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Peace Letters from Los Angeles to Ukraine

Peace Letters to Ukraine 7
This video program documenting the networked collaboration between artists, curators and institutions in solidarity is created for the solidarity collaboration with TAM – Torrance Art Museum/ Los Angeles – 4-25 June 2022, composing , among others, compoments from the Peace Letters 1, 2 and 6 to the unique new Peace Letter 7.
Cultural and artistic networking is representing one way how art can serve as a tool to show and confirm solidarity with the Ukrainian people not just on times of war. 12 international curators – against the Russian War in Ukraine – for Peace and Freedom.

Solidarity screening program
Turmoil & Error

Peace Letters to Ukraine 7
Week 1 – 4-11 June 2022
Peace Letters 1

Videoart from Ukraine – Part 1
selection 1- curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Lena Nosenko (Ukraine) – Wait for me, 2010, 4:35
Lidia Starodubtseva (Ukraine) – Time Is Up, 2018, 4:00
Kostia Vozniuk (Ukraine) Woman in her own room,2017, 04′ 08”
Vera Abakumova (Ukraine) – Self-fullfillment, 2011, 7:40
Oksana Chepelyk (Ukraine) – «Letter from Ukraine», 2014, 7:31
Alexander Isaenko (Ukraine)- The negative selection, 2012, 3:30
Nataliia Mashtaler (Ukraine) – Demonstration Lesson, 2012, 13:40
Oleg Kharch (Ukraine) – Fakemet, 2019, 3:46
Oleg Chorny (Ukraine) – The Tree, 2019, 6:40
Alexander Yeltsin (Ukraine) – Warning, 2014, 5:37

Videoart from Ukraine – Part 2
selection 1- curated by Yarina Butkovska

Kateryna Babkina (Ukraine) – Used to be Keys, 2007, 2:30
Borys Pasichniy and Julia Pavlovska (Ukraine) – Milk, 2007, 3:51
Oleg Ushchenko (Ukraine) – Genius, 2006, 1:25
Olexiy Khoroshko (Ukraine) – The Aim Of The Game, 2007, 4:20
Mykola Kondratenko (Ukraine) – Longing For Students, 2007, 3:47
MaxFlood (Ukraine) – Let’s walk More, 2007, 1:49
Svitlana Oleshko & Mykhaylo Barbara (Ukraine) – Stas Perfetsky is returning to Ukraine, 2005, 7:51
Viacheslav Poliakov (Ukraine) – Indoor-outdoor, 2007, 3:51
Yuriy Kruchak, Yulia Kostereva (Ukraine) – Framing West, 2009, 2:46
Oksana Chepelyk (Ukraine) – Urban Multimedia Utopia – UMU: 10:00, 2002

Week 2 – 11-18 June 2022
Peace Letters 2

selection curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Bruno Pavic (Croatia) – The Message, 2022, 01:03
Frederic Iriarte/Rich Ferguson (France/Sweden) – Soul Train, 2022, 4:52
Maria Korporal (Netherlands) – Wandel/Change, 2022, 3:38
Jean-Michel Rolland (France) – Sabotage, 2021, 2:34
Claude Cicollela (France) – Under The Ground, 2022, 6:30
Lisi Prada (Spain) – News From Damaskus, 2018, 1:00
Fran Orallo (Spain) – Your Body Is A Battle Field, 2017, 4:45
Muriel Paraboni (Brazil) – Let Them Laugh, 2022, 4:00
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Danse Macabre, 2022, 6:30
Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) – Gimme Shelter, 2017, 3:24
Matteo Campulla (Italy) – It’s Me, 2019, 1:48
Beate Hecher /Markus Keim (Austria) – Pangäa, 2021, 13:34
Animaenoctis (Italy) – Roots/Kоріння / 2022 / 03:25
Katina Bitsikas (USA) – In Memoriam, 2022, 5:32

Week 3 – 18 – 25 June 2022
Peace Letters 6

curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz (Spain) – Transmutaciones, 2020, 10:12
Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Colony Collapse, 2019, 3:54
Brit Bunkley (New Zealand) -Blood River, 2021, 6:51
Guilherme Bergamini (Brazil) – Plenitude, 2020, 5:00
Kokou Ekouagou (Togo) – Stand Up, 2020, 1:46
Marek Wasilewski (Poland) – Clarification, 2020, 6:15
Wrik Mead (Canada) – Camp, 2000, 12:22
Abhijit Patro (India)- PINJARA (CAGE), 2020, 2:53
Coalfather (USA) – Overtime, 2020, 2:56
Ausin Sainz (Spain) – Peaceful Protest, 2020, 5:00
Dimitris Argyriou (Greece) – 5 Minutes Silence, 2018, 10:52
Vito Alfarano (Italy) – I Have A Dream, 2019, 11:30

This program will be released streaming online after 25 June 2022.

