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Agricola de Cologne – curator

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Director – The New Museum of Networked Art

Agricola de Cologne started “classical” curating already in 1990, when as the President of ARCHA Society Foundation (1989-1994) he started cultural exchange between Western and Eastern European countries after the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. He was organizing the International ARCHA Conference 1991 in Görlitz (Germany) und curated several exhibtion projects. But Agricolas de Cologne’s typical way of curating, eg curating as a socially networked intervention and his individual artistic expression started in 2000 only , when he set his focus of art related activities exclusively on the use of new digital media. The retrospective is spotlighting therefore the periode between 2000 and 2020 only. During this period he founded all plaforms for his own curating, also curating other curators. Already by realizing in 2004 the global networking project – The RRF Project – he invited a dozen of international curators active in different disciplines (netart, video, soundart). At that time, it was a scandal, because Agricola de Cologne had entered a strictly restricted area, and established parties were afraid to loose their priviledges, but he practiced this kind of networked collaborative globalwide organised interventions in sequence continuously until these days. when curating curators – depending on the respect for another curatorial opinions – does not represent anything unusual anymore.
His curatorial work is aimed to demonstrate the diversity of artistic and curatorial concepts to an open-minded audience in order to enable the viewer, visitor or user to get a deeper understanding of art and the background of the individual artistic creation. The divers interview projects hosting hundreds of interviews with artists of different disciplines (netart, video and soundart) give evidence.
To his curatorial work belongs also the establishment of comprehensive community based (digital) art collections (moving, static and interactive images), which he is curating and coordinating for The Museum of Networked Art.
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Internet Based Art


Nearly all curated projects belong to the spectrum of “Internert based art”, because all of them are located in the Internet and represent a specific form of media art using the Internet as a tool for artistic creations.

Enter the complete list of curated platforms carrying individually curated projects
http://retro.newmediafest.org/the-new-museum-of-networked-art/

In this way, his work is mainly virtual, this is underlined by the fact that Agricola de Cologne is considering his individual kind of curating as his specific art expression, after he had lost his affinity to the material after his coma 1998/1999 – which means consequently that the physical aspect of art changed its meaning profoundly. The retrospective gives evidence of a step further ahead in the understanding of a “contemporary” kind of art.

A Virtual Memorial Foundation 2000

  • A Virtual Memorial 2000

    • Experimenta (Australia) 2001 – Watershed Media Centre Bristol (UK) – Bangkok (Thailand) 2001
    *16th Videoformes Festival Clermont Ferrand (F) 2001 – *File – Electronic Language Festival 2001 – Sao Paulo and Curitiba City (Brazil) 2001 – *Circus 2001 Conference Glasgow (UK) 2001 – *ARCO WebArt Award – 2001 – *Computer Space 2001 Sofia (Bulgaria) – *Prix Ars Electronica 2001 – *Peace and Human Security Media Festival – New York (USA) 2002 – *”Terror” – DRCCC (Australia) 2002
    *Version02 – Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (USA) – 2002

    A Virtual Memorial Diaries 2000
    The 9/11 Terror Memorial 2001
    The AIDS Memorial 2002
    The Rainforest Memorial 2003
    The Tsunami Memorial 2004

    Violence Online Festival 2002-2006
    5th Digital Art Festival Maracaibo/Venezuela 2006 – VAD – Intern. Festival de Video i Arts Digitals 2005
    Int. Festival of New Film Split/Croatia 2004 – Digital Media Art Festival Havanna/Cuba 2004
    Electronic Art Meeting Pescara/Italy 2004 – Basics Festival Salzburg/Austria 2004
    MAF04 – New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand 2004 – National Museum of Contemp. Art Buchrest/Ro 2004
    MAD’03 Festival Madrid/Spain – 2003 – File 2003 – Electronic Language Festival Sao Paulo (Brazil )2003 Nonetart Festival – Arte Digital Rosario 2003 (Argentina) 2003 – Open air at Royal Gardens Copenhagen (Denmark) 2003 – “Fibreculture”-Conference/Digital Literacies -Brisbane (Australia) 2003 – Web Biennial 2003 – Istanbul Museum – 2003 – PEAM 2003 – Electronic Art Festival Pescara (Italy) 2003
    NetArt Open 2003 Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin – 2003 – 1st New Media Art Festival Chiang Mai (Thailand) 2003
    18th Videoformes Festival Clermont-Ferrand (France) 2003 – NewMediaNation – Festival of Festivals” Bratislava (Slovakia) 2003
    43th International Filmfestival 2002 – Computer Space 2002 Festival Sofia (Bulgaria) 2002 – Liberarti Festival at Liverpool Biennale (UK) 2002 – Violens” Festival Tábor (Czech Republic) 2002

