Violence 6.1

PRESS RELEASE
Violence Online Festival v.6.1
www.newmediafest.org/violence/

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Helter-skelter….!…!
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Version 6.1 of Violence Online Festival
www.newmediafest.org/violence/
is launched on 25 April 2003
on occasion of the participation in
"Net Art Open 2003
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) Dublin
http://www.irishmuseumofmodernart.com/netart_open2003.htm
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summary:
Violence Online Festival is
a New Media art project
reflecting the phenomenon of "Violence",
curated, organized and created in Flash by
Agricola de Cologne, curator and media artist operating
from Cologne/Germany. As an ongoing project
Violence Online Festival is developed for being
presented in future in the framework of physical and
virtual media festivals and exhibitions.
For each event a new project version will be created
adjusted to the actual needs
including additions of new artists/works
and other changes.

More details on www.newmediafest.org/violence/
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Version 6.1 of Violence Online Festival
includes some major changes and
works of following new artists:

*Mark G. Cooley, Sorana Tarus,
Jo-Anne Green and Helen Thorington (USA),
Maria Tjader Knight (Finland/Belgium)

*Violence Play Station
offers funny war games to all
who are not yet saturated to play war.

*>New!!<
Hurray Violence!! page -
featuring periodically projects included in Violence Online Festival

*Hurray Violence!! 002
is featuring Mark G. Cooley's work
warProductwar entry #1: the Good, Bad and the Profitable: or 54321
just go to: www.newmediafest.org/violence/startviolencey.htm

""warProductwar: Is an ongoing internet based meditation on U.S. war
culture. Entry #1, the Good, Bad and the Profitable, is a noninteractive
timebased montage that explores media representations, classic american
mythology, and the material remains of "free" enterprise war culture."

Mark Cooley is a new genre artist and co-founder of artOfficial Construction
Media (acm). He is currently assistant professor of digital imaging at
Southwest Missouri State University

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The list of all 270 participating artists from 40 countries
and all past and present presentations
can be found on www.newmediafest.org/violence/

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technical requirements
optimized for VGA resolution 1024x768
PC Pentium III 600 Mhz or better or comparable MAC
Soundcard, recommended 56K or 64K modem or faster,
browsers: MS Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Netscape Navigator 6.0+
Players/Plug-ins: essential the latest Flash 6,
Shockwave, Real Player, Quicktime, Cortona

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copyright:
Violence Online Festival
www.newmediafest.org
text, conception, programming, visalization
curator, organizer = Agricola de Cologne -
*copyright