ADAF Darkroom – ALPHABET

As a director and curator of artvideoKOELN, CologneOFF and The New Museum of Networked Art, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne was collaborating with ADAF – Athens Digital Arts Festival 10 times and additionally 3 times as an artist, so that in the sum of years 2006-2018 13 collaboration within 14 years can be counted. Since ADAF – Athens Digital Arts Festival will not take place as usual in May due to the Corona crisis and in May the next collaboration with ADAF was scheduled – NewMediaFest2020 would like to open a virtual version of the museum’s darkroom by presenting the screening programs of the previous collaborations between 2006 and 2018, and honoring the long and trustful networking

Interventions 2006-2020

NewMediaFest 2020 – 16th ADAF – 15 July – 5 August 2020
WOW.18 – Eirini Olympiou – ADAF videoart curator
14th ADAF – Athens Digital Art Festival – 24-27 May 2018
11th Athens Digital Arts Festival 21-24 May 2015
10th Athens International Videoart Festival 3-5 October 2014
9th Athens International Videoart Festival – 7-9 June 2013
CologneOFF 2012 Greece I@ 8th ADAF – 5-8 May 2012
CologneOFF 2011 Greece I @ 7th ADAF – 20-22 May 2011
CologneOFF 2011 – video program curated by ADAF
6th ADAF – 7-9 May 2010 – CologneOFF V
The Best of CologneOFF – 5th ADAF 2009 – 11-13 April 2008
4th ADAF Festival 2008 (Greece) 11-12-13 April 2008
3rd ADAF 2007 – 27, 28, 29 April 2007 // 2nd ADAF 2006 07/04-09/04 2006

ADAF - Athens Digital Arts Festival - profile

(image up) Athens Digital Arts Festival 2008 @ Technopolis – City of Athens

Athens Digital Arts Festival

Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) is an annual International Festival that takes place every May in Athens with the aim to bring together the digital arts community with a broader audience. The festival was established in 2005, under the title Athens Video Art Festival, as an initiative of the non-profit organization Multitrab Productions. Athens Video Art Festival was founded in 2005 with the intention to offer a platform to video art, installations and live performances. Within the following 10 years, the Festival gradually evolved and included more art forms, such as web art, interactive installations, animation, digital image, performances, applications and workshops, exploring creative aspects of technology and digital culture. In 2012, the Festival introduced the subtitle “International Festival of Digital Arts & New Media” in order to communicate the wide spectrum of its activities and events. As of January 2015, the Festival changed its name into Athens Digital Arts Festival.

Short History

The first edition of Athens Digital Arts Festival took place in April 2005 at the cultural space Thira Technis, in Athens. Although it was newly introduced, the festival received 180 artworks submissions and hosted 137 of them with the aim of supporting innovative artistic expression.

From 2007 to 2011, the main venue of the festival was the cultural space “Technopolis” of the Municipality of Athens where 1,544 artworks from local and international artists were hosted. Through these years the festival presented artworks in its three main categories: video art, installations and live performances, and in the new ones such as web art, animation and digital image, which were introduced in 2009. It also collaborated with other great festivals, such as Transmediale (DE), Cologne OFF (DE), LPM (IT), videoholica (BG), IN-EDIT (ES), onedotzero (UK), art:screen (SE) and more.

In the years 2012 and 2013 the festival expanded its boundaries, presenting its activities in the historic center of Athens with the purpose to map and shape the cultural potential of the district. Under the titles “Visualize Athens” (2012) and “Living Athens” (2013) the festival contributed to the revitalization of the urban artistic dynamics and the aesthetic reformation of the city. This initiative was supported by a significant number of volunteers, Greek Municipalities and international festivals and artists.

In 2014, celebrating its 10-year anniversary, the Festival returned to the cultural space “Technopolis” of Municipality of Athens, as an honor to the venue that had for years hosted the festival’s initiatives. The festival completed ten years of successful organizations, presenting a program that went beyond traditional boundaries between disciplines and media, offering perspectives on creative crossovers between technology and digital arts. Some of the highlights were the live performances “Abandonded cities” by Hauschka and “Late Speculation” by Nonotak as well as the installation “80 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes” by Zimoun.

