[spectre] A Virtual Memorial in January 2003

Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:35:04 +0100

Press Release January 2003
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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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>>wishes all its friends and visitors a Happy New Year!!
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New month - new subject
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Table of Contents:
*News
*Features of the Month January 2003
 **Project of the Month:
Who are the pioneers? results of a poll -
contributions by Darko Fritz, Sergio Maltagliati,
Peter Rubin, Eva Lewarne and many others.
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*News:
1.
On 1 January 2003, award winning A Virtual Memorial was three years old.
A Virtual Memorial went online on 1 January 2000
and became meanwhile a very successful project
which had been presented in numerous exhibition and festival events.
During the years, a lot of art initiatives started from A Virtual Memorial.
Violence Online Festival www.newmediafest.org/violence
initiated in 2002, is now co-organized by A Virtual Memorial.
In Spring 2003, A Virtual Memorial will get a festival of
itsown.

2.
Since a few days, "Family Portrait"
created and produced by Agricola de Cologne
for A Virtual Memorial can be found also on
Rhizome Art Base http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?10784
"Family Portrait" is
a collaborative ongoing New Media art project
with the female members of Partnoy Family, eg
Raquel Partnoy, Alicia Partnoy , Ruth Irupe Sanabria,
who escaped from the so-called "Argentine Holocaust".

3.
Interview with Agricola de Cologne on Wigged.net
A Virtual Memorial featured on Wigged.net
http://www.wigged.net/html/news/cologne/cologne.html

4.
The exhibition "Mirror at the Bottom - artists portraiting themselves"
organized earlier this year on A Virtual Memorial
is featured project in the online show
"Focus:x? - {self}_representation" on
Le Musee di-visioniste www.le-musee-divisioniste.org

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***Features of the Month

The Subject of the Month
"Voices of a new age?!

Selected Memorial Days in January

2003 International Year of Fresh Water

18 January 2003 - Tu b'Shvat (New year of the trees)
20 January 2003 - Martin Luther King Memorial Day
22 January 1905 - First Russian Revolution
27 January 2003 - Liberation of Auschwitz Memorial Day

*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

Subject: Voices of a new Age?!
Featured project: Who are the pioneers?
Featured artists: Michael von Karkowski
VoiceObject 1: Martin Luther King
VoiceObject 2: Harry Truman
VoiceObject 3: Adolf Hitler
Animal: Snow leopard (Irbis)
People: Sami
Witnesses of Eternity: Worms/Germany

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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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