[syndicate] Re: Version 5.0 - now online!

[bobig]

c'est vrai quoi !
moi j'ai ma plume dans les fesses j'en fais pas toute une histoire !

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From: "hoord'hur" <hoordhur at yahoo.fr>
To: "ViolenceOnlineFestival" <nc-agricowi at netcologne.de>;
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Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:10 PM
Subject: [syndicate] Re: Version 5.0 - now online!


> ta gueule agricole
> vos gueules tous
>
>  --- ViolenceOnlineFestival
> <nc-agricowi at netcologne.de> a écrit : >
> > 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 Bushs 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.
> >
> > **************************************
> >
> >
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