In 2015, the festival renew its name to Athens Digital Arts Festival in order to embrace its continuous development. In this framework, it expanded its spectrum in eight official categories, installations, web art, video art, animation, performances, digital image, workshops and music under the theme “Public Space_s”. Always engaged with the goal to revitalize the center of the city and its artistic dynamic, ADAF 2015 took place in the historic center of Athens having as its main venue “Diplarios School” as well as two main squares of Athens for parallel activities. The festival hosted the works of 150 artists from Greece and abroad, who shared their own narratives with the audience, redefining the notion of public space both in the digital environment and urban space. Some of the artists and international festivals participated in this year’s festival were: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Karl Heinz Heron (DE), Julian Oliver (NZ), Martin Bricelj Baraga (SI), Martin Reiche (DE), MADATAC (ES), IMPAKT (NL), VIDEONALE (DE), Cologne OFF (DE), videoholica (BG), artvideoKOELN (DE) e.t.c.

Up to now

Over the last eleven years, ADAF has been proudly devoted to the support of innovative and artistic expression, establishing strong bonds with local and international artists and audiences, institutions, art foundations, schools, universities, galleries and museums and a number of 46 collaborating international festivals.

With a solid focus on digital arts, Athens Digital Arts Festival heads on its 12th edition, taking place in May 2016, with the aim to raise public awareness regarding contemporary digital culture and familiarize the wider audience with new media and art, through its various exhibitions and workshops. In addition, it introduces a new category under the title “ADAF Award” and expands its activities into an international territory by co-organizing the Dubai Digital Arts Festival.

More info: https://www.adaf.gr

2006-2020

As a whole, the following streaming videoart programs depict a particular image in terms of videoart, as such, in terms of curating and in terms of the venue.

NewMediaFest 2020 - Reminiscence of Anthropocene @ 16th ADAF

ADAF – Athens Digital Arts Festival

The NewMediaFest2020 is very happy to continue the collaboration with ADAF – Athens Digital Art Festival also in times of the Corona shut down crisis – ADAF online, that this new context for 2020 – 10 July – 10 September 2020.
Wilfried is very honoured to present as a part of this festival edition online – 3 exiting screening programs he is curating

https://online.adaf.gr/stream-events-program/

Reminiscence of Anthropocene

Reminiscence of Anthropocene – 15 July 2020 – 20h

Reminiscence of Anthropocene

curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Sunrise, 2019, 5: 46
Elke H. Markopoulos / Rainer Ludwigs (Germany) – Message of the Animals, 2016, 8:57
Laura & Sira Cabrera (Spain) – Indicios / Inkling, 2017, 6’59”
Arie Sigal & Ben-David Sigal (Israel) – Perlite, 2018, 4:17
Gali Blay (Israel) – Panicutopia-the Desertark, 2017, 4:00
Renata Padovan (Brazil) – Aral Mermaid, 2015, 4:12
Coalfather Industries (USA) – User History, 2016, 6:02
Amelie Klitgaard (Denmark) – Captured, 2020, 3:13
Carolin Koss (Finland) – Plastic Child, 2016, 12:11
Marcha Schagen (NL) – Melt Less CO2, 2019, 3:48

About the program
Reminiscence of Anthropocene – is the most recent collaborative project between Agricola de Cologne and ADAF – Athens Digital Arts Festival, the composition of 10 videos (audio-visual works) forming the basis for a viewer’s reflection, generating a particular image of something many people are identifying themselves with according to individual experiences. These experiences are independent from location or nationality, insofar, as a part of the whole, the artists nationality Germany, Spain, USA, Israel, Brazil Denmark, Finland stand for the diversity of individual experiences leading to the individual artistic expression.
The reminiscence of the Anthropocene is allowing a kind of pessimistic view on the human nature and its influence, domination and manipulation of the natural environment and the social context with other human individuals, wildlife and flora, the social responsibility of the
individual for the individual and the Whole. Often artists do not only describe a kind of status quo, but give even creative perspectives to the post-Anthropocene era, whatever it may be.
Differently than other ideological models, in the given case, the post-Anthropocene is not leading to a fusion of the human and the machine, but is rather recalling “ancient” human values like indigenous people – however, threatened with extinct by human greed – are still practicing them, based on mutual social responsibility and solidarity. That this is not a mere illusion is showing the radically changed people’s behaviour during the Corona crisis, but as soon as they do not feel longer endangered, they immediately forget the values they propagated short time before. So, Corona wasn’t the worst case yet, to make most people really rethink, and the real end of Anthropocene might come sometimes rather sooner than later by a another global disaster.

