folly is pleased to announce our involvement in a development project for pure:dyne, the GNU/Linux platform for Free/Libre/Open Source Software art production and education.

pure:dyne is used by communities across Europe and the world for recording and manipulating sound, making live visuals, creating interactive media in installation, and more.

Through 'pure:dyne for everyone', pure:dyne will reach out to more people - noobs, artists, local users - in a year-long programme of system development, documentation, user support and special public events with partnering media arts centers across the UK.

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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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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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