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Folly Opportunities Information Listings October 2nd, 2006
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1. FOLLY LAUNCHES F.CITY – FESTIVAL OF DIGITAL CULTURE
2. AURA BY STEVE SYMONS – FIELD TRIAL, SATURDAY 7TH OCTOBER
3. SOUNDNETWORK – FRIDAY 13TH OCTOBER
4. 3D FILM NIGHT – WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER
5. LUDAS DANCE FINALE – SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER
6. DIGITAL AESTHETIC 2 – EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY TO COMMISSION OR REALISE NEW WORK FOR EMERGING DIGITAL ARTISTS IN THE NORTH-WEST
7. AIRVIDEO – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
8. TRAMPOLINE NOTTINGHAM – PLATFORM FOR NEW MEDIA ART : URBAN PLAY
9. INTERVAL06 – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
10. COLOMBIA-ENGLAND ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME 2006/07
11. RESIDENCIES: HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER, NEW YORK CITY
12. ICT NEW MEDIA ENTREPRENEUR’S CLUB
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1. FOLLY LAUNCHES F.CITY – FESTIVAL OF DIGITAL CULTURE
29 September to 21 October. In Lancaster and online at www.folly.co.uk
folly has launched f.city, a major festival of digital art and culture including exhibitions, events, performances, talks, screenings and podcasts.
The festival features Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders, an exhibition of work existing at the point of convergence between art, architecture and design.
Other events include the first major field trial Steve Symons’ GPS virtual sound environment Aura, the launch of two online works from boredomresearch and Adele Prince; a collective dance performance developed in partnership with Ludus Dance; a 3D films night and workshop with Julian Oliver; podcasts; music events and Open Source workshops.
More information is available at www.folly.co.uk
>>> New SMS info service
If you send us your mobile number, we’ll make sure you hear about how you can get involved in the f.city events. Simply email your mobile number to
E: [email protected]
We will not pass your details to third parties and will not spam you. The service just means you’ll be able to join in some of the interactive projects in the pipeline and we’ll be able to send you invites and tickets to future events.
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2. AURA BY STEVE SYMONS – FIELD TRIAL, SATURDAY 7TH OCTOBER
You are invited to take part in this hands-on field trial - come and experience a new sound environment at Citylab, Lancaster.
Aura is an augmented reality project. Augmented reality involves the overlaying of digital information onto real space. By moving through the real world wearing a special Aura device, users experience the digital information at the location to which it refers - imagine walking through an array of invisible speakers suspended in space. Without visual interfaces like a mouse, keyboard or screen, GPS satellite technology creates a unique 3-dimensional audio signature and soundtrack for the users.
For more information visit http://www.folly.co.uk/?q=node/191
Participation in this field trial is free, but booking is essential. To book, telephone 01524 388550 or email [email protected]
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3. SOUNDNETWORK – FRIDAY 13TH OCTOBER
8pm at Korners Bar, Lancaster
An evening of live sound art and new music. SoundNetwork is an organisation founded to develop the support infrastructure for sound art and experimental music in the North West region. SoundNetwork attempts to cross boundaries between the fields of music, art, technology and science. It is this crossover of disciplines that appeals to a wide audience, from mainstream pop music fans to researchers of acoustics and architecture.
For more information visit http://www.folly.co.uk/?q=node/189
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4. 3D FILM NIGHT – WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER
8pm at the Gregson, Lancaster
Selected from an international open call, an evening of artists’ short films made using 3D graphic creation software or screened using 3D presentation technology. The shorts will include Elephants Dream, the world's first movie made entirely with Open Source graphics software.
For more information visit http://www.folly.co.uk/?q=node/174
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5. LUDAS DANCE FINALE – SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER
Come and take part in the final event of f.city 2006. Register your interest by emailing [email protected] and you’ll receive details of how you can participate in this innovative new piece of dance. Via text messaging and video podcasts you can learn simple dance steps and receive tuition and instructions before the big day. No prior dance experience is needed - everyone welcome!
For more information visit http://www.folly.co.uk/?q=node/184
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6. DIGITAL AESTHETIC 2 – EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY TO COMMISSION OR REALISE NEW WORK FOR EMERGING DIGITAL ARTISTS IN THE NORTH-WEST
Digital Aesthetic 2 is an international exhibition, conference and website taking place in March 2007 in Preston. As part of this event we would like to invite artists based in the North-West of England to submit proposals for new work to be shown at PAD Gallery.