About Human Nature

About Human Nature – 29 July 2020 – 20h

WOW about human nature
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Stine Gonshold (Norway) – Human Nature, 2008, 1:50
Roland Quelven (France) – Harey Solaris, 2015, 4:51
Gregg Biermann (USA) – Crop Duster Octet, 2013, 5:32
Sándor M. Salas (Spain) – De cara a la muerte, 2013, 03:52
Theresa Khalil (Egypt) – It goes on, 2013, 5.40
Istvan Horkay (Hungary) – The Lords Prayer, 2014, 5:04
Laurent Pernot (France)- Still Alives, 2005, 2.34

Art Is Indivisible

Art is Indivisible – 05 August 2020, 20h

Art Is Indivisible – curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Anca Bucur (Romania) – The confession of an aphasic writer, 2014, 3’31”
Gregg Biermann (USA) – Iterations, 2014, 5:37
Machia & Lolina (UK) – Chamelion Seeking Colour, 2015, 7’ 40″
Emil Zenko & Evgenij Romashov (Belarus) – Maslenitsa, 2015, 2:28
Valerio DE BONIS (Italy) – “I would claw my eyes out”, 2015, 9:00
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Virus, 2012, 5:00

WOW.2018 - curated by by Eirini Olympiou for ADAF

Transitions from Public to PostFuture

Transitions from Public to PostFuture
Curated by Eirini Olympiou (ADAF – Athens Digital Arts Festival)

List of videos

Gianluca Abbate (IT) – Panorama, 2015, 07:00
Cerezo Azahara (SP) – Slopes, 2013, 04:37
Panagiotis Tomaras (GR) – 165, 2009, 02:45
Marcantonio Lunardi (IT) – Unusual Journey, 2017, 03:22
Neno Belcev (BU) – Sectral Promenade, 2013, 03:54
Maria Fernanda Bertero (EC) – Technolapse, 2017, 06:21
FIELD (UK) – Hidden Layer, 2017, 02:54
Thomas Valianatos (GR) – Fractus machine_Cosmo, 2017, 03:34
Giada Ghiringhelli (CH/UK) – Rhythm of Bein, 2017, 06:26

Statement by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
WOW.18 / USA is the 18th and so far most comprehensive manifestation of „The W:OW Project – We Are One World“ and the 1st one in USA @ Torrance Art Museum.
Running between 21 July and 14 December 2018 @ TAM, the screening program series of „The W:OW Art Film & Video Festival“ are presenting the entire artvideo program as it was presented at 10 the venues in 2017 including more than 125 art films & videos by 125 artists from about 30 countries selected by 10 guest curators from Mexico, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Italy, Israel, Austria & Russia and the German Wilfried Agricola de Cologne as a chief curator and director of „The W:OW Project“ – packed into 20 curated, conceptual programs.
According to its concept of and reflecting the diversity of life, in general, and human existence, in particular, „The W:OW Project“ program would like to present a diversity of artistic and curatorial concepts, as well as a variety of topics affecting human individuals whereever they live on the globe. The project is using the technology of video and the medium of „moving images“ as a contemporary audio-visual language of art, addressed to an open minded audience who is eager to learn new ways of viewing following the new rules of „artvideo“, differently than the mass of static and moving images overwhelming people in daily life permanently like in cinema, television or Internet – giving the individual image or „frame“ back its individuality, and time another relevance and perception.

