The European Commission has recognised the need to boost its capacity for creativity and innovation for both social and economic reasons thus it has declared 2009 to be the European Year for Creativity and Innovation.
The new 2009 Year´s website has been already launched this month, so one can get into the New Year with a glimpse of what is going to happen and get prepared for the official ceremony events taking place in the beginning of January under the Czech Presidency of the EU:
http://www.create2009.europa.eu/
The DG Education and Culture is again the master of ceremonies as it was before for this now concluding Year dedicated to intercultural dialogue – 2008 EYICD. This event has been a great opportunity for the arts and culture sector to gradually get along other civil society organisations from different fields and engage together with the political process to get its voice and interests heard. This […]

Are you working running, managing, building or editing cultural portals around the world? Are you cultural portals experts? Do you know what is the trends in digital culture and heritage? Have you already fulfilled the Culturemondo Survey? If not please give your experience and touch to the final results.
Culturemondo Network and Culturelink Network are conducting the third Culturemondo international survey of cultural portals.
They are continuing their work to benchmark and track changing trends in digital culture and heritage. This means finding out who is publishing which websites in which countries, what issues and challenges they are dealing with and what impact they are having on their audience.
Information about trends in digital culture (and especially cultural portals) is not easily found, and they ask you to help in this task by answering a set of simple questions. The whole survey shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes.
The results of this […]

Se di disegno intndiamo il senso più ampio, così anche il progettare, un opera, ritengo dobbiamo iniziare a "far la punta alla matita".
Prepararsi vuol dire porsi la domanda del fare: perchè lo faccio; e se pure cò mi interessa, mi diverte, stuzzica il mio intelletto, la mia fantasia, tutto ciò non può tralasciare un momento di riflesione.
Se è vero come è vero che ognuno possiede in se qualcosa di buono, occorre che esca e si confronti con il resto del genere umano. Perlomeno per quella parte che mi è data di conoscere.
Un ritratto ad esempio, può nascere dall’esigenza di esprimere un sentimento di fiducia nel personaggio ripreso, che si espone responsabilmente e che con eguale responsabilità viene dipinto.
Cosa dico al pubblico di me? Ho ben fatta la punta alla matita, oppure ho trascurata l’espressione?
Il committente contento non esprime completamente la mia coscienza professionale.
Quale messaggio voglio trasmettere, perchè voglio dire?Cogito ergo […]

The CEU Department of Public Policy offers a one-year MA in Public Policy with an optional specialization in the field of cultural policy. Since its launch in 2004 the department attracted a high number of applications from students in the CEE/FSU region and around the world. Graduates from the program have become government officials and policy experts in their home countries. Many of the students trained in the MA in Public Policy program are early or mid-career professionals who already bring professional experience to the program. The MA program offers different areas of specialization to its students. Upon successful completion of a particular stream of specialization students receive a diploma supplement to their MA degree.
The Cultural Policy Stream
Cultural policies of national states, and later of regions and cities, have evolved in Europe after World War Two as part of comprehensive public policy articulation in many other fields, including health, […]

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A través de la escultura se desea evidenciar el espacio arquitectónico, el cual es parte del referente dimensional. Las obras como objetos escultóricos, se expanden y abren al espacio, utilizan la luz y la sombra para complementar las formas y acceder con planos al volumen escultórico. Las telas pierden su función utilitaria interviniendo el plano espacial, el cual se puede doblar, tejer, hilar, envolver y proyectar; modulaciones sucesivas que quiebran la verdad del único punto de vista.
Todos estos elementos, aportan un sentido visual de ingravidez y una integración con el entorno por medio de planos de color, afectando la experiencia que se puede tener del lugar de exhibición.
Las esculturas en este espacio están en permanente cambio, interviniendo dimensiones, expandiéndose hasta llegar a límites que no están establecidos, provocando que el espacio se tensione, se pliegue y participe del entorno. Las esculturas se vuelven infinitas, luminosas, oscuras y transparentes.Se […]

MOD - Festival de Nuevas Tecnologías. Jalisco, México.
(6 al 9 de noviembre 2008).
INFRAleve. Homenaje a Marcel Duchamp a los 40 años de su fallecimiento. Galería MOTO. Santiago, Chile. (02 al 11 de octubre)FONLAD 4th Edition of The Digital Art Festival Bienal da Madeira. Portugal. (01 de septiembre al 30 de noviembre 2008).

The UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists promote the mobility of young artists in and beyond Europe.
The programme aligns with the Convention on the Promotion and Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, so it seeks to enrich the work of young artists and highlights the impact of cultural diversity on creativity.
It offers bursaries in the fields of creative writing, music and visual arts. The duration of the residency is 1-3 months and artists must apply directly to the partner organizations. There are currently placements in Czech Republic, France, India, Brazil, Canada, Senegal, USA, Australia, Colombia, Italy and Republic of Korea.Institutions willing to join the programme as hosts must sign a Memorandum of Understanding providing basic information and commitment to specific terms (selection criteria: priority is given to developing countries applicants) and manage the travel arrangements and UNESCO reimburses for the travel costs – depending on location and economic situation, institutions may […]

Hola mi nombre es Ezequiel Romero, soy artista interdisciplinario (video, poesía, plástica, performance) y soy también vecino nuevo en esta comunidad.
Tengo deseos de saber más sobre la dinámica cultural del sitio, ya que me gustaría estar en contacto con otros artistas y gestos culturales del mundo, y por eso me interesaría poder compartir experiencias y opiniones con otros como yo.
Atentamente, se despide Ezequiel Romero
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The City of Zagreb and Alliance for the Centre for Independent Culture and Youth founded the Centre for independent culture and youth which will be situated on several locations in Zagreb. In Croatia, this is the first example of such institution based on the mixed ownership and it represents a historic moment for the City of Zagreb as well as for the whole country and, most important, for independent culture in Croatia. This Centre is the result of a successful bottom-up initiative.
Here, I will briefly take you through the advocacy process and struggles which were applied for establishing the Centre. I also hope that it can serve as good example for other cities in the Western Balkan region or South East Europe, as well as wider. To put the whole strategy into the context, I have to get back to the 90’s which brought variety of changes into Croatian landscape […]