A total budget of £3000 is available to support the making of new work for PAD. We envisage showing work by up to three artists however a single more ambitious project would also be considered.
Artists should submit the following: A written proposal for a new artwork with digital content (approx 250 words), A working budget, A current CV, Up to 10 good quality visuals (or other appropriate documentation) of recent work, Visuals and supporting documentation can only be returned if a Stamped Addressed Envelope is included
Closing date: 31 October 2006.
Successful artist(s) will be contacted early December.
Proposals should be sent to: Digital Aesthetic 2 – PAD, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Market Square, Preston PR1 2PP
Digital Aesthetic 2 is a multi-venue exhibition, conference and website developed in between the Harris Museum and Art Gallery and the Electronic and Digital Art Unit at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). The exhibition opens on 16th March 2007 and venues include the Harris, UCLan, Preston Minster, PAD and public realm.
Further information about PAD can be found at www.padshopandgallery.com
Further information about Digital Aesthetic 2 can be found at www.harrismuseum.org.uk
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7. AIRVIDEO – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
AirVideo is a series of artists' film and video events co-curated by Matt Roberts of The Conjunction Group ( http://www.conjunctiongroup.org ) and Yu-Chen Wang of BasementArtProject.com
( http://www.basementartproject.com ). Each film and video programme will be based around an issue prevalent in contemporary video practice.
The events will take place at the Conjunction AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent on November 17th, 2006 and March 23rd and July 27th, 2007. If you would like your work to be considered please email [email protected] for further details or submit your video (QuickTime 320x240 less than 3mins for preview) to [email protected]
1st deadline: 21st Oct 2006 (sat)
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8. TRAMPOLINE NOTTINGHAM – PLATFORM FOR NEW MEDIA ART : URBAN PLAY
Deadline: 23rd October 2006
Event to be held on 23rd November 2006
The city is paved with pixels, the flow of traffic becomes the flow of bits, the flow of people, the flow of electrons. Streets and circuit diagrams become meshed. The race has begun.
Each one of us becomes a player in the game of the city, furiously manipulating the control pad, tapping buttons, flicking switches. Leaping from platforms, scaling the walls – the concrete/media playground is before us.
Hurtling around corners, lunging up surfaces, shooting through the streets. Join the rush and surge of the city, find new ways to play the game.
Trampoline invites you to participate in ‘Urban Play’ a one day event held on 23rd November in Nottingham, UK. Its objective is to merge video gaming, art and design with the investigation of the city space. The structures of the city are increasingly pervaded by new media with screens, cctv, electronic networks, mobile devices, implements often designed to control our movement through urban space and even to remove us from our surroundings. They wish to investigate how new media can form an even tighter relationship with our immediate environment – challenge and subvert its conventional structures – hacking the city.
Trampoline are searching for work which explores urban space and methods of play, in particular projects which combine these areas in examining and utilising new media elements of the city. You are invited to submit proposals of urban games, creative computer games, video, interactive installation, audio guides, sound, music and performance – exploring play, gaming, new media and the city. Trampoline especially encourage the submission of participatory works which promote a high degree of audience involvement – this includes informal exploratory workshops as well as completed projects.
Key points to focus the proposal on are: The relation between the work and the city, The element of play, Its encouragement of audience participation
How to Submit work: Please fill in the Submission Form, downloadable at http://www.trampoline.org.uk/Applicationform.doc
Trampoline, 14-18 Broadway Media Centre, Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL, UK
http://www.trampoline.org.uk/
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9. INTERVAL06 – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE: 5.00PM ON FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER 2006
Interval is seeking new media artworks for inclusion in the third event in the Interval06 programme. The selected work will be showcased in an exhibition taking place in November 2006 in an empty Public House building in central Manchester.
Interval is looking for new media art works that respond or relate to the concept of 'Becoming Electric'.
Please visit www.interval.org.uk to download an Artist Submission form
'Becoming Electric' is representing yourself or your artwork through a medium. In this process, you yourself become media, become electric.
We live in the time of the electronic soapbox. Who we are and what we say is increasingly mediated by electronic media, and above all today by a variety of social software and networking services, such as Blogs, Wikis, Instant Messaging, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube.
Becoming electric, producing a new reality - one that is often fluid and uncertain - or presenting artworks or ideas via technology, is also becoming public - taking on and accepting a dynamic outside of your own.