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WOW.15 - Greece 2.0 - ADAF – Athens Digital Art Festival – 24-27 May 2018

Singuliarity WOW

The W:OW Project
artvideoKOELN & The New Museum of Networked Art
@ ADAF 2018 – Athens Digital Arts Festival – 24-27 May 2018

fearuring the special program – Singuliarity WOW
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

selected videos

Yao Cong (China) – B²EAU²T²Y, 2014, 15’30”
Francesca Leoni (Italy) – Ego- Crazia ( Chapter 1), 2016, 8’20”
Bill Domonkos (USA) – Il Custode/The Custodian, 2013, 03:19
s/n (Jennida Chase & Hassan Pitts) (USA) – The Fawn, 2017, 8:15
Francesca Lolli (Italy) – The dying Lilium, 2016, 03:27

VIP – VideoChannel Interview
Bill Domonkos – https://vip.nmartproject.net/?page_id=135

CologneOFF 2015 Greece - 11th Athens Digital Arts Festival 21-24 May 2015

On Public Space

CologneOFF 2015 Greece
@ Athens Digital Arts Festival – 21-24 May 2015

CologneOFF 2015 Greece – catalogue

On Public Space curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
https://cologneoff.nmartproject.net/

List of videos

Gabriel Hosovsky (Slovakia) – Miscellany VIII, 2013, 5:14´´
Kaiser Nahhas (Syria) – Anti Censorship Protest at Taksim, 2014, 4:27
Dustin Morrow (UK) – Ground London, 2013, 7:41
Alexander Callsen (Germany) – Gap Camp, 2013, 6:04
Victor Ripoll (Spain) – Don’t Move, 2013,
Felice Hapetzeder (Sweden) – 366, 2014, 1:00
Manuel Saiz (Spain) – Sic Transit, 2009, 5:00
Giulia Giannola (Italy) – The Lap, 2013, 3:55
Magnus Irvin (UK) – The Flasher, 2014, 2:48
Mari Keski-Korsu (Finland) – Albedo Logger, 2013, 06:08
Bankleer (Germany) – Minority in Majority , 2011, 4.30
Beate Hecher/Markus Keim (Austria) – ln Absentia, 2012, 10:00
Ana Brotas (Portugal) – Okupa, 2009, 2:19
Yuriy Kruchak, Yulia Kostereva (UKraine) – The 7th of November, 2009, 3:36
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Oasis in the desert, 2009,
Daniel Lo Iacono (Germany) – Digital Snapshots, 2003, 2:30
Albert Merino (Spain) – Les Bagneurs, 2010, 3:30
Les Riches Douaniers (France) – Motorized Ordeal, 2009, 8:46

VideoChannel Interviews
Felice Hapetzeder – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=452
Le Riches Douaniers – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=379
Albert Merino – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=944
Francesca Fini – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=656
Ana Brotas – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=729

CologneOFF 2014 Greece - 10th Athens International Videoart Festival 3-5 October 2014

The Razor’s Edge

2014 – 10 Years Cologne International Videoart Festival
artvideoKOELN is happy to celebrate the 10 anniversary of CologneOFF
Cologne X – 10th Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff10.newmediafest.org
together with AVAF – Athens International Videoart Festival , which is celebrating in 2014 its 10th anniversary, as well.

CologneOFF X
Total Art – @ The Razor’s Edge – curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

List of films

D-Fuse (Michael Faulkner + Matthias Kispert)(Germany) – Secured by Design,2012, 00’34″
William Pena (Colombia) – Control, 2013, 3:45
Shuai Cheng Pu (Taiwan) – Still Here, 2010, 4:50
Everett Beidler (USA) – Moves Manager, 2011, 4:09
Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) – 370 New World, 2014, 5:08
Michael Gaddini (Italy) – “My TV Heart”, 2013, 7:40
Francesca Fini Italy) – Touchless, 2014, 4:46
Javier Velázquez Cabrero (Spain) – My city a bit cleaner of advertising every day, 2012, 6:00
Gavin Hoffman (Ireland) – Complicit, 2013, 4:08
Gabriele Tosi (Italy) – The Extreme Challenge, 2014, 4:56
Po-Wei Su (Taiwan)- Plastic Flowers, 2014, 2:56

VIP – VideoChannel Interviews
Marcantonio Lunardi – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=907
Gabriele Tosi – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=1725
William Pena – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=726
Michael Gaddini – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=1581
Francesca Fini – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=656

Curatorial statement
by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

The title- @ The Razor’s Edge is hitting the contextual topic of 10th Athens International Videoart Festival 2014 by pointing to the daily living environment under the influence of the new technologies causing new social behaviour and conditions, making the human being obsolete to be replaced by new uncontrollable structures. The artists are asking the questions, but their works do not give an answer. They try to initiate a discussion around the essential questions of the rescue and survival of the human species at a cross road of its own future.

