In 2004, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne started curating “art & moving images” in the beginning for – VideoChannel – international platform of art & moving images – which was launched at a part of the Internet based project [R][R][F] – @ Biennale of Electronic Art 2014 in Perth/Australia.
Agricola de Cologne was running this platform exactly 10 years and finalized it at the end of 2013.
In 2005, Agricola de Cologne founded artvideoKOELN is a new curatorial platform and started afterwards a new online project “CologneOFF – Cologne Online Film Festival” – which was actually only meant to act on the net, but hardly online, there were so many requests to show selections from this festival curated by Agricola de Cologne, that he re-named this project to
CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival and re-designed its progressive delevoping experimental curatorial and artistic concept.
In 2009, Agricola de Cologne re-designed CologneOFF again profoundly as a worldwide acting nomadic festival project realized in collaboration with networkiing partners all over the world
entitled: “CologneoFF 20XX – videoart in a global context” paying also attention to the aspect of videos as a global medium of art.
Since 2012, artvideoKOELN; directed by Agricola de Cologne extended CologneOFF about some new formats
1#minute Cologne – Cologne One Minute Film Festival –
animateCologne – Cologne Art & Animation Festival and –
exDox – Experimental Documentary Film Festival
artvideoKOELN – audio-visual experiences
d/i/light – Darkness Into Light Festival
The W:OW Art Film & Video Festival
At the end of 2014, Agricola de Cologne finalized Cologne International Videoart Festival as an active platform after 10 years, which was an enormous artistic and curatorial achievement.
During these 10 years, he was not only part of the development of digital art, but also part of the development of digital video, in particular. From his global networking, he received many impulses for his work as a curating artist, but he gave also many impulses to his networking partners and the audience.
As a dynamic enterprise, in 2015 CologneOFF was transformed into CologneOFF – International Festival Network, consisting of networks on different levels – the internal and the external network, incorporating the global festival partners. Run by artvideoKOELN, the festivals act also as exhibition formats in the framework of major presentations of “art & moving images”.
The curated programs are characterized by their individual compositions, apart from some exceptions each venue is and was screening the curated program exclusively. Thus, regarding the travelling aspect, the festival is travelling, but not the programs. In terms of curating as Agricola de Cologne’s specific art expression, the individual composition under an individual topic becomes an individual time based, eg. temporarily limited art work.The curated program does also not represent just a compilation of some individual videos, but follows the curators philosophical ideas around the topic. Even if certain programs are screened occasionally more than once, the art work gets another meaning through the difference of the venue and its audience and how the individual is interpreting the individual videos and the entire composition. Since Agricola de Cologne started working as a curator like that, an huge curatorial work arised during more than 15 years.
Many of the events listed below are documented on The Blog @ The New Museum of Networked Art
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WOW.12 / India 5.0
@ TransArt ” Kolkata/India -21 January 2018
WOW.13 / Russia
@ Now & After International Videoart Festival Moscow – 7-16 February 2018
WOW.14 / Ukraine
@ National University Kharkiv/Ukraine 10-12 April 2018
