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<p>Liebe mur-Mitglieder,</p>
<p>wir möchten euch heute auf eine Petition aufmerksam machen, die
für unsere Arbeit bei mur.at relevant ist. Es geht um den Erhalt
des EMAP-Medienkunstnetzwerks. EMAP ist ein Netzwerk von
Institutionen, die seit Jahren Kunstprojekte und Residencies
fördern, und mit mur.at waren wir in den letzten Jahren Teil davon
und hatten mehrfach Gäste, die im Rahmen von EMAP bei uns waren.
Bitte unterschreibt und teilt den Aufruf, EMAP ist ein gutes und
wichtiges Werkzeug das sowohl Künstler:innen als auch
Institutionen zugute kommt! Es wäre ein großer Verlust, wenn die
EU das Programm nicht mehr unterstützt.</p>
<p>Mit vielen Grüßen für das mur-Team,</p>
<p>Margarethe<br>
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<div><font size="3">please consider signing this petition to
support EMAP / EMARE</font></div>
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<div>More context:</div>
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style="box-sizing: border-box;">It was with great
disappointment that we were informed that, as from next
year, there will no longer be any media/digital-arts
focused Platform and/or Network funded through the
Creative Europe programme. </span></p>
<p
style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; font-family: "Noto Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">For
a long time, Creative Europe has sensibly focused on <span
style="box-sizing: border-box;">digitalisation as one of
the priorities of the European Union's cultural programme.</span> Contrary
to this priority, in the near future no European platform
nor network was approved for funding by Creative Europe.</p>
<p
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is inconsistent with the EUs priorities, that only recently
announced further digitisation with the creation of the
digital Euro, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">but
incapacitated the cultural sector which specifically
addresses, works with, and critically investigates
emerging and established media technologies, policies,
and/or culture</span> by no longer offering representation
in its important structural funding schemes. Although we
agree with, and support the necessity of thematically
oriented cooperation projects, platforms such as the <span
style="box-sizing: border-box;">European Media Art
Platform have offered a horizontal approach and created
production and exhibition opportunities for
professionalisation for artists and organisations but also
established the largest network of media arts
organisations which offered major benefits to the artists
and knowledge exchange between the organisations. <br
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</span>The discontinuation of such funding in the field of
media art contradicts the European Union’s efforts to
seriously address issues surrounding media illiteracy and
disinformation, and it is at odds with its mission to foster
a strong European media creative industry. <span
style="box-sizing: border-box;">It places this already
precarious sector at a disadvantage as structures, ethical
practices, and methodologies</span> that have been
meticulously developed over many years with the support of
Creative Europe must now be dismantled until EU funding is
reinstated. </p>
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style="box-sizing: border-box;">In times of global
insecurity instigated by extremists who attack our
democracies, through the algorithmically promoted
proliferation of misinformation advocating xenophobia,
religious hatred, racial, and gender bias, and
environmental degradation denialism </span>using digital
technologies such as the social media platforms, instant
messaging group chats, forums, and the dark web, the new
media sector for years has addressed, and sometimes provided
prototypes of the necessary ecological and social
transformation tools and processes needed to improve our
failing ecological, political, economic, and social
structures. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It appears
incomprehensible to us that the commission no longer
offers a corresponding programme that can support this
work and diminish the only sector that is for many years
critically engaging with, and addressing these very
important structural problems.</span></p>
<p
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style="box-sizing: border-box;">The European Media Art
Platform (EMAP) is an example of the good work that
platforms</span>, as open cascading grant funding models,
can achieve.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
In the 7 years of its existence EMAP has supported <span
style="box-sizing: border-box;">150 artists and
co-produced with them 91 projects which received 54
international awards </span>including the European Short
Film Price and had been exhibited widely internationally
including the Centre Pompidou, the Venice Architecture
Biennale or The Barbican and connects next to 16 European
members also 150 international partner organisations.</p>
<p
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style="box-sizing: border-box;">We believe that there is
an urgent need for action on the part of the European
Union, to reinstate a European platform with sufficient
funding to produce new critically imagined media works and
support and promote emerging European artists.</span></p>
<p
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petition is meant to be signed by<span
style="box-sizing: border-box;"> institutions, museums,
media labs, other organisations, academics, scholars,
curators, and artists </span>who wish to express their
concern about the cancellation of specific European support
for the new media and digital creative sectors and
industries in a politically, socially, economically, and
environmentally unstable climate when this support is more
vitally needed than ever, not only for the cultural sector,
but also because of the accelerated, alarming changes we are
witnessing in all aspects of our physical, digital, and
systemic environments. </p>
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