The motto of the 10th Cologne International Videoart Festival – “Total Art – Gesamtkunstwerk” is not only related to the type and contents of the audiovisual video works to be selected, but also to the meaning CologneOFF has as an artistic creation of its own.

It points to the fact that the festival activities are the creative output of the media artist Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, founding director und curator of CologneOFF whose artistic creative work in form of curating is manifesting itself in that special type of art work, the 10th festival edition of Cologne International Videoart Festival., respectively the totality of the project, entitled CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival, including 10 editions of an experimental and experimenting festival, and in this way, 10 years of an exciting media development. The festival as an art project and a cultural creation.

However, Agricola de Cologne is not placing himself and his creation in the foreground, but the particular complex audiovisual creations by the submitting fellow artists whose video works follow all the idea of the “Gesamtkunstwerk” using an individual audiovisual language, and in this way, the medium of digital video in all its technological complexity in order to confront the audience with multi-facetted contents, the manifestation of philosophical, political, cultural or artistic statements through a critical view on the PRESENT, sometimes ironically and with a sense of humour, but very serious und profound in artistic concern.

As a unity and totality, the selection to be presented in the context of 10th Athens International Videoart Festival would like to celebrate the diversity of contemporary artistic creations in times of the merging arts on occasion of the 10th anniversary of CologneOFF.

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CologneOFF 2013 Greece - Athens International Videoart Festival – 7-9 June 2013

Addictions

CologneOFF 2013 Greece
@ Athens International Video Art Festival – 7-9 June 2013

CologneOFF VIII – 8th Cologne International Videoart Festival

List of videos

Nicola Bergström Hansen (Sweden) -Over the Rainbow, 2012, 6:57
Giovanni Bucci (Italy) – Addictions, 2011, 2:00
Alexander Isaenko (Ukraine)- The negative selection, 2012, 3:30
Tagit Klimor (Israel)- Fcity, 2011, 4:50
Jonathan Minard and James George (USA) – Clouds, 2012, 19:00
Michael Murnau (UK) – Hanging On Me, 2012, 7:26
Noriyuki Suzuki (Japan) – fragment, 2012, 5:20
Shuai Cheng Pu (Taiwan) – Ferry Paradise, 2012, 3:48
QNQ/AUJIK (Sweden/Japan) – Cathexis, 2012, 20:00

Alexander Isaenko – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=716

Short note
By Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
The video works selected for this retrospective compilation focus on some very relevant aspects of “art & moving images”, the experimenting with technology, forms, formats and contents, which is manifesting itself in a kind of hybrid category format, one might call “experimental documentary”. The compilation would like to present some exemplary works by artists from different countries and cultures, who make their personal perceptions, philosophical and artistic points of views the basis for a discussion with the viewer. Although as videos from their character linear, all of them include a strong interactive component by provoking the attention, concentration and activation of the viewer.

CologneOFF 2012 Greece - Athens International Video Art Festival – 5-8 May 2012

Art & the City

CologneOFF 2012 Greece
@ Athens International Video Art Festival – 5-8 Mai 2012

presenting – CologneOFF VII – Art & the City
special selection curated by Agricola de Cologne

