Friday, 26 August 2011 ----------------------------- Cologne International Videoart Festival -----------------------------
Today it is so far, desperately expected - now available for preview online CologneOFF VII - Art & the City - the 7th festival edition in sequence - to be officially launched on 31 August 2001 on occasion of the opening of CologneOFF VII in Beirut/Lebanon ---> http://coff.newmediafest.org http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF7_catalogue.pdf http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2011_Riga.pdf ----------------------------- Art & the City Standing under the motto of "art & the city", CologneOFF VII will represent the hightlight of all until now realised festival editions. More than 150 single channel films and videos by 120 artists/directors packed in 12 thematic compilations around "art & the city" represent a magnificent manifestation of a specific hybrid type of video art, which can be celebrated in different presentation formats. more info about the selected film and videos---> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1686 The 7th festival edition is the most comprehenive one so far, and it's also the first time, that a festival edition is simultaneously launched online and in physical space on three different venues - Beirut/Lebanon- Budapest/Hungary and Riga/Latvia. But CologneOFF VII is not standing alone, but will become the 2nd column of the nomadic festival project "CologneOFF 2011/ 2012 - videoart in global context" and will extend and enrich it profoundly. ----------------------------- The venues - Beirut- Budapest - Riga CologneOFF 2011 Beirut is a cooperation with Shams - The Sunflower Beirut/Lebanon 31 Aug - 3 September 2011 learn more about this Lebanese art center on netMAXX ---> http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=198 more info on---> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1621 CologneOFF 2011 Budapest is a collaboration with BuSho - Budapest International Shortfilm Festival 1-5 September 2011 learn more about this festival on netMAXX ---> http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=22 CologneOFF 2011 - Baltic Sea V - Riga is a collaboration with the cultural organisation NOASS and Waterpieces Contemporary and Video Art Festival Riga/Latvia 8-10 September 2011 learn more about NOASS on netMAXX ---> http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=209 more info on---> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1568 ----------------------------- The catalogues On occasion of this collaboration in the framework of the series of CologneOFF 2011 manifestations in countries around the Baltic Sea, a special catalogue has been released for Riga as an additional venue, which can be downloaded as PDF for free ---> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2011_Riga.pdf On occasion of CologneOFF VII online and offline launch, a catalogue has been released which can be downloaded as PDF for free ---> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF7_catalogue.pdf ----------------------------- CologneOFF VII - Art & the City is a coproduction of Cologne International Videoart Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org & Le Musee - divisioniste --> the new museum of networked art http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org & artvideoKOELN the curatorial initiative "art & moving images" http://video.mediaartcologne.org contact info (at) coff.newmediafest.org ----------------------------- ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