    Family Portrait 2001-2005
    *Asolo Art Film Festival – Asolo (Italy) 2002
    *MOSAICA Award 2005 York University Toronto/Ca

    The [R][R][F] Project – 2003-2006
    2003 – New Media Art Festival Bangkok (Thailand) – Bergen Electronic Arts Centre Bergen/Norway – National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti/Romania (05/03-30/04)

    2004 – University of Bremen/Germany (Dec 2004 – 16. 404 New Media Art Festival Rosario/Argentina (7-15 Dec)
    15. FILE – Electronic Language Festival Sao Paulo/Brazil (23 Nov-12Dec) – 14. 1st International Exhibition of Digital Art – Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Fe/Argentina (04/11- 04/12) – 13. 24h of Nuremberg/Germany – International Shortfilm Festival 15/16 October
    12. Biennale of Electronic Art Perth (Australia) (1/09 – 7/11) – 11. West Coast Numusic & Electronic Arts Festival Stavanger/Norway 17/08-22/08 – public_space_festival Yerewan/Armenia 23/07 – 03/08 – International Festival of New Film and New Media Split/Croatia (26/06-02/07) – VI SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL – Havanna(Cuba) 21/06-24/06 – BASICS Festival Salzburg/Austria – 08/05-16/05 – Electronic Art Meeting – PEAM 2004 – Pescara (Italy) 19/05-23/05 – Version’04 Festival – Invisible Networks – Chicago/USA – 16/04-01/05 – Now Music Streaming Festival Berlin (Germany)- – 7/04

    2005
    Biennale of Video and New Media- Santiago/Chile – 18/11-27/11 – State University – Rio de Janeiro/Brazil – 7/11
    Univercidade – IAV (Institute of Visual Arts)- Rio de Janeiro/Brazil 7/11 – Select Media 4 Festival- Chicago/USA – 20 October – 13 November
    43. National Academy of Fine Arts Montevideo/Ur – 28/10 -/lect/pres
    Finis Terrae University- Santiago/Chile – 25/10 – MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art- Santa Fe/Argentina 21/10
    National University/Art Department- Rosario/Argentina – 18/10 – MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art- Rosario/Argentina 17/10
    Recoleta Cultural Centre- Buenos Aires/Argentina – 11/10 – National Library Buenos Aires/Ar 12/10
    Interferencias – University of Noroeste/Ar 14/10 – PI five Video Festival Szczecin/Poland 9/10 -13/11
    “Groundworks” Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon – University Pittsburg/USA 14/10 – 11/10 – Prog::ME – Electronic Art Festival Rio de Janeiro/Br 17/07-28/08 – V SALON INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL Maracaibo/Venezuela 20/03-02/07 – EAST’05 – Making Things Better – Norwich/UK 02/07- 20/08 – MAF’05 June edition – New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand – Hic et Nunc San Vito a/Tagliamento/Italy – Selection’03 11/07-17/07 – Israeli Digital ArtLab Holon/Israel 16/04- 16/07 – Version’05 Festival Chicago/USA 22/04- 01/05 – Images Festival Toronto/Canada – 7/04 – 13/04 – ZKM Karlsruhe/G – Making Things Public – 20/03- 08/03 – Camera Obscura Academy Tel-Aviv/Israel – lecture – 02/03 – MAF05 – New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand – 25/02-29/02
    21. Musrara Media Art Academy Jerusalem/Israel – lect/pres 22/02 – Bethlehem International Center – lect/pres – 19/02 – Bethlehem University – lect/pres- 17/02 – CAVE Gallery at ICB Bethlehem/Palestine- solo show 17/

    2006
    Festival Arte Digital Rosario/Argenina – 16-18 November 2006 – Play IV VideoFestival Buenos Aires/Argentina 24-27 August 2006
    PI 5 Intermedia Festival Szczecin/Poland – 20-22 October 2006 – VIII SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL Havanna/Cuba – 17/06-17/07 2006 – MAF’06 -New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Th 02/05-04/05 2006 – FILE – Electronic Language Festival Rio de Janeiro/Brazil 20/03-20/04 – CeC & CaC – India International Center New Dehli/India 27/01-29/01 – “Global Groove” – The Art Gallery of Knoxville/USA – 01/01-25/01

