WOW Jubilee X 1-31 December 2020
WOW Jubilee Corona IX – is the 9th Corona edition
WOW Jubilee XII is an intervention in virtual space featuring videoart, netart, soundart & associated interviews complemented by
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December 2020
The Month December is starting traditionally on 1 December with the World AIDS Day in order to keep vivid not only the memory of the since decade millions people killing pandemic, but also their victims and the perspectives for fighting the pandemic. In 2020, The 7 Memorials for Humanity release The New AIDS Memorial as the main activity of NMF2020 – based on the AIDS Memorial – once launched in 2001, thus 19 years ago, it was after the 9/11 Memorial, the 2nd memorial site, A Virtual Memorial was publishing online – focussed on a less attended aspect – commemorating the artists who died od AIDS. Based on numerous linked resources and created in FLASH, the memorial project became during the years out of date, and the memorial project in the truncated state had to be removed from the net. Now part of The 7 Memorial for Humanity, the time was mature to launch – The New AIDS Memorial – in the framework of NMF2020, using the still existing artists contributions from the former AIDS Memorial as a basis and extend it through a collection of videos, entitled “LGBT – Gender Identity” – taking into account that original HIV was spreading among the LGBT community before is was conquering the rest of the society particularly in the populations in South America, Asia and Africa.
While December located at the end of the year is always representing the occasion to take a retrospective view on the past 12 months, in the case of NMF2020, the past months since its launch in December 2019 had been a retrospective already – a retrospective of the past 20 years, and now the end of the year is starting incorporating some highlights happening during the month December it seems to be more relevant to take a view, what might happen afterwards – after 31 December 2020.
Once, NewMediaFest2020 was launched as a project simply celebrating the 20th anniversary of the start of a new era on 1. January 2000, when Wilfried Agricola de Cologne was (re)born, a big thanks to all people (artists, curators etc) and instances (festivals, museums, galleries etc) collaborating with Wilfried during the past 20 years, and – close to his activities afterwards, so actually NMF2020 was planned as a final point.
Especially, the idea to publish each day of a week, a month and the year 2020 referring to the respective dates of historical events and incidents during the past 20 years, Wilfried became aware of many new perceptions, one of them was – he recognized the potential to start new activities rising from this 20 years developing pool of activities, and another one was, that he must not allow commercial companies to take influence on his life as an artist like ADOBE was taking when the company was killing the popular technology of Shockwave and FLASH, and at the end of 2020 the works of thousands of creative people will vaanish from the net without any trace. So, these were some of the motivations to restart becoming creative and forming something new out of the past 20 years.
Especially the collaboration with Torrance Art Museum (July – September 2020) had a particular inspiring effect, because Wilfried was requested to create a temporary platform for the online screenings due to the Corona crisis. Generally can be said, that for Wilfried the Corona pandemic was no crisis, because he continued his online/offline activities like during the past 20 years before, but due to the CORONA restrictions suddenly the online activities in the field of art got a completely new relevance. People who previously refused condemning any onlime activity suddenly recognized these activities as a way to survive, at all – and suddenly an unusual competition between all these new art related activities was starting, however not in the sense of networking, but by tranferring the former physical activities to the net, which however did not make much sense – it is quite useless when thousands of activities start at the same day at the same time 8.p.m, like they periously did in physical space, there is and was no coordination, but rather a pure chaos, and what was thought to be a chance was killing the chances, because the people did not take into account that the Internet had its own rules. So, one even might speak of a war of cultural activities blocking each other.
But, as it was said, creating for the TAM collaboration a new online platform for Wilfried’s current activities, he did not stop the plaform after the collaboration was finished, but recognized the chance to use ALPHABET – thats the name of this cinema platform – for the screening activities of NewMediaFest 2020 – and continue them after 31 December 2020.
Wilfried’s ideas are to finalize the activities of the past 20 years, and use the result, eg NewMediaFest2020 and its 365 Days structure as a new body for The New Museum of Networked Art and install the screening platform in 2021 as a new art centre for moving images, sonic and interactive art. While during 2020 all users had free and unrestricted access to all the hundreds of publised screening programs, in future the museum exhibitions will be not longer available completely unrestricted, the entrance will remain free, of course no entry fee is required, but like in a conventional museum, the user has to enter the entrance area – which means for the online user – for entering the art exhibition the users have to use a password.
ALPHABET will host all exhibitions in future, the already existing sites of The New Museum of Networked Art containing inforamtions and documentation will be linked with the exhibtion programs on ALPHABET as the central exhibition platform, in this way, especially the video sources can be accessed only via a password.
