animateC – Cologne Art & Animation Festival
has been introduced in 2011 as a new festival format by CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival, in order to pay the animation as a tool for artistic creations more attention, encouraging artists to follow new paths in contemporary art using moving images, and give the animation this way another and new authentic meaning.
In this way, there are some points of contact to the classical animation film, as we know from cartoons, the use of puppets or the commercial digital animation films from the Disney Studios, but only in this sense, that the same tools are used for following concepts of art and enrich art, this way, via new levels of perception and reality.
But the artistic animation is also used in advertising and commercial animation films, and vice versa artists use representing styles from commercial advertising or are influenced by the famous animation studios, so that actually the artistic concept only counts, and this is handled by each artist individually. Including animation as an representing component in an art work is personalizing and individualizing the art work this way via a new authenticity.
2024
18 December 2024 – 31 March 2025
Cologne – Kolkata – Addis Ababa – Los Angeles
Selected videos
Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – The Re-Interpretation, 2023, 7:20
Antonio Alvarado (Spain) – Volatiles, 2024, 9:28
Antonio Amaral (France) – Yesno. 2023, 8:00
Barry Anderson (USA) – Fragment [av24.01],2024, 4:35
Timothy Arment (USA) – Living Ruminations, 2022, 2:26
Paolo Bandinu (Italy) – WHERE THERE IS SHADOW THERE MUST BE LIGHT, 2020, 03:10
Isthmaël Baudry (France) – Morphoex-Bettina, 2019, 4:00
Silliam Bims (USA) – To Speak Through You and You Through Me (Spoken Through), 2020, 11:22
Sarah Buckius (USA) – technoloffspring v.1, 2024, 2:53
Brit Bunkley (NZ) – Natural Intelligence, 2024 – 7:11
Laura & Sira Cabrera (Spain) – Hole – Agujero, 2024, 09:26
Matteo Campulla (Italy) – An Eternal Idleness, 2023, 3:10
Alejandro Casales N. & Esther Lamneck (Mexico) – Broken Space in Fractal Way, 2023, 08:49
S.Chandrasekaran (Singapore) – Ephemeral Reality, 2024, 5:00
Claude Ciccolella (France) – War of Gos 1, 2024, 6:42
Citron | Lunardi (Italy) – Compost n.2, 2022, 3:31
Gabin Cortez Chance (USA) – To Show One’s Hand, 2022, 4:58
Osvaldo Cibils (Uruguay) – The Subway Acupuncturist, 2023, 11:28
Osvaldo Cibils /colectivo másai autónomo (Uriguay) – Sexagenarians in blue, 2024, 4:03
Coalfather Industries (USA) – Fracture, 2020, 2:53
Glasz DeCuir (Spain) – Superspreader, 2020, 14:09
Sandrine Deumier (France) – From the place where the light goes out, 2023, 5:45
Clay Dunklin (USA) – SERPENTalk, 2021, 03:12
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Paradise Lost, 2022, 6:00
Martin Fowler (UK) – Sheep-Walk: (His)tories of ‘Modern’ Scotland, 2023, 10:00
Silvia de Gennaro (Italy) – I Just Want to Dance, 2023, 3.29
Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Physalia, 2024, 3:49
Henry Gwiazda (USA) – Flowing, 2022, 8:17
Alvaro Ricardo Herrera (Colombia) – I like Armenia and Armenia likes me, 2021, 1:57
Heejeong Jeong (South Korea) – The House of Wind, 2023, 8:10
