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Christmas 2006 release-
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NetEX -news contents

1. Christmas message
2. recent activities
3. recent calls
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1. Christmas message

Dear friends,

slowly the year 2006 comes to an end. By reviewing it, it becomes obvious,
this was a very turbulent year, and "The network"
started  a lot of activities which also could be realized successfully.

New ones were initiated like Media/ArtCologne www.mediaartcologne.org,
an initiative which could be defined as the department of foreign affairs, or
CologneOFF _ Cologne Online Film Festival - http://coff.newmediafest.org
a mobile film und video festival to be organised simultneously online and offline.
Initiated by VideoChannel - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
this new festival realized in 2006 the first two editions including a lot of marvelous film and videos.
Cologne OFF is and was extending the spectrum of activities profoundly.

The restructuration of the totality of "The network" is proceeding very well;
in its focus stood  until now basically JavaMuseum - http://www.javamuseum.org
VideoChannel  - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
and SoundLAB - http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
All three project environments released new projects and activities,
among the a series of interview projects--->
JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project - http://jip.javamuseum.org
VIP - VideoChannel Interview Project - http://videochannel.newmediafestorg/blog/?page_id=60
SIP - SoundLAB Interview Project - http://soundlab.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=41

A special relevance received the really difficult realisation of a media art exhibition in Palestine:
://selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem  - http://self.engad.org
which could be opened on 6 July 2006 despite of the escalation of the recent Lebanon conflict in July 2006.
Bethlehem could have not been a better place to start a project which is taking position against all virtual and physical walls wherever on the globe which are preventing a peaceful co-existence by separating people from each other.
All the participating artists in this project overcame symbolically the wall which is separating Palestine from Israel and became true messengers of peace.
This message of peace is planned to be spread also to other places around the globe.
In December 2006,  two places in Argentina and Italy will open the exhibition simultaneously and transport the message of peace as their Christmas message to the world, i.e. MAC  - Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Fe/Argentina will open the show on 10 December 2006 and Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Naples Italy on 16 December 2006.

I thank all friends and networking partners for their confidence and support during so many years,
and wish all of them  and particularly all those online vistors who give "The Network" its actual meaning
a Merry Christmas and Peaceful and Happy New Year 2007.

A  personal Christmas message can be found on the NETWORK site http://www.nmartproject.net

Yours,
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
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2. recent activities

A)
On 1 December, MAXXI - Museum of Art of 21th century Rome/Italy
http://www.maxximuseo.org/
opened the exhibition "Netspace: Travels to Art on the Net"
curated by Elena Giulia Rossi - including
Agricola de Cologne's netart piece ]and_scape[
http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume3/and_scape1.html
2 December  2006 - 28 February 2007
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B)
On 10 December, MAC - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Santa Fe/Argentina
will open the media art exhibition
://selfportrait - show for Bethlehem - a show for Peace
http://self.engad.org - organised and curated by Agricola de Cologne
including more than 300 artists from 40 countries
11 December 2006 - 28 January 2007
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C)
On 12 December, Agricola de Cologne will hold a lecture
at at University of Napoli "L'Orientale" (www.unior.it) in the framework of
MOA - Media & Arts Office (www.mediartsoffice.eu), netitkled
The network, memory and identity: a challenge for digital art
On this occasion an interview is released
Diana Marrone interviews Agricola de Cologne
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/Wilfried_Agricola_de_Cologne_interview_engl.pdf
more info on http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de/blog/?p=50
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D)
The videoart event Video Dialoghi 2006 - www.videodialoghi.org
curated by Lorena Tadorni & Willy Darko
will screen Agricola de Cologne's video "Truth - Paradise Found"
(streaming version needs Flash plugin
http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume11/truth.html)
Centre Cultural Francais Turin/Italy - 13 - 16 December
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E)
on 16 December, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Naples/Italy
http://www.casoriacontemporaryartmuseum.com/ita/comself.htm
http://www.casoriacontemporaryartmuseum.com/ita/self.htm
will open the media art exhibition
://selfportrait - show for Bethlehem - a show for Peace
http://self.engad.org - organised and curated by Agricola de Cologne
including more than 300 artists from 40 coutries.

F)
not to forget the  presentations of Cologne OFF I& II
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=57
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=64
on these festival events in October/November 2006
PI5 Video Festival Szczecin/Poland - 20-22 Oct
8th Chroma - International Audiovisual Art Festival Guadalajara/Mexico - 11-17 Nov.
2nd Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina - 16-18 Nov.
more info on http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

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3. recent calls

Deadline 31 December 2006
--->Tam Tam DigiFestival 2007 Naples/Italy

Deadline 2 January 2007
--->Xtend - Dance for Camera Season 2007
SouthHill Park Arts Centre (UK)

Deadline: 15  January 2007
--->2nd Streaming Festival The Hague 2007 (NL)

Deadline 20 January 2007
--->Athens Videoart Festival 2007 (Greece)

All entry details and more calls can be found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=25

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