Kuva: Barry MorseCologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea in Arteles 26.-27.5 and 28.5 in Galleria Rajatila is a global videoart presentation in collaboration with Cologne International Videoart Festival, artvideoKOELN; Le Musee di-visioniste - the new museum of networked art.
As a nomadic festival project running 12 months, CologneOFF 2011 is focusing on experimental aspects of the global arte medium video (experimental film and videoart) by spotlighting the diversity of artistic and curatorial contributioons from many countries around the globe. Every month of 2011 is dedicated to other geographical global regions, among them: Africa, Norhern Europe, Mediterrenian, Eastern Europe, Balkan Middle East etc.
This ambitious media art project using is using an international jury consisting of the curators from 7 internationally reknown festivals: Margarida Paiva (Director Oslo Screen Festival), Gioula Papadopoulou (curator Videoart Festival Miden Greece), Macu Moran (director Videoart world Barcelona), Giorgio Fedeli (curator VisualContainer Milan), Jonas Nilsson/Eva Olsson (art:screen Orebro), Mohamed Allam (director Medrar Video Festival Cairo), Tamas Gabeli (director Budapest International Shortfilm Festival Hungary).
The presentation of CologneOFF 2011 in Finland is containing 17 video art programs featuring about 150 video to be screened. After CologneOFF 2011 Ukraine (14-20 March 2011) and Arad (21 March- 2 April 2011), also CologneOff 2011 Baltic Sea will not only demonstrate the power of the presented video works, but also the power of presenting the diversity of video as an art medium practiced as a global language.
http://coff.newmediafest.org
http://www.nmartproject.net
