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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]200x--->XP - a digital challenge


Agricola de Cologne
is featuring
[R][R][F]200x--->XP, VideoChannel, SoundLAB & Cologne OFF
on
2nd Digital Art Festival in Rosario/Argentina
http://www.rattlesnakeproductora.com - 16-18 October 2006.
It is that occasion in 2006
for which Agricola de Cologne, media artist and New Media curator from Cologne/Germany
prepared a special digital project combination--->

The lecture entitled
"The Network", memory and identity
a challenge in digital art -
is spotlighting Agricola de Cologne's activities in digital art since 2000
and the development of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - "The NETWORK"

and

the global networking project [R][R][F]200x--->XP
[Remembering, Repressing, Forgetting] - http://rrf200x.newmediafest.org -
the most prominent project environment, Agricola de Cologne realized until now.
The festival in Rosario represents the countdown of the finalization of this global project
which was running very successfully during the past three years.

A new, updated and final project version will go online on coming Tuesday, 14 October 2006,
just in time before the festival is starting.

[R][R][F]200x--->XP is an ongoing, long term experiment starting in March 2004 simultaneously in Internet and at National

Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest/Romania, Bergen Electronic Arts Centre Bergen/Norway and New Media Art Festival Bangkok.

Many networking instances as artists, curators, institutions, organisations from all parts on the globe joint the project and

form an unique collection of collected memory of mankind manifested in advanced technological forms of contemporary art, i.e.

net based art, an Internet specific form of digital art. The project is a hybrid form of a research, New Media event and an

art project.
It is based on three basic components, the subject: 'Memory and Identity

DISCUSSION

Call: Proposals for Mosaica Award


Hello,

as one of the winners of the MOSAICA Award 2005
besides Nick Fox-Gieg (USA),
I would like to invite artist collegues to prepare the proposal of an online project
on the theme "Jews & Diaspora" to be submitted to MOSAICA:CA
Two honoraria of 1000 CAN $ will be awarded.

Deadline 1 December 2006.

Find all details of the call for submissions on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat%

I wish all applicants much luck!

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
www.nmartproject.net

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DISCUSSION

Artneuland Berlin


Artneuland Berlin is a new and unique place dedicated to images, words and people -
to intercultural contacts - the trialogue between Jewish, Arab and European culture.

Art Neuland Berlin is a non-profit organisation and gallery
situated in Berlin -Mitte - the centre of the German capital -
directed by Yael Katz Ben Shalom, Tel-Aviv/Berlin.

The first exhibition is entitled: "Videoneuland"
and will be inaugurated on
Saturday, 25 November 2006, featuring following artists:

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Yossi Breger, Birgit Glatzel and Benjamin Seide,
Uschi Huber, Hannan Abu Hussein and Haim Adri, Cheb Kammerer and Sharon Horodi,
Hadas Kedar and Alex Schady, Dana Levy, Waheeda Malullah,
Heike Mutter, Uriel Orlow, Youssef Rabbaoui,
Barak Reiser, Maya Zack and Stanislav Levor.

A brochure will accompay the exhibition presenting all the artists and info about their work.

The recent press release of Artneuland Berlin can be downloaded as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/Artneuland_opening.pdf

Artneuland Berlin
Schumann Strasse 18
D - 10117 Berlin

www.artneuland.com
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DISCUSSION

SoundLAB - Edition IV - "memoryscapes"


Finally,
SoundLAB - http://soundlab.newmediafest.org -
Edition IV - "memoryscapes"
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id
is launched on Tuesday, 17 October 2006.

135 soundartists and more than 200 soundart pieces
and a special curatorial contribution of soundart from Chile,
curated by Rainer Krause (Chile)
form "memoryscapes", landscapes of collective memory
manifested via sound and music.
The quantity of submitted works (double as much as selected)
represented a specifc challenge in concern of creating online content.
Another issue represents the non-visual status of sound and music
and its representation for an audience via an interactive interface.

SoundLAB - Edition IV has further the priviledge to
be included as the corporate extension of the media art project
://selfportrait -a show for Bethlehem - a show for Peace
http://self.engad.org
on occasion of the exhibition at OFFICYNA art space Szczecin/Poland
duration: 20 October - 12 November
- and therefore it was necessary to
create "memoryscapes" differently than previous SoundLAB editions.

SoundLAB ist still in a re-structuration phase, but is now consisting
of a text based low-tech blog and the high-tech streaming Flash based content.
"memoryscapes" is a sonic environment consisting of 13 "m'scapes",
each "m'scape" has a textual part which gives all information about the artists and the selected soundart works
and a streaming part, containing the soundart pieces.

