr_nov05.htm#E2

Uruguay
Goethe Institut Montevideo -27 October -
Lecture- Introduction into netart in a global context
via work examples of netart from Germany speaking countries and South America
http://www.goethe.de/ins/uy/mot/ver/de902311.htm
National School of Fine Art Montevideo - 28 October - lecture/screening

Argentina
Orilla'05 - International show of digital art Santa Fe - 25 Aug - 25 September
Recoleta Cultural Center Buenos Aires - 11. October lecture/presentation
National Library- Buenos Aires - 12 October lecture/presentation
INTERFERENCIAS - National University of North West Junin - 14 October lecture/presentation
MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art Rosario - 18. October lecture/presentation
National Univesity of Rosario - 19. October - lecture/presentation
MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Fe - 21. October lecture/presentation

---> details on http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=6
and http://impact.newmediafest.org
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These info are released by

NetEX - networked experience
http://netex.nmartproject.net
.
contact:
info (at) nmartproject.net

DISCUSSION

NetEX_October_2005 - special_edition


October 2005 -
special [R][R][F]2005--->XP issue !!
--->
NetEx--->:||nmapn||:Cologne ~ networked experiences
http://netex.nmartproject.net
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[R][R][F]2005--->XP global networking project
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org
created and realized by Agricola de Cologne,
media artist and New Media curator from Cologne/Germany
continues its successful development.
This project is not only an extraordinary art work in its totality
based on the general theme "memory & identity",
but includes also networking more than 850 media artists, 50 curators
and about 200 institutions, organisations and individuals
from all parts on the globe, who made this success only possible.
At this stage, thanks to all !!!
When the project started in March 2004, it could not be foreseen
that the project as a whole or parts of it
would have been presented on nearly all continents,
in more than 20 countries and 40 places nearly at the end of 2005.
(see list of venues further ahead)

Contents:
1. New project version including new components
--->VideoChannel
--->SoundLab Channel
--->Family Portrait -
2. physical event series in Poland and IMPACT SA 05
in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil
3. list of venues

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1.) These new components complete the new [R][R][F]2005--->XP project version
-->
a) Vince Briffa curates video artists from Malta
b) Agricola de Cologne curates 20"selfportrait" videos
& a selection of featured videos
especially featured video
by Jamil Yamani (Australia), entitled
"All quiet on the Western Front"on the start page of [R][R][F]2005--->XP
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org
--->
all details on http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=3&catW
--->
all works can be acessed via the the artistic body of [R][R][F]2005--->XP
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org and also separately via
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
.
---> SoundLab Channel - Edition III
a) Michael Yuen curates soundartists from Australia
b) Peter Wolf curates sound ensembles from Cologne
c) Melody Parker-Carter curates 38 soundartists based on on open call
--->
all details on http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=3&cat
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org and also separately via
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org/schannel.htm
.
---> Family Portrait- final version
net based New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne
Winner of the Mosaica Award 2005 !!
http://familyportrait.engad.org
www.mosaica.ca
--->
details on http://netex.nmartproject
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2.
[R][R][F]2005--->XP - physical project related events

a) 7-17 October --> Agricola de Cologne curates a special selection for
PI Five Video Festival Szczecin/Poland
http://pi-five.piranho.com
---> details on http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=6

b) IMPACT'SA 05 - coordinates the event series in South America
http://impact.newmediafest.org
Agricola de Cologne is visiting on invitation
Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay
between 8 October and 8 November and
[R][R][F]2005--->XP - is the basic subject of all organised events
--->
Argentina
Orilla'05 - International show of digital art Santa Fe - 25 Aug - 25 September
Recoleta Cultural Center Buenos Aires - 11. October lecture/presentation
National Library- Buenos Aires - 12 October lecture/presentation
INTERFERENCIAS - National University of North West Junin - 14 October lecture/presentation
MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art Rosario - 18. October lecture/presentation
National Univesity of Rosario - 19. October - lecture/presentation
MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Fe - 21. October lecture/presentation

Uruguay
Goethe Institut Montevideo -27 October -
Lecture- Introduction into netart in a global context
via work examples of netart from Germany speaking countries and South America
National School of Fine Art Montevideo - 28 October - lecture/screening

Brazil
FILE - Electronic Language Festival/FILE Hipersonica Sao Paulo -
31 October- 05 November
FILE - Symposion Sao Paulo - lecture 02 October
Federal University Rio de Janeiro/Brazil - lecture 3 October
State University Rio de Janeiro/Brazil - lecture 7 October