National House of Cinema/Say By Body Art Festival – Kiev/Ukraine 13-15 April 2018
WOW.15 / Greece 2.0
@ ADAF – Athens Digital Art Festival – 24-27 May 2018
WOW.16 / Finland
@ VAFT – Videoart Festival Turku/Finland – 23 – 27 May 2018
WOW.17 / Greece 3.0
@ Eyes Walk Digital Festivakl syros/Greece – 27-29 July 2018
WOW.18 / USA
@ Torrence Art Museum (Los Angeles/CA) – 21 July – 14 December 2018
WOW.19 / Bulgaria
@ Quarantine Film Festival Varna/Bulgaria – 12-14 July 2018
WOW.20 / Mexico
@ Codec International Festival of Experimental Film & Video – Mexico City – 10 September 2018
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WOW.01 – India @ Video Vortex XI @ Kochi Muziris Biennial 2016/2017
Kochi/Kerala/ India – 23-26 February 2017 –
WOW.02 / Brazil @ TimeLine Video Art Festival
Belo Horizonte/Brazil – 5-7 May 2017 –
WOW.03 / India @ Alliance Francaise du Bengal
Kolkata/India – 28 April 2017 –
Dharmasala/India – 5-7 May 2017 –
WOW.04 / Greece @ TWIXTlab Athens
Athens/Greece – 6-7 May 2017 –
WOW.05 / Cyprus @ 4th International Motion Festival Cyprus 2017
Nicosia/Cyprus – 11-14 May 2017 –
WOW.06 / Ecuador @ MIVA – Muestra Internacional de Videoarte @ Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana
Quito/Ecuador – 23-25 August 2017
WOW.07 / India @ Calcutta Diaries
Kolkata/India – 23 September
WOW.08 / Venezuela @ noDOCS – Videoart Festival
Caracas/Venezuela – 20-22 October 2017
WOW.09 / Ethiopia – @ Addis Video Art Festival – Addis Ababa/Ethiopia
24 Dec 2017 – 4 Jan 2018
WOW.10 / India 4.0 – @ 4th TENT Little Cinema International Festival
8-10 December 2017 – Kolkata/India
WOW.11 / Ukraine – @ @ International BarCamp – KARAZIN MEDIA SYMPOSIUM – December 16, 2017
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
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CologneOFF 2016 Italy @ Syracuse International Film Festival –
Siracusa/Italy – 20-28 December 2016
CologneOFF 2016 Mexico – @ Codec Videoart Festival 2016 –
Mexico City /MX – 1-3 December 2016
CologneOFF 2016 Argentina @ FIVA – Festival Internacional de Videoarte –
Buenos Aires/Argentina – 2-4 December 2016
CologneOFF 2016 Russia @ Now & After 2016 – International Videoart Festival Moscow – @ State Darwin Museum
Moscow/Russia – 27 October – 9 November 2016
artvideoKOELN 2016 UK – @ Festival x 24 –
Gainsborough/UK – 16-17 July 2016
CologneOFF 2016 Chile – @ “Proceso de Error” – 3rd International Experimental Video Festival –
Valparaiso/Chile – 31 May – 4 June 2016
CologneOFF 2016 India II @ Momentum – Experimental Art Festival – @ Range Art Gallery
Kolkata/India – 1-3 April 2016
CologneOFF 2016 USA @ Torrance Art Museum
Los Angeles/CA – 2 April – 28 May 2016
CologneOFF 2016 Germany artvideoKOEN – audio-visual experiences 2 – @ Novo artspace
Cologne/Germany – 1 April 2016
CologneOFF 2016 Austria – @ Danube Videoart Festival –
Grein/Austria – 18-21 February 2016
CologneOFF 2016 India – @ CeC – Carnival of eCreativity –
Shillong/Meghalaya/India – 26-28 February 2016
Parachute Light Zero II Paris/France – 21 & 22 March 2015
Now & After Videoart Festival Moscow @ Schusev State Museum of Architecture Moscow /Russia 21 April – 21 June 2015
CeC – Carnival of e-Creativity – North-Eastern Hill University Shillong/India – 01-03 May 2015
TENRI – German-Japanese Cultural Center Cologne /Germany- 16 May 2015
FONLAD – Digital Art Festival Coimbra/PT – @ Santa Clara Gallery, Coimbra/Portugal – 15 May 2015
11th Athens Digital Arts Festival/Greece – 21-24 May 2015
Now & After Videoart festival Moscow – @ Museum of Moscow/Russia – 1-23 August 2015
MIVA International Videoart Festival – Casa de la Cultura Ecuadoriana Quito/Ecuador – 20 August 2015
Linoleum – Internation Festival of Animation and Media Art Kiev/Ukraine- 3-6 September 2015
Zona de Morana Avila (Spain) – 11-13 September 2015
Konvent Festival Cel-AV – Barcelona/Spain – 18-19 September 2015
