- 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.

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VIP Room by 8gg
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.

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