About follyplay

follyplay is the playground of folly, where new audiences are introduced to digitali art.

Online, follyplay delivers exciting and engaging digital art experiences like Virtuali Creatures, and our new bebo page at www.bebo.com/follyplay, while we have toured one-day follyplay events in venues across the North West of England. These events offered the chance for all the family to engage with exciting new digital art. Visit www.portablepixelplayground.org to discover how this folly initiative will develop throughout 2008 and beyond.

Our most recent follyplay event was at Burnley Youth Theatre in February 2008, there was lots to interact and get involved with, including:
-  http://users.design.ucla.edu/~mflux/manifest/   - Michael Chang's  Manifest which can be played online
- http://folly.co.uk/wish  boredomresearch's f.wish was commissioned by folly and is online now.
- http://www.digi.org.uk/foib  Forest of Imagined Beginnings, also by boredomresearch was specially commissioned for members of digi_club - folly's online youth group for 12-16 year olds at http://www.digi.org.uk 
- Finally, you can read about Jed Berk's Blubberbot at http://www.alavs.com

At the Solaris Centre, Blackpool, in July 2007, families of all ages spent the day exploring interactive art like COLLEKTO pivizz and OLE Coordinate System.

In this picture you can see a teenager playing with DT1.

DT1 is an interactive piece of software, where the useri's motions are captured by a video camera, conducting a "Flocking Orchestra's" musical activity.

In March 2007 follyplay spent a day on the BBC bus, during its trip to the Market Square in Preston. Despite the rain, approximately 100 people visited us and the BBC radio Lancashire team. Read their Busi Blogi here.

The follyplay launch event was held in January 2007 in Ulverston, Cumbria.  Over 250 people visited the Lanternhouse on the day, have a look at these photos to see the sort of things they got up to for yourself:

_{Visitors played with projections of digital art like Leonardo Solaas's Dreamlines (left) and boredomresearch's f.wish (right)}

_{Young people were able to get their hands on the latest technology}

 _{A floor projection of Michael Chang's Manifest proved to be very popular}