    2009
    Draft Title: SHOAH 2009
    Shoah Film Collection Interview Project 2010

    Netart


    JavaMuseum – Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art 2000
    1st of Java- Perspectives in New Media 2001
    Visions – Up and Down 2001
    Fundamental Patterns 2002
    Solo Tiia Johannson 2002
    Solo Jody Zellen 2002
    Solo MEZ – Mary Ann Breeze 2002
    French Netart 2003
    Italian Netart 2003
    LatinoNetarte.net 2003
    Netart from Canada 2003
    Perspectives 2003
    Witchcraft 2004
    Netart from Germany 2004
    Netart from Nordic Countries 2004
    Netart from Spain 2004
    Netart from Pacific AreaNetart from UK & Ireland 2004
    Extasy – The Final Show 2005
    art+blog = blogart? 2007
    net.net – Netart Features I-V 2010
    Celebrate! – 10 Years JavaMuseum
    net.net – edition I 2010
    net.net edition II 2010
    net.net Solo – Jody Zellen 2010

    Sonic Art


    SoundLab – sonic Art Projects – launched in 2004
    2004
    404 New Media Art Festival Rosario/Argentina (7-15 Dec 2004)
    FILE – Electronic Language Festival Sao Paulo/Brazil (23 Nov-12Dec 2004)
    Biennale of Electronic Art Perth (Australia) (1/09 – 7/11 2004)

    2005
    Biennale of Video and New Media- Santiago/Chile – 18/11-27/11 2005
    Groundworks” Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon – University Pittsburg/USA 14/10 – 11/10
    FILE – Electronic Language Festival ao Paulo/Brazil 30 Oct-30 Nove 2005
    EAST’05 – Making Things Better – Norwich/UK 02/07- 20/08 2005
    MAF’05 June edition – New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand 2005
    Israeli Digital ArtLab Holon/Israel 16/04- 16/07 2005
    Images Festival Toronto/Canada – 7/04 – 13/04 2005
    CAVE Gallery at ICB Bethlehem/Palestine- solo show 17/ 03-17/04 2005

    2006
    Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Naples/Italy
    MAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Santa Fe/Argentina
    2nd Festival International Arte Digital Rosario/Argentina 16/11 – 18/11
    Offizyna Art Space Szczecin/Poland
    FILE – Electronic Language Festival Rio de Janeiro/Brazil 20/03-20/04 2006
    Global Groove” – The Art Gallery of Knoxville/USA – 01/01-25/01 2006

    SoundLAB – edition I – 2004
    SoundLAB – edition II – 2005
    SoundLAB – edition III – 2006
    SoundLAB – edition VI – memoryscapes – 2007 – FILE – Hipersonica Sao Paulo/Brazil -MACRO – Museo de Art Contemporaneo Rosario/Argentina
    SoundLAB – edition V – soundSTORY – 2008 – 3rd Int Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina, Sound: Space 2008 – South Hill Park Bracknell/UK
    FILE – Electronic Language Festival Sao Paulo/Brazil – FILE – Electronic Language Festival Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
    SoundLAB – edition VI – soundPOOL – 2009
    SoundLAB – edition VII – soundCELEBRATION – 2010

    soundOBJECTS – exhibition of objects using sound 2008 – La Nau Valencia/Spain – “Digital Media 1.0” – 17 April – 11 May 2008
    SIP – SoundLab Interview Project – 200 interviews with international soundartists – 2005
    The Sonic Memorial 2018
    – collective trauma, identity & sonic art 2016
    – soundMIGRATION 2018

    NewMediaFest

    NewMediaFest 2007
    NewMediaFest 2010
    NewMediaFest 2020

    Art & Moving Images

  • VideoChannel – curatorial platform // the VideoChannel Collections 2003-2013
  • CologneOFF – Network & Videoart Festival 2005-2020
  • The W:OW Project 2017

    • VideoChannel
    Videoart I – 2003
    Videoart II – 2003
    VideoChannel- complete Perth 2004
    Videoart III – 2004

    CologneOFF – International Festival Network – CologneOFF International Videoart Festival
    CologneOFF I – International Videoart Festival 2005 – Szczecin, Guadalajara, Rosario, New Delhi, Rotterdam, Istanbul, Brussels, Belgrade, Bahia Blanca, Maracaibo
    VideoChannel – complete Bethlehem 2005
    VideoChannel – complete Pittsburg 2005
    VideoChannel – complete Santiago 2005
    Videoart from Israel 2005
    VideoChannel – Selections I 2005 – New Delhi, Bangkok
    VideoChannel -Selections II 2005 – Holon/Israel
    VideoChannel -Selections III 2005 – San Vito, rio de Janeiro, New Delhi
    VideoChannel -Selections VI 2005 – Norwich
    VideoChannel -Selections V 2005
    VideoChannel -Selection VI 2005 – New York,
    Selfportraits – videoart 2005
    Secrete Memories 2005 – Chicago
    Rhyths of Memory 2005 – Szeczin, Berlin