Curatorial note

Turmoil & Error
The World is in turmoil, the human civilisation is in turmoil, culture is in turmoil, the artists are in turmoil – violence and war in Ukraine and elsewhere, the war of the political systems and ideologies, genocide, racism, intolerance, climate change, pandemic, expulsion, refugees, globalization – and all simultaneously! The global crisis!
And what function might art have in all that mess? What message may transport these Peace Letters?
In any case much more than just promising support and solidarity, rather summoning the positive creativity when we, that’s the world community, are staying together brainstorming, acting in respect and responsibility for each other. Art as a tool for sensitizing and encouragement and – Peace. The selected artists – coming from different continents and cultural backgrounds – show and offer their positive creativity via their audio-visual creations.
The Peace Letters to Ukraine Project is initiated by the Cologne based media artist and curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne for The New Museum of Networked Art as a networked artistic action in reaction on the war against the Ukraine in solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

The solidarity screenings @ TAM consist of three parts –

Peace Letters 1 / featuring videos by 20 Ukrainian artists –
curated by Yarina Butkowska (Lviv/Ukraine) – videos from the years 2002-2009 including
Kateryna Babkina, Borys Pasichniy and Julia Pavlovska, Oleg Ushchenko, Olexiy Khoroshko, Mykola Kondratenko, MaxFlood, Svitlana Oleshko & Mykhaylo Barbara, Viacheslav Poliakov, Yuriy Kruchak & Yulia Kostereva, Oksana Chepelyk, and –
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne – videos from the years 2010-2020, including – Lena Nosenko, Lidia Starodubtseva, Kostia Vozniuk, Vera Abakumova, Oksana Chepelyk, Alexander Isaenko, Nataliia Mashtaler, Oleg Kharch, Oleg Chorny, Alexander Yeltsin.

Peace Letters 2 – selection curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
including Bruno Pavic (Croatia), Frederic Iriarte/Rich Ferguson (France/Sweden), Maria Korporal (Netherlands), Jean-Michel Rolland (France), Claude Cicollela (France), Lisi Prada (Spain), Fran Orallo (Spain), Muriel Paraboni (Brazil) , Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany), Ulf Kristiansen (Norway), Matteo Campulla (Italy) , Beate Hecher /Markus Keim (Austria), Animaenoctis (Italy) ,
Katina Bitsikas (USA)

Peace Letters 6 – selection curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, including
Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz (Spain), Ian Gibbins (Australia), Brit Bunkley (New Zealand), Guilherme Bergamini (Brazil), Kokou Ekouagou (Togo), Marek Wasilewski (Poland), Wrik Mead (Canada) , Abhijit Patro (India), Coalfather (USA). Ausin Sainz (Spain), Dimitris Argyriou (Greece), Vito Alfarano (Italy)

https://www.laartshow.com/diverseartla/

DIVERSEartLA is back with a new ecological lens. Curated by Marisa Caichiolo, this year’s edition will examine not just how the environment is represented in art, but how humanity’s place in the world is depicted. This exhibition will open up an important dialogue about the Earth’s past, present, and future, uniting the community around discussions of the global climate crisis and potential solutions.

“One of the most powerful things about art is that it brings people together, and transforms the way we communicate. The goal of DIVERSEartLA 2022 is to view this sector of art within the show through ecological glasses.

video by Eric Minh Swenson –>

This topic is at the heart of a growing number of art narratives, including exhibitions built with high-tech innovations, designed to inspire artistic appreciation and the desire to respond to environmental challenges – reinforcing the value of translating environmental advocacy into art.

The installations, immersive experiences, and performances represent our present day and the looming impact we will all face if the planet continues to warm. DIVERSEartLA 2022 will encourage visitors to confront the complex challenges of our global climate crisis and imagine potential solutions.” – Marisa Caichiolo

Our engagement with museums and institutions this year includes projects with Dox Contemporary in Prague/Czech Center New York and The General Consulate of The Czech Republic in Los Angeles; MUSA Museum of the Arts of the University of Guadalajara and MCA Museum of Environmental Science; MUMBAT Museum of Fine Arts of Tandil & Museum of Nature and Science Antonio Serrano of Entre Rios, Argentina; Museum of Nature of Cantabria, Spain; Skid Row communities; Torrance Art Museum; Raubtier Productions & Unicus.

https://www.torranceartmuseum.com/memorial-future

Torrance Art Museum presents Memorial to the Future, a collaborative installation.

Max Presneill
is an artist and the Director / Curator of the Torrance Art Museum, a small contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, as well as the Curatorial Director for Artra Curatorial. He is the Co-Founder of Durden and Ray (2009-present), a collaborative artists group and gallery in LA as well as the Founder and former Director of Raid Projects (1999 – 2009).

video by Jason Jenn and Vojislav Radovanović –>

Daniela Soberman – photo by Genie Davis –>

Daniela Soberman
Serbian-American
​(b. 1976 Downey, California; lives and works in Los Angeles).
First generation American and daughter to immigrant parents from former socialist Yugoslavia, Daniela grew up making regular visits to Eastern Europe/Yugoslavia (pre and post civil-war) where brutalism and socialist avant-garde became foundational to her DNA and now regularly show up in her work. Daniela explores themes of unconventionalism, memory, and the shared human experience.
Soberman also has a small / large cult following for her published books [which are carried at the Smithsonian].

images by Daniela Soberman

LA Art Show 2022- DIVERSEartLA section
Torrance Art Museum presents Memorial to the Future, a collaborative installation – curated and co-authored by Max Presneill of the Torrance Art Museum. The large-scale sculptural object created by Daniela Soberman, which houses open-source photographic elements and the video components by curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne contributing a curated program of international video artists.