Edition IV represents also another premiere
as SoundLAB published SIP - SoundLAB Interview Project
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_idA
on occasion of the launch,
featuring the first 62 interviews of soundartists
participating in SoundLAB Edition I-IV,
they are--->
Sara Ayers (USA), Tautvydas Bajarkevicius (Lithuania)
Jim Barrett (Sweden), Becoming animal, Oren Ben Yosef, (Israel)
Chris Bors (USA), Donald Bousted, (UK)
braillebones (France), Mira Burt-Wintonick (Canada)
Martin John Callanan, (UK), Chelsea Cargill, (UK)
Bronwen Casson, (Ireland), Alison Chung-Yan, (Canada)
Catherine Clover, (UK), Luis Coronado, (Guatemala)
Jessica Curry, (UK), elicheinfunzione (Italy)
Ensamble Majamama (Chile), Claudio Fernandez, (Chile)
FLOW (UK), William Fowler Collins, (USA)
Jason Freeman (USA), Anna Friz (Canada)
Satoshi Fukushima, (Japan), Gintas K (Lithuania)
Matthew Giraudeau, (UK), Josh Goldman,(USA)
Scott Hall, (USA), Alex Hetherington, (UK)
Jeremy Hight, (USA), G.H. Hovagimyan,(USA)
David Kasdorf, (USA), Neil Kaczor (UK)
Mikhail Karikis (UK), 80juan80, - Kasari, Juan (Finland) -
Al Larsen (USA), Gregory Lasserre, (France)
Dario Lazzaretto, (Italy), Le Lavatrici Rosse (Italy)
Emily Lutzker, (USA), Wolfgang Peter Menzel, (Sweden)
Ailis Ni Riain (Ireland), Matthew Ostrowski (USA)
Mike McFerron (USA), Stefano Pasquini, (Italy)
Andrea Polli, (USA), PeterPrautzsch, (Germany)
Marco Puccini, (Italy), RijN (walter van rijn) (NL)
Neil Rose (UK), Grit Ruhland,(Germany)
Khaled Sabsabi, (Australia), Luz Maria Sanchez, (Mexico)
Debashis Sinha, (Canada), Pete Stollery, (UK)
Jouni Tauriainen, (Finland), Eldad Tsabari, (USA)
Jeff Thompson, (USA), u n c l e j i mn (UK)
tobias c. van Veen (Canada), Simon Whetham (UK)
Jake Whittaker, (UK)

SoundLAB - sonic art project environments
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
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DISCUSSION

://selfportrait - a Show for Peace


Press Release
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Media/Art/Cologne and "the place of art" Officyna in Szczecin/ Poland
are glad to open on 20 October, 7 p.m.
the media art exhibition
"://selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem - a show for Peace
at OFFICYNA art space in Szczecin in the framework of
PI Performance & Intermedia Festival Szczecin/Swinoujscie/Poland
20-22 October 2006.

The show is organised and curated by Agricola de Cologne,
and was realized first in July 2006 at Al Kahf Art Gallery in Bethlehem/Palestine.
After an extension of the original exhibition collection,
the show includes now about 300 artists from more than 30 countries
in the New Media media desciplines
digital print, digital video, multimedia, soundart and artists statements:

The show takes the classical theme of the artist"selfportrait"
and sets it in a new technological and conceptual context.
The basic idea was that the artists overcome symbolically
the wall which is separating Israel from Palestinian territory
by showing face and being present through their selfportraits - and -
become messengers of peace this way.

Bethlehem - a spiritual center of relevance in three world religions
and symbol for peace and freedom for about two thousand years also far beyond -
is now imprisoned behind 9 meter high walls and
becomes a new symbol for peace in another dimension -
as it stands for all the virtual and physical walls anywhere around the globe
which have to be overcome.
The show does not only transport the message of solidarity,
but also the idea of a free and independent culture without borders,
the use of New Media technology represents further
a symbol for a new era of solving conflicts via communication.

After the show could be inaugurated according this conception
on 6 July 2006 in Palestine despite of the escalating conflict in Middle East,
while most other international events were cancelled at that time,
://selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem - a show for Peace
is planned to be shown at many other places around the globe in sequence.

The first show after Bethlehem will be inaugurated on 20 October 2006
at the city of Szczecin/Poland, which may stand for many other places
as a symbol for the insanity of war, in this case World War II.

For those, who are not able to visit the show in physical space,
the project site online allows all interested people
to experience the entire exhibition also online in virtual space on
http://self.engad.org, whereby the site consists of two parts -
an administrative textual low-tech part, and an artistic high-tech part which needs
broad bandwidth internet connection for experiencing audio and video streaming.
Its interface is also part of the physical show and gives the visitor
the possibility to surf through the project environment and
and spend more time for certain artworks individually online, if possible, or otherwise offline.

The new artists extending the show are:
Olga Neva (UK), Leslie Huppert (GE), Gertrud Rietmuller (GE),
Artur Holling (GE), Wolf Nkole Henzle (GE), Diana Guzman(MX),
Marlen Karlen (CH), Aphrodite Navab (Iran/USA),
Moon Na (S.Korea), Ursula Biermann (CH), Theresa Krause (GE),
Richard Jochum (Austria/ USA), Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (Iceland),
Sofia v. Bustorff (USA), Jimmy Owenns (F).
But the biggest part of the extension represents the incorporation of
the soundart collection "memoryscapes" -
Edition IV of SoundLAB - http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
including about 250 soundart pieces by 135 artists.
"memoryscapes" is not yet online at present,
but it will be launched on coming Monday, 16 October
right in time before the inauguration at Szczecin.
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://selfportrait a- show for Bethlehem - a show for Peace
http://self.engad.org
- the first media art project by Media/Art/Cologne -
is realised in cooperation with
Bethlehem International Center/Palestine
Officya Art Space Szczecin/Poland,
Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Naples/Italy
MAC - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Santa Fe/Argentina
MACRO - Museum de Arte Contemporaneo Rosario/Argentina

location: place of Art OFFICYNA, Szczecin/Poland
duration: 20 October - 12 November 2006
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Basic project information can be downloaded as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/selfportrait_a_show_for_bethlehem_a_show_for_peace.pdf

The list of participating artists can be downloaded as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/selfportrait_a_show_for_peace_artistspdf

More info about the show in Szczecin can be found here-->
http://www.newmediaserver.org/off/pi_festival2006.html
and here-->http://self.engad.org
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More links:
place of Art OFFICYNA - http://www.officyna.art.pl
Media/Art/Cologne - http://www.mediaartcologne.org
SoundLAB - http://soundlab.newmediafest.org

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the global window to media art from Cologne/Germany
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www.nmartproject.net -
the experimental platform for art and New Media
operating from Cologne/Germany.
.
info & contact
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