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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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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: Rotunda Café, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Market Square, Preston

Filmmaker and designer Scott Pagano creates futuristic moving images using aspects of architecture which fracture on the screen. With influences ranging from minimalist painting to science fiction cinema, his work offers a new perspective on the many images and messages we get bombarded with in our everyday lives. His meticulously constructed abstract artworks push the boundaries of audio-visual composition and process using a dynamic mix of cinematography and synthetic image.

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The final event of VELOCITY with Ludus Dance. Participants registered their interest and received details of how, using their mobile phone, they could participate in or watch a new piece of dance on trains and stations along the VELOCITY route, finishing in Lancaster for the bonfire night celebrations at 8pm.

Participants used their mobile phones to capture videos and photos of the performances, which you can see online now.

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More Music offered passengers and station visitors the chance to play and listen to new music in a series of onboard and on platform workshops and performances around the Bay.

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Venue: Dukes Theatre, Lancaster FREE ADMISSION

A talk and film screening by artist Chris Welsby who has been invited to visit Morecambe Bay during VELOCITY by the Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts. He is interested in the elemental processes contained within the landscape and will be spending the week looking at the relationships between technology and nature through the mechanics of film and video.

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For one day only, Martin John Callanan travelled around the VELOCITY festival, sending information about his whereabouts to an online map in our Lancaster map room.

Visitors to the map room at Lancaster Station helped us to track the artist's location throughout the day, interacting with Martin through text messages, photography and drawing as he visited towns, stations and landmarks around the bay.

See the evidence at http://velocity.greyisgood.eu

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