Video Conference Call Choreography
events | participate Wednesday 10th December 2008 and Saturday 17th January 2009
Choreographer, Jeanie McCaghren, in partnership with FOLLY, brings a test series of dance events exploring the use of digital web cams and WAP phones and their potential for bringing people together in a piece of Video Conference Call Choreography (VC3). If you have a web cam or WAP phone you can connect virtually or come along to the live dance workshop events and get moving with this growing community of worldwide virtual dancers.Click "read more" below for further information. read more
The Secret Life of Cumbria
news | participate online and by SMS now!
folly has commissioned creative technology agency Blink to allow members of the public to collectively write the story of “the Secret Life of Cumbria”, one text message at a time. The new Secret Life of Cumbria project centres around what will become a year-long communal diary on the website www.secretlife.org.uk, written by each of the people who take part, using text messages or the website itself. Funded by Cumbria County Council to research into people’s attitudes to culture in the county, the Secret Life of Cumbria is at once an art project, a website, and a collective expression of the views, feelings, thoughts and memories of Cumbria’s residents and visitors.
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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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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
folly partners with BBC to deliver Pocket Movie Making for young people
Archive | 2007 13th August 2007, 10-4pm
folly’s latest Pocket Movie Making workshop for young people aged between 7 and 14 will be delivered in collaboration with the BBC and funded by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council arts services.
Young people between the ages of 7 and 14 are invited to book onto the “Me and My Movie” workshop which will take place from 10am-4pm at the BBC Radio Lancashire Open Centre on Darwen Road, Blackburn on Monday August 13th.
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folly on the BBC bus
Archive | follyplay | 2007 | events Thursday 15th March 2007 10am-4pm
As part of our new follyplay campaign to introduce new audiences to digital art, folly will be on the BBC Bus in Preston on Thursday 15th March 2007.
The bus will be parked outside the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Market Square, Preston from 10am-4pm. Come along and experience some interactive digital art and find out about folly's programme of events and online activities.
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f.wish by boredomresearch
participate | play online now
 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 |
