[spectre] AVM in February 2004

Mon Feb 2 09:25:27 CET 2004

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A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
New Media art project environment by Agricola de Cologne
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Table of Contents:
a) News
b) Features of the month February 2004
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 a) News in February
1.
On 20 February 2004  the global networking project, entitled
[R][R][F] 2004
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
provisional website on www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
will be starting simultaneously with the physical presentations at
National Museum of Contemporary Art/Kalinderu MediaLab Bucaresti/Romania
www.mnac.ro
and BEK Bergen/Norway and FOLLY Lancaster (UK)
The project will contain a changing number of Memory Channels, among them
[R][R][F] v.2.0 including these curators
Raul Ferrera Balanquet (Cuba), Gita Hashemi (Iran/Canada), Winston Yang
(China), Raquel Partnoy (Argentina), Björn Norberg (Sweden), Eva Sjuve
(Dennark)
and others to be nominated later.
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Basic subject -->"memory and identity"
Basic operational aspect -->"networking as artworking"
Basic presentation aspect-->"exchange between virtual and physical space"
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The project is a networking collaboration
with numerous institutions, organisations, curators, artists and
professionals
and
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne,
and will be developing and operating until the end of 2004.

Detailled information are available on the provisional project site on
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
to be updated continuously until the official launch on
18 February 2004.

In a few days, a series of calls will be published.

2.
Call for artists submissions for "My Mission".
More details on
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/exhibitionhall/2003/self/mymission.htm
Meanwhile more than 70 artists' statements could be added.

Since 30 September, the new show
"{self}_representation 2003,
a co-operation with Le Musee di-visioniste
is online on www.le-musee-divisioniste.org or
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/start1.htm
including 250 artists from 40 countries

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

Memorial days in February

2004 International Year to Commemorate
         the struggle against Slavery and its Abolition

   06 February  1904 -           First Russian-Japanes War
   08 February  1940  -          Lodz Ghetto established by the Nazis
   13 February  1945  -          American and British bombs destroy Dresden
   21 February  2004  -          International Mother Language Day (Unesco)

*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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Subject of the Month -->Hidden and visible??
Featured Artist -->Antarctica by John Murphy
TextObject -->Kashmir
ArtObject -->Carnaval
Witnesses of Eternity -->Trebic (part 1)
Animal of the month -->Condor
People of the month -->Bushmen
Perceptions of the month -->Speech Exercises
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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
A short description as PDF file for free download from
http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/downloads/pdf/pdf.htm

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