ArtCast in association with moves08
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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 read more
folly's Portable Pixel Playground progresses apace
news News release: 14th May 2008
Clare Gannaway appointed as Project Manager
Progress on a ground-breaking £100,000 new portable playground for Lancashire and Cumbria was given a boost this week as Lancaster-based digital arts charity "folly" confirmed the appointment of Clare Gannaway as the Project Manager. Clare will oversee the development of the "Portable Pixel Playground", which will tour to venues across Lancashire and Cumbria from this summer. The playground is funded by the Big Lottery Fund's "Playful Ideas" programme.
Described as "part artwork, part computer game, part adventure playground", the dynamic playground’s appeal is that all the pieces of play equipment will themselves be original pieces of digital art built by artists from all over the world. Clare brings a wealth of experience working in the arts, having organised numerous exhibitions, commissions and projects, as well as arts programmes for young people and families. She also works as Exhibitions Curator at Manchester Art Gallery and on other freelance projects. Key partner venues in Lancashire and Cumbria confirmed
folly has also confirmed the key venues for the playground up until Christmas 2008, across .......
folly's touring "V.I.P. Room" comes to Peterborough
events | news 10th May to 22nd June 2008
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. read more
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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folly and the Big Lottery Fund announce ground-breaking "Portable Pixel Playground"
news News release: 7th January 2008
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A children's playground for the 21st century folly has announced an important and ground-breaking new project, which is set to have national - possibly international - significance: the Portable Pixel Playground.
The project has succeeded in gaining funding from the Big Lottery Fund, and folly is the only North West organisation to have won a bid under this round of the Big Lottery Fund's "Playful Ideas" programme.
folly's Portable Pixel Playground is an innovative and physical new play space that is intrinsically digital. By connecting children's experiences of technology with play and creativity, folly hopes to unleash and re-energise childen's ability to express themselves in the ever-more-important digital world. read more
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 | events | follyplay | 2007 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
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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 |