Agricola de Cologne
www.agricola-de-cologne.de
was launched on 1 January 2000 as an artist brand, standing for the
– interdisciplinary media artist, director of experimental shortfilms and videos, curator of media art and the designer of culture
– founder & director of artvideoKOELN – the curatorial initiative „art & moving images“ (2010),
– founder & director of CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival (2006)
– founder and director of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne –the experimental platform for art and new media (2000), a global network on different virtual and physical levels
Besides for a broad bandwidth of dynamic curatorial contexts he is initiating in physical & virtual space like JavaMuseum (2001), NewMediaFest (2002), Violence Online Festival (2003), SoundLAB & VideoChannel (2004), CologneOFF (2006), netEX (2007),
Agricola de Cologne is standing also for
the co-curator & co-organiser of events like festivals & exhibitions of contemporary art, but also for the jury member of divers festivals.
Since its introduction in 2000, Agricola de Cologne is represented as an artist on more than 500 festivals and media art exhibitions in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Marseille, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Oslo, Seoul, Bangkok, New Delhi, Basel, Vienna, Linz (Ars Electronica), Graz, Kiev, Riga, Moskow, St.Petersburg, Tallinn, Tokyo, Rome, Milan, Turin, Karlsruhe (ZKM), Berlin & elsewhere, but also on Biennials like ISEA Nagoya (2002), Venice Biennale 2003, 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 Singapur 2008.
His most recent media art context “CologneOFF 20XX – videoart in a global context” is travelling as a nomadic festival project since 2011 around the globe.
His media art works received numerous prizes and awards.
Links
Agricola de Cologne – http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de
Agricola de Cologne Moving Picture Collection http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de
artvideoKOELN – http://video.mediaartcologne.org
Cologne International Videoart Festival – http://coff.newmediafest.org
Le Musee di-visioniste – the new museum of networked art – http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
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Current main field of activities:
Art & Moving Images
Agricola de Cologne
founder, director and chief curator and cultural designer of
2000
Le Musee divisioniste – the new museum of networked art
the visualisation of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:cologne
the experimental platform for art and new technologies
2004
VideoChannel – international platform for videoart
2006
Cologne International Videoart Festival
2010
artvideoKOELN – the curatorial initiative “art & moving imagesâ€
2010
SFC – Shoah Film Collection
2011
CologneOFF20XX – Videoart in a global context – nomadic festival project
2012
1#minuteCOLOGNE – Cologne One Minute Film Festival
2012
animateCologne – Cologne Art & Animation Festival
Curated screenings
2011
CologneOFF 2011 – videoart in a global context
.26 Jan – 6 Feb CologneOFF 2011 Rotterdam @ Rotterdam Film Festival
10 February – CologneOFF 2011 Finland 1 – Jyväskylä @ Arctic Film Festival
11 Feb – 31 March – CologneOFF 2011 Finland 1 Keuruu @ Keuruu Art Museum
19-21 Feb – CologneOFF 2011 India- Sattal @ CeC – Carnival of eCreativity
12-15 March – CologneOFF 2011 UKRAINE – Kiev @ Goethe Institute Ukraine
16-20 March – CologneOFF 2011 UKRAINE – Kharkiv @ Kharkiv Art Gallery
18 March – 1 April CologneOFF 2011 Rennes (France) @ ArtChSo Festival
30 March – 2 April CologneOFF 2011 ARAD @ Arad Art Museum
11-17 April – CologneOFF 2011 Timisoara (I) (Romania) @ Cafecultour 2011 Festival
4-8 May – CologneOFF 2011 Timisoara (II) (Romania) @ Timisoara Shortfilm Festival
12-15 May CologneOFF 2011 Laos @ Vientianale 2011
12-14 May CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea I -Szczecin @ Cultural Observatory Szczecin 2016