Social software and websites such as MySpace feature multiple virtual selves or avatars, electrical selves communicating with electrical selves. Does electronic art function in a similar way to a MySpace page - as a social, communicative and identity forming space? What kind of social space is created by interactive art? What might an art of social software be?
Interval looks at how artists communicate through such technologies, what is our perspective on how our work exists in this space, and how an audience engages with it? How do we shape these variable dimensions?
Featured artworks may: work directly referencing/utilising such tools and services, engage thematically in the concept of becoming electric in a web 2.0 world, explore different kinds of technologically mediated social spaces, involve recontextualising or re-presenting existing works through the use of social software and similar technologies
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10. COLOMBIA-ENGLAND ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME 2006/07
Following on from the Colombia-England Artists Fellowship Programme in 2005/06, visiting arts are pleased to announce the 2006/07 Fellowship Programme. This is a joint initiative between Visiting Arts, Ministry of Culture Colombia, British Council Colombia and Arts Council England This three year programme offers a unique opportunity for a total of twelve artists (two from each country per year) to spend three months in Colombia or England developing their work.
The aim is to establish an exchange between artists who are engaged in contemporary arts practice in the fields of visual and performing arts that will lead to the growth of sustainable cultural links between the two countries.
The residency period for English artists in Colombia is from 8 January to 9 April 2007.
This part of the programme is open to application from digital media artists living and working in England to undertake a residency in Colombia. We are writing to contacts such as yourself, to ask you to identify nominators or make recommendations of artists living and working in England, working primarily in digital media that might benefit from and maximise the opportunity, of a three month residency in Colombia.
The selected artist will spend three months in Bogot=E1 at the Universidad de los Andes http://www.uniandes.edu.co
On receiving the applications, a selection committee (made up of representatives from the partner organisations) will shortlist the artists and the successful English candidates will be chosen by the partners in Colombia.
If you know of an artist based in England that you feel will benefit from such an opportunity, please direct them to http://www.visitingarts.org.uk/news/06aug_colombia_fellowship_07.html
where they will find the fellowship announcement and the visual arts application form.
Please do contact Helen Love on +44 (0)20 7291 1636 or email [email protected] with any suggestions, comments or queries and/or artist recommendations and applications. We look forward to hearing from you.
Visiting Arts, 74-77 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DA
T: +44 (0)20 7291 1601 (enquiries) F: +44 (0)20 7291 1616
http://www.artschoolpalestine.com
http://www.culturebase.net
http://www.visitingarts.org.uk
http://www.culturalprofiles.org.uk
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11. RESIDENCIES: HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER, NEW YORK CITY
Deadline : November 01, 2006
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York City offers two exciting opportunities for individual artists as part of their Artist In Residence programs. Please forward this to artists who might be interested in applying.
Detailed information, eligibility requirements and application forms can be found at http://www.harvestworks.org/
Funded by the Van Lier Foundation of the New York Community Trust, the internships are intended to advance the professional development of post-graduate digital media artists who have few financial and technical resources, and to promote diversity, equity and access in the arts.
Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental work created with digital technologies. Our programs are made possible with funds from mediaThe foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, The Experimental TV Center, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund, The Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, JP Morgan Chase Foundation and the Rodney White Foundation.
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12. ICT NEW MEDIA ENTREPRENEUR’S CLUB
Meet managers from Blackpool Council, Lancaster University and the private sector who are looking to outsource.
“The Use of ICT in Procurement by Local Government”
Presented by Mike Kirkman, Head of Procurement, Blackpool Council
Meet Mike Kirkman and hear from him directly how ICT in procurement will be totally driven by new technology systems for the purchase of ALL Council services. This will enable ICT businesses to be at the forefront of Council purchases not only in Blackpool, but across the UK.
You’ll also meet many other like minded individuals from Blackpool / Fylde ICT based businesses & Lancaster University. Whether your company is selling or buying information technology services, there’s much to be gained by meeting these potential customers and suppliers.
You’re welcome to attend the ICT New Media Entrepreneur’s Club on:
Thursday, 5th October at 4.00pm, Solaris Building, Blackpool Promenade
For further information please call Ed Christiano on 01253 362600 or Sue Denver on 07753 984529
This event is sponsored by Lancaster University, BUSINESS LINK & Lancashire Economic partnership and is FREE to attend
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Taylor Nuttall
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< F O I L > Published by folly October 2006
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