Last month's Open Source City micro-festival in Liverpool was a great success, and you can now experience some of the content online, whether you want to see performances, watch presentations, hear music or listen to talks.

Find the _Open Source City flickr group to see what went on, and if you have any photos of your own from the weekend, please add them to the group!

You can also instantly access a range of sound and video files. Click read more.

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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}

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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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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.

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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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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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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

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