Version 5.0 - now online!

I don't know why anyone would participate in this? Is anyone involved with
this project on this list? Can you tell me why you participated in it?

-e.







—– Original Message —–
From: "ViolenceOnlineFestival" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:48 AM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Version 5.0 - now online!


> PRESS RELEASE
> Violence Online Festival v.5.0
> www.newmediafest.org/violence/
>
> ***********************************
> Now it is so far! Only a few hours
> and there will be definitely war in Iraq.
> But all the little Bush's in the world
> don't have to go so far,
> the new Violence Play Station
> offers all of them pure war fun and happiness.
>
> Just join
> Version 5.0 of Violence Online Festival
> www.newmediafest.org/violence/
> which is launched on 18 March 2003
> on occasion of the participation in
> "Videoformes -
> 18th International Video and Multi-media Festival
> Clermont-Ferrand (France) 19-22 March 2003"
> www.videoformes.com
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> ***********************************
>
> 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.
>
> ***********************************
> Version 5.0 of Violence Online Festival
> includes works of following new artists:
>
> Restate, Francesca da Rimini, Tamara Lai, L.L. de Mars, Ryan Griffis,
> Isabel Saij, Ventsislav Zankov, re:combo, Agricola de Cologne,
> pedropez, Stephen Mead, Sergei Teterin, Mike Haskett, Joy Garnett,
> Team of Get Carted, Andy Deck, Bruce Ives
> Irene Marx, Guillaume Dimanche, jgjeux, Peter Jacobi,
> Giacomo PiccA, Stephane Tomora,
> Clemente Padin, Antonio Mendoza, Josh MacPhee, Judith Villamayor, jen
> Mara Infidelious, Markus Christian Koch, Michael Crane, John Burgermann
> Maria Papadimitriou, David Vegezzi, Home Team, Lorenzo Taiuti, Floe
Florin,
> Scott Becker, Robert Labor, Miguel Carlos Labra, Cendres Lavy,
> Feargal O'Malley, Audrey Mantey, Per Pegelow, Tigran Tovmeysyan,
> Hughues Rochette, Daniel Hanequand, Timothy Bowen, Cezar Lazarescu,
Caterina
> Davinio, ego, Marc Garrett,
> Mona Vatamanu, Jatom Joon , Ivan Abreu, Bill Berry , Isabel Aranda Yto
> Alan Sondheim, ED Mole, Katie Bush, David Crawford, Edward Marszewski
> Tolya Glaukos, Dyian Anguelov, Bluescreen, David Sansone, Noya Abdelaziz
>
>
> Fight, beat them, hit them! Join Violence Play Station!!
> ***********************************
>
> introduction:
> The human character contains both a light and a dark side, good and bad,
> individually manifested. Deeply rooted is a dark-sided
> element: Violence.
> In happy surroundings, it becomes hardly visible and in
> less happy surroundings - either of a physical, psychological,
> environmental, ideological, economic or political nature -
> nearly automatically a kind of survival
> strategy with all the known consequences we see
> manifested in conflicts on a small or large scale.
> Violence is present anywhere, hidden or sleeping,
> hesitating, waiting or in action, starting from simple
> mobbing via verbalor physical attacks, the bandwidth has no end.
>
> Nowadays, globalization, social injustice,
> unemployment, increasing wealth on one side and
> on the opposite increasing poverty (without mentioning some
> causes) produce a climate where violence has a fertile
> soil. From the attack on 9/11 in the USA, people from
> the Western civilization became painfully aware that
> security of any kind is a mere illusion; not only the
> internal, but also the external enemy is present anywhere.
>
> Artists are said to be the consciousness of a nation or society
> as they reflect the actual state of the psychological and physical
> environment.
> When this state is penetrated by violence, nobody is surprised that
> violence becomes a universal subject for artistic reflection, the
difference
> may
> only be the view on it and its perception depending on
> the respective cultural background.
>
> 'Art and violence both seem to stem from the abstract: that place beyond
> logic, the realm of the emotion. When they intersect we are simultaneously
> repelled and attracted, frightened and excited. Historically this meeting
> has been wrought with complexity, and as cultural violence in every
society
