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On this millennaristic threshold old paradigms, which hold our reality built in the course of millenniums, have been overcome and in their place we witness great social, cultural and technological changes, which present unusual prospects for the human race.

Zeus has returned a Europe around which, slowly and with difficulty, all its members have got together. Nowadays we may celebrate the agreement of 27 countries in a common project that was dreamt at length. Tomorrow, all Europeans will be first-rate Europeans. Politics, economics and culture will get inside our hearts through a more fluid personal contact, and through Institutions that represent the feelings of the people. This European feeling has been slowly forged thanks to the convergence of civilizations that have provided a way of being, seeing, and thinking in a variety of shades.

The barriers that divided European people, that were built as retaining walls, have been replaced with communication highways, where we move freely. However, this space we call Europe, which has banished wars from its region, becoming prosperous and democratic, is just a place in the world.

Outside our frontiers military conflicts coexist with the hunger of inert populations. Small boats, genetics, all kinds of fundamentalisms, and the Internet, everything is part of an odd mix in this globalized world. The archaic and the new share space and time in our travelling everyday life.

European population is not homogeneous and it does not have a unique language. Immigration contributes to shape a multi-ethnic Europe, varied, in search of understanding spaces, where the different cultures contribute to enrich the heritage we all share. It is absolutely necessary to establish channels where communication between people is fluid, accessible and permanent.

Our identity is precisely our diversity, "'I' is another and I am the others." In order to establish this concept we will use the word by means of technological networks, as the main element of communication to know others, and to know ourselves. That is the only possibility to effectively weaken the variety of violence and inequalities that surround us.

In order to develop a genuine European feeling and a common space of democratic values we need to feel close, enter into the everyday life of the other, know the different cultures, establish bonds between Institutions, artists, philosophers, scientists, etc. between people!

Technological advances and their convergence with art enable us to establish a union, a bridge among European Capitals, providing creative communication in order to achieve a greater, more mutual and immediate knowledge as the basis for a harmonious and productive construction.

Nowadays, in such a convulsed world, full of uncertainties, we need to think about the model to follow.

In this global situation, The European Union may be an essential reference for a better understanding between countries and the peaceful coexistence of civilizations.

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The project

Develops a metaphor of the characteristic racial, cultural and idiomatic fact of our complicated society, since it is not the identity but the otherness that reflect us, it makes us recognizable, it encourages us to know the others in ourselves, to meet other people in a creative and mutually revealing way.

It is a tribute to languages (more than five thousands all over the planet) and thinking, to the uncontrollable desire of the human being to invent, devise, dream, etc. to communicate and share.

When abolishing frontiers, artificial obstacles among countries, the world becomes a place without barriers or obstacles. We can look into the distance from any place. We shall check all belongs to all. Our French, German, Polish, Italian, etc. citizens are really close to us. Crossing the street, we can see them and listen to them and communicate with them.

e=mc27 proposes a journey across the European Union without going out of the city itself. In this journey we may enter the everyday life of other places, knowing and sharing art and culture, and making them ours.

The world and its people are brought closer by the widespread use of the Internet, mobile telephony, video conference, telepresence, etc. Technology has drastically reduced distances. However, this communication is almost always made privately and in close spaces.

With this Project we take it out for a walk, to those walking places and meeting points, in order to implement reality, a virtual reality, incorporating other cities into the urban landscape of our city.

Nowadays millions of people all over the world are connected by means of mobile telephony and the Internet. The strength these interconnections gain marks is a milestone in global human relationships. Thus, we should make a great effort so that the technological breach does not cause greater inequalities, but the same opportunities.

Everything is not entertainment or business. Art, on this occasion, allows steering this energy and concentrating it on a simultaneous action in all countries of the European Union. Bonds between people and groups in pursuit of the construction of a more cultured and supportive European Union will be increased, reasserting the wish to share knowledge and media.

e=mc27 is an open window from which we will look and we will be seen. More than 450 million people joined together, working in the implementation of cooperative mechanisms through art.