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The final event of VELOCITY with Ludus Dance. Participants registered their interest and received details of how, using their mobile phone, they could participate in or watch a new piece of dance on trains and stations along the VELOCITY route, finishing in Lancaster for the bonfire night celebrations at 8pm.

Participants used their mobile phones to capture videos and photos of the performances, which you can see online now.

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For VELOCITY Litfest commissioned two writers to produce new work live on a single day whilst travelling on the train between Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness. The writers left at the same time but chose their own path through the festival. They only communicated via text. Throughout the day they contributed to a micro blog and created a ‘sketchbook’ of their journey revealing the interaction and dialogue they had with each other and their surroundings.

_{Image: Steve Longbottom www.stevenlongbottom.co.uk}

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More Music offered passengers and station visitors the chance to play and listen to new music in a series of onboard and on platform workshops and performances around the Bay.

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An onboard and online collective photography workshop, part of VELOCITY 2007.

Help create a series of black and white mosaic portraits of passengers using an image bank of landscape photography all taken from the windows of trains and at stations. The artist will be travelling around the Bay throughout the festival engaging and enlisting members of the public to participate in the project. Don’t forget to take your camera or cameraphone on your next walk or train journey and get snapping!

_{Image: Adam Clarke – ‘Points of Reference’, 2007}

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Jon Adams worked onboard with rail passengers to create web-based maps of personal journeys in the style of the network rail map. His work explores sense and sensitivity. He transforms or repositions simple everyday language, objects and experiences to hide or reveal perceptions, beliefs or convey messages.

_{Image: Jon Adams – ‘Alternative Platform’, 2007}

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For one day only, Martin John Callanan travelled around the VELOCITY festival, sending information about his whereabouts to an online map in our Lancaster map room.

Visitors to the map room at Lancaster Station helped us to track the artist's location throughout the day, interacting with Martin through text messages, photography and drawing as he visited towns, stations and landmarks around the bay.

See the evidence at http://velocity.greyisgood.eu

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Throughout 2007 folly has been working in collaboration with Cumbria Filmmakers Network to deliver a series of free pocket movie making workshops at Carnforth Station. For Halloween we embarked on something a little bit different. Working from a script by North West writer Steve Jansen, Cumbria Filmmakers Network and workshop participants worked together to create something ghoulish out of the digital ether that casts a new light on the after-life.

The short film made during this workshop - A Frantic Shot Torn - is now available to view on folly's youtube channel - see it now at www.youtube.com/follydigitalarts

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The artist’s online platform contains his thinking about net-based art in a sculptural context. This project began when he started thinking about the measurement phrase 'net weight'. This led to thinking what, if at all, was the weight of the internet?

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This online workshop, developed for VELOCITY 2007, provides step by step instructions on how to create a network of solar powered devices which respond to the ever increasing wireless clouds of information that surround us.

_{Image: Mark Dixon - ‘Network’, 2007}

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