Marco Joubert (CA) – A DIFFERENT GOAL, 2023, 03:26
Katya Kan and Dianne Harris (UK) – “The Epiphany of the White Rabbit”, 2022, 15:00
Bailey Keogh (USA) – BIOSPHERE, 2022, 1:36
Ronit Keret (Il) – Abyss, 2021 , 01:49
Shon Kim (S.Korea) – BOOKANIMA: Dance, 2018, 7:31
Shon Kim (S.Korea) – BOOKANIMA: Andy Warhol, 2020, 4:58
Maria Korporal (NL) – Diaspora, 2023, 5:57
Piet Koster (NL) – Never realized SPHINX projects, 2022, 3:47
Andrea Leoni (Italy) – CALL, 2023, 4:26
Lilia Li-Mi-Yan and Katherina Sadovsky (Russia) – A000000000001000AA011, 2021, 09:00
Thomas Lisle (UK) – Loves Journey, 2023, 7:04
Eddie Lohmeyer (USA) – Studies for Cosmic Transmigration, 2023, 3:18
Benna Gaean Maris (Italy) – Marketing Keeled Free Web Like a Storm, 2022, 4:00
Aleksei Martyniuk /Russia) – Stare Well, 2022, 3:28
Aleksei Martyniuk (Russia) – Who Framed The White Cube, 2023, 2:22
Albert Merino (Spain) -The Present Condition, 2020, 18:10
Nenad Nedeljkov (Serbia) – After Shift, 2022, 1:12
Gioula Papadopoulou (Greece) – AI made me do it: Ophelia. 2023, 2:23
Fran Orallo (UK/Spain) – 2123, 2023, 4:45
Edward Ramsay-Morin (USA) – Up and Away, 2024, 05:19
Izabella Retkowska (Poland) – Anamnesis, 2023, 1:00
Owen Roberts (USA) – Remember, 2022, 3:27
Luis Carlos Rodríguez (Spain) – TEXtrucTURAS huMANas, 2024, 06:30
Jolie Ruelle, Ezra Wube (USA/Ethiopia) – You Are My Devotion, 2023, 6:12
Ausin Sainz (Spain) – Tourist, 2024, 6:00
Valentin Sismann (France) – Screensong, 2024, 3’58’
Nonoho Suzuki (Japan) ABURIDASHI Assortment: Video Letters written in invisible ink, 2022, 09:24
Hernando Urrutia (Portugal) – LOOK AT YOU after the WAR / xquisite corpse, 2023, 2:00
Thomas Vallianatos (Greece) – Athens-the present that didn’t exist, 2023, 3:51
Yiou Wang & Alina Tofan (China/Romania) – Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go, 2024, 05:02
Jing Wang and Harvey Goldman (USA) -Entropy of Truth, 2024, 5:45
Peter Whittenberger (USA) – To Hold, 2024, 04:58
Susanne Wiegner /Germany) – Looking Glass, 2023, 7:00
CAAF 06
Gili Avissar (Israel) – Ganges River, 2008/2020, 8:15
Patricio Ballesteros Ledesma (Argentina) – NO ON, 2019, 3:46
Paolo Bandinu (Italy) – Il Velo di Maya. 2019, 2:30
Brit Bunkley (New Zealand) – The Peaceable Kingdom, 2023, 5:28
Ioana Buraga & Alina Tofan (Romania) – Fever Routine, 2021, 14:49
Adam Dimmheed (Sweden) – The Professional, 2020, 5:00
Pablo-Martín Córdoba (F) – Paris-Saint-Lazare Station, April 10, 2017, 12h03-12h07, 2017, 4:26
Bill Domonkos (USA) – Endless North, 2016, 2:48
Silvia de Gennaro (Italy) – Still Life, 2022, 03:13
Oliver Griem (South Korea) – A Virtual Death, 2021, 2:11
Henry Gwiazda (USA) – Pool of Ideas, 2018, 9:17
Marco Joubert (Canada) – The Atoms of Reality / Les atomes du réel, 2020, 03:59
Marcus Keim/Beate Hecher (Austria) – Pangäa, 2020, 13:00
David King (Australia) – Mansions In Eternity, 2021, 03.43′
Maria Korporal (NL) – The Mind’s Egg, 2023, 2:30
Carolin Koss (Finland) – Plastic Child, 2016, 12:11
Heidi Kumao (USA) – Devoured, 2020, 1:08
Michael Mersereau (USA) – Ameri-Paranoia, 2020, 02:06
João Pedro Oliveira (Portugal) – Things I Have Seen in My Dreams, 2019, 10:00
Fran Orallo (Spain/UK) – Where Dreams Live, 2023, 6:44
Vojislav Radovanović (Serbia/USA) – Suburbia, 2020, 11:00
