A multidisciplinary media artist, independent New
Media curator and director and chief curator of the award winning [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
– www.nmartproject.net, the experimental platform for art and New
Media, operating from Cologne/Germany.s
As a curator, he organised between 1989 and 1994 several cultural projects
in Europe and curates since 2001 more than 50 New Media projects/events
for
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne, among them 18 showcases, competitions
and features for JavaMuseum - Forum for New Media Technology in Contemporary
Art –
www.javamuseum.org
He is co-curator and guest curator of several media and video exhibitions
and festivals,
Maf'04 and Maf'05 - New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand 2004-2005-2006,
Biennale of New Media Art Merida/Mexico 2003, and many more.
His selections for VideoChannel http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
<http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/> are presented & screened
on
numerous festivals and media exhibitions. He is the founder and director
of COFF – Cologne Online Film Festival - http://coff.newmediafest.org
As the director of digital short moving pictures, he is mostly also
their producer, composer and editor.
As an artist, he had more than 100 solo exhibitions in cooperation with
more than 70 museums throughout Europe, and is participating since 2000
in more than 200 media exhibitions and festivals around the globe
(Moskow International Film Festival 2006, Japan Media Arts Festival
Tokyo 2006 & 2002, Biennale of Video and New Media Santiago/Chile
2005,
ZKM Karlsruhe/Germany 2005, National Museum of Contemporary Art Reina
Sofia Madrid/Spain 2005, Biennale de Montreal 2004, Biennale of
Electronic Art Perth/Australia 2004 , Venice Biennale 2003, Biennale
of
New Media Art Merida /Mexico 2003, FILE Sao Paulo 2001-2006, Videoformes
2001-2006, Digital Art Festival Havanna 2001-2006, Art on the Net 2001,
2002, Mediaterra Athens 2002, ISEA 2002 Nagoya/Japan, SENEF Seoul/Korea
2004 & 2005 etc) with his online and offline multi-media works, his
Internet based works received several prizes.
Details see on: http://bio.agricola-de-cologne.de/
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=6
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Links
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MULTIMEDIA
1.
Title: Violence Online
URL: http://violence.newmediafest.org/startviolencey.htm
Year: 2002-2004
Short synopsis:
New Media art project in form of an online festival
created and organised by Agricola de Cologne.
More than 350 artists reflect the phenomenon of violence in all its
facets.
The project is constructed in form of a virtual media company, named-
"Violence Media Incorporated". the numerous departments like
"Violence for Happiness", "Violence Broadcasting", "Violence
Picknick
Basket"
or "Violence Playstation" (which was launched on the day
when the iraq
War began in 2003)
incorporate the numerous contributions by the
participating artists. The project started in 2002 and was finalized
in
2004, when it became corporate part of
Agricola de Cologne's global networking project "[R][R][F]200x--->XP
http://rrf200x.newmediafest.org
2.
Violence - a VideoChannel compilation of videos on the theme of violence
curated by Agricola de Cologne - divers artists - duration max 45-60
minutes to be sent via snail mail on DVD, the list of participants and
videos will be sent also online in time.
Agricola de Cologne is the director and chief curator of
VideoChannel - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
a project environment founded in 2004 and focussed on theme of "memory
and identity".
Agricola de Cologne invites curators from all parts on the globe for
preparing a contribution of videos by artists from their home countries.
More than 20 curators, more than 200 artists and videos are currently
incorporated
which all are available streaming online as well as for screenings
and
presentations offline from DVD:
VideoChannel is also initiator of COFF - Cologne Online Film Festival
and Agricola de Cologne its director.
Info as PDF for free download
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/VideoChannel2006_overview_vol.pdf
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_1st_edition_2006.pdf
more PDF downloads on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=10
