[spectre] AVM News August 2002

Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:37:37 +0200

A Virtual Memorial News 2002/08
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Table of Contents:
*News
 **Violence Online Festival/Violens Festival Tabor
*Features of the Month August 2002
 ** Featured projects
    1. "Mirror at the Bottom - artists portraiting themselves
    2. Fields of Identity: Graffiti
 **Artist of the Month Dagmar Kase (Estonia)
*Call for submissions
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*News:
1.In August "A Virtual Memorial will be featured on Tekno Kultura
http://teknokultura.rrp.upr.edu/

2.Violence Online Festival/Violens Festival Tábor 15-26 August 2002
"A Virtual Memorial forms the basis of the Onlne Festival which will be
organized in cooperation between NewMediaArtProjectNetwork and Violens
Festival in Tabor (Czech Republic)
More than 150 included artists  and their digital works form the
collaborative work of the Online Festival.
It will go online in the 2nd week of August 2002.
http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/violence.htm
or www.newmediafest.org/violence/index.html
The exact date will be announced in time.

3. A Virtual Memorial will be featured in the exhibition "Terror" organized
at DRCCC in Australia in September 2002, Violence Online festival will be
included as well.

4. Several works originating from "A Virtual Memorial" will participate in
August in File - Electronic Language festival Sao Paulo (Brazil)
www.file.org.br
Museum of the Essential and Beyond That - http://www.arteonline.arq.br
and participated in July in
"Cinemania(c) exhibition/49th Pula Film Festival (Croatia)

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*Call for submissions
The Memorial for the Victims of Terror (9/11)
is calling for new submissions for immediate inclusion,
i.e
images (jpg), sound work (.mp3), animations (.gif. .swf, dcr)
movies (.mov, .rm) and URLs.
All appropriate entries will be included.
Send your submission via email to
terrormemorial@a-virtual-memorial.org

Access via start page of www.a-virtual-memorial.org
or http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/memorials/terror/entrance.htm
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***Features of the Month

The Subject of the Month
"Solitude - inspiration or despair?

Selected Memorial Days in August

*01 August 1975  Helsinki: CSCE Treaty
*06 August 1945  Atomic Bomb over Hiroshima
*09 August 2002  World Day of Indigenous People
*13 August 1964  Erection of Berlin Wall

*The Features of the Month are monthly changing
collections of multimedia works and links which form in the
totality of the composition an artwork of theirown
to be created on a webpage of theirown
within the Memorial project.*
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Features:

The Month August is dedicated to the late Ignatz Bubis,
President of Central Jewish Council of Germany,
who died on 13 August 1999.

It was him, who encourage me to develop my physical
Memorial multi-media art project
"A living Memorial" and its 43 installations
at 43 places in Poland, Czech Republic and Germany (1995-1998)
by taking Patronage over this project.
As its basis, the virtual Memorial www.a-virtual-memorial.org
would have never come alive without this previous encouragement.
Therefore again and again: Thanks Ignatz Bubis !!
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Subject of the Month : Solitude- inspiration or despair?

Featured Artists Dagmar Kase (media artist from Estonia)
and her net based project "Absolute Loneliness"

Emotion 1 "Mirror at the bottom - artists portraiting themselves"
Emotion 2 "Graffiti-Fields of Identity"
Emotion 3 The artist and his studio
Emotion 4 My loneliness and the bomb
Emotion 5 Solitude behind the curtain
Emotion 6 Seconds Forever
Emotion 7 Sexual Abuse
Emotion 8 urban.early sunday morning_raw

** Featured project 1
 "Mirror at the bottom - artists portraiting themselves"
organized by A Virtual Memorial and le Musee di-visioniste
curated by Agricola de Cologne

"Artists' self-portraits belong to the most fascinating artistic formats
since here the viewer gets a lot of more information about an artist than
through his working in other type of formats.
The view through the mirror at the bottom offers a critical reflection
either connected to an ideal image or its contrary.
153 artists submitted about 300 works. Each artist represents in his
individuality a different unique approach to self-reflection and to art as
such.
This online show encompasses a wide range of media and individual styles.
It represents a composition from virtual, net based "new media" to
traditional, physical
"old media" (but digitalized) artworks, and, in this way, an art work of
itsown."

Visit this extraordinary online exhibition on
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
or www.nmartproject.net/cur/mirror/index.html

In coming September, Le Musee di-visioniste www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
will take the show in the framework of different featured shows.

** Featured project 2
"Fields of Identity: Graffiti"
curated by Agricola de Cologne

This project has been published in a previous version one year ago.
It has been revised and reconstructed in the version 02.
Some additions has been made, to mention
Aine Scannell, photographer from Ireland.

Visit the Memorial
www.a-virtual-memorial.org

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Until the next time
all the best,

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
info@a-virtual-memorial.org
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity -
ongoing New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne
A short description as PDF file for free download from
http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/downloads/pdf/pdf.htm

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