[spectre] AVM News August 2003

Fri Aug 1 09:19:55 CEST 2003

A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne
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Table of Contents:
a) News
b) Features of the month August 2003
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News in August:

0. [R]-[R]-[F] Festival www.newmediafest.org/rrf/
Version 1.0 of the new festival environment of A Virtual Memorial
was launched on 2 July on  occasion of the participation
Interactiva'03 - Biennale for New Media Art at
Museum of Contemporary Art Merida/Yucatan (Mexico)
11 July - 28 September 2003.

1.  "Hot Memory " page features this month again another artist
who is accepted to participate in future versions of  [R]-[R]-[F] Festival
but is still waiting. This feature will help to abbreviate the time of
waiting:

Conor McGarrigle (Ireland) and his net based work "Play-lets".
Entrance on www.a-virtual-memorial.org

2. Violence Online Festival www.newmediafest.org/violence/
This successful New Media art project is celebrating its
1st anniversary on 10 August.
Exactly one year ago, Version 1.0 had been launched. and now, on
9 August already Version 8.0 will be published on occasion of the physical
events:
**FILE 2003 -Electonic Language Festival Sao Paulo (Brazil) 14.-24.
August
**Nonetart Festival - Arte Digital Rosario 2003 (Argentina) 15. -27.
August
**Open air at Royal Gardens at Copenhagen/Denmark curated by Pio Diaz and
Eva Sjuve

3. Urban.early sunday morning_raw
http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume6/urban.html
( a net based work originating from A Virtual Memorial)
participates in
*New Forms Festival Vancouver /Canada
30 July - 2 August
www.newformfestival.com
and
*DigitalSur Festival- Arte Digital Rosario 2003 (Argentina) 15-27 August
2003

4. 138 seconds of peace?
http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume6/138seconds.html
( a net based work originating from A Virtual Memorial)
participates in Pula Off - 50th Pula FilmFestival (Croatia)
20 July - 5 August 2003

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New month - new subject
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c) ***Features of the Month

The month August 2003 is dedicated to the late
Ignatz Bubis, President of Central Jewish Council of Germany
who died on 13 August 1999

Selected Memorial Days in August

2003 International Year of Fresh Water

01 August 1975 - Helsinki: CSCE Treaty
06 August 1945 - first atomic bomb over Hiroshima
09 August 2003 - International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
13 August 1960 - 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 of the Month August 2003

Subject of the Month: Solitude - despair or inspiration?

Featured Artist :Dagmar Kase: 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 for ever
Emotion 7:Sexual abuse
Emotion 8: urban.early sunday morning_raw

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Until the next time
all the best,

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
info at a-virtual-memorial.org
www.a-irtual-memorial.org
Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity -
ongoing New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne
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http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/downloads/pdf/pdf.htm

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