Farhanaz Rupaidha (Indonesia) – Techno Inferno, 2019, 5:24
David Jason Snow (USA) – Grande liturgie situationniste (“Grand Situationist Liturgy”), 2021, 5;38
Pawel Szostak (Poland/Austria) – Reality2 – Reality Too, 2019, 9:54
Dawn Westlake (USA) – Pooling, 2018, 4:05
Peter Whittenberger (USA) – All Possible Futures, 2019, 3:51
Peter Whittenberger (USA) – If Only We Had Eyes To See, 2023, 03:34
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Back drop, 2021, 4:03
Tansy Xiao (USA) – Bone and Air, 2020, 7:30
Jody Zellen (USA) – The Waking Dream, 2022, 8:49
animateCOLOGNE 05
is the new festival edition in the framework of “The W:OW Project”
to be inaugurated in the WOW Ukraine event series in Kiev & Kharkiv – 10-15 April 2018
@ Kharkiv Municipal Art Gallery & National Cinema House Kiev
http://wow.engad.org
featuring videos by
APOTROPIA (Italy) – The Kiss, 2016, 1:19
Mladen Bundalo (Bosnia/Belgium) – Hyperinflation”, 2017, 08:36
Harold Charre (France) – Requiem, 2017, 9:18
Meredith Drum (UK) – The Chthulu and the Final Girl
, 2017
, 1:40
Tomislav Findrik (Croatia) – Oyashio, 2017, 04:29
Olga Guse (Russia/Germany) – The Others, 2017, 3:20
Henry Gwiazda (USA) – Knowledge, 2016, 3’06”
Sanglim Han (South Korea) – We Live In Squares, 2017, 8:30
Cody Healey-Conelly (USA) – Glitch Noir – Datasifter Prelude, 2015, 2:41
Emilia Izquierdo (UK) – Ecclipse, 2017, 4:58
Savio Leite (Brazil) – Venus – Filly the lesbian little Fairy, 2017, 6:00
Thomas Lisle (UK) – Transformher, 2016, 8:00
Christina Lykoka (Greece) – Death Of A Blackbird, 2017, 6:26
Wrik Mead (Canada) – Outcognito, 2017, 5:00
João Pedro Oliveira (Portugal) – Storms, 2018, 8:00
Katalina Padilla Cerro (Colombia) – The invisible, 2017, 8:21
Mikio Saito (Japan) – The Fish, 2017, 5:56
Maurizio Sanhueza (Peru) – Parasite, 2016, 6:23
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Sunrise, 2019, 5: 46
Peter Whittenberger (USA) – Don’t Worry, You’ll Get There, 2016, 4:53
Ezra Wube (Ethiopia) – Twilight Galaxies, 2017, 7’52”
Daniel Zezelj (Croatia) – The World of Wonder, 2015, 5:34
CAAF 04
4th animateCOLOGNE – Cologne Art & Animation Festival (aC4) to take place in India in February 2016 is now accepting submissions for its 4th edition.
Founded in 2012 by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne in the framework of CologneOFF – the international festival network – operating since more than 10 years from Cologne/Germany- animateCologne – Cologne Art & Animation Festival – would like give the animation more attention, relevance and space as a particular artistic expression, thus the focus is directed to non-commercial, experimental artistic representation and concepts in order to bring animation forward to both – art & moving images, as well as contemporary art.
animateCOLOGNE 4 will be hosted by “CeC – Carnival of e-Creativity” – the annual media art event founded by Shankar Barua, celebrating in 2016 its 10th anniversary in Shillong, the capital of the Indian state of Meghalaya – http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec16/index.htmcec16
aC4 – would like to demonstrate the diversity of the artistic animation as a global language connecting people from all continents, cultural and social backgrounds.
