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animateCOLOGNE - new branch - new call

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

animateCologne - Cologne Art & Animation Festival

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

Mon, January 30 2012 » Calls » No Comments

VideoChannel - partner of a new CologneOFF branch

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

1#minuteCologne - Cologne One Minute Film Festival
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

Sat, January 21 2012 » Calls, News » No Comments

New Feature: Videoart From Belarus

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

videoart from Belarus
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Fri, January 13 2012 » Features, News » No Comments

1 Jan 2012 - Launch of Mexican Visions

Mexican Visions - CologneOFF 2012 - videoart in a global context

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.

videoart from Mexico
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At the same time, also the PDF catalogue for “Mexican Visions” is launched for free download –>
CologneOFF7
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_Mexican-Visions.pdf

Sun, January 1 2012 » Features, News » No Comments

1 January 2012 - launch of new call

CologneOFF VIII - Continental Drift

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

Sat, December 31 2011 » Calls, News » No Comments

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year !!

CologneOFF 2012 - videoart in a global context

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!!

Thu, December 22 2011 » News » No Comments

November/December: solo - Margarida Paiva

Maragrida Paiva - solo - on CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context

Margarida Paiva - video artist from Portugal

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

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Thu, December 22 2011 » Features » No Comments

New in October: Lily & Honglei - Contextual Face

Lily & Honglei - video artists from China

CologneOFF 2011 is featuring during October videoart from China, and especially video art by the artists couple Lily and Honglei, who are video artists of the month October 2011.

Contextual Face - curated by Evelin Stermitz
further CologneOFF will be featuring the curatorial contribution ” Contextual Face” curated by Evelyn Stermitz (Austria) - which offers a feminist view on videoart. this compilation was already screening several times in the framework of CologneOFF 2011.

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Fri, October 7 2011 » Features, News » No Comments

New in August: videoart from Middle East

Together with VideoChannel,. CologneOFF - Cologne International Videoart Festival released a series of three videoart features on occasion of the presentation of
–>”CologneoFF 2011 Beirut @ Sunflower Art Center
30 Aug - 3 September 2011 - www.assshams.org,

Videoart by Larissa Sansour (Palestine)

1.
the solo artist of month August 2011 –>
Larissa Sansour
the internationally reknown videoartist living currently in London (UK)
more details–> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1634

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Videoart from Iran curated by Alysse Stepanian

2.
“Close to My Heart”
videoart from Iran - curated by Alysse Stepanian
including videos by Morehshin Allahyari - Maneli Aygani - Neda Darzi
Samira Eskandarfar - Gelare Khoshgozaran - Laleh Mehran - Payam Mofidi - Hamed Shahihi - Parya Vatankhah
more details –> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=761

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Videoart by Mohammed Harb Gaza/Palestine

3.
Messages from Gaza
in collaboration with “Windows from Gaza” & Gaza International Videoart Festival - videoart from Palestine
including videos by Ayman Asraq - Mohammed Harb
Shareef Sarhan - Majed Shala - Basel El Maqusi
more details –> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1612

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Wed, August 3 2011 » News » No Comments

Happy New Year 2011!

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Happy New Year!
and welcome to another exciting challenging year in videoart.

VideoChannel is partner of CologneOFF 2011 - videoart in a global context and associated platform for releasing new videoart projects in the framework of this nomadic festival project created and directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne.

Sat, January 1 2011 » News » No Comments