NewMediaFest2007
launched online on 1 November 2007
is the 1st common festival of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne –
developed, organised and directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne,
founder and director of this global network.
NewMediaFest2007
consists of 2 components
1. the online showcase including the common festival interface on
–>> http://2007.newmediafest.org
2. NewMediaFest2007 Blog – http://www.newmediafest.org/
which is publishing all news and program schedules.
ad 1)
presentation of the featured festival contributions includes
programm available as PDF for free download
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/NewMediaFest_2007.pdf
a) CologneOFF – Cologne Online Film Festival –
–> CologneOFF III – Cologne Online Film Festival 2007
“Toon! Toon! – art cartoons and animated narratives
competition & retrospective feature : Nich Fox-Gieg
b) JavaMuseum – Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
5 features–>
—> “Seven Ways of Saying Internet Through Netart” curated by Elena Giulia Rossi (Italy)
—> “a+b=ba?” – a showcase about blog art curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
—> solo feature: 10 years netart by the US artist Jody Zellen
—> net.NET – 1st of a series of netart features
–> re-launch of JIP – JavaMuseum Interview Project
c) VideoChannel – video project environments
4 features–>
–> solo feature: 7 videos by the Icelandic video artist Unnur. A. Einarsdottir
–> selection: “art cartoons and animated narratives”
–> Women Directors Cut – Edition III
–> official launch of VIP – VideoChannel Interview Project
d) SoundLAB – sonic art project environments
4 features—> SoundLAB Edition V
—>soundSTORY – sound as a tool for storytelling
–> special feature: soundart from South Africa curated by Julian Jonker
–> special feature: soundart from Spain curated by Ruben Garcia
–> ofiicial launch of SIP – SoundLAB Interview Project
e) Cinematheque – streaming media project environments
two feature serials—>
–>Slowtime2007? – Quicktime as an artistic medium
1st program of a six months lasting series
–> a series of web performances by the Israeli artists duo
Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry
f) official launch of “AND – Artists Network Database”
incorporating the biographies of more than
1400 media artists and curators from 70 countries
collaborating with [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne.
NewMediaFest2007
is launched and organised on two levels:
1. online on http://2007.newmediafest.org
2. in physical space generally via cooperations, in this special case
NewMediaFest2007 becomes physical in cooperation with
3rd International Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina – 15-17 November 2007
–>additional physical manifestations are planned in sequence.
NewMediaFest2007 is further linked to
FONLAD – Digital Art Festival Coimbra/Portugal
and will be connected to numerous media art events during the coming months.
It is planned to run NewMediaFest2007 actively
until May 2008 to be replaced by a new festival edition later on –
whereby all online components remain for permanent online afterwards.
NewMediaFest2007
is planning to issue in sequence PDF catalogues of the presented festival components.
Two basic publications are issued as PDF for free download on occasion of the festival launch
1. general program – NewMediaFest2007
—>http://downloads.nmartproject.net/NewMediaFest_2007.pdf
2. catalogue –> CologneOFF III – 3rd edition of Cologne Online Film Festival
–>http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_3rd_edition_2007.pdf
NewMediaFest2007 is a free cultural production
powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany
