Draft Title: SHOAH
European Media Art Exhibition for Peace and Reconciliation -
is the title of a media art project planned by A Virtual Memorial & VideoChannel primarily for the exhibition in physical space including a strong online component. The project will be realised in 2010/2011, the inauguration is provisionally foreseen for November 2010 either in Berlin or Cologne followed by a tour through several European countries.
A Virtual Memorial is happy to announce another collaboration between Wilfried Agricola de Cologne and Raquel Partnoy.
In 2001, Agricola de Cologne started the “Family Portrait”, an online art work spotlighting diasporadic course of life of the Partnoy family, in which Raquel, her daughter Alicia and Granddaughter Ruth play the main roles, a project which was completed in 2005 in the framework MOSAICA Award 2005, whose winner was “Family Portrait”.
In 2003, Agricola started the next collaboration with Raquel Partnoy in “Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina“, an online art work which was realised in 2004 in the framework of the global networking project [R][R][F]200x—>XP. This project is dedicated to the ten thousand of disappeared people who vanshied without any traces during the military regimes in Argentina during 50ies and 70 of 20th century, and the Mother of Plaza de Mayo, who fighted against by demonstrating.
In 2009, another collaboration starts in a project which, again, is dealing with the position, situation and presecution of women, this time focussing on another Latin American country, i.e Guatemala, where during the military ruling thousands of women were killed in a so -called “femicide”. The titel of the project is referring to this—>Women: Femicide in Guatemala.
incorporating many testimonies and documents by Guamaltecan women who brought the case of the femicide to a broader public and attendance only short time ago.
Deadline 30 June 2008
Call and entry details on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=238
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A Memorial as a Process - a Model of the World
Agricola de Cologne’s article from 2001, which explanis the context of the creation of “A Virtual Memorial” was recently revised and republished as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/a_memorial_as_a_process_2007.pdf
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Agricola de Cologne was recently invited for an interview for “Victims Symptom Project” curated by Ana Peraica which is now published on the projects blog on
COMMEMORATING VICTIMS Interview with Agricola de Cologne
http://www.labforculture.org/en/community/blogitem/21430
downloadable also as PDF - http://downloads.nmartproject.net/commemorating_victims_by_AGRICOLA.pdf
A Virtual Memorial’s festival environment
NewMediaFest announces “N e w M e d i a F e s t 2007″ to be launched in November 2007,
incorporating festival programs by Cologne Online Film Festival, VideoChannel, SoundLAB, Cinematheque and JavaMuseum
For this purpose NewMediaFest redesigned its site –> see more
While surfing through the net, I found out by chance that I received the first prize of the digital art festival Salon de Arte Digital 2006 at MACSUL - Museum of Contemporary Art Maracaibo/Venezuela for Violence Online Festival and the work on the subject of violence.
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VideoChannel:
CologneOFF III
3rd edition of Cologne Online Film Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org
Festival theme:
Toon! Toon!
art cartoons and animated narratives
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SoundLAB
Call for proposals
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SoundLAB -
sonic art project environments
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
is currently preparing its fifth edition looking for new soundart works.
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VideoChannel & SoundLAB remain the basic active environments from the global networking project [R][R][F]200x—>XP. Both focussed on the aspects “memory” and “identity”, form not only successful projects and platforms, but represent each one for itself unique collections—>VideoChannel, incorporating more than 200 videos online and offline, and SoundLAB including more than 300 artists and more than 400 soundart works.
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After its start in Bethlehem in July 2006, the title of the show - “://selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem” had been extended to ://selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem - a show for Peace and was presented first in Szczecin/Poland (October/November 2006), MAC - Contemporary Art Museum Santa Fe (December 2007 / January 2007), Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Naples/Italy (December 2006 /January 2007) and on 9 February 2007, the exhibition will be opened at MACRO - Contemporary Art Museum of the City of Rosario/ Argentina.
More details on the project site
After nearly 3 years of project development, the RRF environment finished in its final state as [R][R][F]200x—>XP its most successful activity at the end of 2006, and returns to A Virtual Memorial as a completed project.
It was presented and installed in most different constellations in virtual and physical space more than 50 times, the textual documentation on this blog may give evidence. The artistic Flash based high-tech body, however will remain completely untouched as an historical document. Nevertheless, the navigation of the project will be optimized, yet, and the completed project will be certainly also presented in new contexts in one or the other way.
Some project components and primarily VideoChannel will remain active and developed further on. This will have also some influence on the RRF environment in its totality, of course.
As the creator, artist, curator, multi-media developer, programer and in some other functions, I would like to thank also at this place all participating, assisting and supporting instances again for making th experimental enterprise of [R][R][F]200x—>XP possible.
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