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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

new interviews and final call


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[week 12 -28 May 2006]
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JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog
final call/survey--->deadline 1 June 2006 (see further ahead)

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JIP is featuring this week following 3 interviews with

-->Glorious Ninth (UK), Tomasz Konart (Canada)
Alvarado Ardevol (Spain)
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Glorious Ninth
is a collaboration between Kate Southworth and Patrick Simons, they produce networked art which is shown nationally and internationally.

Tomasz Konart
is an inter-media artist interested in the mechanics and function of memory. He applies photography, text, video, film and interactive setups to recreate, simulate or initiate elementary mnemonic processes. As artist, writer, educator and curator he has been active since the seventies in conceptual and experimental art circles across Europe and in North America. Tomasz lives and works in Toronto.

Alvarado Ardevol
was born in 1958 in Barcelona, where he studied Architecture and Fine Arts. As painter, he made few exhibitions in the eighties and also won some award. He also worked as theatrical designer and collaborated in few short films as actor and writer. Since 1993 he works in Education and devotes himself to the study and experimentation of the new multimedia languages.

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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.
--->
Open call /survey---> new deadline 1 June 2006
--->
JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project issued further an open call survey
including 10 questions on Internet based art addressed to
professionals and "amateurs", in order to enable a broader discussion
about the still undervalued genre of Internet based art
through a variety of different approaches, definitions and opinions.
New deadline - 1 June 2006 !!!!!
The entry rules and the questions (cut & paste) are 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

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)
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have been issued on http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog
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DISCUSSION

new-->videos from Argentina on VideoChannel


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VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
is very glad to announce the addition of a new contribution -->
videos from Argentina curated by Silvio de Gracia (Junin/Argentina).
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including
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Animas by Ricardo Pons (2004, 5:00)
The video is a testimonial allegory. A work that deepens in the recent past with an almost moving rhetoric subtlety.
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Casa Blanca (White House) by Leon Ferrari & Ricardo Pons (2004, 3:00)
A mock-up of the White House and an army of earthworms that invade it. An implacable allusion to the North American imperialism and its miseries in the vision of Leon Ferrari, one of the best-acknowledged and controversial Argentine artists.
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Our Ticket Exploded by Gustavo Galuppo (2002, 5:00)
The video explore the recent past in Argentine. Pictures of repression and violence
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Estacada (Left In the Lurch) by Ar Detroy (2003, 9:40)
It is about the fact of abandoning someone who is defeated or hurt. A man and a woman appear being tied to a stake, alone, left to their fate, but then they interweave each other and they rescue one another in a fusion which includes copulation or its prefiguration, through a series of fading and superimpositions that produce a nightmare effect of Baconian type. Every image constitutes an authentic picture, full of cared and subtle plastic beauty.
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About the curator

SILVIO DE GRACIA. (1973) is an Argentine writer, visual artist, performer, video artist, networker and visual poet, alsodirector of Ediciones "El Candiru "printing company- and of the international magazine of Mail Art and Visual Poetry "HOTEL DaDA", author of essays and journalistic writing of contemporary art &
creator and organizer of PLAY, an International Video Art Festival, in Junin, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA.
www.playfestival.com.ar

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VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
is a curatorial environment focussing on videos/films on the theme "memory & identity"
directed by Agricola de Cologne

and corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
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DISCUSSION

A Virtual Memorial - relaunched


A Virtual Memorial
Memorial project against the Forgetting & for Humanity
http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/start1.htm

is relaunched on 22 May 2006 after some time of reconstruction.

A Virtual Memorial
is an award winning networked media art project environment
created and curated by Agricola de Cologne
for the Internet as an ideal pleace for dealing dynamically with memory.

A Virtual Memorial is not just a memorial guide through the year
including monthly changing features connected to a selection of particiular memorial days
of national or international relevance, but basically also framework for a couple
of participatory and collaborative memorial projects like
Memorial for the Victims of Terror - http://terror.a-virtual-memorial.org
Memorial for the Victims of AIDS - http://aids.a-virtual-memorial.org
TSUNAMI Memorial -http://tsunami.a-virtual-memorial.org
and others,

but then also Violence Online, a project environment in form of an online festival
focussed on the phenomenon of violence and war, a project
which was active between 2002 and 2004 and presented on many festival and media art exhibitions,

and last, but not least also starting point and home of the legendary
[R][R][F]200X --->XP project environment
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org,
a new media art project project dealing with "memory & identity"
& hosting numerous artists projects curated by invited curators,
VideoChannel - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
is hosting the famous video collection, and
SoundLAB Channel , is an online environment focussed on soundart
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org,

incorporating also Agricola de Cologne's award winning
"Family Portrait" - http://familyportrait.engad.org
and
Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina
http://argentina.engad.org.

