AVM News July 2002

A Virtual Memorial News 2002/07
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Table of Contents:
*News
**Violence Festival - List of participants
*Features of the Month July 2002
** Featured projects
1. "Mirror at the Bottom - artists portraiting themselves
2. Fields of Identity: Graffiti
**Artist of the Month Alejandro Jaimes-Larrarte (Colombia)

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*News:
In June, a number of multi-media works
originating from "A Virtual Memorial participated in
IV SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL (Havanna/Cuba)
COOP 2002 Media Festival (Bucaresti/Romania)
Con|text on Stasis_Space
FreeManifesta/Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt/Germany)

b) Violence/Violens Festival Tabor 15-26 August 2002
The call for entries lasted only 6 weeks.
On 15 June was deadline. 163 artists submitted
more than 350 works.

See the list of the selected and participating artists on
http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/violence.htm
or www.newmediafest.org/violence/index.html

The festival exhibition will go online
in the beginning of August.

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***Features of the Month

The Subject of the Month
"Identity - dogma or experiment?"

Selected Memorial Days in July

*02 July 1976 Re-unification of Vietnam
*11 July 2002 World Population Day
*20 July 1944 would-be-assassination of Graf Stauffenberg against Hitler
*21 July 1964 Neil Armstrong enters the moon as first human being

*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:

Subject of the Month : Identity - dogma or experiment?

Roots 1 Artist of the Month: Alejandro Jaimes-Larrarte (Colombia)
Roots 2 featured project 1
"Mirror at the bottom - artists portraiting themselves"
Roots 3 - featured project 2
"Graffiti-Fields of Identity"
Roots 4 Gender Identity
Roots 5 Subjective Identity
Roots 6 Objective Identity
Roots 7 Loss of Identity
Roots 8 Identity of Art
Roots 9 Multiple Identitiy
Roots 10 [dis]tortion_projected

** Featured project 1
"Mirror at the bottom - artists portraiting themselves"
organized by A Virtual Memorial and le Musee di-visioniste
curated by Agricola de Cologne

"Artists' self-portraits belong to the most fascinating artistic formats
since here the viewer gets a lot of more information about an artist than
through his working in other type of formats.
The view through the mirror at the bottom offers a critical reflection
either connected to an ideal image or its contrary.
153 artists submitted about 300 works. Each artist represents in his
individuality a different unique approach to self-reflection and to art as
such.
This online show encompasses a wide range of media and individual styles.
It represents a composition from virtual, net based "new media" to
traditional, physical
"old media" (but digitalized) artworks, and, in this way, an art work of
itsown."


Visit this extraordinary online exhibition on
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
or www.nmartproject.net/cur/mirror/index.html

In coming September, Le Musee di-visioniste www.le-musee-divisioniste.org
will take the show in the framework of different featured shows.

** Featured project 2
"Fields of Identity: Graffiti"
curated by Agricola de Cologne

This project has been published in a previous version one year ago.
It has been revised and reconstructed in the version 02.
Some additions has been made, to mention
Aine Scannell, photographer from Ireland.

Visit the Memorial
www.a-virtual-memorial.org

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All the best,

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
[email protected]
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity -
ongoing New Media art project by Agricola de Cologne
A short description as PDF file for free download from
http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org/downloads/pdf/pdf.htm

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