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[R][R][F] 2005
---> Remembering,
Repressing, Forgetting
a
global networking project by Wilfried Agricola de
Cologne
About
[R][R][F] 2005
Bethlehem, twin city
with Cologne
Agricola de Cologne,
bibliography
[R][R][F] 2005 ---> Remembering,
Repressing, Forgetting:
is an experimental New
Media art project by Wilfried
Agricola de Cologne, which is organised
completely online. It started one year ago as a global networking
which includes a variety of online and offline components. The basic
subject is “Memory and
Identity”, the basic operating aspect is ”networking as artworking”. Although anything
connected to the project is transmitted online, the basic
installation aspect is the exchange/combination of virtual and
physical space in a physical
installation.
The general
project theme “Memory and Identity” is a theme with several
complicated discussions. We, as beings, build our identity on our
own achieved experiences combined with a collective one – the
history. Everything we experience forms our identity and the
surroundings - our culture, our country, city, and neighbourhood are
formed from what is going on at the moment and what has been going
on in the past.
Focusing on our
private memories; how do they look like? Are they fragments or
larger views? Are they static and objective or do our memories
change according to when they are merged together with other
memories and experiences?
http://www.nmartproject.net/
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org/
This ongoing
project is a long term experiment starting in March 2004
simultaneously in Internet and at National Museum of Contemporary
Art Bucharest/Romania, Bergen Electronic Arts Centre Bergen/Norway
and New Media Art Festival Bangkok to be developed further until the
end of 2006 and beyond. Many networking instances as artists,
curators, institutions, organisations from all parts on the globe
will join the project and will form as an ongoing process a unique
collection of collected memory of mankind manifested in
advanced technological forms of contemporary art, i.e. net
based art, an Internet specific form of digital art. The project is
a hybrid form of a research, New Media event and an art
project.
[R][R][F]
2005àXP
–
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org/ includes three basic
components:
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Cologne a twin city with
Bethlehem.
The partnership between
Cologne and Bethlehem was built in 1996. Cologne is the first
city in Germany to accomplish a relationship with a Palestinian
town. Refering to the support of peace
activities in Palistine this Partnership
is very important to communicate with the Near
East.
The activities between
Cologne and Bethlehem basically concentrate on personal meetings to
get to know each other better and overcome predjudices. There have been visits from youth
and schoolgroups, students, teachers and
seniorgroups. But there is also an
exchange on cultural activities like photography exhibitions,
concerts and more. An established event is the Bethlehem week which
takes place every year around christmas time in
Cologne.
You can
find more information at http://www.stadt-koeln.de/. Go
to Europa+International, then to Städtepartnerschaften and finally to
Bethlehem.
AGRICOLA de Cologne -Brief
biography
Agricola de Cologne
is a virtual instance, a
multidisciplinary media artist and creator and founder of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne – www.nmartproject.net
As an artist, he had more than 100 solo exhibitions in
cooperation with more than 70 museums throughout Europe, as a
curator he organised between 1989 and 1994 several cultural projects
in Europe and curates since 2001 the net based New Media projects of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
He is participating since 2000 in
more than 100 media exhibitions and festivals around the globe
(Biennale de Montreal 2004, Biennale of Electronic Art
Perth/Australia 2004 , Biennale of New Media Art Merida /Mexico
2003, FILE 2001-2004, Videoformes 2001-2002-2003-2005, Art on the
Net 2001, 2002, Mediaterra Athens 2002, ISEA 2002 Nagoya/Japan etc)
with his online and offline multi-media works, details see
on: http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de/bio/index.html
His net based works received several
prizes.
As an artist's brand,
the name
Agricola de Cologne points already to the
artist's ambitions and intensions, eg his
'program'. Based on the real family name Agricola, which stands
for humanism and humanity and the combination of art and humanism,
since in Renaissance times there were several humanists,
philosophers, painters named "Agricola",
it symbolizes also his connection to Greek philosophy ( in school he
learned the ancient languages , Greek and Latin) the Renaissance is
based on.
The city of Cologne stands for the city of art and
culture (based on an history of 2000 years,
once founded by the Romans) and above all nowadays, the city of the
media; it is that place in Europe where the most television
companies are located, and a very important film industry.
So,
"Agricola de Cologne" stands for awareness
for history, for humanity, for new media and for new ways in
(approaching) art as brand of the virtual instance, media artist,
New Media curator and founder of the NewMediaArtProjectNetwork who manifests himself
physically only a few times a year.
born 1950 in Black Forest (Southern
Germany)
died as the artist AGRICOLA on 31 December
1998 as the result of a terrorist attack
reborn as the artist AGRICOLA de Cologne on 1
January 2000
living and working as a free lance artist
since 1984 in Cologne (Germany)
Studies
1969-1971
Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts (Grafic &
Photography)
1971-1974
Munich University (History of Art, Journalism and Dramatic
Arts)
1974-1978 Rijksakademie Amsterdam
(Painting)
Since 1989, the
artist realised several collaborative and media related art
works
1989-1993 Foundation of ARCHA Society- a
temporary non -profit organisation/cultural
exchange
between Western and Eastern Europe, as the
director of ARCHA, Agricola organised
several international conferences and cultural projects in Germany
and Poland.
Since 1994
working with New Media
Between 1995
and 1999 realisation of the Memorial project
"A Living
Memorial" in 43 installations at 43 places in Germany, Poland and
Czech Republic
including Krakow, Auschwitz, Terezin, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and
others,
a multi-media art work, including
photography, video, computer and sound
installations
Since 2000
development NewMediaArtProjectNetwork , the experimental artistic
environment
URLs: http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/, http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/, http://www.javamuseum.org/,
http://www.engad.org/,
http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de/, http://www.nmartproject.net/
A Virtual Memorial
represents also an
important environment for creating net based multi-media works –
video-like or interactive -, extracted and collected in “Agricola de Cologne Moving Picture
Collection”
(http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/index.html).
Agricola developed his
individual language with the principle of SAMAC (Simultaneous
Associative Media Art Composing).
Databases- Artbases
Rhizome
Never wake up
>http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?2686
Hans - a true story
>http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?2689
Transience- an atonal
composition >http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?2920
]and_scape[
>http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?3351
urban.early sunday morning_raw
>http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?3351
Violence Online
Festival > http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?7503
Family Portrait
>http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?10784
138 seconds of
peace? >http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?16154
[R][R][F]
2004--->XP ---> http://rhizome.org/submit_artwork/3.php?object_id=24241
En [Code] ed --->
http://rhizome.org/submit_artwork/3.php?object_id=24243
9/11 - the Triple Method ---> http://rhizome.org/submit_artwork/3.php?object_id=27287
dreamtime:: ---> http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?28629
Inability
of Being Nude ---> http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?29782
Netzspannung
> Experts Data Base - http://netzspannung.org/network/experts/
Netzspannung > Netzkollektor -
http://netzspannung.org/netzkollektor/classic/
Prizes
*Award for
[NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne at
MAD03 – Festival Madrid/Spain (2003)
*Special Prize
of the Organisations Committee on Computer Space Festival 2002 Sofia
(Bulgaria)
*2nd Prize
for A Virtual Memorial – http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/
as best foreign multi-media art work on
Computer Space Festival 2001 Sofia
(Bulgaria)
He participated in
numerous exhibitions in many countries.
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