C o l o g n e O F F 2013

17-25 Aug – CologneOFF 2012 Russia III

Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards
are happy to launch a selection of the coming festival edition

CologneOFF VIII – Continental Drift
@ XI Kansk International Video Festival /Russia
17-25 August 2012

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16-19 August – CologneOFF 2012 Latvia II

CologneOFF 2012 Latvia II
@ Waterpieces Contemporary Art and Video Festival Riga 2012
16-19 August 2012

featuring
Mexican Visions
recent videoart from Mexico
a collaboration with Circuito Electrovisiones Mexico City
selection curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

more info

July/Aug – CologneOFF 2012 Italy

Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards are happy to present

CologneOFF 2012 Italy
@ Ares Film & Media Art Festival Siracusa/Italy
July/August 2012

Art & the City
The Best of CologneoFF VII
a special selection curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

more details

24 August – CologneOFF 2012 Ecuador

CologneOFF 2012 Ecuador
@ Cinemateca Nacional & Centro Cultural Metropolitano Quito/Ecuador
24 August 2012

a collaboration wih
MIVA – Muiestra Internacional de Videoarte & Alterego Quito

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10 July – 09 Sept – CologneOFF 2012 Russia II

Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards
are proud to present

The Best of animateCOLOGNE
@ Linoleum – International Animation Festival Moscow
@ Moscow State Gallery on Solyanka
10 July – 09 September 2012

More details on

selection results – Shoah Film Collection

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selection results – exDox

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selection results – CologneOFF VIII

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selection results – animateCOLOGNE

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selection results – 1#minuteCOLOGNE

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selection results – CologneOFF VIII- Let’s Save the World

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18 July – CologneOFF 2012 Peru

CologneOFF 2012 Peru
@ VideoartFestival Video Babel Cusco/Peru

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12-15 July – A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh 2012

Freedom of Memory
A Virtual Memorial Phom Penh 2012
videoart in a global context
dedicated to the victims of the genocide in Cambodia 1975-1979
http://phnompenh2012.a-virtual-memorial.org

12-15 July 2012
@ META House Phnom Penh
German -Cambodian Cultural Centre

artvideoKOELN in collaboration with
Cologne International Videoart Festival
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1#minute COLOGNE – Cologne One Minute Film Festival
animateCOLOGNE – Cologne Art & Animation Festival
exDox – Cologne Experimental Documentary Film Festival
SFC – SHoah Film Collection

More details and lists of programs

5-7 July – CologneOFF 2012 Greece II

CologneOFF 2012 Greece II
@ Videoart Festival Miden Kalamata (Greece)
5-7 July 2012

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5 July – CologneOFF 2012 Spain II

CologneOFF 2012 Spain II
@ FIART Foundation Madrid@ Electrocuciones Madrid 2012
http://electrocuciones.es/electrocuciones_fiart/index.htm
5 July 2012

PDF catalogue for download
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/1minuteCOLOGNE2012_Madrid.pdf

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lecture @ Hybrida Art Festival Valencia

Lecture by Agricola de Cologne on 21 June 2012
@ Hybrida Art Festival – Valencia Politechnical University
@ Las Naves Valencia

21 June – CologneOFF in Valencia/Spain

The Hybrid Art Festival took place at Las Naves – Center for Contemporary Expressions Valenica/Spain – 21-26 June 2012

Invited artists

http://hybridaartfestival.wordpress.com/artistas-invitados/

Lecture & Presentation – Internet streaming
http://hybridaartfestival.wordpress.com/conferencia/

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3 June – CologneOFF screening in Moskow

CologneOFF screening on 3 June 2012 @ Moskow Museum of Modern Art
@ Now & After Videoart Festival

download the poster as PDF

1-30 June – A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012

Under the Patronage of the European Parliament and in the context of the European cultural program “The A Team – Artists for Change” -
A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 – Commemorative Interventions featuring SFC – Shoah Film Collection
took place @ Culture and Arts Project NOASS
between 1 and 30 June 2012

in partnership between
Riga Ghetto and latvian Holocaust Museum, the association SHAMIR, Culture and Arts Project NOASS and artvideoKOELN – the curatorial initiative “art & moving images”

more details

May —> CologneOFF Russia I

CologneOFF 2012 Russia
@ Now & After Video Art Festival Moskow
http://www.now-after.org/
24 May – 10 June 2012

More info
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2215

May –> CologneOFF 2012 Armenia

CologneOFF 2012 Armenia
@ One Shot – International Film Festival Yerewan
17-24 May 2012

