ArtCast in association with Art Locates Me
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Art Locates Me is a digital art and media project producing and distributing work made by young people from Cumbria.Art Locates Me aims to increase opportunities for young people to participate in digital arts activities in Cumbria, develop the role of the arts in the personal and social development of young people and raise the profile of digital arts activities in the region.
Collaborating artists work with the young people to teach digital arts skills; including film making, photography, music production, VJing, animation, interactive art and graphic design. This results in a wide range of work which we will be showcasing in this series of ArtCast.
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digi_club
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digi_club is folly’s digital youth club for young people aged between 12 and 16. It aims to encourage young people to create their own digital art. digi_club is a place to meet artists and be inspired.
digi_club will increase the skills of young people and encourage them to think more creatively about their use of new technology through a programme of workshops, online activities and facilitated forums in order to encourage young talent to thrive. Visit the digi_club website at www.digi.org.uk
Digital Artists Handbook
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folly has announced the completion of the first edition of an important new project, the Digital Artists Handbook: www.digitalartistshandbook.org
The Digital Artists Handbook is a new, up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art. The touchstone of this new compendium is free/libre open source software (FLOSS) and technologies.
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Video Conference Call Choreography
events | participate Wednesday 10th December 2008 and Saturday 17th January 2009
Choreographer, Jeanie McCaghren, in partnership with FOLLY, brings a test series of dance events exploring the use of digital web cams and WAP phones and their potential for bringing people together in a piece of Video Conference Call Choreography (VC3). If you have a web cam or WAP phone you can connect virtually or come along to the live dance workshop events and get moving with this growing community of worldwide virtual dancers.Click "read more" below for further information. read more
The Secret Life of Cumbria
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folly has commissioned creative technology agency Blink to allow members of the public to collectively write the story of “the Secret Life of Cumbria”, one text message at a time. The new Secret Life of Cumbria project centres around what will become a year-long communal diary on the website www.secretlife.org.uk, written by each of the people who take part, using text messages or the website itself. Funded by Cumbria County Council to research into people’s attitudes to culture in the county, the Secret Life of Cumbria is at once an art project, a website, and a collective expression of the views, feelings, thoughts and memories of Cumbria’s residents and visitors.
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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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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.
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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 |