Networked art via networked curating
Marisa Caichiolo – Max Presneill – Daniela Soberman- Sue-Na Gay – Kisito Assangni – Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

images by Daniela Soberman and others

Memory of the Future?
Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
program – original duration – 107 minutes
selected artists

Tova Beck-Friedman (USA) – Arrogance, 2021, 3:03
Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz (Spain) – Between Species, 2021, 9:16
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Oaktown, 2019, 17:00
Renata Padovan (Brazil) – Scale of Disaster, 2013, 9:40
Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Ferrovores, 2021, 5:30
Mikey Peterson (USA) – Gloriosa Superba, 2018, 3:51
Claude Ciccolella (France) – Under the Golden Leaves, 2021, 8;50
Ebba Jahn (Germany) – Along Thorns, 2021, 3:21
Oliver Ressler (Austria) – Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart: Limity jsme my, 2020, 10:26
Elena Vertikova (Poland) – Under Certain Circumstance, 2021, 3:00
Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani (Togo) – Keke, 2021, 5:00
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Melting Fields, 2019, 8:35
Kim Maree (New Zealand) – Masterplan, 2019, 9:58
Susanne Layla Petersen (Denmark) – The End of The World As We Know It, 2021, 4:25
Jean-Michel Rolland (France) – Vaches:Decoupage, 2021, 3:46

40 minutes short cut of the original video program–>

Memory of The Future?
The concept of the program composition of art videos curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne is considering the architectural installation at Torrance Art Museum as a modular system and his curatorial contribution as one module among the others forming in its totality on one hand a curatorial artwork (among other artworks in the framework of the global artwork, the installation on its totality is representing), communicating with the other static, interactive or moving installation components.

When the viewer/visitor is sensually experiencing the installation, particularly the moving images modules, the 100 minutes running program “Memory of the Future?” is confronting the visitor with the memory of Unknown, Unexpected, the yet to come – as long as he/she is staying sensually experiencing the installation.

“Memory OF THE Future” is referring beyond that primarily to the Uncertainty of the Future of Planet EARTH and its inhabitants – the “Climate Change” they are causing. How do artists deal with the aspect of taking responsibility for each other by taking responsibility for planet Earth saving its integrity for future generations?

images © by the artists

The selected artists – Tova Beck-Friedman (USA)- Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz (Spain) – Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Renata Padovan (Brazil) – Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Mikey Peterson (USA) – Claude Ciccolella (France) – Ebba Jahn (Germany) – Oliver Ressler (Austria) – Elena Vertikova (Poland)
Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani (Togo) – Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Kim Maree (New Zealand) –
Susanne Layla Petersen (Denmark) – Jean-Michel Rolland (France) – originating from different continents and cultural backgrounds & experiences approach the aspect of transferring the memory of the already existing to the not yet existing differently. The 15 selected video works, commu-nicating with each other and the other art modules they are embedded in are sharing the memory of ideas and ideals, juxtaposing also the incompatibility of economic and ecological interests.

The curatorial contribution would like to support the architectural installation by encouraging, activating and motivating the visitor/viewer to become part of the artistic concept.

About the curator
As a cultural activist, new media artist und curator, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany)
Is also the director and founder of The New Museum of Networked Art and its associated platforms of static, interactive and moving images, including as huge collection of art videos created by international artists between 2000 and 2020. Since 2000, his artistic and curatorial works have been presented on a wide range of festivals and media art exhibitions all over the world including, Venice Biennale, Biennale de MONTREAL, Biennale of NEW MEDIA and VIDEO Santiago de CHILE, Biennale of Electronic Media PERTH (Australia), FILE Electronic Language FESTIVAL Sao Paulo. There have been successful collaborations with TAM – Torrance Art Museum in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 und now recently in 2022.

the video program is produced by The New Museum of Networked Art

OAKTOWN – on climate activism, 2019, 17:00

The video is demonstrating how the future generation is facing its future – by preserving the natural environment as the living habitat for mankind. Oaktown @ the Hambach Forest is standing as a symbol for many other attempts in all parts on the globe to sensitize people and public opinon.

Oaktown @ Hambacher Forst
The Hambach Forest, which is located between Cologne and Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia, is one of the oldest and last primary forests in Central Europe. It has been in existence for 12,000 years, which is exceptional. At one time the forest was 5,500 ha in size. Now there are only 1,100 ha left, the rest having been destroyed by the RWE (Reinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk) and by opencast lignite mining. For activists living in the forest, it is not just a question of protecting the forest, it is also a question of climate change, health, relocation, expropriation and who makes the decisions.

For Wilfried Agricola de Cologne who grew up in 60ies and 70ies of 20th cenrtury, Martin Luther King’s human rights activism is standing at the beginning of the movememt which manifesting iiself these days in the diverse form of climate activism. The three songs written and performed by Marvinn Gaye stand for the spririt of activism via non-violent resistance.