More info
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2269

May –> CologneOFF 2012 Belarus II

More info
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2280

May –> CologneOFF 2012 Greece I

More info
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2144

CologneOFF 2012 in May

CologneOFF 2012 Greece I
@ Athens International Video Art Festival – 18-20 May 2012

CologneOFF 2012 Belarus II
@ Urban Culture and Fire Festival Minsk
18-20 May 2012

CologneOFF 2012 Armenia
@ One Shot – International Film Festival – 17-24 May 2012

CologneOFF2012 Russia I
@ Now & After Festival Moscow – Museum of Contemporary Art
24 May – 10 June 2012

More info soon

April –>CologneOFF 2012 France

For the second time in sequence, Cologne International Videoart Festival is collaboratiing with ARTchSo Videoart Festival in Rennes – 26 April – 9 May 2012 – which is focussed in 2012 on videoart from Africa.

CologneOFF was invited to prepare two different screening programs to be presented during the festival in Rennes.

Please find here more details and the list of selected works

April –> CologneOFF 2012 Colombia

Cologne International Videoart Festival is happy to
announce

CologneOFF 2012 Colombia
@ Festival Internacional de la Imagen
http://www.festivaldelaimagen.com/
Manizales/Colombia
16-20 April 2012

featuring

Art & the City
The Best of CologneoFF VII
a special selection curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

more info

April –> CologneOFF 2012 Portugal

Cologne International Videoart Festival
is happy to announce

CologneOFF 2012 Portugal
@ FONLAD – Digital Art Festival Coimbra/Pt – 14-28 April 2012
MIVA – MOSTRAS INTERNACIONAIS DE VIDEO ARTE
@ Claire Gallery, Coimbra – 28 April 2012

CologneOFF VII
In & Out of Balance
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

more info

CologneOFF launches – exDox

Cologne International Videoart Festival
will be lauching in September a new festival platform dedicated to experimental and artistic documentary as a new format in the field of “art & moving images”, named
exDox – Cologne Experimental Documentary Film Festival

Call for entries
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=4283

Deadline: 1 July 2012

CologneOFF 2012 in April 2012

In April 2012,
CologneOFF 2012- videoart in a global context
- nomadic festival project –
is jumping from the Philippines firstly back to Europe – Portugal
and like a ping ping further to South America – Colombia .
and back to Europe – France

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CologneOFF 2012 Portugal
@ FONLAD – Digital Art Festival Coimbra/Pt – 14-28 April 2012

CologneOFF 2012 Colombia
@ 8th Festival Internacional de la Imagen Manizales/Colombia-
16-20 April 2012

CologneOFF 2012 France
@ ARTchSo Video Festival Rennes – 26 April – 9 May 2012

More details soon.

March –> CologneOFF 2012 Czech Republik

CologneOFF 2012 Czech Republik
@ Alliance Francaise Prague – 20 March 2012
@ Anemic: Festival of Independent Film and New Media Prague

Cologne International Videoart Festival was invited by Alliance Francaise Prague to present a selection of its collection of videos by Francophone artists on 20 March 2012, 18h – a collaboration with
ANEMIC festival Prague

More details
—> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2102

March –> CologneOFF 2012 Philippines I

Cologne International Videoart Festival is happy to announce the next venue in South East Asia

CologneOFF 2012 Philippines
@ Generation Loss Festival Manila
14-30 March 2012

a collaboration with Green Papaya Projects Quezon City

More details on
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2091

PDF Info

PDF catalogue CologneOFF VII – Art & the City – India & Philippines

March –> CologneOFF 2012 Serbia

1#minute Cologne – the new festival branch by
Cologne International Videoart Festival

is happy to announce

CologneOFF 2012 Serbia -
1#minute Cologne — Cologne International Videoart Festival
@ International Short Film Festival ACTION II Prokuplje (Serbia)
http://ponude.biz/filmfestival/english.htm
13 March 2012

More details and list of videos

New feature: Football as a topic in videoart

Forever – The Ball!

The compilation of films and videos selected and curated by Agricola de Cologne is observing the phenomenon of football from different positions.
They transport basically the enthusiasm for this sport, from those who are actively practicing this sport, but in the same way, the fans, enrthusiastic amateurs who identify themselves with the pleasure and positive the sport and its protagonists are representing to them. But also the dark side of this sport is spotlighted,like hooligans, radical mass phenomenons, and the misuse of drugs and alcohol.

