supported by

A Virtual Memorial Foundation
is happy to announce to realisation of

A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012
Commemorative Interventions
featuring SFC - Shoah Film Collecion
@ Culture & Arts Projects Noass Riga
1-8 June 2012

in partnership between Riga Ghetto & Latvian Holocaust Museum, the association “SHAMIR” - Jewish Community of Latvia, Culture & Arts Projects NOASS Riga and artvideoKOELN - the curatorial initiative “art & moving images” Cologne/Germany

As a nomadic memorial project created by Agricola de Cologne, A Virtual Memorial - Commemorative Interventions is representing the new contextual framework for presentating SFC - Shoah Film Collection as a screening and exhibition event accompanied by exhibitions, lectures, panel discussions, round tables, artists talks and workshops.

The provisional event schedule can be downloaded as PDF
English
Deutsch

More info about
A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 - Commemorative Interventions
& SFC - Shoah Film Collection —> http://dts.engad.org

On occasion of the return of the liberation of Auschwitz, 27 January 2012 - SFC - Shoah Film Collection is re-releasing a call for submissions.

Artists in the field of “moving images ” are invited to submit up to three works of experimental film & videoart dealing with the topic of “Shoah” and related fields.

The extended collection of SFC - Shoah Film Collection will be screened and exhibited in the framework of CologneOFF 2012 - videoart in a global context

The details and entry form can be found on–>
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1549

or can be downloaded as PDF

Call for entres: English

Convocatoria: español

Aufruf an Künstler zur Teilnahme

A Virtual Memorial Foundation
is happy to launch SFC - Shoah Film Collection in the framework of
CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context
nomadic festival project - 1 January 2011 - 31 December 2012
and the physical screenings at

Art Museum of Arad/Romania (March 2011)
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=953

Cultural Observatory Szczcecin 20116 - Szczecin/Poland (May 2011)
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1143

NCCA-National Center of Contemporary Art St.Petersburg (May 2011)
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1156

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies - Purdue University Ft. Wayne/USA (November 2011) to come, yet

On 25 January 2010, A Virtual Memorial Foundation joint NewMediaFest’2010 and launched a new media art context on occasion of 27 January 2010 - International Holocaust Day - 65th return of the Liberation of Auschwitz, entitled. Draft Title: Shoah v.1.0 –> http://dts.engad.org/shoah-index.html

The main part represents “SFC - Shoah Film Collection” –> http://dts.engad.org/sfc-index.html,

a new unique initiative by A Virtual Memorial Foundation & VideoChannel in the framework of NewMediaFest’2010 to encourage young generations of artists and filmmakers to refelect the context of Shoah and contribute, this way, against the forgetting. This new collection starts with 34 films and videos, most of them created especially for SFC, which already indicates, that artists take the challenge reflecting Holocaust/Shoah in an artistic way to visualize the “impossible”. That it is possible in contemporary artistic expressions shows the works feature in SFC impressingly.

SFC will be the Feature of the Month “February 2010″ on NewMediaFest’2010, and VAD - Video Art Database will feature the included works during February for one day.

More details soon.

Happy New Year 2010!

During 2010, A Virtual Memorial will become part of NewMediaFest’2010 - 10 Years [NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne - global heritage of digital culture.

For 27 January 2010, A Virtual Memorial will prepare a special feature on occasion of 65th return of the Liberation of the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz, including the launch of SFC - Shoah Film Collection - a unique initiative aimed to encourage young artists and directors to work on the topic of SHOAH and related themes.

During the entire year, the most important projects realized in the framework of A Virtual Memorial during the past 11 years will be spotlighted as a part of NewMediaFest’2010 and will be made available again to a larger audience.

Happy New Year 2010!

Compared with other databases initiated by The NETWORK, DAS - Database will be accessible only via membership and password.

The database will have its place within the DTS - Draft Title: SHOAH project, as a part of AVM - A Virtual Memorial - memorial project environments.

A Virtual Memorial & VideoChannel will launch SFC - Shoah Film Collection on 27 January 2010 on occasion of 65th return of the Liberation of Concentration Camp Auschwitz as a part of NewMediaFest’2010

Read more here

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.