    CologneOFF II – International Videoart festival 2006 – New delhi, Rotterdam, Istanbul, Bahia Blanca, Maracaibo
    VideoChannel – complete Knoxville 2006
    Gender Identity 2006
    Identity of Colour 2006
    On Totalitarianism 2006
    INTERvalling 2006
    Unexpectedly Real 2006 Buenos Aires
    Image vs. Music 2006
    Solo Feature – Unnur Andrea Einardsdottir 2006
    Violence Inc. 2006 Maracaibo/V
    VideoCHannel Cuba 2006 Havanna

    CologneOFF III – International Videoart festival 2007 – Athens, Celje, Sarajevo, Rosario, New Delhi, Maracaibo, Caracas, Yeosu/S.Korea, Lyon/France –Lviv/Ukraine
    3rd International Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina – 15-17 Nov
    24 Hours of Nuremberg – 10/11 November 2007 Nuremberg/Germany
    6th Digital Art Festival Maracaibo/Venezuela – 7-17 Oct
    1st Digital Art Festival Bahia Blanca/Argentina 13-14 Sept
    VIP Art Gallery Belgrade/Serbia – 19 Nov
    Women Directors Cut I 2007
    Women Directors Cut II 2007
    Women Directors Cut III 2007
    Slowtime/Dreamtime 2007 – Rosario, New Delhi, Sarajevo, Maracaibo, Caracas
    Move Me 2007

    CologneOFF IV – International Videoart Festival 2008 – Maracaibo, Caracas, Nuremberg, Sattal/India, Rejkjavik, Rabat, Yerewan, Florence, Marseile, Kalamata, Rauland/Norway
    Best of CologneOFF 2008 – Lviv/Ukraine, Sarajevo, Budapest, Celje, Athens, Gijon
    Women Directors Cut IV 2008 – Thessaloniki, Budapest, Kalamata
    Identity of Time 2008 – Orebro/Sweden

    CologneOFF V – international Videoart Festival 2009 – Hongkong, Guarda/PT, Bristol/UK, Oslo, Santa Fe/USA, Sattal/India, Athena, Yerewan, Coimbra, Damascus, Gaza, Bethlehem, Ramallah
    CologneOFF selections – Clermont-Ferrand, Jakarta/indonesia,
    VideoChannel Feature 2009 – Toulouse/F
    Found Footage 2009
    Body & Soul 2009
    One Minute Videos I 2009
    German Videoart II 2009
    German Videoart I – Johanna Reich 2009
    Taiwanese Videoart 2009

    CologneOFF VI – International Videoart Festival 2010 – Budapest, Timisora, New Delhi, Rotterdam, Jyväskylä, Keuruu/Fi, Kiev, Khakiv, Rennes, Arad, Tmisoara, Vientiane, Yerewan, Szczecin, St.Petersburg, Athens, Tampere/fi, Tallinn, Madrid, Kalamata
    Videoart from Croatia 2010
    Shoah Film Collection 2010
    French Videoart 2010
    [self]-imaging 1 2010
    [self]-imaging 1I 2010
    [self]-imaging 1II 2010
    [self]-imaging V1 2010
    One Minute Videos II 2010
    One Minute Videos III 2010
    Family Affairs – mother 2010
    Family Affairs – Father 2010
    Videoart from Middle East 2011 – Beirut
    Feature – Larissa Sansour 2011 – Beirut

    CologneOFF VII – International Videoart Festival 2011 – Beirut, Budapest, Riga, Rome, Mexico City, Camaguey, San Luis potosi/Mx, Marrakhesh, Minsk, Bangkok, Manila, Prokuplje, Prague, Coimbra, Manizales/Co, Rennes/F, Athens, Yerewan, Moscow, Valencia, Kalamata, Korfu, Phnom Penh, Cusco/Pe, Siracusa/I, Quite, Kansk/Ru, Orebro, Buenos Aires, Gdansk
    CologneOFF 2011 – curatorial series – Rotterdam, Jyväskylä, Keuru/Fi, Sattal/in, Kiev, Kharkiv, Rennes, Arad, Timisoara, Vientiane, Szczecin, St.Petersburg, Yerewan, Tampere, Athens, Tallinn, Kalamata, Madrid, Beirut, Budapest, Riga, Rome, Gdansk, Mexico City !, Mexico City II, Camaguey, San Luis Potosi/Mx, Marrakesh
    Forever! – The Ball 2011 – Mexico City