These are the participating artists

Eric Esser (Germany) , Jacques Faton & Alpha Sadou Gano (Belgium/Senegal), Hubert Sielecki (Austria), Kevin Ryan (Ireland)
Max Hattler (Germany), Yuriy Kruchak & Yulia Kostereva (Ukraine), Joanot Cortès (Spain), Paula Noya (Spain), Henry Gwiazda (USA), Marta Azparren (Spain), Eva Olsson (Swe), Anders Weberg (Swe), Haike Rausch & Torsten Grosch (D), Sander Veenhof (NL), Scott Stark (USA), David Anthony Sant (Australia), Heike Liss & Patrice Scanlon (USA), Ann Tracy (USA), Goran Dimic (Croatia), Cristian Chironi (Italy), Alvaro Collar (Spain), Lili White (USA)

The list of videos, as well as the access to the online feature can be found on
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1272

24-26 February – CologneOFF 2012 India

CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context
English – http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_eng.pdf
Deutsch – http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_deu.pdf
Espanol – http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_es.pdf

is continuing its tour around the globe in Asia, Jumping from Bangkok, where CologneoFF 2012 was presented @ BEFF06 – 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival – presented @ Goeteh Institute Bangkok, to India,
CeC – Carnival of e-Creativity
http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec12/index.htm
24-25-26 February 2012

where CologneOFF 2012 is presenting the entire festival program of CologneOFF VII – Art & the City
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF7_catalogue.pdf
and addition 6 screening programs by partner curators –>
- Videoart from Sweden curated by Eva Olsson/Jonas Nielsson
- Videoart from Austria curated by MACHFELD
- Close to my Heart Videoart from Iran curated by Alysse Stepanian
- Right Now! Videoart from Chile curated by Nicole Rademacher
- Argentinian Dreamers curated by Silvio de Gracia
- Videoart from Lebanon complied by ALBA – Visual Arts School of the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (Beirut) – University of Balamand – Abdo Nawar & Agricola de Cologne

A new PDF catalogue is now available
PDF catalogue CologneOFF VII – Art & the City – India & Philippines

Find the list of videos to be presented on
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2057

animateCOLOGNE – new branch – new call

Cologne Intermational Videoart Festival
announces the launch of a new festival branch

animateCOLOGNE –
Cologne Art & Animation Festival
would like give the animation as a particular artistic expression more attention, relevance and space by using a new festival format based on an exceptional permament collection of animated art contents to be extended once a year via a new festival edition.

The 1st festival edition will be launched in September 2012 in the framework of CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context – nomadic festival project.

The new call for entries can be found on netEX
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=4024

CologneOFF released a new branch & a new call

Cologne Intermational Videoart Festival
announces the launch of a new festival branch

1#minuteCologne –
Cologne One Minute Film Festival
a collaboration with VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

The 1st festival edition will be launched in September 2012 in the framework of CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context – nomadic festival project.

The new call for entries can be found on netEX
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=3928

CologneOFF 2012 Thailand

Cologne International Videoart Festival
is happy to announce the 1st of a series of screening events in Asia

CologneOFF 2012 Thailand
@ BEFF 06 – 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
1 February 2012 @ Goethe Institute Bangkok

CologneOFF 2012 Thailand @ Goethe Institut Bangkok

Details
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2020
http://beffbeff.com/beff-programmes/cologneoff-2012-seasons-of-memory/

Videoart from Belarus

On occasion of
CologneOFF 2012 Belarus
@ Cinema Perpetuum Mobile Film Festival
Minsk – 16-18 January 2012

CologneOFF & VideoChannel are releasing a new feature
Videoart from Belarus
curated by Vera Antipova (Minsk)

featuring
Shenja Berline, Sergey Kolosovski, Natalia Fi
Artem Lobach, Helen Yasinskaya

Enter

CologneOFF 2012 Belarus I

CologneOFF 2012 Belarus I
@ Cinema Perpetuum Mobile Film Festival
16-18 January 2012

PDF catalogue for download

more details

1 Jan 2012 – Launch of Mexican Visions

Happy New Year!

Today, the new videoart online feature is launched:
Mexican Visions – videoart from Mexico
a collaboration between Circuito Electrovisiones & CologneOFF

The screening program including 21 Mexican artists was premiered already on 14 & 15 November 2011 in the framework of CologneOFF 2011 – Mexico @ Media Fest UAM – Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
–> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2011_Mexico_Cuba.pdf

but now this feature can be reviewed also online giving an exciting view on the current videoart creation in Mexico. Each included artists is presenting another aspect of the multi-facetted genre of videoart.

Enter this feature here

At the same time, also the PDF catalogue for “Mexican Visions” is launched for free download –>

http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_Mexican-Visions.pdf

1 January 2012 – launch of the new call

On 1 January 2012, Cologne International Videoart festival is officially launching the new call for the 8th festival edition –
CologneOFF VIII – Continental Drift.