19- May CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea II- St. Petersburg I @ Smolny University
20 May CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea II- St. Petersburg II @ Pro Arte
21 May CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea II- St. Petersburg III – NCCA
17-24 May CologneOFF 2011 Yerewan/Armenia
26-27-28 May CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea III- Tampere/Fi
20-22 May – CologneOFF 2011 Greece (I)- Athens @ Athen Video Art Festival
1-2 June 2011 – CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea IV- Tallinn (EE) @ Estonian Academy of Arts
7-9 July – CologneOFF 2011 Greece (II) – Kalamata Videoart Festival Miden
11-17 July 2011 – CologneOFF 2011 Madrid @ Proyector Festival 2011
30 August- 3 September – CologneOFF 2011 Beirut/LB @ Shams The Sunflower Art Centre
1-5 September – BuSho – Budapest International Shortfilm Festival (Hu)
8-10 September – CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea V – Riga (Lat)
@ Waterpieces Contemporary Art & Video Festival
21-23 October CologneOFF 2011 Rome – @ Arte Video Rome Festival 2012
22-23 October – CologneOFF 2011 Gdansk – @InOut Festival – Laznia – CAC C Gdansk/Pl
10-11 November – CologneOFF 2011 Mexico I – @ ExTeresa Arte Actual
14-18 November – CologneOFF 2011 Mexico II – @ Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
25 Nov – 2 Dec – CologneOFF 2011 Cuba – @ International Videoart Festival Camaguey
8 December CologneOFF 2011 Mexico III – @ Centro de las Artes San Luis Potosi
13-15 Dec – CologneOFF 2011 Morocco – @ Digital Marrakech 2011
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2010
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NewMediaFest2010
Delhi International Arts Festival – Edhelogue – CologneOFF 2011 – 12-13 December 2010
Simultan Festival Timisoara/Ro – 29 Sept- 2 Oct 2010- CologneOFF VI
BuSho – Budapest International Shortfilm Festival 1-5 September 2010 – CologneoFF VI
Videoart Festival Miden Kalamata/Greece – 5-7 July 2010 – VideoChannel/Cinematheque
4th Gaza International Videoart Festival – Gaza – Jerusalem – Ramallah – Rafah – Jabalia – Bethlehem- 19-24 June 2010 – CologneOFF V
AllArtNow Intern. New Media Art Festival Damascus/Syria – 25-30 May 2010
Fonlad – Digital Art Festival- 15-28 May Coimbra/PT
One Shot – Intern. Shortfilm Festival Yerewan/Armenia – 17-24 May 2010
Athens Video Art Festival – 7-9 May 2010 – CologneOFF V
Manipulated Images@The Complex Santa Fe USA – 12 March 2010
Oslo Screen Festival 12-14 March 2010 – CologneOFF V – 14 March
CeC- Carnival of e-Creativity Sattal/India – 19-21 February 2010 – CologneOFF V
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2009
Art Video Exchange Norway – Rauland Kunstforeningen (Norway) – 30 Dec- CologneOFF IV
unCraftivism Arnolfini Bristol/UK – 12-13 Dec’2009 – CologneOFF V
FONLAD – Digital Art Festival Guarda/PT – 14 Nov ‘09 – 03 Jan 2010 – CologneOFF V & VideoChannel
Microwave – New Media Arts Festival Honkong – 13-30 Nov 2009 – VideoChannel & CologneOFF V
OK Video Festival Jakarta/Indonesia – 28 July -6 Au 2009 – CologneOFF – several selections
VideoArt Festival Miden/Kalamata-Greece – July 2009 – CologneOFF IV – VideoChannel-WDC 13:13:13
Video Festival Celje/Slovenia – 2-5 July 2009 – “CologneOFF invites…â€
Image Contre Nature – Experimental Film Festival – Marseille/F – 7-11 July 2009- CologneOFF IV
Crosstalks Videoart Festival Budapest/Hu – 23-27 June 2009 – Women Directors Cut- 13:13:13
MUV – Music and Digital Art Festival – 9-14 June 2009 – CologneOFF IV – Here We Are!
7th Intenational Film Festival Yerewan/Armenia – 17-24 May 2009 – CologneOFF IV
ColognOFF IV selection on †Nothing Than Images†Goethe Institute Rabat/Morocco – 1-4 April 2009
CologneOFF IV – selection on 700IS Reindeerland Film Festival Iceland 27-28 March 2009
CologneOFF – 2 selections on Videoformes Festival Clermont-Ferrand/F – March 2009
VideoChannel – 4 Videos by Unnur A. Einarsdottir – Traverse Video Festival Toulouse/F – 11-28 March 2009
Sattal -Himalaja/India – 27 Feb – 1 March 2009 CologneOFF IV – Here We Are!
