From Jerneja Rebernak : EMYAN Festival

The *Euro-Med Young Artist Network* (EMYAN) is launching the call for entries for the second edition of the *Online Arts Festival* taking place between the 20th and the 30th of October 2009. The Festival wants to stimulate young artists from the Euro-Mediterranean region. EMYAN also
stands for artistic collaboration across regions and the Online Arts Festival wants to highlight creativity using innovative tools for expression and sharing of ideas. Art is shared virtually among peers throughout the Online Arts Festival and defines new methodologies of artistic exchange. For this second edition, the Online Arts Festival will strengthen its goals by reflecting the diversity of artistic expression across several regions hoping to stimulate ways of narrative and visual artifices. The The festival will keep the multidisciplinary of its categories for this prolific 2.0 presentation and the artist works will not only aspire to showcase artistic expression but the entries will need to engage and focus towards the context of the art creation. The theme a r t i f i c e aims to spotlight artists ingenuity and cleverness by use of diverse methods of define a more engaged art practice.

Artists are invited to read the regulations and to submit their work through an online art form on this website. The deadline for applications is *1. October 2009*

Online Arts Festival coordinator
Jerneja Rebernak, jerneja@emyan.org
Euro-Med Young Artists Network

Gurgaon Workers News – Newsletter 20 (September 2009)

Gurgaon Workers News – Newsletter 20 (September 2009)

through caravan99@lists.riseup.net

“Gurgaon in Haryana is presented as the shining India, a symbol of capitalist success promising a better life for everyone behind the gateway of development. At a first glance the office towers and shopping malls reflectthis chimera and even the facades of the garment factories look like three star hotels. Behind the facade, behind the factory walls and in the side streets of the industrial areas thousands of workers keep the rat-race going, producing cars and scooters for the middle-classes which end up in the traffic jam on the new highway between Delhi and Gurgaon. Thousands of young middle class people lose time, energy and academic aspirations on night-shifts in call centres, selling loan schemes to working-class peoplein the US or pre-paid electricity schemes to the poor in the UK. Next door, thousands of rural-migrant workers uprooted by the agrarian crisis stitch and sew for export, competing with their angry brothers and sisters in Bangladesh or Vietnam. And the rat -race will not stop; on the outskirts of Gurgaon, Asia’s biggest Special Economic Zone is in the making.”

another what if on a midnight voyage that has no ending

What if through The Internet of Things we can create a layer of data, open to all, through which individuals can decide for themselves what they are willing to pay for, to get direct feedback from their voluntary donations, to coordinate community spending that has a direct bearing to their needs, to negotiate with other people in other parts of the world how to use their money?

talking at an IMphd seminar in October

Social nOtworking

has never been this much fun!