Agricola de Cologne MPC 2013

Agricola de Cologne Moving Picture Collection

Never wake up

Never wake up

Never wake up

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    • Synopsis
    Flash movie created by media artist Agricola de Cologne.
    It is based on the artist’s poem of the same name.

    Subject:
    Loss of identity: Soldiers become distorted, veterans of war are not able
    to be reintegrated in society.

    The poem/movie uses some fundamental images:
    The soldier= metaphor for the human individual
    War=metaphor for life, respectively the fights of all day life
    Veteran of War=the human being who can not rid of the Shadows of the Past.

    The work is developed according the principle of SAMAC
    (Simultaneous Associative Media Art Composing) which describes Agricola’s individual way of experimental electronic writing: words, sound, images, animation, music and voice performance are developed simultaneously –depending on each other – in one long single process.

    Voice and sound performance by Agricola de Cologne.
    The movie is developed in Flash, directed and produced by Agricola de Cologne.

    Technical details

    Year of production: 2001
    Duration: 3:00
    Format : Flash, Windows Projector
    Aspect ratio: 1000×700 px
    Programmed: Flash
    Exhibition format: DVD , miniDV (PAL)
    Sound: yes
    Colour: yes
    Sound/music: Agricola de Cologne
    Title: Never wake up

    Credits:
    Director, producer, editor, script/concept, cinematography, programming: Agricola de Cologne

    Copyright © 2001 by Agricola de Cologne. All rights reserved

    Festivals/participations

    *Torino Digital Clip Festival (Italy) – 2001
    *Net_working – Exhibition at Watershed Media Centre Bristol (UK) and
    *4th International Conference on Modern Technology and Processes for Art, Media and Design, Bangkok (Thailand) 2001
    *Biennale de Cerveira 2001 (Portugal) digital works with R 2001: 2001 *2nd INTERPOETRY Exhibition Sao Paulo (Brazil) – 2001
    *Casting a Net – McLean Project for the Arts (Virginia/USA) – 2001
    *4th International Meeting of Experimental Poetry Buenos Aires (Argentina) 2001
    *DMF2001 – Digital Media Festival 2001 Manila (Philippines) 2001
    *Reload – NetArt Open 2002 – Istanbul Museum Istanbul (Turkey) 2002
    *Asolo Art Film Festival – Asolo (Italy) 2002
    *17th Videoformes Festival – Clermont Ferrand (F)
    *COOP Media Festival – Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti (Romania) 2002
    *’Visions Festival’ at St. Kilda Film Festival – Melbourne (Australia) 2002
    *HAZE – hive-projects Toronto (Canada) 2002
    *Free Manifesta/Manifesta 4 – Kunstverein Frankfurt (Germany) 2002
    *Free Biennial New York (USA) 2002
    *IV SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL 2002
    *Digital Sur Festival- Arte Digital Rosario 2003 – Rosario (Argentina) 2003
    *PEAM 2003 – Electronic Art Festival 2003 Pescara/Italy 2003
    *Chiang Mai 1st New Media Art Festival – Chiang Mai (Thailand) 2003
    *No War Media Marathon Berlin – 2003