As the first of Agricola de Cologne's
Internet based projects starting in 2000,
A Virtual Memorial was until these days the inspiration
for many artists and encouraged them to work artistically with the subject of "memory",
many of such works are a precious and integral part of A Virtual Memorial.

A Virtual Memorial
follows the idea of an ongoing and dynamic art project
which has its basis not only online on the net,
but also offline manifested in numerous temporaryly limited installations in physical space.
The project is not just referring to the Past, but is basically reacting on most recent events
and social, cultural and politcial phenomena, and the rapid technological development.

A Virtual Memorial
is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
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DISCUSSION

New features on JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project


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[week 15 -21 May 2006]
------------------------------------------------
JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog
open call/survey--->deadline 1 June 2006 (see further ahead)

--->
JIP is featuring this week following 3 interviews with

-->Jody Zellen (USA), Reiner Strasser (Germany)
Caterina Davinio (Italy)
----->

Jody Zellen
is an artist living in Los Angeles, California. She works in many media simultaneously making photographs, installations, net art, public art, as well as artists' books that explore the subject of the urban environment. She employs media-generated representations of contemporary and historic cities as raw material for aesthetic and social investigations She had numerous solo shows in USA and abroad and is represented on all relevant media art festivals around the globe.

Reiner Strasser
is living and working in Wiesbaden, Germany, was born 1954 in Antwerpen, Belgium. He studied art, art history and philosophy at the University of Mainz, Germany in the 1970's. His Web works, international collaborations, and Web art projects date from 1996. Strasser's Web work has appeared in several exhibitions/publications all over the world since 1997.

Caterina Davinio
is multitalented and active as Italian techno-artist, writer and poet, experiments in computer art, net-art, video, digital visual poetry,
Internet-performance, video-performance. She realized also computer, printings exhibitions, painting, and artist books, using together writing, traditional and digital techniques. Pioneer of Italian digital art, she has done curatorial and consultant activity in international festivals. Her work has been featured in more than 100 exhibitions world wide Caterina Davinio has published articles, poems, and digital works, in international magazines and journals of the avant-garde.

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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.
--->
Open call /survey---> new deadline 1 June 2006
--->
JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project issued further an open call survey
including 10 questions on Internet based art addressed to
professionals and "amateurs", in order to enable a broader discussion
about the still undervalued genre of Internet based art
through a variety of different approaches, definitions and opinions.
New deadline - 1 June 2006 !!!!!
The entry rules and the questions (cut & paste) are 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

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.
------------------------------------------------------------
Until now interviews /answers by
--->
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)
--->
have been issued on http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog
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operating from Cologne/Germany.
.
info& contact
info (at) nmartproject.net

DISCUSSION

Media/Art/Cologne announces the first project


Although not officially launched, yet

Media/Art/Cologne
http://www.mediaartcologne.org
is proud to announce its first project
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://selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem
http://self.engad.org
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organized and curated by Agricola de Cologne
in the framework of the 10th anniversary of the
twincityship between the municipalities of Cologne/Germany & Bethlehem/Palestine
realized in collaboration with and shown at

Al Kahf Gallery Bethlehem/Palestine 6-30 July 2006
City of Cologne - October 2006
Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Naples/Italy - December'06/January/07

://selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem
is a media art exhibition based on the classical theme of the artist's selfportrait,
but executed in New Media technology, and includes
about 200 artists from 40 countries,
see list of participants on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=3&catu

By being present and show face personally in Palestine via their selfportraits,
the artists overcome symbolically the wall and the conflict
between Israel and Palestine and become messengers of peace this way.

Find more details on
http://www.mediaartcologne.org &
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=3&catu

://selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem
http://self.engad.org
will be launched online on 1 July 2006
on occasion of the show
at Al Kahf Gallery Bethlehem/Palestine
6-30 July 2006.

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Media/Art/Cologne
http://www.mediaartcologne.org
is a new project environment & initiative
by Agricola de Cologne
in the framework of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
aimed to feature media art in and from Cologne in a global context.

Invitation to participate in the survey: What is media art?
http://www.mediaartcologne.org/blog/?page_id
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