Blogs

All 4 parts of "Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom" by Ellie Harrison have now been published on furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=393 (link goes to part 1, where there are links to all the other parts).

This September, Alpha-ville international festival of digital arts and culture returns to introduce the theme - ‘Visionary Cities’. In partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery and Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, the festival will fill two days with groundbreaking live music and visual performances including advanced electronic music, live cinema, interactive media installations, 3D visual performances, a moving image competition and a screening programme.

Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) at Lancaster University seeks art or design-led proposals for a prestigious £10,000 award to create an artwork for a new eco-building.

Huddersfield Arts Festival 2010: Call for Proposals

Alice and Bob need ambitious work! This is the first Huddersfield Arts Festival and we invite proposals and expressions of interest from contemporary artists.

What: Large scale and/or participatory sculpture, installation, performance.

Where: The Warehouse, Bates Mill, Huddersfield, HD1 3DX, UK

www.raceonline2012.org/manifesto

To quote the press release:  "The UK’s Digital Champion, Martha Lane Fox, launches her manifesto for a ‘Networked Nation’... The manifesto, a bold statement for fairness and social justice, sets out plans to inspire, encourage and support everyone in the UK to enjoy the benefits of the web. "

 This is a great article giving some historical insights into the development of what is now the Arts Council from it's roots:
In 1940, with an initial budget of £50,000 (about £2 million in today’s values) the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, mother to today’s Arts Council, was born. The Daily Express thundered: “What madness is this? There is no such thing as culture in wartime.”

Interest article from the Guardian website yesterday - click here

(and timely since folly has just advertised our second call for Radar artists in residence)

Some quotes from the article:

Are you an innovative artist, designer or maker with the vision to make your mark on England’s most northerly city? Carlisle is inviting tenders from visionary artists keen to have their work enjoyed by thousands, as an integral part of an exciting public realm scheme in the Historic Quarter.

Preston UK, autumn/winter 2010
Deadline for Applications: Friday 30th July 2010 5pm BST
Fee: £2500 GBP, plus travel and accommodation expenses
Radar is an innovative programme of digital artists' residencies in public libraries across the county of Lancashire, in the North West of England.