Chile
Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago de Chile - 18-28 November-
interactive installation at Museum of Contemporary Art
---> details on http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=6
and http://impact.newmediafest.org

c) JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org
On 27 October 2005,
Agricola de Cologne will hold a lecture about netart in a global context
based the net art showcases he organised for JavaMuseum
in the framework of IMPACT'SA event series at
Goethe Institute Montevideo/Uruguay
http://www.goethe.de/ins/uy/mot/ver/de902311.htm
& http://impact.newmediafest.org

d)
CyberPoem 2.1 - 22 October - Barcelona/Spain
a presention of videos and cyber poetry by Agricola de Cologne
http://www.cyberpoem.com/index2.htm
--->
info also as PDF for free downlaod from
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CyberPoem2005.pdf
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3.
[R][R][F]200X--->XP venues in 2005
--->
44. Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago/Chile 18/11-28/11
43. FILE - Electronic Language Festival & Symposion 31/10-05/11
42. National Academy of Fine Arts Montevideo/Ur - 28/10 -/lect/pres
41. Museum of Contemporary Art Santa fe/Ar - 21/10 - lect/pres
40. University of Rosario/Ar - 18/10 - lectures/present
39. Museum of Contemporary Art Rosario/Ar - 17/10 - presentation
38. Recolleta Cultural Centre Buenos Aires 12/10 - lecture/pres
37. National Library Buenos Aires/Ar - 11/10 lectures/pres
36. Interferencias - University of Noroeste/Ar 13/10-16/10
35. PI five Video Festival Szczecin/Poland 9/10 -13/11
34. "Groundworks" Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon
University Pittsburg/USA 14/10 - 11/10
33. Prog::ME - Electronic Art Festival Rio de Janeiro/Br 17/07-28/08
32. V SALON INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL Maracaibo/Venezuela 20/03-02/07
31. EAST'05 - Making Things Better - Norwich/UK 02/07- 20/08
30. MAF'05 June edition - New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand
28. Hic et Nunc San Vito a/Tagliamento/Italy - Selection'03 11/07-17/07
27. Israeli Digital ArtLab Holon/Israel 16/04- 16/07
26. Version'05 Festival Chicago/USA 22/04- 01/05
25. Images Festival Toronto/Canada - 7/04 - 13/04
24. ZKM Karlsruhe/G - Making Things Public - 20/03- 08/03
23. Camera Obscura Academy Tel-Aviv/Israel - lecture - 02/03
22. MAF05 - New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand - 25/02-29/02
21. Musrara Media Art Academy Jerusalem/Israel - lect/pres 22/02
20. Bethlehem International Center - lect/pres - 19/02
19. Bethlehem University - lect/pres- 17/02
18. CAVE Gallery at ICB Bethlehem/Palestine- solo show 17/02- 14/03

[R][R][F] 200X --->XP in 2004 --->

17. University of Bremen/Germany -
[R][R][F]2004--->XP - New Media event - 18/19 December
16. 404 New Media Art Festival Rosario/Argentina (7-15 Dec)
15. FILE - Electronic Language Festival Sao Paulo/Brazil (23 Nov-12
Dec)
14. 1st International Exhibition of Digital Art - Orilla'04 -
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Fe/Argentina (04/11- 04/12)
13. 24h of Nuremberg/Germany -
International Shortfilm Festival 15/16 October
12. Biennale of Electronic Art Perth (Australia) (1/09 - 7/11)
11. West Coast Numusic & Electronic Arts Festival Stavanger/Norway
17/08-22/08
10. public_space_festival Yerewan/Armenia 23/07 - 03/08
09. International Festival of New Film and New Media Split/Croatia
(26/06-02/07)
08. VI SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL - Havanna(Cuba)
21/06-24/06
07. BASICS Festival Salzburg/Austria - 08/05-16/05
06. Electronic Art Meeting - PEAM 2004 - Pescara (Italy) 19/05-23/05
05. Version'04 Festival - Invisible Networks - Chicago/USA - 16/04-01/05
04. Now Music Streaming Festival Berlin (Germany)- - 7/04
03. New Media Art Festival Bangkok (Thailand) (20/03-28/03)
02. Bergen Electronic Arts Centre Bergen/Norway (05/03- 28/03)
01. National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti/Romania (05/03-30/04)

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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%
#
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&
#
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

SoundLab Channel launched EDITION III online


SoundLab Channel
launched EDITION III online
on 3 October 2005
in the framework of [R][R][F]2005--->XP
global networking project
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org