Memory of the Future?
4 programs – curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
selected artists

Program 1

Tova Beck-Friedman (USA) – Arrogance, 2021, 3:03
Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz (Spain) – Between Species, 2021, 9:16
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Oaktown, 2019, 17:00
Renata Padovan (Brazil) – Scale of Disaster, 2013, 9:40
Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Ferrovores, 2021, 5:30
Mikey Peterson (USA) – Gloriosa Superba, 2018, 3:51
Claude Ciccolella (France) – Under the Golden Leaves, 2021, 8;50
Ebba Jahn (Germany) – Along Thorns, 2021, 3:21
Oliver Ressler (Austria) – Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart: Limity jsme my, 2020, 10:26
Elena Vertikova (Poland) – Under Certain Circumstance, 2021, 3:00
Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani (Togo) – Keke, 2021, 5:00
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Melting Fields, 2019, 8:35
Kim Maree (New Zealand) – Masterplan, 2019, 9:58
Susanne Layla Petersen (Denmark) – The End of The World As We Know It, 2021, 4:25
Jean-Michel Rolland (France) – Vaches:Decoupage, 2021, 3:46

Program 2
Natalia Ludmila (Mexico) – Swim, swim don’t sink, 2022, 3:40
Oleg Karchenko (Ukraine) – Satisfaction, 2021, 4:13
Oleg Karchenko (Ukraine) – ls_it_impusar_gl, 2021, 4:22

Program 3
Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Colony Collapse, 2019, 3:54
Yossi Galanti (Israel) – Green Bag in the First Act, 2021, 4:03
Barry Whittacker (USA) – Sugar Water, 2021, 4:02
Kokou Ekouagou (Togo) – Stand Up, 2020, 1:46
Irina Paskali (Macedonia) – Two of us, 2020, 3:00
Shivkumar K V (India) – Being Back to Nature, 2020, 4:07
Marcus Keim/Beate Hecher (Austria) – Pangäa, 2020, 13:00
Pierre Ajavon (France) – Lost Garden, 2018, 4:16
Mikey Peterson (USA) – Through The Rift, 2021, 6:58
Dee Hood (USA) – The Powers That Be, 2022, 2.29
Alina Vasilchenko (Russia) – The Tree, 2020, 1:23
Aaron Oldenbourg (USA) – Nightwalk, 2021, 1:00
Vanessa Cardui (Germamy) – Nature Dance, 2021, 1:00
Zlatko Cosic (Bosnia) – The Lungs, 2022, 5:00
Brit Bunkley (New Zealand) – a) Pillar of Fire, 2021, 6:59
Gioula Papadopoulou (Greece) – When I was the Moon, 2020, 6:10

Program 4
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Bellevue, 2020, 7:00
Moshe Vollach (Israel) – “31 Cubes” – A land art project, 2013-2016, 8:35
Albert Merino (Spain) – Memories of Detachment, 2021, 18:00
Renata Padovan (Brazil) – The Scale of the Disaster, 2013, 9:41
Jeremy Newman (USA) – The Dreaming Biome, 2020, 8:00
Caspar de Gelmimi (Germany) – Life in the future, 2020, 4:50
Maria Korporal (Netherlands) – Thinking with my Knee – original: Denken mit dem Knie, 2021, 1:49
Dee Hood (USA) – Ghost Forest, 2020, 3:46
Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz (Spain) – Sintonizar con la Natura / Tune in to Nature, 2021, 9:43
Vanessa Cardui (Germany) – The green thread, 2021, 6:38
Ian Gibbins (Australia) – floodtide, 2018, 8:00

http://wake-up.engad.org

NewMediaFest2020’s Seven Memorials for Humanity-
TAM’s Dark Room is presenting all Seven Memorials for Humanity videos as a special extended recap from September 6-20 in the framework of Maiden A (1-20 Sept.2020)

MAIDEN LA is an inclusive and expansive county-wide survey of art happenings that in encouraging the use of alternative spaces, considers Los Angeles as a platform for generative discourse and creative exchange. An egalitarian program aimed at dissolving hierarchies, MAIDEN LA accepts all projects submitted and gives participating artists total autonomy in the presentation of their work. By being 100% inclusive, the program provides its audience a unique opportunity to consider all participants – regardless of race, gender expression, religious beliefs, age, economic status, or education – on the same plane.

Both a playful anagram and homophone of the Hammer Museum’s ‘Made in LA’ (a biennial featuring emerging or underrepresented LA artists), MAIDEN LA’s focus is not exclusively tied to the Hammer’s curatorial efforts, but a way to consider and broaden how a city’s artistic landscape is defined. MAIDEN LA‘s relevance is amplified in today’s politically charged climate, as our ethos of radical inclusivity eschews hierarchy and aims to disrupt established systems of representation while fostering accessibility for artists and audiences who find it difficult to navigate the art world’s various social and financial constructs.

This year marks MAIDEN LA’s 4th iteration, taking place September 1 – 20, 2020.

