workshops

 

- 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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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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An onboard and online collective photography workshop, part of VELOCITY 2007.

Help create a series of black and white mosaic portraits of passengers using an image bank of landscape photography all taken from the windows of trains and at stations. The artist will be travelling around the Bay throughout the festival engaging and enlisting members of the public to participate in the project. Don’t forget to take your camera or cameraphone on your next walk or train journey and get snapping!

_{Image: Adam Clarke – ‘Points of Reference’, 2007}

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Throughout 2007 folly has been working in collaboration with Cumbria Filmmakers Network to deliver a series of free pocket movie making workshops at Carnforth Station. For Halloween we embarked on something a little bit different. Working from a script by North West writer Steve Jansen, Cumbria Filmmakers Network and workshop participants worked together to create something ghoulish out of the digital ether that casts a new light on the after-life.

The short film made during this workshop - A Frantic Shot Torn - is now available to view on folly's youtube channel - see it now at www.youtube.com/follydigitalarts

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folly Summer School of Sound

June 27, 28, 29 2007

10am – 4pm

St Martins College, Lancaster

This year's Summer School of Sound will be led by internationally acclaimed sound artist collective goto10.

Marloes de Valk and Aymeric Mansoux will lead a three day course, exploring free open source software available for home studio purposes such as audio and midi sequencers, sound editors and virtual effect racks, as well as the creative possibilities of puredata in an audio workstation setup.

The Summer School of Sound will also include an evening performance on Thursday 28 June by goto10 artists de Valk and Mansoux, as well as Claude Heiland-Allen and Chun Lee.

The three day summer school is aimed at musicians, designers, artists and those with an interest in multimedia technologies who want to explore how new digital technologies can help and inspire us when working with music and sound.

Read a review of the Summer School, by one of the participants here

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img src: Johnannes Birringer

For centuries artists have been exploring imagined landscapes through poetry, painting, craft and sculpture, but what have been the implications of the digital age upon the creation and exploration of fictional or imagined places?

This Autumn, folly is working in collaboration with the Cumbria Institute of the Arts' Centre for Landscape and Environmental Arts Research (CLEAR) in association with the Brera Academy, Milan to explore imagined and virtual landscapes.

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An opportunity to hear a selection of practitioners participating in the Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders exhibition talk about their work and discuss how digital technologies have enabled a convergence of disciplines, creative practice and production techniques.

The symposium is free, but booking is essential. To book, telephone 01524 388550 or email enquiries@folly.co.uk.

Venue: St. Martin's College, Lancaster Campus, Bowerham Road, Lancaster LA1 3JD, 01524 384384

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still from Elephant’s Dream, dir. Bassam Kurdali

A free one day workshop on the use of Blender, an open source 3D graphics software package used for modelling, animation, post-production, interactive content creation and playback. This workshop is free, but booking is essential.

To book, telephone 01524 388550 or email enquiries@folly.co.uk

Venue: St. Martin's College, Lancaster Campus, Bowerham Road, Lancaster LA1 3JD, 01524 384384

Presented in partnership with Fast-uk

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Grow Your Own Media Lab is a trans-regional action research project that aims to investigate, improve and document a low cost, participatory, open source media lab model. folly is delivering a series of 5 FREE GYOML workshops throughout September-December at The Canteen Film Project, based in Northern Riviera in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. The workshops will give participants the opportunity to work in a variety of computer-based artistic disciplines under the guidance of some of the best-known and well-respected artists working in the field.

The GYOML project is FREE to attend. For further information and to book your place click here or contact Jennifer Stoddart, programme assistant at jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk T: 01524 388550

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For this commission Nick Holme was investigating and assessing the various FOSS software that are available for live streaming, deciding on one method for the purpose of the research and producing a comprehensive guide on how to set up and use the software.  The guide and a set of case studies are attached.

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