> increases, we are prevented by paranoia, censorship and ethical demands
from
> asking, and sometimes even posing, some of the most important questions
> violence and art together and separately produce: how is violence
> represented, and what or how much of it do we need to resist the
cultivation
> of fear and the encouragement of dependency? Is violence a tool, a process
> or a result? When are artistic portrayals of violence justifiable? As
> intellectual exercise, ritual, or spiritual enhancement? For other
purposes?
> Or are they never justifiable? Is violence in art an action, reaction, or
> reflection? ' (quotation: festival statement).
>
> How different the results of an artistic reflection can be is
> shown through the Violence Online Festival, a New Media
> online exhibition project curated and organized
> as an individual event by Agricola de Cologne
> including more than 150 artists from
> 30 countries presenting their work. It forms a
> dynamic collaborative art work presenting very
> individual visions and use of media.
>
> The relevance of violence becomes visible also through
> the high quality standard of all the included works. Each
> of them represents another aspect of violence - caught
> in textual poetry, running as a video or embedded in an
> interactive environment of a net-based art work.
>
> In reaction to the key role (mass) media plays by displaying and even
> promoting
> violence, a new environment (interface) has been created for Violence
> Online Festival, which houses and hosts the art works within a virtual
media
> company named "Violence Media Incorporated".
> By dividing the company into different departments (eg.
> "Violence for Happiness" , "Violence Marketing" or "Violence
Broadcasting"),
> it becomes clear that their meaning
> has a rather ironic or sarcastic character, which gives
> the embedded art works a new meaning.
>
> While surfing through this environment, the visitor is forced to ask and
> give answers, and becomes slowly a part of this network of art through
his
> reflections and changes of perception.
>
> **************************************
>
> The list of all 270 participating artists from 40 countries
> can be found on www.newmediafest.org/violence
> **************************************
>
> Visit this dynamic exciting show.
> There are optional following accesses:
> direct: www.newmediafest.org/violence
> but also
> www.newmediafest.org and
> www.a-virtual-memorial.org
>
> *************************************
> Violence Online Festival
>
> on Rhizome Artbase:
> http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?7503
>
> Presentations:
> * Version 1.0 : Online part of Violens Festival Tabor (Czech Republic)
17 -
> 31 August 2002
> * Version 1.1 : Featured Project in September 2002 on A Virtual Memorial
> www.a-virtual-memorial.org
> * Version 2.0: Computer Space Festival 2002 Sofia (Bulgaria) (18-21 Oct
> 2002) and
> Liberarti Festival /Liverpool Biennale 2002 (10 Oct - 01 Dec 2002)
> *Award: Special Prize of Computer Space Festival Sofia (Bg)
> *November 2002 feature/review on faf - Fine Art Forum
>
http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_16/faf_v16_n11/reviews/reviews.ht
> ml
> *Version 3.0: "e-magic - New Media events"
> 43rd International Filmfestival Thessaloniki (Greece)
> 12-16 November 2002
> http://www.filmfestival.gr/2002/emagic/uk/emagic.html
> *Version 4.0 - New Media Nation - Festival des Festivals
> Bratislava (Slowakia) 20-22. February 2003 www.nmn.sk
> *Version 4.1 - Spotlight on TURBULENCE
www.turbulence.org/spotlight/agricola
> *Version 5.0 - Videoformes - 18th International Video und Multimedia
> Festival
> 20-23 March 2003 www.videoformes.com
>
> Preview:
> Version 6.0 will be launched on 4 April 2003 on occasion of the
> participation in
> 1st New Media Art Festival Chiang Mai (Thailand)
> 4-15 April 2003
>
> Reviews on: Neural.it, Random, NOEMA, El Pais, FineArtForum etc.
> **************************************
>
> 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
>
> ***************************************
> copyright:
> Violence Online Festival
> www.newmediafest.org
> text, conception, programming, visalization
> curator, organizer = Agricola de Cologne -
> *copyright