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NewMediaFest 2020 is a retrospective of video art curated from around the world during the past 20 years, taking place between 26 December 2019 and 31 December 2020 – as an event structure in an exchange between virtual and physical space in collaboration with networking partners all over the world, like the Torrance Art Museum. The Seven Memorials for Humanity, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne draws on the conceptual structures of “social and networked media” to present a kind of multi-dimensional virtual sculpture.

Agricola de Cologne is not only a living witness of the development of the digital technologies in art, he was a pioneer of a time when there were few or no experiences yet to explore their potential for artistic use. As a curator, mediator and catalyst , Agricola de Cologne encourages artists in different disciplines of digital technologies; (digital) video, internet based art (netart), soundart, etc.

The Seven Memorials for Humanity deals with new forms of commemorating and respectively generating awareness to related to topics that matter in the current global and local escalating political, social, ecological and cultural situations, which endanger a free, open and democratic society, and Humanity in general. It is a plea to contemporary society to keep and defend humanity as the highest human value for future generations.

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7 screening programs curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

NewMediaFest2020 celebrates numerous anniversaries this year, including the foundation in Cologne in 2000.

WOW Jubilee VII Los Angeles – (WOW stands for “We Are One World”) is the 7th anniversary program in a row, this time with the focus on the 7 video program units with their 11 programs in total, which Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, the director, main curator realized NewMediaFest2020 for the screenings at TAM – including 150 videos by 150 artists from 30 countries on topics that concern artists and society alike – violence, migration, climate change, environment and identity – as they are manifested in “The 7 Memorial for Humanity” , a commemorative context of media art developed during the past 20 years since 2000.

NewMediaFest2020 is an event structure with a retrospective character, which is carried out in an exchange between virtual and physical space throughout 2020, starting on December 26, 2019 and ending on December 31, 2020 with network partners around the world.

In addition to the 12 monthly festival programs, the daily features are of particular importance with the publication of new media art programs from “The 365 Days Diary” online.

After Addis Ababa and Cologne before the Corona crisis, which forced NewMediaFest2020 to continue its activities exclusively online as the 1st Corona Festival, Berlin is now the first physical venue starting on 9 July followed Los Angeles (USA) on 18 July online, and depending of the Corona developments worldwide additional events are scheduled in Cusco (Peru), Athens (Greece), Lucca (Italy), Beirut (Lebanon) and Calcutta (India) – either offline or online.

Prison of Mind
Life and time get a new meaning for those who wait for the execution of the death sentence, for them it is the question whether life is that true prison and death rather the liberation from this prison. The metaphorical video reflects the changing values in life during the process of approaching death.

In the Name of Truth: Time, Peace & Humanity

The screening project encompasses five programs of audio-visual art prepared by artvideoKOELN, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne under an explosive topic endangering the human species.
If art isn’t reduced to mere esthetics for its own sake, the artist is looking for truth through his work. Although it’s mainly his subjective point of view, this view, however is going deep to the essence of life. Art and the perception on art are ongoing processes changing continuously.
The present five programs of time based art are speaking in the name of truth, the artist becomes the lawyer of truth focusing on the relation between time, peace and humanity.
But this is not only a question of art, rather of transforming the perceptions of the human survival into concepts and the language of art. By doing so, the participating artists show face, take position and responsibility not only in an artistic, but much more in a social and political concern due to the local and global relevance.
The artistic message is – not to remain passively consuming, but instead of this getting personally involved. In this way, the screening program is including an interactive component. We are one world, we all are sitting in the same boat. The basis of perception and decisions has to be humanity.
There are good reasons, why some wise politicians in the Western societies involve artists in developing concepts for the sustainability of the future of the living species on the globe.
Each of the five video programs is following another approach, including different artistic concepts – showing this way a diversity of audio-visual art creation.
The curatorial concept, however, is not only including the works selected for the screening programs, but also the complete original sources as they are released online, so that visitors of the museum website have the chance to review the entire artistic contexts, as well.

artvideoKOELN international
is happy to present

CologneOFF 2016 USA
In the Name of TRUTH : Time, Peace and Humanity
@ Torrance Art Museum LA
https://www.torranceartmuseum.com/
2 April – 28 May 2016

1 Temporay-Contemporary
://self~imaging – artists show face against Intolerance, Racism, Xenophobia & Anti Semitism
https://self.nmartproject.net/2016/

