[spectre] memorial://february 2005

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{A Virtual Memorial} -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
~New Media art project environment~
www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
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Commemorates also in February -
the recent Tsunami disaster in South Asia
resulting a human tragedy of unknown dimensions,
and further the victims of the US and GB tortures on Iraqi prisoners.
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selected memorial days in February
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06 February 1904 First Russian-Japanes War began
08 February 1940 Lodz Ghetto established by the Nazis
13 February 1945 American and British bombs destroy Dresden
21 February 2005 International Mother Language Day (Unesco)
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Table of Contents:
a) Tsunami - call for artists submissions
b) Features of the month
c) News
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February 2005
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a) Tsunami - a call for submissions- an invitation to artists
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Tsunami -
call for submissions
1st deadline 31 March 2005
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The current Asian tsunami disaster made it again evident:
the human being cannot control the destructive powers of nature.
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A Virtual Memorial
www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
and [R][R][F]2005---XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005>
initiate on occasion of this disaster
and in solidarity with all affected people in this human tragedy
a net based art project environment, entitled: Tsunami.
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The title: "Tsunami" does thematically not only refer to this or similiar
disasters in Present or Past,
but beyond that "Tsunami" is primarily also understood as a symbol for the
Inevitable, the Immutable,
for Powers of Nature, Powers of Destiny which cannot be controlled by the
human being,
situations of helplessness the human being is irrevocably at the mercy of.
Has he any chance to escape or take influence?
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Nearly everybody whereever he may live has made experiences of that kind in
one or the other way already.
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Artists around the globe are invited to reflect these traumatic conditions
of human life and submit art works, documents, texts or any other material
connected the thematical context
which can be submitted as digital file .
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"Tsunami" -
this collaborative project will be published and featured on
www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
and www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005> simultaneously and will take part
in all coming physical events of [R][R][F]2005--->XP,
global networking project by Agricola de Cologne.
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Following file typs are accepted:
Text: .txt, .rtf, plain email
Image: .jpg,.gif., png
sound: .mpg3
movie: .mov, .avi, wmv, .swf, .drc, .mpeg2
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The submission can consist of different parts, works or documents but must
not exceed 5MB.
All serious contributions will be accepted.
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1st deadline 31 March 2005, afterwards ongoing,
but the project will be already launched on 1 February 2005 and from then
on continuously updated.
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Please use this form for submitting
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1.Name, Email, URL
2.brief bio (not more than 50 words/English)
3.work(s) (number of entries, titles, year of origin, medium of original
work, submitted media file types)
4. Short description for each submitted work (not more than 50
words/English)
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Please send the submission
as individual files attached
to
info at a-virtual-memorial.org <mailto:info at a-virtual-memorial.org>
subject: tsunami
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New month - new subject
*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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b) ***Features of the Month January
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Subject: 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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Enter this feature environment via www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
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d) News
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In February,
[R][R][R]2005--->XP and {A Virtual Memorial}
will start a physical event series to be realized in
Palestine, Israel and Germany,
entitled IMPACT ME'05.
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On 17 February,
CAVE GALLERY at Bethlehem International Center/Palestine (BIC)
will open the exhibition of the interactive installation of
[R][R][R]2005--->XP (17 February - 17 March 2005)
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Additional events/lectures at Bethlehem University (16 February)
and BIC (19 February).
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All and the next following events will be listed on
[R][R][R]2005--->XP site
<http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org>
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Until the next time
all the best,
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{A Virtual Memorial}
www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
award wining Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity -
since 2000 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>
info at a-virtual-memorial.org <mailto:info at a-virtual-memorial.org>
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is a corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
www.nmartproject.net <http://www.nmartproject.net>
-the experimental platform for New Media art -
operating from Cologne/Germany
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copyright © 2000-2005 by AGRICOLA de Cologne
All rights reserved.
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