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Today, on 13 November 2009, VideoChannel Cologne is happy to launch CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival 2009 http://coff.newmediafest.org online starting together with its 2009 festival partners MICROWAVE - New Media Arts Festival 2009 Hong Kong 13 Nov - 11 Dec 2009 and FONLAD - Digital Art Festival Guarda/Portugal 14 November 2009 - 03 January 2009 Earlier this year, Microwave Hong Kong invited VideoChannel to prepare two shows of video art for the 2009 festival, resulting two outstanding screening programs as a networked action ---> 1. "Memory & Identity" - a show which was in September 2009 featured on VideoChannel contributed by VisualContainer Milan and curated by Giorgio Fideli http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=278 celebrating the partnership between VideoChannel and Visual Container - public screenings between 14 November until 24 November 2009 at I/O (Input/Output) Hong Komg --> 2. "Body and Soul - 15:15:15" - a thematic presentation - one of the very rare physical manifestations of Agricola de Cologne (the encoded artist, chief curator of VideoChannel and director of CologneOFF) and an original way to launch CologneOFF V in physical space on 22 November 2009 at Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre Lecture Hall - which was made possible through the generous support by Goethe Institute Hong Kong For more info, please download the PDF - http://downloads.nmartproject.net/videoCHANNEL_microwave2009.pdf The second partner of VideoChannel in 2009 is FONLAD - Digital Art Festival Guarda/Portugal representing the framework for the 2nd physical CologneOFF V manifestation in the two days screenings on 24 amd 25 November 2009. Read more about the festival partners on netMAXX - networked magazine MICROWAVE - http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=94 FONLAD - http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=82 In December 2009, another CologneOFF manifestation is scheduled in Bristol/UK and in February 2010 in India. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Cologne OFF V Founded in 2006 by VideoChannel in the framework of [NewArtMedia ProjectNetwork]:||cologne, the experimental platform for art and new media, CologneOFF is realising in 2009 its 5th festival edition under the topic of "Taboo". According to (wikipedia) "A taboo is a strong social prohibition or ban against words, objects, actions, or discussions considered undesirable or offensive to a group, culture, society, or community. Breaking a taboo, considered objectionable, abhorrent or unacceptable by the majority in a community by in engaging in activities or not adhering to local customs usually leads to severe penalties applied by rule of law. Other common reactions by persons breaking taboos result in embarrassment, shame and are commonly considered by others as a sign of rudeness." In our Western socities "the taboo" changed its meaning profoundly and does actually not exist anymore as a dogma and an instrument of social and moral ruling, but it is replaced by a kind of individual "taboo" practiced by groups of mind-likes. In this way, people can be confronted with different types of "taboos" depending on the needs of certain social groups. The selected videos refer to this invidualization and take the artistic consequences in most different ways, whereby the digital technology offers many solutions to the artists and the viewer. It is this variety, which makes the festival program so exciting and vivid. It is up to the viewer to search and find his personal definition(s). CologneOFF V consists of 5 program sections including --> 50 shortfilms and videos in 3 international programs --> a feature of 14 German art films/videos and --> a selection of 14 One Minute Films made by the guest curator Ali Zaidi (London) and contributed by MOTIROTI London For more info about the festival and its films, please download the festival catalogue as PDF --> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf CologneOFF V can be accessed via the festival site on http://coff.newmediafest.org or directly via - http://coff05.newmediafest.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ On occasion of the CologneOFF V launch, VideoChannel is releasing online "Feature II" of German Video Art ---> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=709 Including viideos by the German artists/directors participating in CologneOFF V. After Feature I, presenting the outstanding Cologne based video artist Johanna Reich, Feature II is offering the diversity of digital video of 15 artist/directors. Feature III, the next following focus on German video art is planned to be released in January 2010. -------------------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org MICROWAVE - New Media Arts Festival Hong Kong http://www.microwavefest.net FONLAD - Digital Art Festival http://www.fonlad,net ------------------------------------------------------- media partner: netMAXX - networked experience http://maxx.nmartproject.net ------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Goethe Institute Hong Kong MICROWAVE Hong Kong FONLAD Coimbra/Portugal Motiroti London/UK VisualContainer Milan/Italy ------------------------------------------------------ powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net and Media/Art/Cologne http://www.mediaartcologne.org ----------------------------------------------------- info[at)nmartproject.net ----------------------------------------------------- -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