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2008
24 Hours of Nuremberg Filmfestival – 11/12 Nov 2008 – CologneOFF IV
OPTICA Video Festival Gijon/ES – 8 November 2008 The Best of CologneOFF I-III
1st Intern. Videoart Festival Orebro/Swe – 24-26 Oct 2008 – Identity of Time
2nd AZA Digital Cinema Festival Thessaloniki/GR – 25-27 Sept’08 – Women Directors Cut – 13:13:13 –
6th Salon de Arte Digital – Museum of Contemporary Art MACZUL Maracaibo/Ve – 1-8 October 2008
– CologneOFF IV OFF, CologneOFF IV LAB & CologneOFF IV Mother
– CologneOFF III – Art Cartoon & Animates Narratives
– CologneOFF III – Feature Nick Fox-Gieg
– Cinematheque – Slowtime/Dreamtime
– VideoChannel – Videoart from Ukraine
VIII World Meeting of Intellectuals & Artists Caracas/Ve – 13-18 Oct 2008
Busho – Budapest International Shortfilm Festival 5-7 Sept 2008 – The Best of Cologne (I-III)
Yeosu Art Festival (Yeosu/South Korea) – 30 August – 20 September 2008 – CologneOFF II
Video Festival Celje/Slovenia – 2-6 July 2008 – The Best of CologneOFF
Athens Video Art Festival 2009 – 11-13 April 2008 – The Best of CologneOFF
French Cultural Centre André Maraux Sarajevo/Bosnia-Hercegovina – 8-21 March Slowtime/Dreamtime & “The Best of CologneOFFâ€
3rd CeC & CaC – India International Centre New Dehli/India -11-13 Feb – Slowtime/Dreamtime & CologneOFF III
Les Inattendus – Film Festival Lyon/France – 21-27 January – CologneOFF I
Videoart on Kinolevchuk Lviv/Ukraine – 12 January – The Best of Cologne OFF
2007
3rd Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina – 15-17 November 2008 – Slowtime/Dream Time & Cologne OFF III
6th Digital Art Festival Maracaibo/Ve – 7-17 Oct – CologneOFF I & II
1st Digital Art Festival Bahia Blanca/Argentina 13-14 Sept – CologneOFF I & II
VIP Art Gallery Belgrade/Serbia – 19 Nov – CologneOFF I
Mobile Institute Brussels/Belgium – 24 Aug – CologneOFF I –
ENTER Caravansarai Festival Istanbul/Turkey 29/30 June – CologneOFF I & II
Dutch Electronic Art Festival – unDEAF – Rotterdam/NL 15 April – CologneOFF I & II
2nd CeC & CaC – India International Centre New Dehli/India 11/12 Feb – CologneOFF I & II
2006
2nd Festival International Arte Digital Rosario/Argentina – 16-18 Nov – CologneOFF I
Chroma – Festival de Arte Audiovisual Guadalajara/Mexico – 11-17 Nov – CologneOFF I
PI 5 InterMedia Festival National Museum Szczecin/Poland – 20-22 Oct – CologneOFF I
*Play VideoFestival Junin/Buenos Aires/Ar – 24-27 August – Unexpectedly Real – VideoChannel
Salon de Arte Digital Maracaibo/Venezuela – 1-9 Oct 2006 – violence inc – VideoChannel
8th Digital Art Festival Havanna/Cuba – presentation at Cuban Film Institute 22 June – VideoChannel – selection for CUBA
CeC & CaC – India International Center New Dehli/India – 27-29 January – Selection03
MAF’06 -New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Th – 02/05-04/05 2006 – Selection 01
Art Gallery of Knoxville (USA) 1 – 30 Janaury 2006 – VideoChannel – complete collection
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2005
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Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago/Chile Nov 2005 – VideoChannel – complete collection
Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon – University Pittsburgh/USA
14 October – 10 Decembe 2005 – VideoChannel – complete collection
Select Media 4 Festival Chicago/USA – 20 Oct – 13 Nov 2005 VideoChannel – Secret Memories
PI five – short video and film festival National Museum Szczecin/Poland, Swinoujcie/Poland and Berlin/Germany 7-17 October 2005 – VideoChannel – Rhythms of Memory
Body Image – curated by Carrie Ruckel at The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art.Chicago/USA 21 October 2005 – Selection’07
That Uncomfortable Place Between Beginning and Ending. Curated by Lee Wells –
CINEMAscopeHamptons New York/NY – 15-17 July 2005 VideoChannel – Selection’06
MAF’05 -New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Th – 02/-04/05 2005 – VideoChannel – Selection 01
Israeli Digital Art Lab Holon/Israel 16April-16 July – VideoChannel- Selection2
Hic et Nuncâ€- San Vito a/Tagliamento/Italy 11/06 – 17/07 – VideoChannel – Selection03
prog:me New Media Art Festival Rio de Janeiro – July/August – VideoChannel – Selection03
EAST’05 – Norwich Gallery Norwich/UK 02 July – 20 August – VideoChannel – Selection 04
Al Kahf Gallery Bethlehem/Palestine – 17 Feb -15 April2005 – VideoChannel – complete collection
CeC & CaC – Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave – 27-29 January India International Center New Dehli – VideoChannel – Selection01
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2004
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VideoChannel – complete collection
Biennale of Electronic Art Perth/Australia 1 September – 10 November 2004