Liverpool to host _Open Source City micro-festival
events | highlight | news | workshops 20th to 22nd June 2008
- a micro-festival of open source practice in the production of media art and music
folly and SoundNetwork are kicking off the Summer with an exciting collaboration bringing a micro-festival of art and music to Liverpool, as part of the European Capital of Culture.
Liverpool has a strong history of doing innovative things with electricity, from the birth of the power grid (Sebastian Ferranti) to the early computer games industry (Psygnosis, Ocean, and ZTT). Liverpool also has a formidable musical legacy inevitably centred around the pop phenomenon of The Beatles but which spans every musical genre from classical to electro.
Open Source City tips its hat to Liverpool’s pioneering spirit by offering a programme of art, workshops, masterclasses, talks and concerts that shed light on the growing impact of Free/Libre Open Source Software on the creative practices of today, in particular in media art and music.
digi_club
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digi_club is folly’s digital youth club for young people aged between 12 and 16. It aims to encourage young people to create their own digital art. digi_club is a place to meet artists and be inspired.
digi_club will increase the skills of young people and encourage them to think more creatively about their use of new technology through a programme of workshops, online activities and facilitated forums in order to encourage young talent to thrive. Visit the digi_club website at www.digi.org.uk read more
Digital Artists Handbook
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folly has announced the completion of the first edition of an important new project, the Digital Artists Handbook: www.digitalartistshandbook.org
The Digital Artists Handbook is a new, up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art. The touchstone of this new compendium is free/libre open source software (FLOSS) and technologies.
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ArtCast in association with moves08
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folly brings you ArtCast, an ongoing series of podcasting programmes - a platform for public access to new, innovative sound & video art.For the Spring 2008 programme folly worked with moves to select sound and video art relating to the moves08 festival theme of “the interaction of choreographed movement and sound”.
Selected from an international open call for submissions, ArtCast Spring 2008 includes four audio and four video podcasts, released weekly throughout April. Click here to access ArtCast now.
Image: still from Human Cosmic by Jessica Curry & Monica Fernandez. Image credit: Monica Fernandez read more
folly's touring "V.I.P. Room" comes to Peterborough
events | news 10th May to 22nd June 2008
Space4, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Priestgate, Peterborough, PE1 1LF
folly's immersive installation "VIP Room" - commissioned last year from Chinese artists 8gg - is touring to Peterborough this month and next as part of the national "China Now" festival.This is the fourth venue that the project has toured to, starting at Manchester's Cornerhouse in September and including workshop performances with Urban Screens in Manchester and HTTP in London.
Audiences in Peterborough will experience V.I.P. Room's array of huge computer keys and projected imagery, where changes in sound and vision are controlled by the actions of visitors. Sitting on each key causes a different sound or video clip to be played on the big screen. The work is fun, visually-sumptuous, hands-on, technological and thought-provoking. read more
Volunteer Vacancy
news | opportunities Deadline for applications extended to Monday 12th May 2008
folly is looking for volunteers.Specialists in the creative use of technology and arts participation online, folly is committed to enabling new audiences to explore art through technology.
Volunteering for folly is an excellent way to gain experience within a creative and exciting arts environment.
folly is currently looking for a volunteer able to commit one day per week on an ongoing basis. The post would suit recent graduates, higher education students, or anyone interested in starting a career in the arts or charitable sector. Click the read more link for more information and application details. read more
Residency Programme is a Dream Ticket for Digital Artists
news | follylab News Release: 6th March 2008
A contemporary take on the pantheon of Hindu gods is launching a new international digital artist residency programme at the national Creation Centre in Cumbria.
Manchester-based, Sumit Sarkar (whose work is pictured), is the first artist to benefit from the pioneering programme created by one of the UK’s leading digital arts agencies, folly, and groundbreaking arts events company, Lanternhouse International.
The latter is based at the Creation Centre in Ulverston in picturesque South Lakeland and forged a dynamic partnership with folly, its near neighbour in Lancaster, to encourage and foster the development of internationally significant digital artists via the residency scheme.
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folly and the Big Lottery Fund announce ground-breaking "Portable Pixel Playground"
news News release: 7th January 2008
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A children's playground for the 21st century folly has announced an important and ground-breaking new project, which is set to have national - possibly international - significance: the Portable Pixel Playground.
The project has succeeded in gaining funding from the Big Lottery Fund, and folly is the only North West organisation to have won a bid under this round of the Big Lottery Fund's "Playful Ideas" programme.
folly's Portable Pixel Playground is an innovative and physical new play space that is intrinsically digital. By connecting children's experiences of technology with play and creativity, folly hopes to unleash and re-energise childen's ability to express themselves in the ever-more-important digital world. read more
Forest of Imagined Beginnings
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In the Forest of Imagined Beginnings there are no clear rules or objectives. It is simply an online landscape that is vulnerable to the whims and wants of the digi_club community who can adopt this digital terrain as their own. This new multi-user online environment – a new kind of forum or chat room - invites 12 -16 year olds to navigate and explore a beautiful landscape. digi_club members can explore the forest, embedding their own messages within the landscape and attaching conversations to trees planted by the artists.
digi_club members can enter the forest right now at www.digi.org.uk/foib. read more
f.wish by boredomresearch
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 boredomresearch are interested in engaging communities online through contemplative and rewarding experiences. With f.wish they present an alternative to your average forum.Inspired by the Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees in Hong Kong, if your wish hangs in the tree it will come true. Try your luck and submit a wish! www.folly.co.uk/wish |
