video feature
Launch of NewMediaFest 2020 ’11 – November
November 2020
NewMediaFest2020 ’11 – 01-30 November 2020
http://retro.newmediafest.org/wow-jubilee-2020-xi/
is happy to launch today, 1November the 11th edition of NewMediaFest2020 including exciting features – WOW Jubilee 2020 X India launched on occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday (02 Oct 1869) the new film collection – Gandhi PPNRCD in collaboration with Indian partners tunning until 22 November 2020 at Birla Academy for Art and Culture Kolkata and simultaneously online at ALPHABET screenings until 31 December 2020. NMF2020 ’11 is featuring on 2 November – Marcantonio Lunardi – as Videoartist of the Month, on 4 November Jürgen Trautman aka jtwine as the Netartist of the month and Latin America become again a particuilar relevance with feature venues in Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile, and additional features directed to the Future by installing TAM – Torrance Art Museum DarkRoom on ALPHABET for permanent including 26 curated programs, and another 26 programs at Xteresa DarkRoom honouring CologneOFF 2011 Media Fest in Mexico and today starts the relaunch of 9th Cologne International Videoart Festival at ALPHABET screenings.
The Month November is traditionally the month for commemorating – 9 November 1938 – Night of Broken Glass, to be considered as the beginning of the Holocaust and later World War II – 9 November 1989 – The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Communiste systems the starting point for the later German Re-Unification – both incidents changed the world profoundly, but also the terror attack on 13 November 2015 in Paris, which was starting point for “The iTerror Memorial” – so during November additional screenings go online on Alphabet – and many more videoart, netart and soundart features during November at The 365 Days Diary –
Enter – NewMediaFest2020 ’11 – here
ALPHABET is presenting at 6 spaces – http://alphabet.nmartproject.net
WOW Jubilee XI November 2020
>Week 1 November – 06 November
02 – 30 November 2020
Feature: Videoartist of the Month November 2020
Marcantonio Lunardi
CologneOFF IX @ NewMediaFest2020
Beyond All curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
1st program
Gandhi! – PPNRCD
PPNRCD – stands for “Peaceful Protest – Nonviolent Resistance – Civil Disobedience”
a new film collection initiated on occasion of the 151st anniversary of Mathatma Gandhi’s birthday
and the collaboration with Birla Academy of Art & Culture and Culture Monks India both located in Kolkata India
and the exhibition @ Birla Academy of Art & Culture –
SPEAKING GANDHI : Visual journeys of Gandhi@150 & beyond
16 October – 22 November 2020
ALPHABET is complementing the selection of the physical show by presenting the complete Gandhi PPNRCD Film Collection until 31 December 2020 online–>
Program 6
Corona! Shut Down!
including
30 October -06 November 2020
Program 6
Corona! Shut Down!
including
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Irina Bardița (Moldova) – Body, 2020, 4:43
Reiner Strasser (Germany)- Corona Distance, 2020, 0.54
Avishay Zawoznik (Israel)- Lockdown Stories, 2020, 4:19
Patriot Mukmin (Indonesia) – Hoax De-signification , 2020, 3:09
Angelica Verdan (USA) – To Be Fully Seen, 2020, 2:24
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Corona Soundart by Wayne Clements, UK – Mario Nicolás Ramirez, Colombia – Ralph Wendt, Germany – Balam Ronan Simon Delgado, Mexico – Edward Ramsay-Morin, USA – Lucas Pandolfo, Brazil
noisyflesh, South Korea – Lewie Reed, UK – Tania Cruz, Mexico – Katya Sanna, Italy – Emma Margetson, UK – Ulla Žibert, Manuel Brajnik – Slovenia – Lavoslava Benčić, Slovenia – Lorin Roser, USA
The Corona crisis is demanding from people around the globe to reduce their social contacts in order to avoid a rapid spread of the virus. The Wake-Up! Memorial was inviting audio-visual artists to submit one work – video and/or soundart – dealing with this – hopefully temporarily limited shut down . The new show case is representing an act of solidarity for the victims of the pandemic and a warning alike addressed to the human population on Earth to rethink the current values of the individual and the society as a whole. Corona! Shut Down? is representing a new exciting film collection including more than 180 audio-visual works.
