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NewMediaFest2020 is taking place between 26 December 2019 and 31 December 2020 – as an event structure in an exchange between virtual and physical space in collaboration with networking partners all over the world. During the Corona crisis, NewMediaFest2020 is operating as the 1st Corona Festival exclusively online.

NewMediaFest2020 is consisting of different ongoing components which are complementing each other – 12 monthly festival editions (January – December 2020) – The 365 Days Diary, starting on 1 January 2020, each day another article is dealing with “the making of…” of Agricola de Cologne’s activities (2000-2020) – packing 20 years into 365 days of 2020 – and “pages under construction” listing involved projects, artists, curators and other cultural instances participting and collaborating – at the end of 2020 everything will be linked with each other, this means, until the end of 2020 the whole project is in an ongoing process.

The Corona crisis has been changing the concept of NewMediaFest2020, now it is the intention to release more works of digital media online than actually planned in order to offer the audience/viewer/user now exclusively online all programs which have been presented in physical space before during the past 20 years – and a most current media art project has been added, entitled – “Corona! Shut Down?” – how do artists react on the Corona crisis and their consequences. Additional interventions are optional.

NewMediaFest2020 is the online//offline retrospective of Agricola de Cologne and his networked art creations 2000-2020. Agricola de Cologne is not only a living witness of the development of the digital technologies in art, he was a pioneer at his time when there were no experiences, yet, to explore their potential for artistic use, he was accompanying the course of life of many artists. As a curator, mediator and catalyst , Agricola de Cologne was encouraging artists in different disciplines to work with digital technologies, basically (digital) video and Internet based art (netart), but also soundart, and in this way, this retrospective is at the same time a retrospective of the art creation in these field during the past 20 years.

NewMediaFest2020 is honouring all included artists, curators and other cultural instances like festivals, museum , galleries etc which were collaborating with Agricola de Cologne during the past 20 years since 2000 – in the basic program online – there will be at least 12 physical venues- each month another one in another country presenting an individual Jubilee program – to be complemented by monthly features online in video, netart and soundart –

NewMediaFest2020is a big “Thanks” to all networked instances in shape of the participating artists, curators, venues, festivals and cultural institutions who joint and made this singular art working only possible – by including all of them in one or the other way in virtual or physical space.

2020

The year 2020 is representing a complex anniversary context on many levels – 75 years end of World War II, 15 years artvideoKOELN, 20 years Agricola de Cologne and his networked new media art working, 20 years The New Museum of Networked Art, 70 years the physical person behind Agricola de Cologne and 40 years of his art working.

Since its/his launch in 2000, Agricola de Cologne was presented as a media artist & curator @ more than 600 festivals and media art events in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Knoxville, Pittsburgh, Mexico City, Caracas, Maracaibo, Buenos Aires, Rosario, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Santiago de Chile, Quito, Bogota, London, Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Madrid, Gijon, Sevilla, Valencia, Barcelona, Lisbon, Oporto, Athens, Thessaloniki, Nikosia, Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tampere, Turku, Kopenhagen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Bruxelles, Tokyo, Nagoya, Seoul, Manila, Hongkong, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, New Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Mumbai, Vientiane, Jakarta, Perth, Melbourne, Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakesh, Istanbul, Ankara, Yerewan, Tblisi, Damaskus, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Bethlehem, Gaza, Basel, Zurich, Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Graz, Kiev, Kharkiv, Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Moscow, St.Petersburg, Kansk, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Sofia, Varna, Bucharest, Arad, Timisoara, Budapest, Belgrade, Zagreb, Split, Lubljana, Rome, Naples, Milan, Pescara, Venice, Torino, Bologna, Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Münster, Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, & elsewhere, but also on biennials like Venice Biennale 2003, 2005, 2007, Biennale of New Media Art Merida/MX 2003, Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth/Australia (2004), Biennale de Montreal (2004), Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago de Chile (2005), ISEA Nagoya (2002), ISEA Singapore 2008.

The W:OW Project

The W:OW Art Film & Video Festival

The W:OW Project on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/wow.artvideo/

The W:OW Project is representing the medium for the manifestation of “WOW retro” in virtual & physical space. As the global networking project, the W:OW Project is dealing thematically with the Present and Future of planet Earth under the influence of the human species. WE ARE ONE WORLD is not just another artistic topic, it is the complex reality and at the same time an Utopia that matters.
The „world“ is not just planet Earth as an all encompassing whole, but also the „world“ in terms of the environment or place the individual is living in: family, circle of friends, society, city, region, country or continent, or other sortlike unities marking the individual and collective identity, their relation between each other, and the responsibility of the individual for each other and the Whole.

THE W:OW PROJECT, respectively THE W:OW ART FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL

initiated by artvideoKOELN & The New Museum of Networked Art – directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne – is representing such a sample world on a small scale, in which artists, curators and worldwide networking partners and, not to forget, the audience are acting in mutual respect, demonstrating the diversity of artistic and curatorial concepts. The festival project is consisting of three (3) basic program components, the general festival selection, the contributions by invited curators from all over the world and curated selections from associated media art contexts like “The 7 Memorials for Humanity”, they form the fundament for a wide range of presentation formats like screening, projection and installation (exhibition). According to its concept, the W:OW Project – incorporating different levels on a local and global scale – will manifest at many venues all over the world,