featuring

Mattias Härenstam (Sweden) – Closed Circuit, 2011, 3:01
Albert Merino (Spain) – The City and The Other, 2010, 3:09
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Oasis in the Desert, 2010, 5:00
Nick Fox-Gieg (USA) – Disarmed , 2002, 2:42
Ellen Lake (USA) – Call + Response, 2009, 3:00
Theme Bannenberg & NOK Snel (Netherlands) – Behind Closed Doors, 2010, 7:38
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – Leap of Faith, 2010, 3:02
Yuriy Kruchak, Yulia Kostereva (UKraine) – The 7th of November, 2009, 3:36
Ana Brotas (Portugal) – Okupa, 2009, 2:19
My Name is Scot (Canada) – Independance, 2011, 7:56
Liu Wei (China) – Hopeless Land, 2009, 7:28
Emeka Ogboh (Nigeria) – [dis]connect III, 2011, 3:36
Ramon Suau Lleal (Spain) – Hoax, 2010, 4:23

VideoChannel Interviews
Albert Merino – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=944
Francesca Fini – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=656
NOK /Bannenberg – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=871
Ellen Lake – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=528

CologneOFF 2011 Greece - Athens Video Art Festival – 20-22 May 2011

Tensions in time and space II

CologneOFF 2011 Athens
Athens Video Art Festival – 20-22 May 2011

Tensions in time and space II
Curated by Agricola de Cologne (director of CologneOFF)

Mohammed Harb (Palestine) – Without Windows, 2009, 5:00
Confusion Group (Spain) – Sorry to bother you, 2008, 6´06″
Sai Hua Kuan (Singapore) – Space Drawing No. 5 – , 2009, 1:02
Shahar Marcus (Israel) – Homecoming Artist, 2008, 4:37
Angela Washko (USA) – Washko’s PR, 2010, 2:00
Jorge Garcia Velayos (Spain) – THE BEAST / LA BESTIA, 2009, 05’ 20’’
Irina Gabiani (Georgia) – Diachronicon – 2010, 1:00
Pablo Fernandez-Pujol (Spain) – 142-143 – 2010, 2:10
Neringa Naujokaite (Lithuania) – “Horizont”, 2010, 8:53 min
Barry Morse (USA) – Mouse’s Birthday, 2010, 3:35
Lemeh 42 (Italy) – Inner sound, 2010, 10′
Kira Zhigalina (Russia) -Blank or Attempts to Draw at Nothingness, 2008, 6:00
Doug Garth Williams (USA) – Back & Forth, 2009, 2:42

Barry Morse – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=511
Angela Washko – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=504
Irina Gabiani – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=616

CologneOFF 2011 /2016 curated by Sotiris Iliadis & Timothy Laskaratos for ADAF

Tensions in time and space II

CologneOFF 2011 / 2015 curated by Sotiris Iliadis & Timothy Laskaratos
artVIDEO KOELN – AVE 01
including the videos

1.Achilleas Gatsopoulos (Greece) Seal of Lilith/2010/5′01”
2. Dagly Zeynep (Turkey) – Disaster /2006 /2′23” /
3.Jazbec Masa (Slovenia) – First blood /2010 /1′20”/
4.Thessia Machado (Brazil) – Longday/2010 /0′25” /
5.Vincent Gisbert (Spain) – Contra /2009 /3′43”
6.Dimitris Papoutsakis (Greece) – Athenian Summer /2009/2′53” /
7.Guido Salvini (Italy) – Strength test /2009 /2′00”
8. Rogelio Sastre (Spain) – The Perfect Immigrant /2010 /11′30”
9.Giorgio Constantine (Greece) – Wait for me /2010 /3:00
10.Vasilis Tzikas(Greece)-ToKalesma/2009/3′10

Curator: Sotiris Iliadis

Artists:
1.
Second name: Gatsopoulos
First name: Achilleas
Achilleas Gatsopoulos was born in 1980 in Athens, Greece. Coming from a Fine Arts background, he moved to England to study Animation and Film Set Design. He concluded his studies with distinction in both degrees and since then he lives and works in London on various productions, ranging from big films such as “Harry Potter III” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” to many BBC and ITVtelevision productions. He has also directed and produced a few short films and music videos that have participated in various Film Festivals and have also been aired worldwide.
Title of work: Seal of Lilith/year: 2010/duration: 5’01” /credits: Gatsopoulos Achilleas /
A timeless story of erotic manipulation and deceit given through a visual exploration of a series of almost static live-action paintings referencing archetypal images and characters such as Adam, Lilith, Cain and Abel.