Shelley Jordon (USA) – Holding My Breath (for Peace), 2015, 1:00
Christian Immonen (Sweden) – “Pulse”, 2015, 3:36
Mark Kadota USA) – “Persistence of Emotion”, 2015, 9:55
Tim Riley & Georgia Elizey (UK) – Spiral of Silence, 2015, 3:50
Nouran Sherif & Muhammad Taymour (Egypt) – Home, 2013, 8:13
Elisabeth Ross (Mexico) – Biography, 2013, 6:24
Michael Lasater (USA) – One, Two, 2008, rev. 2012, 09:27
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – The Fathers Have Eaten Sour Grapes, 2012, 4:40
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Distortion Projected, 2005, 3:40
Silvana Dunat (Croatia) – Who are you, 2015, 04:29
Monika Zywer (Poland) – The Headless Artist, 2015, 1:01
Dova Cahan (Israel) – My Aunt Mina and Her Son Shmuel Never Came Back from Auschwitz”. 2015, 9.18
Sean Burn (UK) – Fragile (from seven short films about madness), 2015, 3 :30
Shivkumar KV (India) – Work in Progress, Video Performance, 2014, 01:01
Wrik Mead (Canada) – =, , 2015, 3:27
Neil Ira Needleman (USA) – Two Landscapes, 2015, 03:01
Fran Orallo (Spain) – Secuencias, 2015, 8’:35
Badr El Hammami (Morocco) – Autoportrait, 2012, 3:06
Isabel Perez del Pulgar (Spain) – Self~imaging for Peace, 2015, 1:45
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2. Speed of Time
“Refugee!” – Collective Trauma Film Collections
https://refugee.nmartproject.net

Zlatko Cosic (Bosnia) – South Slavic Requiem, 2015 , 6:00
Amir Kabir Jabari (Iran) – Domiz Camp, 2015, 3:11
Farid Hamedi (Rohina) (Iran) – The Smoke and the Dream, 2015, 13:24
Mauricio Saenz (Mexico) – Flight simulator, 2014, 4:17
Panagiotis Kalos (Greece) – Gasping for Air, 2015, 1:36
Anni Kaltsidou (Greece) – The Refugees, 2015, 2:48
Aline Biasutto (France) – The Sirens Chant, 2013, 11:02
Miss Muffett aka Lisa Seidenberg (USA) – Flight, 2015, 3:51
Ausin Sainz (Spain) – Land, 2015, 3:52
Pekka Niskanen (Finland) – Laoufi, in Konnunsuo detention unit, 2015, 10:00
Paolo Bandinu (Italy) – No Country, 2015, 2: 21
Mariken Kramer (Norway) – “Patterns of Inclusion”, 2013, 9:36
Theodoris Trampas (Greece) – Scorched Earth, 2015, 14:53
Gabriele Stellbaum (Germany) – Song of Myself, 2015, 1:54
Parya Vatankhah (Iran/France) – Not Read, 2014, 5:14
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3.Times Collapsed
Never More! Hiroshima- Fukushima
Collective Trauma Film Collections
https://hiroshima.nmartproject.net

Filip Gabriel Pudlo (Poland) – Operation Castle, 2013, 4.20, 10:00
Mengyu Chen ( USA) – Simulacra, 2013, 2:20
Daniel Wechsler (Israel) – Dust, 2015, 03:42
Paribartana Mohanty (India) – – The Miniaturist, 2015, 12: 44
Jean Gabriel Periot (France) – Nijuman no borei , 2008, 7.30
Ausin Sainz (Spain) – Stress Society, 2015, 02:35
Kenji Kojima (Japan/USA) – Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011, 2014, 10:00
Paul Turano (USA) – Fallout, 2013, 4:30
Maria Korporal (Netherlands) – Underwater Desert, 2015, 2:35
Nico Winz (France) – Fukushima Beach, 2013, 5:25
Jeroen Cluckers (Belgium) – Oneiria, 2014, 3’52”

4. End of Time
Shoah Film Collection
Collective Trauma Film Collections
https://sfc.nmartproject.net/video/

Shon Kim (South Korea) – Latent Sorrow – 2006, 3:30
Heike Liss & Thea Farhadian (USA) – ZeroPointTwo, 2007, 18:00
Roland Quelven (France) – Death Fugue B50.02 – L19.20, 2013, 3:15
Paolo Bonfiglio (Italy) – Mortale, 2009, 6:48
Myriam Thyes (Switzerland) – Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s Vanishing Lines, 2015, 10:00
Istvan Horkay II (Hungary) – “Raoul Wallenberg”, 2014, 62:00

5. Humanity – Perspectives of Time
The Body
Collective Trauma Film Collection

Diego de los Campos Orefice (Uruguay) – Meatman, 2011, 5:12
Javier José Plano (Argentina) – “5 actions (on the collective memory)”, 2010, 9:00
Osvaldo Raúl Ponce (Argentina) – “… Once upon now”, 2012, 09:20
Diego Pazó (Spain) – Mapas (Maps), 2015, 5:30
Yuval Yairi & Zohar Kawaharada (Israel) – Land, 2013, 4:36
Christian Tapies (Argentina) – Three Modern Haiku, 2010, 12:00
Masha Yosefpolsky (Israel) – Noli Me Tangere, 2008, 6:20
Emil Zenko & Evgenij Romashov (Belarus) – Maslenitsa, 2015, 2:28
Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) – Public Space, 2014 d) 03:45
Bruno Pavic (Croatia) – 35 faces of homeless, 2012, 3’42”
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Soapopera, 2015, 10:47
Marita Contreras (Peru) – Maria, 2010, 5:37
Baptist Coelho (India) – Beneath It all I Am Human, 2009, 9:41
Manuela Barile (Portugal) – Morolojam 2008, 8:05
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Curatorial statement
by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

