11 September 2006 ----------------- The Memorial for the Victims of Terror http://terror.a-virtual-memorial.org
an ongoing art environment - is inviting artists again for showing solidarity with the victims of terror by submitting a digital art work. More entry info on the project site http://terror.a-virtual-memorial.org The Memorial was created as a reaction on the 11 September 2001 terror attacks in USA and about 200 submitting artists form now the basis of this memorial, but also as a reaction on a terror attack on the creator of this memorial, Agricola de Cologne, which took place on 11 September 1998, only few years earlier without any public attention. The 9/11 attacks changed the world profoundly, as the Western societies became aware that they are no islands of happiness any longer, but vulnerable as they are a predestined playground for terrorists. Since then many really spectacular terror attacks took place, most, however, are less spectacular and do not take any public attention, but all of them are causing always a lot of innocent victims, whereby most of them do not survive. In contrary to the assassins, whose names are running continuously through the media and are kept in public awareness this way, the victims remain an anonymous mass having lost any individuality. Nobody is thinking of their families and their suffering, although in their small circles the lost family members are never forgotten as the human individuals they were. The Memorial for the Victims of Terror is not only dedicated to the victims of 9/11, but to all victims of terror as all of them have the same destiny to be forgotten. The Internet, itself a gigantic memorial space, is a perfect space for this remembrance, as it is open and available to those who are looking for their personal remembrance space which is driven by the solidarity of so many people carrying the idea of this memorial. Memorial for the Victims of Terror http://terror.a-virtuual-memorial.org is a corporate part of the memorial project A Virtual Memorial - Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org and Violence Online Festival http.//violence.newmediafest.org a New Media art project environment ( launched in 2002) incorporating more than 350 artists from 40 countries who reflect the phenomeon of violence in most different ways. Violence Play Station, for instance, was launched on the day, when the Iraq war began in 2003. All the mentioned projects are initiated and created by Agricola de Cologne, media artist & founder and director of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne -------------------------------------------- Released by NetEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net --> the common weblog of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne www.nmartproject.net, the experimental platform for art and New Media from Cologne/Germany . info(at) nmartproject.net . ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre