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folly brings you ArtCast, an ongoing series of podcasting programmes - a platform for public access to new, innovative sound & video art.

For the Spring 2008 programme folly worked with moves to select sound and video art relating to the moves08 festival theme of “the interaction of choreographed movement and sound”.

Selected from an international open call for submissions, ArtCast Spring 2008 includes four audio and four video podcasts, released weekly throughout April. Click here to access ArtCast now.

_{Image: still from Human Cosmic by Jessica Curry & Monica Fernandez. Image credit: Monica Fernandez}

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A virtual beacon of creative excellence:  North West digital organisation’s drive for artistic leadership

Embracing the challenge of a digital future, folly - the North West's leading organisation for digital culture - will set about making 2008 a significant year of change. folly are in the process of ‘putting into place far sighted plans that will contribute towards transformational change for the region’, says Chief Executive Taylor Nuttall.

At a time when the Lancaster-based charity is alive with ideas, and fresh from the success of VELOCITY – its festival of digital culture set in Morecambe Bay last autumn - folly has gathered audience statistics that reveal the extent of its success: an overall 250% rise from 2006. Successful projects such as What’s Cooking, Grandma?, the highly acclaimed ‘digi_club’ for the under-16’s, the virtual wishing tree ‘f.wish’, and the ‘Digital Artists Handbook’ saw 74% of folly's audience participation taking place online.

Chief Executive, Taylor Nuttall says: “This is a very exciting period for us".

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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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A children's playground for the 21st century

folly has announced an important and ground-breaking new project, which is set to have national - possibly international - significance: the Portable Pixel Playground.

The project has succeeded in gaining funding from the Big Lottery Fund, and folly is the only North West organisation to have won a bid under this round of the Big Lottery Fund's "Playful Ideas" programme.

folly's Portable Pixel Playground is an innovative and physical new play space that is intrinsically digital. By connecting children's experiences of technology with play and creativity, folly hopes to unleash and re-energise childen's ability to express themselves in the ever-more-important digital world.

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You’ve experienced the art, now for the stats.

We’ve been collecting and collating feedback from all our audience members, artists and partners for this autumn’s VELOCITY festival of digital culture, and we’ve got some things we’re glad to shout about.

Comments from audience members about VELOCITY have included "wonderful opportunity to see arts here in the North West" and "superb".

In total, over 20 000 people visited and took part in VELOCITY’s events, exhibitions and activities, and over 6000 people have engaged with VELOCITY’s online projects to date, with that figure rising every day. You can check out the VELOCITY microsite at www.folly.co.uk/velocity

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Before folly's annual festival VELOCITY launches this autumn, folly is taking a look back at the year of work with an interactive pdf Annual Report.  folly's 2006-2007 annual review is available only online - in line with folly's ethic of environmental sustainability and online participation, and is available for download here. As well as the bare facts - for example that folly reached 37 000 audience members last year - there are images of the art, embedded links and even a video. And you can learn how folly managed to provide 1068 days of digital art experience in last year's 365. Click on the link below and download the annual report today to peruse at your leisure.

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