01. Temporary-Contemporary
://selfportrait – artists show face against Intolerance, Racism, Xenophobia an Anti-Semitism
https://self.nmartproject.net

02. The Speed of Time
“REFUGEE!” – https://refugee.nmartproject.net
CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections

03. Times Collapsed
Never More! – Hiroshima-Fukushima – https://hiroshima.nmartproject.net
CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections

04. The End of Time
SFC – Shoah Film Collection – https://sfc.nmartproject.net/video/
CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections

05. Humanity – Perspectives of Time
The Body – CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections

CologneOFF X – Total Art

CologneOFF 2014 USA
@Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles
8 November – 6 December 2014

CologneOFF X– “ Total Art “

Selections, entitled:
Alienate Territories – Alienated Identities – Alienated Time Lines – Alienated Memory
curated & coordinated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

CologneOFF X – 10th Cologne International Videoart Festival
“Total Art” – (Gesamtkunstwerk) – curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

The motto of the 10th Cologne International Videoart Festival – “Total Art – Gesamtkunstwerk” is not only related to the type and contents of the audiovisual video works to be selected, but also to the meaning CologneOFF has as an artistic creation of its own.
It points to the fact that the festival activities are the creative output of the media artist Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, founding director und curator of CologneOFF whose artistic creative work in form of curating is manifesting itself in that special type of art work, the 10th festival edition of Cologne International Videoart Festival., respectively the totality of the project, entitled CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival, including 10 editions of an experimental and experimenting festival, and in this way, 10 years of an exciting media development. The festival as an art project and a cultural creation.
However, Agricola de Cologne is not placing himself and his creation in the foreground, but the particular complex audiovisual creations by the submitting fellow artists whose video works follow all the idea of the “Gesamtkunstwerk” using an individual audiovisual language, and in this way, the medium of digital video in all its technological complexity in order to confront the audience with multi-facetted contents, the manifestation of philosophical, political, cultural or artistic statements through a critical view on the PRESENT, sometimes ironically and with a sense of humour, but very serious und profound in artistic concern.
The programs follow each one a concept of its own alienating usual perceptions in visual and philosophical terms. They reflect art transporting memory from the Past, the identity of the artist under continuously changing conditions, the environment people are living referring to Present and Future.
By taking a look on the reality they recognize the world is not like it looks like, a game between the real and surreal, between the subjective and the objective, polarizations and contradictions within themselves, exciting and disturbing.
CologneOFF X is the10th festival edition in sequence. In the time of the rapid development of everything is that kind of continuation representing an enormous value, especially considering that CologneOFF started in 2005, its foundation from point zero, and established among the relevant videoart festivals on the globe within quite a short time despite or due to the concept of a new type of nomadic festival which is taking place all over the year, seven days a week and 24 hour ours a day, in an exchange between virtual & physical space via the Internet & festival events all over the world with the best collaboration partners.

Venues
-Videoart Festival Miden Kalamata Greece – 3-5 July 2014
-Waterpieces Video & Art Festival Riga/Latvia – 15-17 August 2015
-MIVA _ International Videoart Festival Quito/Peru – 25 August – 14 Sept 2014
-Institut fuer Alles Mögliche Berlin/Germany – 4 September 2014
-Muza Plus – a space for art Tel-Aviv/Israel – 13 September 2014
-Onomato e.V. Düsseldorf/Gerrmany – 25 September 2014
-Proyector Videoart Festival Madrid/Spain (25 Sept – 05 Oct 2014)
-Athens International Videoart Festival (Greece) – 3-5 Oct 2014
-“Damen und Herren” e.V. Düsseldorf/Germany – 10 October 2014
– Parachute Light Zero Paris France – 21 November 2014
-EuroShorts Film Festival Gdansk/PL 24-30 Nov 2014
-Euro Shorts Film Festival Warsaw/Poland 24-30 Nov 2014
-VideoBabel – International Audiovisual Festival Cuzco/Peru (24-29 Nov 2014)
-Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles/USA – 8 Nov – 5 Dec 2014
-Ares – International Film and Media Festival Syracuse/Italy 26-30 December 2014
-CeC- Carnival of e-Creativity Shillong/Meghalaya/India 1-3 May 2015

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CINEMA T 14/1

Alienated Territories
Home, Sweet Home!?

Johanna Reich (Germany) – Horizon, 2012, 1:00
Albert Merino (Spain) –Visàvis, 2013, 5.05
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Home, Sweet Home!, 2014, 2:59
Theme Bannenberg & NOK Snel (NL) – Behind Closed Doors, 2010, 7:38
Stephen John Ellis (USA) – Aus dem Kinder , 2011, 5:14
Mizmor Watzman (Israel) – A Thing So Small, 2013, 9:00
Effrosyni Kontogeorgou (Greece) – Knitting, 2004, 6:07
Istvan Horkay (Hungary) – Mother, 2014, 4:51
Sinem Serap Duran (Turkey) – Adequate, 2012, 9:11
Alexander Callsen (Germany) – Gap Camp, 2013, 6:04
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Oasis in the Desert, 2010, 5:00
Matthias Härenstam (Sweden) – Closed Circuit, 2011, 3:01
Valerio Murat and Antonio Poce (Italy) – Meine Heimat, 2012, 4:32
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – Seeds, 2012, 5:03
Rick Fisher (Canada) – Arcadia, 2014, 4:49
Cinzia Sarto (Italy) – Dirty Vacation, 2005, 7:00