Program 5
ALPHABET shows during the coming weeks in the framework of
The Holocaust Remembrance 23 September – 15 November 2020
each week another selection from
Shoah Film Collection @ The d/i/light Memorial
Program 5
56 Min
Angelina Voskopoulos (Greece) – Behind this page but not disappearing 2015, 16:40
Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair (Austria) – Display Case, 2014, 10:14
Maja Schweizer (Germany) – Passing Down, Frame One, 2007, 10:30
KirsiMarja Metsähuone (Finland) – Known Named Identified, 2014, 5:37 min
Boris Sribar (Serbia) – I love you so much, I would kill for you, 2009, 3:50
Felice Hapetzeder II (Sweden) – Image of a Traitor Trailer, 2017, 8:52
Enter the 5th program
The Weeks of the Holocaust Remembrance include following occasions for commemorating – A Virtual Memorial Vilnius 2013 (23 Sept – 29 Oct 2013) – A Virtual Memorial Warsaw 2012 (25-30 October 2012) – A Virtual Memorial Warsaw 2013 (25-31 Oct 2013) and the Night of Broken Glass (9 November 1938)
6 – WOW – Transcendental Roots / WOW Babylonia
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Enter the TAM DarkRoom @ Cinema TAM
82 minutes
1
Cody Healey-Conelly (USA) – Glitch Noir – Datasifter Prelude, 2015, 2:41
Peter Whittenberger (USA) – Don’t Worry, You’ll Get There, 2016, 4:53
Hdys (USA) – We The People, 2018, 3:51
Daniel Zezelj (Croatia) – The World of Wonder, 2015, 5:34
Ezra Wube (Ethiopia) – Twilight Galaxies, 2017, 7’52”
Tomislav Findrik (Croatia) – Oyashio, 2017, 04:29
House of Style (Bryne Rasmussen-Smith and Andrew Smith-Rasmussen) (USA) -Infinite Leaks in the Memory Palace, 2013, 5:04
Rui Hu (USA) – Metropolitan Triangle Garden, 2015, 5:52
APOTROPIA (Italy) – The Kiss, 2016, 1:19
Christina Lykoka (Greece) – Death Of A Blackbird, 2017, 6:26
Maurizio Sanhueza (Peru) – Parasite, 2016, 6:23
Harold Charre (France) – Requiem, 2017, 9:18
Henry Gwiazda (USA) – Knowledge, 2017, 3:05
2
Annetta Kapon (USA) – Synopsis, 2017, 0:35
Perry Bard & Richard Sullivan (USA) – NO FLAK, 2017, 7’23
Maria Korporal (NL/Germany) – Breaking Borders, 2017, 5:36
Marie-Paule Bilger (France) – Sweet Fight, 2017, 4:35
Lidia Starodubtseva (Ukraine) – Time Is Up, 2018, 4:00
Lisi Prada (Spain) – Illuminationi Mattina, 2014, 3:14
Pierre & Jean Villemin (France) – Lake, 2012, 5:35
Laura Petrilla & Brooke Schooles (USA) – Wrong Me A Love Life, 2012, 4:50
Alexander Delnevo (Italy) – Transhumances, 2012,3:48
TAM @ Alphabet
WOW Jubilee VII DarkRoom 2020
Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles
was presenting between 18 July – 20 September 2020
6 WOW Transcendental Roots
Enter the DarkRoom @ Cinema TAM
The 7 Memorials for Humanity
7 screening programs curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
NewMediaFest2020 celebrates numerous anniversaries this year, including the foundation in Cologne in 2000.
WOW Jubilee VII Los Angeles – (WOW stands for “We Are One World”) is the 7th anniversary program in a row, this time with the focus on the 7 video program units with their 11 programs in total, which Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, the director, main curator realized NewMediaFest2020 for the screenings at TAM – including 150 videos by 150 artists from 30 countries on topics that concern artists and society alike – violence, migration, climate change, environment and identity – as they are manifested in “The 7 Memorial for Humanity” , a commemorative context of media art developed during the past 20 years since 2000.
NewMediaFest2020 is an event structure with a retrospective character, which is carried out in an exchange between virtual and physical space throughout 2020, starting on December 26, 2019 and ending on December 31, 2020 with network partners around the world.
In addition to the 12 monthly festival programs, the daily features are of particular importance with the publication of new media art programs from “The 365 Days Diary” online.
After Addis Ababa and Cologne before the Corona crisis, which forced NewMediaFest2020 to continue its activities exclusively online as the 1st Corona Festival, Berlin is now the first physical venue starting on 9 July followed Los Angeles (USA) on 18 July online, and depending of the Corona developments worldwide additional events are scheduled in Cusco (Peru), Athens (Greece), Lucca (Italy), Beirut (Lebanon) and Calcutta (India) – either offline or online.
| Cinema Lunardi | Cinema d/i/light | Cinema TAM |
| Feature: Marcantonio Lunardi | Shoah Film Collection 5 | TAM @ Alphabet 6 WOW – Transcendental Roots |
| Open – until 30 November 2020 | Open – until 15 November 2020 | Open – until 06 November 2020 |
| Cinema Gandhi | Cinema Corona | Cinema CologneOFF |
| Gandhi – PPNRCD | Corona! Shut Down? 6 | 9th Cologne International Videoart Festival |
| Open – until 31 December 2020 | Open – until 06 November 2020 | Open – until 31 December 2020 |