2.
Second name: Zeynep
First name: Dagly
Title of work: Disaster /year: 2006 /duration: 2’23” /credits: Dagly Zeynep/

3.
Second name: Masa
First name: Jazbec
Title of work: First blood /year: 2010 /duration: 1’20”/credits: Jazbec Masa /

4.
Second name: Machado
First name: Thessia
Thessia Machado, Brazil/NY, investigates the physicality of sound and the metaphorical possibilities of simple images. Her installations and video pieces have been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Berlin and she has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Vermont Studio Center. She is a recipient of fellowships from The Bronx Museum, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Experimental Televison Center.

Title of work: Longday/year: 2010 /duration: 0’25” /credits: Machado Thessia /
A meditation on longing, longday superimposes an element reminiscent of water onto a bustling city view as night falls. It floods this urban clamor with the nostalgic ocean of my native Brazil. This piece has aquired another level of meaning with the recent discussions of the effect of climate change on coastal cities.

5.
Second name: Gisbert
First name: Vincent
Vicent Gisbert Soler (1976, Ontinyent ) lives and works in Valencia. At the moment he is quite implicated in audiovisual projects using the movement and the space like basic factors of his creation. With his previous work, Rumors, he participated in different national and international festivals like: el Festival Internacional de cine de Tarragona, el Festival de cortos de Ciudad Real, el Festival Zinebí de Bilbao, el Festival internacional de cine de Ourense, La Mostra de Valencia… Colaboration in other productions for example with Maria Trénor, winner in different international festivals like: La Berlinale, Cinema Jove or el Festival de cine independiente de Lisboa.

Title of work: Contra /year: 2009 /duration: 3’43” /credits: Gisbert Vincent /
Contra is a reflection on the fragility of contemporary man in his present environment, charting the loss of conscience that results in the moment of bonding our spirit to things material, the perceived reality of the senses. Use, transform, create, manipulate, destroy… actions that can form behaviors governed only by individual and immediate interests. Then we impose without respect, distracting ourselves from the negative consequences on our environment and ourselves.

6.
Second name: Papoutsakis
First name: Dimitris
Dimitris lives and studies in Athens.

Title of work: /year: Athenian Summer /duration: 2’53” /credits: Dimitris Papoutsakis/
Presenting the town and the public spaces though a model, the spectator doesn’t fit into the miniature of his familiar environment, but feels huge in comparison as an individual personality and social unity. This Art Work questions the emotional participation of the spectator in this visual transition of reality. There are scenes given as moments of a celebration by the nature and human society through the inexhaustible diversity of it creatures, and images showing the successive phases of movement of the unit, in the difficult and often painful attempt to participate in social destiny total.

7.
Second name: Salvini
First name: Guido
Title of work: Strength test /year: 2009 /duration: 2’00” /credits: Salvini Guido /

8.
Second name: Sastre
First name: Rogelio
Born in 1970 in Santander, Spain. BA in Linguistics and Hispanic Studies, University of London, with one year at UC Berkeley. Studied a Cameraman course and a AVID Media Composer course.Lived in the UK for ten years.

Title of work: The Perfect Immigrant /year: 2010 /duration: 11’30” /credits: Sastre Rogelio /
What´s the perfect immigrant like? What´s his skin like? What´s he thinking?

9.
Second name: Constantine
First name: Giorgio

Title of work: Wait for me /year: 2010 /duration:- /credits: Constantine Giorgio /
A lonesome girl spends her time with her only friends…The horses from a farm right next to her house. She goes to the valley to ride her favourite horse. She chases a white butterfly. Is the butterfly a spirit? She keeps chasing the girl in the white dress until the end. The girl in the white dress was her imaginary friend.

