NewMediaFest’2010 – 31 December 2010
The end of a festival project – the end of an era
On 31 Dezember, NewMediaFest’2010 will be finalized.
Starting on 1 January 2010 and running during 2010,
this festival project was not only offering to the online and offline audience an retrospective view on 10 years
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne – the experimental platform for art and new media, covering a wide range of fields of digital art,
but also pointing to the perspectives on future activities.
artvideoKOELN CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival
and VideoChannel – international videoart platform
announce CologneOFF 2011 – videoart in a global context
the new festival project for 2011
1 January – 31 December 2011
to be organised in virtual & physical space –> Internet, Cologne, Germany and many places around the globe.
CologneOFF 2011 will consist of several program components
1. CologneOFF VI as the basis
2. contributions from curators from many countries
3. 12 thematic programs by VideoChannel
4. additional extrernal program structures
The festival project will be organised based on existing and extending networking structures, one could also speak of an exemplary local and global networking project.
While CologneOFF 2011 will be completed as a festival project on 31 December 2011, the physical presentations, screenings and exhibtion will run at least until the end of 2012.
The NetworK’s future lies primarily in the field of “art and moving images”, this might be experimental film or videoart or other forms how moving images are used in contemporary art.
Until the end of 2010, The Network will close the doors to a couple of platforms, which will be not continued in 2011.
In July, Cinematheque http://cinema.nmartproject.net
starts. This platform for streaming media exhibitions is already complete and will remain for permanent as a museum and media art project online for permanent.
In September, SoundLAB – http://soundlab.newmediafest.org – will release its 7th edition of sonic art, after SoundlAB started in 2004. Complerted this way, also Soundlab will remain after 2010, as a museum and a media art project itself online for permanent.
Until 31.December 2010, Celebrate! - the netart features 2010 on JavaMuseum will finalize JavaMuseum – Forum for internet Technology in Contemporary Art - an an active environment, and will remain online for permanent, as well, as a museum and media art project itself.
A Virtual Memorial Foundation http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org
closed already earlier this year and is now already just a museum and a complted media art project.
At the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011, there will be no special announcements, but these essential components of The Network will simply expire and be no longer continued.
Cinematheque is presenting on VideoFestival Miden
Kalamata/Greece 8-10 July 2010 – the interactive show Flash & Thunder – Flash as a too and medium for artistic creations http://mac.le-musee-divisioniste.org/blog/?p=86
The video Silent Cry http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/blog?page_id=47 is presented in two Optica Festival presentations at Festival Proyector 2010″ – Espacio Menos Uno Madrid (Spain) 5-31 July 2010 Galería Texu Oviedo (Spain) – 5-31 July 2010
Manipulated Image Santa Fe/USA in cooperation with VideoChannel will present on 2 April at the Complex the videoart Show “Memory & Identity” – US experimental videos curated by Alysse Stepanian for VideoChannel Cologne as the feature of the Month April 2010.
12 March Manipulated Image @ The Complex Santa Fe (USA) For the Action’s Sake - screening event
co-curated by Alysse Stepanian and Agricola de Cologne http://manipulatedimage.com/
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