P-L-U 15

Peace Letters to Ukraine 15
International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) Comference 2023
2-8 September 2023 @ Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

The New Museum of Networked Art – is realizing during The Russian War against Ukraine (open end) in an exchange between virtual and physical space the audio-visual art project – Peace Letters to Ukraine – https://peace-letters.nmartproject.net – initiated on 1 March 2022 as an internationally networked action between 300 participating artists, curators and cultural institutions in solidarity with Ukraine. Initiated by the Cologne based media artist and curator Agricola de Cologne – The Peace Letters Project – would not only like to honor the collaboration with Ukrainian artists, curators and cultural institutions since 2008, but contribute to Peace and defend the endangered freedom – freedom of the word, expression and movement as the base of free art and culture.
Cultural and artistic networking is representing one way how art can serve as a tool to show and confirm solidarity with the Ukrainian people – for Peace and Freedom – not just in times of war, the Russian-Ukraine War. But it’s freedom, of course, as it is understood in a liberal democracy, as it is possible only through the diversity as a result of networking. Art as a tool for sensitizing and encouragement and – Peace.

The New Museum of Networked Art – founded on 1 January 2000 as the international initiative dedicated art and new media, NewMediaArtProjectNetwork://cologne , focused before 2005 at first on interactive and since 2005 primarily on moving images, is operating from Cologne/Germany in cooperation with networked partners worldwide. Initiated and curated by the Cologne based media artist and curator Agricola de Cologne, the initiative including more than 100 international curators , is operating since 2010 as The New Museum of Networked art running its own digital collections forming the basis for the projects to be realized. The collection of art videos from the years 2000-until 2023 is including about 10000 digital art videos by 3000 international artist. The initiative and its projects were presented internationally on Biennales, museums and festivals. Since 2020, The Museum of Networked Art is running Alphabet Art Center, in an exchange between virtual and physical space. Major contexts of activities were JavaMuseum (for Internet based art) 2000-2010, Cologne International Video Art Festival 2005 – 2020 and The 7 Memorials for Humanity 2012-2023.

The New Museum of Networked Art – https://nmartproject.net
Alphabet Art Centre – https://alphabet.nmartproject.net
Peace Letters to Ukraine – https://peace-letters.nmartproject.net

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