Actually, Wilfried had been proud to make his artistic and curatorial creations available to online users without any restrictions, but the new cultural context to be released in 2021 and the general conditions have changed – requires restrictions for different reasons, also in this concern, that otherwise the traffic on the hosting server is blasting all dimensions. The screening on ALPHABET are attracting so many users that the mark of 100 Terrabyte during the Month October has passsed.
Besides The New AIDS Memorial and its new film collection, the December edition of NMF2020 is continuing The screening of the Gandhi PPNRCD exhibition on ALPHABET featuring 2 new works by Dawn Westlake and Danielle Imara/Yolanta Brener, the features of extension of the CORONA Film Collection, and further above all, the Month December has 3 featured Videoiartists – Isabel Perez Del Pulgar (Spain)- Maria Korporal (Netherland) – Susanne Wiegner (Germany), further of relevance is the relaunch of CologneOFF X – 10th CologneOFF International Videoart Festival and in the section “netart” an exhibtion at MAXXI Rome and a curated contrinution by Elena Giulia Rossi (Rome) are featured until 31 December 2020, when NewMediaFest2020 will be closed after an exciting and challenging retrospective. At this stage, thanks again to coll collaborators which made this unusual retrospective “Thanksgiving” only possible!
One of the new achievements of The New Museum of Networked Art – is representing the new darkroom/cinema space, name ALPHABET – due to the 26 incorporated cinemas each one with an individual programming. Serving until 31 December 2020 as a screening platform for NewMediaFest2020, The screenings on ALPHABET to be announced on The 365 Days Diary are complementing the attractive November features!
The New Aids Memorial
On occasion of the World AIDS Day – 1 December 2020,
The 7 Memorials for Humanity – release – The New AIDS Memorial
featuring the new film collection entitled: LGBT – Gender Identity
participating artists
Ji-Hyun Kim (South Korea) Joey Hateley (UK) – Ane Lan (Norway) – Chhuon Sarin (Cambodia) – Tom de Pekin (France) – Reuben Preston (UK) – Aryn Zev (USA) – Ina Loitzl (Austria)
Barbara Brugola (Italy) – Arzu Ozkal Telhan (Turkey) – Elizabeth Smolarz (USA) – Irene Tetaz (France) – Rahel Maher (Australia) – Risk Hazekamp (Netherlands) – Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Michael Brynntrup (Germany) Vojislav Radovanović (Serbia/USA) – Tahir Ün (Turkey) – Ausin Sainz (Spain) Ausin Sainz (Spain) – Wrik Mead (Canada) – Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) – Bill Domonkos (USA) – Daria Koshtik (Israel) – Sira & Laura Cabrera (Spain) – Daniel Pinheiro (Portugal) – Sandra Araujo (Portugal) – Hyash Tanmoy (India) – Francesca Lolli (Italy) – Arezou Zibaei (Iran) – Kristina Borhes (MZM PROJECTS) (Ukraina) – Sopheak Sao (Cambodia) – Romit K. Dasgupta (India) – Yao Cong (China)
On 1 December 2020 the LGBT Film Collection will start on ALPHABET screenings – Cinema G (running until 31 December 2020)
WOW Jubilee 2020 X Kolkata
Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Culture Monks & The Wake-Up Memorial present
Gandhi PPNRCD
Gandhi PPNRCD
The complete Gandhi PPNRCD Film Collection is featured until
31 December 2020 on ALPHABET screenings – Cinema L
Video Artists of the Month December 2020 –
Isabel Perez del Pulgar – Maria Korporal – Susanne Wiegner
Feature starts on 4 December on ALPHABET
the solo features start on 4, 5 and 6 December – running until 31 Dece,ber on ALPHABET
Cinema H
The complete Gandhi PPNRCD Film Collection is featured until
31 December 2020 on ALPHABET screenings – Cinema L
CologneOFF X – Total Art
The complete CologneOFF IX including 16 programs will be screened on ALPHABET – Cinema C between 1 Dec 2020 and 31 January 2021, presenting each weeks another program
Netart Features of the Month in December 2020
feature on 2 December 2020
http://retro.newmediafest.org/02-december-2006/
MAXXI Museum Rome
New in 2021
Please follow the daily features of The 365 days Diary for December 2020
WOW Jubilee X is an intervention in virtual space featuring videoart, netart, soundart & associated interviews complemented by