aC4 – is looking for
– animated art contents in digital video in all its variety without any thematic limitation
– new and experimental approaches in transforming artistic concepts via animation into the language of the “moving images”
aC4 is curated and coordinated by
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
animateCOLOGNE 4 –
4th Cologne Art & Animation Festival
Sandra Araujo (Portugal) – Telephonophobia, 2015, 00:03:08
Paolo Bandinu (Italy) – Meandro Rosso, 2015, 00:03:05
Attila Bende (Romania) – Memento, 2015, 3’52’’
Christin Bolewski (Germany) – The Seventeen Point Plan, 2013, 3:00
Chris Boyd (UK) – [cthorsion scrypt fantomsens], 2015, 5:28
Arjan Brentjes (NL) – Hybris, 2014, 6:21
Genadzi Buto (Belarus) – It, 2015, 8:20
Matthias Beckmann (Germany) – „Double World“, 2011, 8:00
Shahar Davis (Israel) – Transcendental Function, 2015, 5:00
Francesca Fini (Italy) – DADALOOP, 2015, 10:00
Kristina Frank, & Mervi Kekarainen (Sweden) – 2Rabbits, 2015, 09:18
Mark Franz (Germany) – Rocking Mirror, 2014, 2:59
Silvia de Gennaro (Italy) – My name is Franco and I like dark chocolate, 2014, 07:00
Henry Gwiazda (USA) – The Third Thought Movie, 2014, 3:34
Simone Hooymans (Netherlands) – Broken Horizon, 2008, 4:44
Daniel Ivan (Mexico) – Haiku, 2015, 05:05
Ralph Janneck (Germany) – Filmpausen, 2014, 00:03:48
Tal Kantor (Israel) – Under The Small Sun, 2015, 06:15
Urša Kastelic (Slovenia) – Homo Sapiens Sapiens, 2015, 1:19
Mauri Lehtonen (Finland) – UFO Trouble, 2015, 1:00
Victor Maria Lima (Hungary) – face-a-book, 2014, 1’00
Hermes Mangialardo (Italy) – ONE DAY IN JULY, 2015, 2’15”
Aaron Oldenburg (USA) – Night in Cachiche, 2015, 1:00
Cristina Pavesi (Italy) – Stability Tests 2, 2015, 02’30”
Shuai-Cheng Pu (Taiwan) – The Sum of Secret- The Snake in Mind, 2015 , 4:54
Owen Roberts (USA) – Mistakes, 2015, 3:22
Sergio Sotomayor (Spain) – Molecular Oneiric, 2014, 5:42
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Kaspar Hauser Song, 2014, 3:15
Jakub Zaremba (Australia) – We All Connect in a Different Way, 2012, 1:05
Milan Zulic (Serbia) – The Circle of life, 2015, 5:10
CAAF 03
animateCologne 3
3rd Cologne Art & Animation festival (CAAF03)
Total Art
Alienated Timelines
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
List of Videos
Sandra Araujo (Portugal) – Runtime Error, 2013, 4:12
Natalia Biegaj (Poland) – The Door is Always Open, 2014, 4:28
Giovanni Bucci (Italy) – Never-Never, 2013, 3:44
Consuleo Calitri (ES) & Andrea Nevi (I) – The Hiccup, 2010, 8:25
Alejandro Casales (Mexico) – Adsem Varien, 2014, 8:06
Stephen John Ellis (USA) – Aus dem Kinder , 2011, 5:14
Francesca Fini (Italy) – White Sugar, 2013, 13:00
Ben Fox, (UK) – Recent Tactile Nonsense, 2014, 2:16
Catherine Fraser (Canada) – Woods, 2014, 3:00
Ruben Gonzalez Escudero (Spain) – Walking Around, 2014, 1:38
John Graham (Canada) – Move, 2011, 7:48
Henri Gwiazda (USA) – Beautiful Politics, 2012, 9:10
Gavin Hoffman (Ireland) – Complicit, 2013, 4:08
Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) – Jealous Guy, 2014, 4:35
Isabel Layton (USA) – Little Black Dress, 2014, 2:28
Jerome Chia Horng Lin (Taiwan) – The Path of Water, 2013, 4:49
Michael O’Donnell (USA) – Butternut, 2014, 4:02