10.
Second name: Tzikas
First name: Vasilis
Title of work: To Kalesma /year:2009 /duration: 3’10” /credits: Tzikas Vasilis /
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CologneOFF 2010 Greece - Athens Video Art Festival – 7-9 May 2010

<br /> The Best of CologneOFF V

The Best of CologneOFF V
Athens Video Art Festival – 7-9 May 2010

Corporate Warfare, 2005, 3:32 by Casey McKee (USA)
Noli Me Tangere, 2008, 6:20 by Masha Yozefpolsky (Israel)
The Kurukshetra-Report, 2009, 8:00 by Ascan Breuer (Germany)
Roghieh, 2009, 5:30 by Alysse Stepanian (Iran)
Who lives in My Head, 2009, 4:30 by Margarida Paiva (Portugal)
Berenice, 2008, 4:31 by Bill Domonkos (USA)
Electric Icon, 2009, 13:00 by Aryn Zev (USA)
Bodies and Metals, 2009, 3:00 by Rafael (Belgium)
Cruentation, 2008, 3:48 by Iona Pelovska (Canada)
Elena in the Prison of Herself, 2006, 6:58 by Julio Orta Villarreal (MX)
Silent, 2007, 1:16 by Silvana Dunat (Croatia)
The Magnitude of the Continental Divide, 2009, 6:00 by Chis Coleman (USA)
Anomia, 2008, 4:50 by Nuria Frogoso (Mexico)

Silvan Dunat – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=399
Bill Domonkos – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=135
Margarida Paiva – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=76
Julio Orta – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=410

CologneOFF 2008 - the Best of CologneOFF - Athens Video Art Festival 2008 – 11-13 April 2008

The Best of CologneOFF III

The Best of Cologne OFF – Toon ! Toon!
art cartoons and animated narratives
http://coff03.newmediafest.org
Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

CologneOFF – 3rd edition of Cologne Online Film Festival

Their Circumstances by Ji Hyung Ahn (South Korea)
Prostituto, ta. by Silvia Cacciatori Filloy (Uruguay)
Brand New Morning by Konstantin Dimitriev (Russia)
The Changing Man by Rami Fischler (Australia)
Nick Fox-Gieg (USA) – Disarmed , 2002, 2:42
Controlled Dream Machine by Anaisa Franco (Brazil)
Tomorrow by Kaspars Groshevs (Latvia)
A Dollhouse is… by Henry Gwiazda (USA)
Pilot/Gamer by Gerald Habarth (USA)
Where Stories Come From by Lycette Bros. (Australia)
Radiocar by Hermes Mangialardo (Italy)
Scratch by Alexander Satim Timofeev (Russia)
Particula by topo – Leonardo R. Beltrán Navarro (Chile)

VIP – VideoChannel Interviews
Henry Gwiazda – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=90
Jihyun Ahn – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=33
Hermes Mangaliardo – http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=49

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne - Athens International Video Art Festival 2008 - 2007 - 2006

Athens International Video Art Festival 2008 (Greece) 11-12-13 April 2008

Bareback – serial DIScharge

Wilfried Agriciola de Cologne – Bareback – serial DIScharge, 2007, 6:00
The experimental film tells the story of a homeless person, who lost its identity in all the traumatic experiences it was undergoing. Again, Agricola de Cologne uses the form of the allegorical representation for pointing to essential questions of human existence. All people are homeless in on or the other way, most however, suffer from it without being aware of it. The film is a mirror of our time which has lost its roots.

Athens Videoartfestival 2007 – Athens Greece 27, 28, 29 April 2007

Rivals & Friends

Wilfried Agriciola de Cologne – Rivals & Friends, 2005, 2:20
Experimental film about the conflict of being friends and rivals.

Athens Videoart Festival 07/04-09/04 2006

Truth- Paradise Found

Wilfried Agriciola de Cologne – Truth- Paradise Found, 2004: 3:00
The video tells the story of the human desire to be as close to truth as possible. But who ever will succeed while living a life dominated by the fast running time and endless searching?
If there is any paradise, then monks or people really resting within themselves find a paradise close to truth close to GOD. But it is only truth people are believing in. Is there absolute truth?
The video consists of three sections, a spiritual and a physical section and the acting level, the artist who is filming the scene, an intruder who become witness of a ritual of truth.
This basic video was filmed in 2003 at the Rila Monastery, the spiritual centre of Bulgaria.

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