Agricola de Cologne

the encoded artist

curating

Agricola de Cologne’s curatorial activities can be divided in two parts

1990-1994

2000- …..

Agricola de Cologne started curating in 1990, after he founded ARCHA Society Foundation (ARCHA e.V. - Archives and Research for Contemporary Humanism and Art)

He curated for ARCHA between 1991-1994

1. International ARCHA Conference in Görlitz/Germany 1991

2. Stig Danielson (Sweden) 2002-2004 - EXILE - drawings from war in Afghanistan

3. Retrospective Josef Presser (Poland/USA) 2003-2004

In 2000, Agricola de Cologne started his Internet based activities, whereby besides the participatory and networking aspects consequently curatorial aspects came into foreground.
The difference between the first and the 2nd curating phase is, that curating became a part of his artistic expression after 2000 manifesting itself in numerous projects like they are listed on
curatorial projects.

To Agricola de Cologne, curating does not mean just organising an exhibition project, but basically taking responsibility for (which means curating) contents, artists, artworks, collaborating and networking partners like curators, institution or organisations which are involved in the complex project environments and not to forget the available virtual art space.

For project environments like
JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org
he started in 2000 curating virtual exhibitions space as one of the first people on the net and created and designed special contexts and interfaces for the projects to be realized projects,
18 curated projects in total until 2005.

Since 2004, he focussed on creating his project environments in an exchange between virtual and physical space, so he extended his curatorial activities to physical space as well, just to mention the global networking project [R][R][F]200x—>XP - and platforms which have there the origin like VideoChannel - video project environments and SoundLAB - sonic art project environments.

His curatorial activities encompass a wide range of New Media and digital art activities in the field of netart (Internat based art), streaming media, soundart, digital film and video and digital photography.

In 2006, Agricola de Cologne founded in the framework of VideoChannel CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival ,
a mobile film and video festival to be organised simultaneously online and physical space (via cooperations)

In 2006, he designed the 1st project exclusively for the exhibition in physical space, entitled: ://Selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem - a show for Peace,
a media art exhibition incorporating different digital media like video, photography, soundart, multi-media etc.

Many of his curated projects incorporate artists and other instances from many countries on the globe, and one might call Agricola de Cologne the first virtual and global curator, since he uses the communicating media for creating a world wide web of art activities and projects of different kind.

His projects are presented and realised in cooperation with numerous art institutions and organisations and he is also invited to co-organize and co-curate festivals and media art exhibitions in different parts on the globe.

As his specific type of art working, curating takes a particular influence on the perception of the artworks , since they follow the classical idea of the “collage” resulting most complex and dynamic constructions of different identity and autheticity in the framework of an interactive context.

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