Happy New Year 2009!
to all friends and partners of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne

During the new year, some major changes are planned, a non-profit organisation which is currently in a fundation phase will complement the NETWORK and Media/Art/Cologne will be transformed into the official site of this organisation, whose aims will be to support the NETWORK and its art related activities financially via public and private funding and be the physical cooperation partner.

The NETWORK and later also the new organisation will focus 2009 basically on three major fields of activities

1. soundart –> SoundLAB and the new database for soundart to be initiated –> SAD - Sound Art Database,
and releated events

2. video art –> VideoChannel and
–> CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival, and related events

3. netart –> JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art and the new database for netart - NAD - Net Art Database - to be initiated later in 2009, and related activities online and offline.

The physical premiere of CologneOFF IV - 4th edition of Cologne Online Film Festival will take place at Museum of Contemporary Art MACZUL in Maracaibo/Venezuela in the framework of the 6th Salon de Arte Digital
together with additional screenings of CologneOFF III festival selection, CologneOFF III Feature: Nick Fox-Gieg and VideoChannel Videoart from Ukraine curated by Yarina Butkovska and the solo presentation of Agricola de Cologne’s
retrospective, entitled: Some Minutes of a Time - time based art 2004-2008

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne is happy that the presentation
“The NETWORK - a challenge in New Media” was selected for participating in ISEA2008 Singapore (25 July - 3 August 2008, International Symposion on Electronic Art, a bi-annual event takes place each time at another world metropole). Unfortunately, the artist and creator of The NETWORK will be not able to make personally his presentation, but Elif Ayiter (Sabancı University Istanbul/Turkey) and herself ISEA 2008 presenter will do it instead of him.
A lot of thanks to her in advance!

NewMediaFest2007 and CologneOFF are presenting on the electronic art event
3rd CeC & CaC - Carnival of E-Creativity & Change-Agents Conclave 15-17 February 2008
at India International Centre New Dehli the selections Slowtime/Dreamtime by Cinematheque - streaming media environments - and CologneOFF III - Toon! Toon! - art cartoons and animated narratives

see also http://www.newmediafest.org/blog/?p=28
see also http://cinema.nmartproject.net/blog/?p=24
see also http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?p=26

Media/Art/Cologne
is proud to announce two collaborations in January 2008.

1.
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne is invited as a special guest to
Kinolevchuk - Videofestival Lvov/Ukraine
10-14 January 2008 -
He will be presenting a selection of own video works and hold a lecture, entitled:
“Memory and Identity: videoart in a global context”
featuring selected film from CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival

2.
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
is invited to present a selection from 1st edition of Cologne Online Film Festival - CologneOFF I - “genderscapes” on
Les Attendus Film Festival
Lyon/France - 21-27 January 2008

Media/Art/Cologne , the department of Foreign Affairs in the framework of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - is happy to announce the collaboration with 3rd Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina 15-16-15 November 2007 by presenting NewMediaFest2007 online & offline in physical space, featuring the latest project competitions by
JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
CologneOFF III - Cologne Online Film Festival
SoundLAB - sonic art project environments
VideoChannel - video project environments
Cinematheque - streaming media project environments

More info about NewMediaFest2007 here

Media/Art/Cologne is presenting further selections of
CologneOFF I - genderscapes - &
CologneOFF II - image vs music
on 1st Digital Art Festival Bahia Blanca/Argentina
13 & 14 October 2007
and
6th Digital Art Festival Maracaibo/Venezuela
www.salondeartedigital.com
7 - 17 October 2007
and
CologneOFF I - genderscapes on
VIP Gallery Belgrade/Serbia
12-17 November 2007

On invitation of Mobile Institute Brussels/Belgium, CologneOFF goes for one days [24 August 2007] to Brussels. A selection of CologneOFF I - genderscapes will be screened on 24 August at Cinema Styx Ixelles completed by a lecture by Agricola de Cologne.

Selections of CologneOFF I & CologneOFF II will be screened on ENTER Caravansarai - a four days festival in Istanbul/Turkey - 27-30 June 2007

Currently following calls for entries are released for festivals and media art events in Cologne.

Deadlines–>

More calls are released on netEX - networked experience - the network services environments

VideoChannel presented on 13 and 14 April 2007 selections of the festival programs of Cologne Online Film Festival
CologneOFF I - genderscapes &
CologneOFF II - image vs music
on unDEAF - a satellite of Dutch Electronic Art Festival Rotterdam/Netherlands

read also feedback citation from Rui Guerra (co-initiator of unDEAF)
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