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Tullie House, Carlisle

An adventure in technology

Admission Free

The Portable Pixel Playground is an amazing new play space created by artists working with digital technology. A bit like an adventure playground, a bit like a work of art, and a bit like a computer game, the playground has been designed to allow young people (and inquisitive adults!) to use everyday technologies in fun and creative ways, providing them with new, interactive and hands-on experiences of art and technology.

Set in Tullie House’s lovely gardens, the all-weather Playground will feature a brand new piece of art commissioned from internationally-acclaimed artists Squidsoup, where you’ll be able to create and affect a physical landscape inhabited by a host of virtual creatures.

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VIP Room by 8gg
Space4, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Priestgate, Peterborough, PE1 1LF

folly's immersive installation "VIP Room" - commissioned last year from Chinese artists 8gg - is touring to Peterborough this month and next as part of the national "China Now" festival.

This is the fourth venue that the project has toured to, starting at Manchester's Cornerhouse in September and including workshop performances with Urban Screens in Manchester and HTTP in London.

Audiences in Peterborough will experience V.I.P. Room's array of huge computer keys and projected imagery, where changes in sound and vision are controlled by the actions of visitors. Sitting on each key causes a different sound or video clip to be played on the big screen. The work is fun, visually-sumptuous, hands-on, technological and thought-provoking.

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- a micro-festival of open source practice in the production of media art and music

folly and SoundNetwork are kicking off the Summer with an exciting collaboration bringing a micro-festival of art and music to Liverpool, as part of the European Capital of Culture.

Liverpool has a strong history of doing innovative things with electricity, from the birth of the power grid (Sebastian Ferranti) to the early computer games industry (Psygnosis, Ocean, and ZTT). Liverpool also has a formidable musical legacy inevitably centred around the pop phenomenon of The Beatles but which spans every musical genre from classical to electro.

Open Source City tips its hat to Liverpool’s pioneering spirit by offering a programme of art, workshops, masterclasses, talks and concerts that shed light on the growing impact of Free/Libre Open Source Software on the creative practices of today, in particular in media art and music.

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Northwest digital art charity folly is delighted to be presenting the f.wish “wishing tree” artwork in Spanish at this month’s Digital Media 1.0 art festival in sunny Valencia, home of paella, Las Fallas fiesta and of world class architecture. The digital art festival and symposium starts today and last until the middle of May.

The online artwork “f.wish” – which involves participants casting their wishes up into a virtual tree – was created for folly by digital art duo boredomresearch in 2006. The Spanish version of the wishing tree that will be available at the Festival is the third iteration of the tree, with one version being kept in a digital art archive at Cornell University that will be maintained in perpetuity.

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folly, alongside fellow Northwest arts organisations FACT, Cornerhouse, Liverpool John Moores' University and ICDC, (the International Centre for Digital Content), has completed an exciting new project working with young people from the Northwest. The project culminated in the exhibition of two "Body Language" suits at FACT, at folly's follyplay event in Burnley in February and at Manchester's Cornerhouse last month. The suits were part of an artwork commissioned and conceived by the young people themselves.

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Furness and Midland Hall, Carnforth Station - FREE ENTRY

Bring the whole family along to Carnforth Station on Saturday 15th March, and find out how you can get creative with technology.

Imagine yourself in a virtual forest where you can chat under virtual trees planted by artists, in the Forest of Imagined Beginnings, by boredomresearch (pictured).

You can also find out more about digi_club, folly's online youth club for 12 to 16 year olds, and meet digital artist Dan Fox who will you take through his new exciting project "Directional Audio".

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Venue: Furness & Midland Hall, Carnforth Station. Starts 7:35pm

FREE ADMISSION

A selection of international short films with an air of romance, screened in the ideal surroundings of Carnforth Station, where scenes from the classic film Brief Encounters - one of the UK's greatest romances - were filmed.

Hosted by folly, in association with We Make Media, the evening will include everything from light-hearted comedies to poignant tear-jerkers - there will be something for everyone, with films from the UK and abroad.

And you don't have to come as a couple! It's open to all, and what's more the night is free.

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Venue: Furness & Midland Hall, Carnforth Station

Throughout 2007 folly worked in collaboration with We Make Media to deliver a series of free pocket movie-making workshops at Carnforth Station. This February's movie-making workshop will follow a romantic theme. Participants will learn some hands-on movie-making skills such as: how to breakdown the script into shots, how to find locations, how to draw up shot lists and put basic camera skills into practice.

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Available now - click here to access podcast

ArtCast is folly's new ongoing series of podcasting programmes - a platform for public access to new and innovative art.

ArtCasts are released in sets at regular intervals throughout the year. To launch ArtCast folly invited Sonic Arts Network to join us in the selection of podcasts from an international open call.

The deadline for folly's call for submissions to ArtCast's April programme has now passed. The new series, in association with moves08, will be available from early April.

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