    CologneOFF VIII – International Videoart Festival 2012 – Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Kansk, Budapest, Szolnok, Buenos Aires, Marrakhesh, Reykjavik, Newark/USA, Sattal(India, Madrid
    CologneOFF 2012 – curatorial series – Minsk, Bangkok, Sattal/India, Manila, Prokuplje, Prague, Coimbra, Manizales, Rennes, Athens, Minsk II, Yerewan, Riga, Moscow, Valencia, Madrid, Kalamata, Phnom Penh, Cusco/Pe, Moscow II, Siracusa/I, Quito/Ec, Kansk/Ru, Riga II, Budapest, Korfu, Orebro, Szolnok, Warsaw, Mexico City, Banja Luka, Buenos Aires, Marrakesh, Madrid II
    Cambodia 1975-1979 Film Collection 2012
    The Colective Trauma Film Collections 2012

    CologneOFF IX – International Videoart Festival 2013 /CologneOFF 2013 curatorial series – Guwahati/India, Reykjavik, Sattal/india, Nicosia, Corfu, Moscow, Newark, Tblissi, Coimbra, Madeira, Detmold, Athens, Kalamata, Siracusa/I, Zielona Gora, Finland, Verlanda/Sw, Vilnius, Ferrara, Levkas, Warsaw, Tirgu Mures, Cusco/Pe, Florina/Gr

    CologneOFF X – International Videoart Festival 2014 – Kalamata, Siracusa/I, Riga, Quito, Berlin, Düssseldorf, Tel-Aviv, Madrid, Athens, Los Angeles, Paris, Gdansk, Warsaw, Cusco/Pe
    CologneOFF 2014 – curatorial series – Florina/Gr, Milan, Tel-Aviv/IL, Timisoara, Lublin, Moscow, Guwahati/In, Coimbra, Berlin, Siracusa/I, Riga, Kalamata, Quito, Berlin II, Tel-Aviv II, Düsseldorf 1, Düsseldorf II, Athens, Madrid, Los Angeles, Gdansk, Warsaw, Paris, Cusco, Guwahati/In

    CologneOFF 2015 – curatorial series – Paris, Moscow, Shillong, Cologne, Coimbra, Athens, Moscow II, Quito, Kiev, Avila/Es, Barcelona, San Jose/Costa Rica, Lisbon, Buenos aires, Cusco, Addis Abeba, Siracusa/I
    The iTERROR Memorial

    CologneOFF 2016 – curatorial series – Siracusa/I, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Moscow, Gainsborough/UK, Valparaiso, Kolkata, Los Angeles, Cologne, Grein/Austria, Shillong/In
    Refugee Film Collection 2016

    The W:OW Project – We Are One World 2017
    WOW 2017 curatorial series – Kochi/India, Belo Horizonte (Br), Kolkata I, Athens, Nicosia, Quito, Kolkata II, Caracas, Addis Abbeba, Kolkata III, Kharkiv

    WOW 2018 curatorial series – Kolkata I, Moscow, Kiev, Kharkiv, Athens, Turku, Syros/Gr, Los angeles, Varna, Mexico City, Kolkata II
    The 7 Memorials for Humanity 2018

    WOW 2019 curatorial series – Moscow, Riga, Malta, Addis Abeba

    Exhibitions


    in an exchange between virtual & physical space

    Selfportrait – A show for Bethlehem – a show for Peace – 2006-2007
    online/offline exhibition – Bethlehem/Palestine – Szeczin/Poland – Naples/Italy – Rosario/Argentina

    soundOBJECTS 2008
    exhibition of objects using sound 2008 – La Nau Valencia/Spain – “Digital Media 1.0” – 17 April – 11 May 2008

    AVMCI – A Virtual Memorial Commemorative Interventions
    Shoah Film Collection & complementary interventions, eg. lectures, workshops, a symposium, artists meetings, exhibitions, performances etc.

    2012-2014
    A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 – 01-30 June 2012
    International Conference of Holocaust Museums Riga/Latvia – 4-6 June 2012
    A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh 2012 – 12-15 July 2012
    A Virtual Memorial Warsaw 2012 – 25-30 October 2012
    A Virtual Memorial Vilnius 2013 23 September – 29 October 2013
    A Virtual Memorial Warsaw 2013 – 25-30 October 2013
    A Virtual Memorial Milan 2014 – 25-27 January 2014
    A Virtual Memorial Timisoara 2014 – 27 January 2014
    A Virtual Memorial Jaffa 2014 – 25 January 2014
    A Virtual Memorial Moscow 2014 – 02-30 April 2014

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