Agricola de Cologne

The Anthropocene Project

Cologne – Athens – Quito – Addis Ababa – Los Angeles



About The Anthropocene Foundry

The Anthropocene Foundry representing programs from The Anthropocene Project, is including about 500 international artists, created and curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne for The New Museum of Networked Art – dealing with the human impact on nature and the natural living environment manifested in two comprehensive media collections – video art & sound art. For the screenings @ different places animated contents from different sources . eg. The Anthropocene Project, AnimateC’24 (Cologne Art & Animation Festival) and Vacations on the Subconscious (1924-2024 – 100 Years of The Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton) have been selected to point to the human impact on different levels, also in terms of the artistic creation itself. The video artists composing different types of self-created footage, are partially using the latest technology (artificial intelligence) based on a specific subjective view on the Big Creation (our world) forming new types of reality of the world they are living in. They do not only reflect the existing but go far beyond to visions of the future, referring to the finiteness of life as well as the infinity of the Creation. By being confronted with, the audience becomes the foundry of a new human existence, at least in the imagination.
2000-2025 // The Foundation Screening Series (Finiteness – Infinity) and the screenings are part of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the New Museum of Networked Art on 1 January 2000 and the current foundation process of The Agricola de Cologne Foundation for the Arts which will operate the museum from 2025 onwards.
“The Anthropocene Foundry” celebration programs are presented between 18 December 2024 – 31 March 2025 in Kolkata, Addis Ababa, Los Angeles and simultaneously in Cologne featuring the entire “Anthropocene Project” at different places in different video constellations.

While Anthropocene (actually only proposed as a new epoch of geologic time, following the Holocene) is an officially not yet definitely defined period of time during which human activities are thought to have had a significant impact on the global environment, regarded as having begun sometime between twelve thousand years ago, with the spread of agriculture, and two hundred years ago, with the advent of industrialization, as a topic of the media art context of The Anthropocene Project, the term is going far beyond marking the contradictory relationship between (the volatile transitory character of) human nature and (sustainable) nature, the significant human impact on ecosystems, including the human-caused climate change, biodiversity loss etc.

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Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, The New Museum of Networked Art realizing the Anthropocene Project as a new media art context in an exchange between virtual and physical space, physical and virtual exhibitions and screenings, is inviting artists using moving images/digital video as medium of art to submit videos dealing with the (positive and negative) human impact.

https://the-anthropocene-project.nmartproject.net/

FSS – foundation screening series 2024/2025 – are dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the foundation of The New Museum of Networked Art – 01.01.2000 – 01.01.2025 – and the recent foundation process of “Agricola de Cologne Foundation for the Arts” operating “The New Museum of Networked Art” from 2025 on.
The programs at Alphabet Art Centre would like to support the project during the foundation procedure 2024/2025.

https://the-anthropocene-project.nmartproject.net/fss-foundation-screening-series/

23/24 August 2024



Quito
Cinemateca Nacional de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana
cinema “Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco”

The Anthropocene Foundry Quito 2024
FI – Finiteness-Infinity
The Foundation Screening series

Part 1 – 60 minutes
Marco Joubert (CA) – A DIFFERENT GOAL, 2023, 03:26
Barry Anderson (USA) – Fragment [av24.01],2024, 4:35
Isthmaël Baudry (France) – Morphoex-Bettina, 2019, 4:00
Clay Dunklin (USA) – SERPENTalk, 2021, 03:12
Luis Carlos Rodríguez (Spain) – TEXtrucTURAS huMANas, 2024, 06:30
Silvia de Gennaro (Italy) – I Just Want to Dance, 2023, 3.29
Henry Gwiazda (USA) – Flowing, 2022, 8:17
Peter Whittenberger (USA) – To Hold, 2024, 04:58
Paolo Bandinu (Italy) – WHERE THERE IS SHADOW THERE MUST BE LIGHT, 2020, 03:10
Albert Merino (Spain) -The Present Condition, 2020, 18:10

Part 2 – 60 minutes
Fran Orallo (UK/Spain) – 2123, 2023, 4:45
Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) – Pietas for you, 2023, 3:55
Laura & Sira Cabrera (Spain) – Hole – Agujero, 2024, 09:26
Augusto Calçada (Brazil) – Selfie-destruction, 2024, 4:50
Yiou Wang & Alina Tofan (China/Romania) – Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go, 2024, 05:02
Brit Bunkley (New Zealand) – Pillar of Fire, 2021, 6:59
Alejandro Casales N. & Esther Lamneck (Mexico) – Broken Space in Fractal Way, 2023, 08:49
Ronit Keret (Israel) – Abyss, 2021 , 01:49
Leonardo Cardamone (Italy) – Untitled, 2024, 11.04
Farhanaz Rupaidha (Indonesia) – War Zone, 2024, 3:00
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Sunrise, 2019, 5: 46

About
the screening program

The Anthropocene Foundry Quito 2024 – is consisting of 2 video programs from The Anthropocene Project, including about 500 international artists, created and curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne for The New Museum of Networked Art – dealing with the human impact on nature and the natural living environment manifested in two comprehensive media collections – video art & sound art. For the screening in the framework of MIVA Festival in Quito 2024, animated contents have been selected to point to the human impact in terms of the artistic creation itself. The video artists are composing different types of self-created footage, partially using latest technology (artificial intelligence) based on a specific subjective view on the Big Creation (our world) forming new types of reality of the world they are living in. They do not only reflect the existing but go far beyond to visions of the future referring to the finiteness of life as well as the infinity of the Creation. By being confronted with, the audience in Quito becomes the foundry of a new human existence, at least in the imagination.
The Foundation Screening Series refer to the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the New Museum of Networked Art on 1 January 2000 and the current foundation process of The Agricola de Cologne Foundation for the Arts which will operate the museum from 2025 onwards.