Violence v.7.0

PRESS RELEASE
Violence Online Festival v.7.0
www.newmediafest.org/violence/

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You may believe it or not,
the war in Iraq did not stop violence,
it's just the beginning. Yeah!!
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Version 7.0 of Violence Online Festival
www.newmediafest.org/violence/
is launched on 19 May 2003
on occasion of the participation in
"PEAM 2003 -
Pescara Electronic Artists Festival - (Pescara/Italy)
http://www.artificialia.com/peam2003/
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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 7.0 of Violence Online Festival
includes some major changes and
works of following new artists:

*Francesca da Rimini (Australia)
Igor Marinkovic (Serbia & Montenegro)
Fred Fenollabbate (France)

*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!! 003
is featuring Francesca da Rimini's new work
"Liberation Range"
just go to: www.newmediafest.org/violence/startviolencey.htm

Francesca da Rimini has worked in new media since 1984 as a video maker,
curator, poet and artist.
Her creative practice is generally collaborative, and her projects have been
extensively published, exhibited and reviewed.
In 1991 she co-founded the seminal cyberfeminist artists' collective VNS
Matrix whose 7 year project spanned many artforms including installations,
computer games, internet performances and cinema advertising.

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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: latest versions of MS Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera
Players/Plug-ins: essential the latest Flash 6,
Shockwave, Real Player, Quicktime, Cortona/Cosmo

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