Albert Merino (Spain) –Visàvis, 2013, 5.05
Tessa Moult-Milewska (Poland) – Spiders and Flies, 2013, 3:30
Belen Paton (Spain) – Belfast Road Closed, 2013, 6:46
Shuai Cheng Pu (Taiwan) – Still Here, 2010, 4:50
Edward Ramsay-Morin (USA) – As Dreams Sometimes Do, 2013, 3: 19
Adrián Regnier Chávez (Mexico) – C of La Fuga, 2014, 4:56
Ausin Sainz (Spain) – The Unborn, 2014, 4:43
Mikio Saito (Japan) – Stripes Too Stripes, 2010, 8:33
Julie Skarland (AU) – Angeline, 2013, 2:49
Ben Skea (UK) – Sleep Vessel, 2013, 2:43
Wojtek Skowron (Poland) – Beetles in Boxes, 2014, 3:56
Karolien Soete (Belgium) – Tempus Fugit , 2013, 3:53
Po-Wei Su (Taiwan)- Plastik Flowers, 2014, 2:56
Ramon Suau (Spain) – Xaoh, 2014, 4:17
Ozan Turkhan (Turkey) – Bipolar Fractal, 2013, 4.32
Adriano Vesicchelli (Italy) – Agent of Chaos, 2014, 3:51
Mizmor Watzman (Israel) – A Thing So Small, 2013, 9:00
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Home, Sweet Mome!, 2014, 2:59
Owen Eric Wood (CA) – Corrida Autotopia, 2014, 5:00
Ezra Wube (Ethiopia) – Kaled, 2014, 6:10
2013
CAAF 02
animateCologne 2
animateCOLOGNE 2013
Francesca Fini (Italy) – WOMBS, 2012, 6:00 **
Albert Merino (Spain) – Lot’s Shadow, 2011, 6:40 **
Emilio Rizzo (Italy) – No Tav, 2013, 02:51 **
Maurizio Sanhueza (Peru)- My old Man’s Pistol, 2012, 2:36**
Antje van Wichelen (Belgium) – Lost and Found, 2013, 9:34 *
Kristen Lauth Shaeffer (USA) – Forty-Six, 2009, 4:09 **
Dustin Grella (USA) – Animation Hotline, 2012, 5:37*
Kianoush & Farnoush Abedi (Iran) – Irreversible, 2012, 6:50 *
Belén Paton (Spain) – City of Caves, 2012, 06:45 **
Todd Fuller (Australia) – One and only, 2012, 3: 54 **
Henry Gwiazda (USA) – Choice, 2012, 9’16″ **
Carl – Anthony Dufault (Canada) – The Rehearsal, 2012-2013, 2:00 **
Anna Ampariotou (Greece) – scissor’s stories III, 2011, 5: 27*
Peter Aerschmann (CH) – FROM A TO B, 2010, 3:00**
Yufeng Li (China/USA) – Cellular Romance, 2013, 2:21**
Urša Kastelic & Blaž Bačar (Slovenia) – Neomi- Odpri Oči, 2013, 3:55*
Sandra Araújo (Portugal) – POW POW POW SWAG, 2013, 2:55**
Magda Matwiejew (Australia) – Morphette, 2013, 6:36**
Deirdre Hegarty (Ireland) – Re-Cords, 2013, 1:27**
Peter Whittenberger (USA) – Simple #13 (I am a Dinosaur), 2012, 1:37**
Robby Rackleff (USA) – Guild, 2012, 9:42*
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Inside My Room, 2013, 3:26**
Daniela Wayllace (Belgium) – Memento Mori, 2012, 10:00**
Maria Korporal (Italy) – Nevermore, 2012, 10:27**
Ben Fox (UK) – Nature of Things, 2012
, 03:05**
Michael Lasater (USA) – Epiphany, 2006, 5:17**
Bruno Collet (France) .- His War , 2012, 9:50**
Alessandro Amaducci (Italy) – Black Data, 2012, 4:05**
Julie Boehm (Germany) – Modern Childhood, 2013, 2:35*
Eva Olsson (Sweden) – Timeloop, 2012, 2:02**
Kristina Frank (Sweden) – One Minute Earth, 2013, 1:42
CAAF 01
CAAF01
1st Cologne Art & Animation Festival
Cologne Art & Animation Festival started in 2011 in order to give the artistic animation more relevance in the framework of CologneOFF on one hand, on the other hand this festival format was acting individually, as well as an integral part of the CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival.
