[spectre] AVM News April 2003

Tue Apr 1 13:26:44 CEST 2003

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A Virtual Memorial -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne
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Table of Contents:
a) News
b) Features of the month April 2003
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a) News
Find the answers on war and other violent actions!
More than 270 artists from 40 coutries
reflect the phenomenon of violence
on
Violence Online Festival
www.newmediafest.org/violence/
affiliated with A Virtual Memorial
participates in 1st New Media Art Festival Chiang Mai (Thailand)
4 - 15 April 2003

Violence Play Station offers pure war fun!!

b) [R] - [R] - [F] Festival
Remembering, Repressing, Forgetting
www.newmediafest.org -
the new festival environment of A Virtual Memorial
becomes slowly more and more concrete.
Version 1.0 is invited to participate in
InteractivA'03 - Biennale for New Media Art at
Museum if Contemporary Art Merida (Yucatan/Mexico)
10 July - 20 September 2003

Version 1.0 will be launched on 1 July 2003.

The nominated curators and their selected artists
who will participate in Version 1.0
will be posted on
www.a-virtual.org and www.newmediafest.org/rrf/
on Friday 4 April.
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New month - new subject
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c) ***Features of the Month

Selected Memorial Days in April

2003 International Year of Fresh Water

09 April 1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer executed (Germany)
24 April 2003 - Genocide Memorial Day (Armenia)
26 April 2003 - Chernobyl Memorial Day
27 April 2003 - Freedom Day (South Africa)
29 April 2003 - Jom Hashoa (Israel)

*The Features of the Month are monthly changing
collections of multimedia works and links which form in the
totality of the composition an artwork of theirown
to be created on a webpage of theirown
within the Memorial project.*
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Features of the Month April 2003

Subject of the Month: Transit - Transformation and Movement
Featured Project: Fluid by Avi Ventura
ArtObject: Go to the montain top
Man of the month: Dalai Lama
Animal of the month: Mountain Gorilla
People of the month: Sinti and Roma
Site of the month: Chernobyl - [and_scape]
City of the month: Saigon
Desease of the month: Mouth and Foot Desease

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Until the next time
all the best,

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
info at a-virtual-memorial.org
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity -
ongoing New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne
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http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/downloads/pdf/pdf.htm

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