VIP interviews with
Francesca Fini – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=656
Mattias Härenstam – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=752
Albert Merino – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=944
Bannenberg – NOK – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=871
Johanna Reich – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=22
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=368

CINEMA T 14/02

Alienated Identities

Owen Eric Wood (Canada) – Return, 2011, 5:00
Barry Morse (USA) – Mouse’s Birthday, 3:37, 2010
Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Silent Cry, 2008, 3:06
Cynthia Whelan (UK) – Selfportrait, 3:27, 2005
Jaime Ekkens (USA) – A Life With Asperger’s, 2013, 4:00
Doug Garth Williams (USA) – Back & Forth, 2009, 2:42
Peter Spiers (UK)- Mimicking Frame By Frame, 2010, 06:17
Angelika Herta (Austria) – Man of Iron, 2011, 1:53
Anna Garner (USA) – Sequential Interactions, 2013, 1:54
Zaoli Zhong (China) – We Are Walking All on the Same Road, 2014, 12, 06
Lisa Birke (Canada) – Red Carpet, 2013, 9:59
Kristina Cranfeld (UK) – Manufactured Britishness, 2013, 10:00
Yu_Hang Huang (Taiwan) – Identity Correlation, 2009, 5:41
Levi Hanes (Ireland) – Shapes on Grey, 2014, 3:14
Mores McWeath (USA) – Sharing Laizy Gaines, 2013, 5:12
Yuri Pirondi & Ines Von Bonhorst (UK) – Emergencia, 2012, 10

VIP interviews with
Barry Morse – https://vip.nmartproject.net/?page_id=511
Lisa Birke – https://vip.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1702

CINEMA T 14/03

Alienated Memory
Brave New World!?
a collaboration with Institut fier Alles Moegliche Berlin

Roland Quelven (France) – La Chambre d’Eric B. 2014, 4:31
Eric Patrick (USA)- Retrocognition, 2012, 17:37
Evertt Beidler (USA) – Moves Manager, 2011, 4:09
Francesca Fini Italy) – Touchless, 2014, 4:46
Armstrong Tarke (Cameroun) – REVERSE CIVILISATION, 2014, 3:57
Javier Velázquez Cabrero (Spain) – My city a bit cleaner of advertising every day, 2012, 6:00
Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) – 370 New World, 2014, 5:08
Kaiser Nahhas (Syria) – Anti Censorship Protest at Taksim, 2014, 2014, 4:27
William Pena (Colombia) – Control, 2013, 3:45
IOCOSE (Italy) – In the Long Run, 2010, 20:20
Fabian Heitzhausen (Germany) – I’m Game, 2014, 3:08
Gabriele Tosi (Italy) – The Extreme Challenge, 2014, 4:56
Jonathan Minard and James George (USA) – Clouds, 2012, 19:00
Yu Cheng Yu (Taiwan) – Switch, 2008, 4:32

VIP interviews with
Roland Quelven- http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=606
Francesca Fini – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=656
Marcantonio Lunardi – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=907
William Pena – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=726
Gabriele Tosi – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=1725

CINEMA T 14/04

Alienated Time Lines

Apotropia (Italy) – K, 2012, 4:00
Isabel Layton (USA) – Little Black Dress, 2014, 2:28
Ezra Wube (Ethiopia) – Amora, 2009, 2:41
Ozan Turkkan (Turkey) – Bipolar Fractal, 2013, 4.32
Ramon Suau Lleal (Spain) – Hoax, 2010, 4:23
Julie Skarland (Australia) – Angeline, 2013, 2:49
Karolien Soete (Belgium) – Tempus Fugit , 2013, 3:53
Umesh Mangupudi ( India) – March To Nowhere, 2014, 6:06
Dustin Grella (USA) – Animation Hotline, 2012, 5:37
Elisabeth Leister (USA) – Strange Loop, 2014, 6.45
SinQuenza (Spain) – Exotic Shadow in a Shadow, 2013, 2.15
Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore) – Space Drawing 05, 2010, 1:21
Kristen Lauth Shaeffer (USA) – Forty-Six, 2009, 4:09
Anthony Sherin (USA) – DUÆL: Lee + Man, 2014, 5:09
Farid Hamedi (Iran) – Theatre for the Artist, 2014, 1:50
Hyash Tanmoy (India) – Stark Electric Jesus, 2014, 12:00
Cinzia Sarto (Italy) – Disquiet, 2013, 3:13
Sanglim Han (S.Korea) – Bloom, 2012, 3:35
Johanna Reich (Germany) – Phoenix, 2012, 3:20

VIP interviews with
Apotropia – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=1661
Ezra Wube – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=830
Karolien Soete – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=820
Elisabeth Leister – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=1862