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{A Virtual Memorial} -
Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
~New Media art project environment~
www.a-virtual-memorial.org
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commemorates in April 2004 -
the International Year to Commemorate
the struggle against Slavery and its Abolition -
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09 April 1945 - Germany - execution of Dietrich
Bonhoefer
19 April 2004 Jom Hashoa
24 April 1915/2004 - Memorial Day for Genocide in Armenia
26 April 1986/2004 - Chernobyl Commemoration Day
30 April 1976/2004 - Vietnam - Reunification Day
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Table of Contents:
a) Features of the month April 2004
b) News
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New month - new subject
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b) ***Features of the Month
Subject–> Transit - transformation and movement
Feature–> Transit Camps
Featured Artist–> Fluid - net based project by Avi Ventura
ArtObject–> Go to the mountain top
Man–> Dalai Lama
Animal–> Mountain Gorilla
People–> Sinti and Roma
Chernobyl–> ]and_scape[
Chernobyl –> Poems by Liubov Sirota
City:–> Saigon
Desease–> Mouth & Foot Desease
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b) News in April
1.
on 11 March, the horrible terror attack in Madrid/Spain took place.
In order to commemorate the victims –>
"Memorial for the Victims of Terror"
is open for artists submissions.
Please find the submission form on
www.a-virtual-memorial.org/terrormemorial.htm
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On 5 March - {A Virtual Memorial} launched officially
.[R][R][F] 2004—>XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
online and in physical space at
National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest/Romania
www.mnac.ro/net.htm,
Electronic Arts Center Bergen/Norway www.bek.no and
finally at New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Thailand
http://thailand.culturebase.org
(20-28 March).
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Due to its success, the show in Bucharest
has been meanwhile prolonged until 30 April 2004
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[R][R][F] 2004—>XP is an experimental
New Media art environment focussing on three main aspects
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Basic subject –>"memory and identity"
Basic operational aspect –>"networking as artworking"
Basic presentation aspect–>"exchange between virtual and physical space"
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The project is a networking collaboration
with numerous institutions, organisations, curators, artists and
professionals
and
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne,
and will be developing and operating during 2004and 2005.
Detailled information are available
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
See also the suit of calls to be accessed on
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
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Until the next time
all the best,
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{A Virtual Memorial}
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
[email protected]
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corporate member of
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
-the experimental platform for net based art -
operating from Cologne/Germany
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