The 1st edition is actually the result of extracting videos using artistic animation from the previous CologneOFF festival editions, only CAAF02 will release an open call for animation videos in 2012.
After CologneOFF has been discontinued after the 10th festival edition in 2014, CAAF is acting as an individual exhition format for artistic animation. In 2016, CAAF04 had been released, in 2020 a Jubilee edition will be realized.
What can be understood as artistic animation – a kind of counter position to the commercial animation films produced by the Disney Studios for instance. CAAF is encouraging artists to use the animation for creating artistic and, that’s important – non-commercial content, a type of animation following artistic concepts.
featuring videos by………… Dario Bardic (Croatia), Matthias Härenstam (Sweden) , Albert Merino (Spain), Mihai Grecu (Romania) , Nick Fox-Gieg/USA), Sarah Mock (Germany), Gabriel Shalom (USA), Susanne Wiegner (Germany), Henry Gwiazda (USA), Rafael Alcala (Puerto Rico), Robbie Rackleff (USA) , Kristian de la Riva (UK) , Ezra Wube (Ethiopia) , Barry Morse (USA), Sheldon Brown (USA) , Stine Gonsholt (Norway) , Kaspars Groshevs (Latvia) , Adele Raczkövi (Austria) , Heidi Kumao (USA) , Ulf Kristinansen (Norway) , Ellen Wetmore (USA) , Sergio Sotomayor (Spain) , Pablo Fernandez-Pujol (Spain), Doug Williams (USA)………. curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Dario Bardic (Croatia) – Etude, 3:17, 2007
Matthias Härenstam (Sweden) – Closed Circuit, 2011, 3:01
Albert Merino (Spain) – The City and The Other, 2010, 3:09
Mihai Grecu (Romania) – Coagulate, 5:56, 2008
Nick Fox-Gieg/USA) – Disarmed , 2002, 2:42
Sarah Mock (Germany) – Is there a Way Out, 2011, 3:47
Gabriel Shalom (USA) – Small Room Tango, 2004, 3:40
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Just Midnight, 2010, 3:43
Henry Gwiazda (USA) – thankfully,….finally, 2009, 3:10
Rafael Alcala (Puerto Rico) – Smoked, 3:20, 2006
Robbie Rackleff (USA) – Dark Fortress Occult Master of Space: Level 3, 2010, 4:21
Kristian de la Riva (UK) – Cut, 2009, 3:00
Ezra Wube (Ethiopia) – Amora, 2009, 2:41
Barry Morse (USA) – Mouse’s Birthday, 3:37, 2010
Sheldon Brown (USA) – Scalable City, 5.03, 2009
Stine Gonsholt (Norway) – Balance, 2009, 3:02
Kaspars Groshevs (Latvia) – Title: Tomorrow, 2007, 1:00
Adele Raczkövi (Austria) – Looking for Love, 2010, 8:25
Heidi Kumao (USA) – Hole in the Floor, 2008, 7:00
Ulf Kristinansen (Norway) – The Hope of Enduring Long- 2010, 1:00
Ellen Wetmore (USA) – Portrait After Dora Maar, 2010, 2:00
Sergio Sotomayor (Spain) – Quantum, 2009, 3:13
Pablo Fernandez-Pujol (Spain) – 142-143 – 2010, 2:10
Doug Williams (USA) – Back & Forth, 2009, 2:42