MIVA _ Centro de las Artes – La Ronda – Quito/Ecuador – 2 October – 8 Nov 2015
VIII Muestra Cortos de la Polis Joven UNED 2015 San Josè / Costa Rica – 30 October 2015
InShadow Festival Lisbon/portugal – 26 Nov -6. Dec 2015
FIVA _ Festival Internacional de Videoarte – – Buenos Aires/Argentina – 30 Nov – 2 Dec 2015
VideoBabel – International Audio-Visual Festival Cuzco/Peru – 30 Nov – 3 Dec 2015
Addis Videoart Festival Addis Abeba /Ethiopia- 23 DEec 2015 – 3 January 2016
Siracusa International Film & Media Festival/Italy – 18-30 December 2015
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2014 – 10 Years Cologne International Videoart Festival
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Sattal -Himalaja/India – 27 Feb – 1 March 2009
CologneOFF III – Art Cartoon & Animates Narratives
CologneOFF III – Feature Nick Fox-Gieg
Cinematheque – Slowtime/Dreamtime
VideoChannel – Videoart from Ukraine
6th Salon de Arte Digital – Museum of Contemporary Art MACZUL Maracaibo/Ve – 1-8 October 2008
VIII World Meeting of Intellectuals & Artists Caracas/Ve – 13-18 October 2008
Busho – Budapest International Shortfilm Festival 5-7 September 2008
Yeosu Art Festival (Yeosu/South Korea) – 30 August – 20 September 2008
Video Festival Celje/Slovenia – 2-6 July 2008
Athens Video Art Festival 2ßß9 – 11-13 April 2008
French Cultural Centre André Maraux Sarajevo/Bosnia-Hercegovina – 8-21 March
3rd CeC & CaC – India International Centre New Dehli/India -11-13 Feb
Les Inattendus – Film Festival Lyon/France – 21-27 January
Videoart on Kinolevchuk Lviv/Ukraine – 12 January
3rd Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina – 15-17 November 2008
6th Digital Art Festival Maracaibo/Venezuela – 7-17 Oct
1st Digital Art Festival Bahia Blanca/Argentina 13-14 Sept
VIP Art Gallery Belgrade/Serbia – 19 Nov
Mobile Institute Brussels/Belgium – 24 AUg
ENTER Caravansarai Festival Istanbul/Turkey 29/30 June
Dutch Electronic Art Festival – unDEAF – Rotterdam/NL 15 April
2nd CeC & CaC – India International Centre New Dehli/India 11/12 Feb
2nd Festival International Arte Digital Rosario/Argentina – 16-18 Nov
Chroma – Festival de Arte Audiovisual Guadalajara/Mexico – 11-17 Nov
PI 5 InterMedia Festival National Museum Szczecin/Poland – 20-22 Oct
*Play VideoFestival Junin/Buenos Aires/Argentina – 24-27 August
Salon de Arte Digital Maracaibo/Venezuela – 1-9 October 2006
8th Digital Art Festival Havanna/Cuba – presentation at Cuban Film Institute 22 June
CeC & CaC – India International Center New Dehli/India – 27-29 January
MAF’06 -New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Th – 02/05-04/05 2006
Art Gallery of Knoxville (USA) 1 January – 30 Janaury 2006
Biennale of Video & New Media Santiago/Chile November 2005
Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon – University Pittsburgh/USA
14 October – 10 Decembe 2005
Select Media 4 Festival Chicago/USA http://selectmediafestival.org/ – 20 October – 13 November 2005
PI five – short video and film festival National Museum Szczecin/Poland, Swinoujcie/Poland and Berlin/Germany 7-17 October 2005
Body Image – curated by Carrie Ruckel at The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art.Chicago/USA 21 October 2005
That Uncomfortable Place Between Beginning and Ending. Curated by Lee Wells – CINEMAscopeHamptons New York/NY – 15-17 July 2005
MAF’05 -New Media Art Festival Bangkok/Th – 02/05-04/05 2005
Israeli Digital Art Lab Holon/Israel 16April-16 July
Hic et Nunc”- San Vito a/Tagliamento/Italy 11/06 – 17/07
prog:me New Media Art Festival Rio de Janeiro – July/August
EAST’05 – Norwich Gallery Norwich/UK 02 July – 20 August –
Al Kahf Gallery Bethlehem/Palestine – 17 February -15 April2005
CeC & CaC – Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave – 27-29 January India International Center New Dehli
Biennale of Electronic Art Perth/Australia 1 September – 10 November 2004