animateCOLOGNE – Cologne Art & Animation Festival a new branch of Cologne International Videoart Festival to be launched in September 2012 will run in the framework of the nomadic festival project “CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context” CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context is a world wide unique festival project, starting on 1 January 2011 and running until 31 December 2013 and beyond.

Its goal is to show on the tour around the globe venues the diversity of the creative potential of “art and moving images” transported via the global medium of “video”.

animateCologne – Cologne Art & Animation Festival – founded in 2012 in the framework of Cologne International Videoart Festival – would like give the animation as a particular artistic expression more attention, relevance and space by using a new festival format based on an exceptional permament collection of animated art contents to be extended once a year via a new festival edition.

animateCOLOGNE is looking
– for animated art contents in digital video in all its varietyon the themes “memory & identity”
– for new and experimental approaches in transforming artistic concepts via animation into the language of the “moving images”,
– and is inviting film & video creators – to submit up to 3 works of experimental forms of film and video art

Dead line : 01 July 2012
More Information:  www.nmartproject.net