Programme

Abandon Normal Devices Festival

Bursting from screens and galleries into the streets and imaginations of the Northwest, Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a new cross-regional festival that questions the normal and champions different approaches.

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www.andfestival.org.uk
Current: An Experiment in Collecting Digital Art

Current: An Experiment in Collecting Digital Art is a unique partnership project between the Harris Museum & Art Gallery and folly to undertake an experiment in the collecting of digital art.

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www.current-experiment.org.uk
Bugs

Bugs is a research taskforce programme aiming to provide an in-depth examination of the value and impact of socially engaged digital arts practice on the digitally excluded.

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bugs.folly.co.uk
Digital Participation Programme

Folly pioneers socially engaged digital art for the North West through a Digital Participation Programme that tests the power of the arts to transcend the digital divide.

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FLI Residencies

The Folly Lanternhouse International Residencies offered support to artists working with new technologies to develop their ideas and extend their practice, with a particular emphasis on participatory activity.

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Predict

Predict is a programme for developing the next generation of arts leaders, supporting young people to excel within a future job market and imagine new horizons within the arts.

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Portable Pixel Playground

A bit like an adventure playground, a bit like a work of art, and a bit like a computer game.

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www.portablepixelplayground.org
Areas of Outstanding Natural Banality

Areas of Outstanding Natural Banality encourages people to seek out and document beauty in the everyday, to take pictures and share them worldwide.

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www.folly.co.uk/adeleprince
Radar

Radar is a new programme of artists' residencies in public libraries across Lancashire.

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Digital Artists' Handbook

The Digital Artists Handbook is an accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art.

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www.digitalartistshandbook.org
f.wish

A new kind of online forum. The eastern myth says if your wish hangs in the tree it will come true. Try your luck, submit a wish to folly's tree.

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www.folly.co.uk/fwish
Impending Unrest

Impending Unrest was produced by Radar artist in residence Jorn Ebner during his stay at the Harris Library, Preston in October/November 2010.

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www.impending-unrest.co.uk
The Secret Life of Cumbria

The Secret Life of Cumbria is a book written by the people of Cumbria. A collection of stories about escape, love, grief, and favourite T-shirts!

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www.secretlife.org.uk
A Walk from A-Z

A Walk from A-Z is an audio walk that takes you on a tour of the history of the library movement via the collection at Lancaster Library. Part of Radar, the artists' residency scheme in Lancashire's public libraries.

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www.folly.co.uk/a-z
What's Cooking Grandma?

What's Cooking Grandma is a video cookbook of grandmothers and their special recipes, celebrating Grandma's cooking and sharing knowledge across generations.

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www.whatscookinggrandma.net