[spectre] Fwd: further changes in Catalunya and Brasil...

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date:         Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:56:12 +0200
From: pedro <pedruski at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: new media art organisations in the Netherlands face severe cuts

In Catalunya the Conseller de Cultura , Ferran Mascarell, has just
announced a new project of law - known as the Llei Òmnibus - which
effectively dismantles arts funding (including reducing the recently
created Arts Council to a merely consultory function) and changes it
into Cultural Industries - so if your project isnt seen as being
profitable you dont get funding ...

http://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20110603/54165359572/mascarell-suprime-todo-poder-al-conca-y-lo-deja-solo-como-consultor.html

http://blog.aavc.net/tag/ferran-mascarell/

minipimer now streaming a debate on this from barcelona :
http://stream.hangar.org:8000/minipimer.ogg

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and in brasil

http://fruido.blogspot.com/2011/06/ovo.html

the MIS is being changed from a digital arts centre to an educational centre ..