“Continental Drift” is used as a metaphore for the instabile political, economical and ecological situation, people live on the globe currently, which is representing also a moral crisis of all systems in power.

CologneOFF VIII will be premiered in September 2012 in the framework of the nomadic festival project CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context.

Artists are invited to submit exclusively online.up to 3 experimental films and videoart dealing with human rights, memory and identity

All details and the entry form can be found here —>
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=3791

Call for entries: English

Convocatoria: español

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

After 1 year of the real big success on the tour around the globe, Agricola de Cologne and the entire team of Cologne International Videoart Festival wish all friends, partners and supporters a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Successful New Year!!

Download your copy of the revised PDF catalogue of CologneOFF VII – Art & the City
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF7_catalogue.pdf

as well as the copy of the revised PDF catalogue – CologneOFF 2011 Mexico
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2011_Mexico_Cuba.pdf

and the most recent project information
CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context
in different language versions

English – http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_eng.pdf
Deutsch – http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_deu.pdf
Espanol – http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_es.pdf

Happy holidays and see you again in 2012!!

Links —> CologneOFF 2011 Mexico

Please take a look on the documentation of
CologneOFF 2011 Mexico
@ Ex Teresa Arte Actual Mexico City
@ UAM – Universidad Autonom Metropolitana Mexico City
@ Centro de las Artes San Luis Potosi

—> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1826

Ex Teresa Arte Actual Mexico City

http://www.elporvenir.com.mx/notas.asp?nota_id=538597

http://www.justa.com.mx/?p=32042

http://mx.globedia.com/recibira-teresa-septima-edicion-cologneoff

http://www.publimetro.com.mx/entretenimiento/recibira-ex-teresa-septima-edicion-de-cologneoff/nkkf!TiEVMCUMiaEvTxVRsJzQHg/

http://www.kulone.com/MX/Event/2749245-CologneOFF-2011-Ciudad-de-M%C3%A9xico-Videoarte-en-contexto-global

http://www.exteresa.bellasartes.gob.mx/index.php/component/content/article/40-inicio/113-muestra-de-diveo

http://www.fahrenheitmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=3355:recomendaciones-de-la-semana&lang=es

http://noticias.lainformacion.mx/arte-cultura-y-espectaculos/artes-general/recibira-ex-teresa-septima-edicion-de-cologneoff_3B5fS3hcNiEvyijtO2OW72/

http://www.noticias.canal22.org.mx/noticia.html?n=50076

San Luis Potosi – Centro de las Artes

http://centrodelasartesslp.gob.mx/home/prensa/art-the-city-muestra-de-videoarte-experimental-en-el-caslpc/

http://cante-slp.blogspot.com/2011_11_01_archive.html

http://centrodelasartesslp.gob.mx/home/prensa/art-the-city-muestra-de-videoarte-experimental-en-el-caslpc/

http://revistasintaxis.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3468:centro-de-las-artes-invita-a-cologneoffvii-mart-a-the-citym-muestra-de-videoarte-y-conferencia&catid=85:cultura-san-luis&Itemid=128

http://riesgos.conaculta.gob.mx/sala_prensa_detalle.php?id=17638&sec=estados

http://www.pulsoslp.com.mx/Noticias.aspx?Nota=67927

Announcement: CologneOFF 2011 Morocco

Cologne International Videoart Festival
is invited to present
CologneOFF 2011 Morocco
– a collaboration with Arab Media Lab –

a selection from
CologneOFF VII – Art & the City
on

2nd Digital Marrakech Festival
9-10 December 2011

More info on
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1902

November/December 2011 solo: Margarida Paiva

During November 2011 CologneOFF 2011 has its focus on Portugal , featuring the video artist Margarida Paiva

ENTER

CologneOFF 2011 Mexico & Cuba

Cologne International Videoart Festival
has the extraordinary pleasure
to make the first step to the “new world”,
it’s Mexico and Cuba.

Download the new PDF catalogue

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CologneOFF 2011 Mexico
is a collaboration with
ExTeresa Arte Actual Mexico City &
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco Mexico City
Circuito Electrovisiones
10-18 November 2011

CologneOFF 2011 Cuba
is a collaboration with
International Videoart Festival Camaguey/Cuba) &
ISA – University of the Arts Havana (Cuba)
25 Nov – 2 December 2011

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New PDF catalogue for Mexico & Cuba

The new PDF catalogue for
CologneOFF 2011 Mexico & Cuba
10 November – 2 December 2011

is now available for download

PDF catalogue CologneOFF 2011 Mexico & Cuba – 10 November – 2 December 2011