On occasion of the release of EDITION III,
SoundLab Channel was completely re-constructed.
It includes and features three curatorial contributions
of works of sound & radio art

a) from Australia curated by Michael Yuen (Adelaide/Australia)
b) from Germany curated by Peter Wolf (Cologne/Germany)
c) based on an open call curated by Melody Parker-Carter (Cologne/Germany)

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a) soundart from Australia curated by Michael Yuen
who selected soundart by these artists
Thomas Reiner, Lawrence English,
Somaya Langley, Robert Sazdov
Sebastian Tomczak, Stephen Gard

Curatorial statement:-->
Australia has a vibrant sound and experimental art community. By distance and cultural heritage Australia is a vast and isolated nation. With the ready integration of the Internet into our lives and artistic practices, Australian artists have become connected with their cultural past while reserving the right to observe from a distance. It has fallen to the current generation of artists to embrace our tyranny of distance and celebrate the freedom that is afforded by our new world conditions.

There are many signs that Australia has evolved from an infant nation towards a vibrant new world community - the celebration of artistic freedom from the old; forced resourcefulness and innovation by the lack of traditional arts infrastructure; rapid acceptances of new technologies and techniques; the embracing of a national identity beyond iconicism; and the use of the old world as a historical reference rather than a guide to the future.
The works assembled here are a reflection of sound art from around Australia celebrating these signs.

b) soundart from Germany curated by Peter Wolf

Cuttings from "KlangDrang 2005 - A Festival for Incredible Music" - Cologne

In this case, "Incredible Music" means the spheres of New Music, experimental and improvised music, Performance Art and New Media. This festival was brought into being 2002 as a hommage for the Cologne Citizen Center Alte Feuerwache which enables the presentation of extraordinary music since more than 25 years.

This year KlangDrang presented 4 ensembles from which you can hear each 3 cuttings of an each 45 minute performance
featuring ----->
F.I.M. (Free improvised music cologne)
soundso
Ensemble All-Tag
Doppelpluss

c) Based on an open call, Melody Parker-Carter (chief curator of SoundLab Channel)
curates following selection, featuring
--->
Gina Valenti, jean-francois flamey, David R. Mooney
John Plenge, PRISM/ lars nagler, John E. Bower
Michael Yuen, Pete Stollery, Tae Hong Park
Suguru Goto, Nick Barker, Li-Chi Hsieh
Herve Constant, Eldad Tsabary, Mira Burt-Wintonick
Caroline de Lannoy, eduardo paz carlson, Andreja Andric & I. Vasiljev
Natalie Bewernitz + Marek Goldowski
CARLO FATIGONI, Annie Abrahams & Jan de Weille
Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, Damian Stewart
Darko Vuckovic, Tsila Hassine & Alejandra Perez Nunez
Le Tuan Hung, Les Riches Douaniers, Miha Ciglar
Owen Plotkin, meta, Colin Black, Cynthia Payne
Carl Priestly, popcrash, Till Nikolaus von Heiseler
Paolo Paolizzo, Pablo Bas, Khaled Sabsabi

More details and all soundart works can be found
online by entering the artistic body of [R][R][F]2005--->XP
Memory Channel 7 - http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org
or direct access via
on http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org/schannel.htm
and http://concerthall.le-musee-divisioniste.org

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EDITION III is released on occasion of the series of
[R][R][F]2005--->XP - exhibitions and events in October/November 2005
in the framework of
"Groundworks" -
Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art
14 October - 11 December 2005
at Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburg/USA
http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/~miller/exhibitions/online.html ,
Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago/Chile
18-28 November - www.bienaldevideo.cl
and
IMPACT'SA 05 - the event series in South America
Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay
http://impact.newmediafest.org
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SoundLab Channel
is a joint-venture between
ConcertHall at le Musee di-visioniste.org
http://concerthall.le-musee-divisioniste.org

and
[R][R][F]2005--->XP - global networking project
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org
and is further corporate part of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
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These info are also released on

NetEX - networked experience
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=3&cat
.
contact:
info (at) nmartproject.net

DISCUSSION

FAMILY PORTRAIT - Mosaica Award winner 2005


[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
.
is proud to present the third and final version of
---> "Family Portrait"
http://familyportrait.engad.org -
- winner of the MOSAICA Award 2005 - Jews and Diaspora: Web Culture New Culture Jewish Culture -
an Internet based hybrid between an art project and a documentary
created by Agricola de Cologne, media artist and New Media curator from Cologne/Germany
www.agricola-de-cologne.de
.
Agricola de Cologne