Imagined Landscapes Symposium

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For centuries artists have been exploring imagined landscapes through poetry, painting, craft and sculpture, but what have been the implications of the digital age upon the creation and exploration of fictional or imagined places?

This Autumn, folly is working in collaboration with the Cumbria Institute of the Arts' Centre for Landscape and Environmental Arts Research (CLEAR) in association with the Brera Academy, Milan to explore imagined and virtual landscapes.

The starting point for this distinct area of research is the Imagined Landscapes symposium, run by CLEAR. This two day event on 26/27th October will consider the work of leading international practitioners working between and across art forms and with new media technologies to create and explore imagined landscapes.

Acting as an online resource, the Imagined Landscapes website developed by folly will inform two distinct areas of research: how new media art works can help us to understand our relationship with landscape and the environment, and how new media tools can enhance academic research.

The site will exist as a space for artists to share ideas and developments in work on virtual landscapes, to facilitate discussions which offer critical reflection and debate and to provide a stimulus for innovative collaborations between designers, artists, critics, scientists, philosophers and industry experts.