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

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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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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