New FLI Residencies website now live

folly and Lanternhouse International are delighted to invite you to the newly launched FLI Residencies website

The Folly Lanternhouse International Residencies offer support to artists working with new technologies to develop their ideas and extend their practice. The FLI Residencies website is regularly updated with ideas, work-in-progress, inspirational projects and more. This includes resident artists' blogs, video, images and other rich experiences.

The site is a place to spark new ideas and act as a window to artists’ creative processes. We invite you to meet the FLI artists online, see what they're up to, and share your comments and views.

Click here to find out more

New Portable Pixel Playground website now live!

We’re delighted to announce that the Portable Pixel Playground website is now live. Portable Pixel Playground also has a facebook fan page, look us up here.

Would you like to get involved? Portable Pixel Playground sends you an invitation to join in and volunteer at events! If you are interested in becoming a volunteer please contact Tor Townley at tor.townley@folly.co.uk for more information.

Click here to view the Portable Pixel Playground website

Abandon Normal Devices

Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture

folly, FACT and Cornerhouse are embarking on an exciting joint venture to deliver a collaborative programme across the region; AND (Abandon Normal Devices) is an annual festival of new cinema and digital culture in the North West, taking place in Liverpool and Manchester on alternate years, with a distributed programme in Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire.

Visit the AND website now by clicking here for details of upcoming trailblazer events and calls for submissions.

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Two new articles in the Digital Artists' Handbook

folly and GOTO10 are pleased to announce the latest articles to be added to the Digital Artists’ Handbook

The handbook is a reliable and accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art. With a focus on Free Software and Open Content, the handbook covers topics such as working with graphics, sound and digital video, software art, developing your own hardware, collaborative working and publishing your work.

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New ArtCast podcasts from folly and moves09

new series online from 24th April 2009

ArtCast is folly’s ongoing series of podcasting programs - a platform for public access to new, innovative sound & video art.

For this series, in association with moves09, we have selected five of the best new video works made by students based in England's Northwest, in response to the theme of moves09 - “Beyond Movement... What's Your Story?”

This is a series of five videos. Starting on 24th April 2009, a new video will be released daily, throughout the Moves festival.

The current program is:

1: Heartbeat / Bones Can Break by Charlie Allan released 24th April

2: Leonard and Maudlin – Fishers of Men by Phil Martins released 25th April

3: Maschinmensch by Stephanie Green released 26th April

4: What I Do All Day by Anna Corbould released 27th April

5: Lab Specimens by Stephanie Green released 28th April

Click here for more information

Why Support folly?

folly's goal is to reach people with digital art, we're busy enlightening and delighting people, equipping them to live as active citizens in a newly digital world.

Our ethic is one of participation, inclusiveness, learning, production and celebration. We work with people of all ages and from all backgrounds.

Best of all, almost everything we do is FREE! And that's why we need your support.

Being free and fabulous takes money. Our funding by public bodies (local councils, Big Lottery and Arts Council England) does not make up all of our income. We have to find a large part of it ourselves in order to fulfil our mission.

Please browse the different ways you can support folly below.

Donate to folly today!

Whatever amount you give will make a difference by helping us continue to deliver first-rate workshops, exhibitions, film nights, software art, sound art, research into open-source technologies and to our yearly festival of digital culture.

You can now donate to folly using the secure Charity Choice website in co-operation with the Co-operative Bank.

You can also raise money for folly without it costing you a penny!

Everyclick is a great new search engine. It works just like other major search engines but it also generates cash for charity. It doesn’t cost you or us a penny, so it is a great way to help folly every day.

Join as a fundraiser for folly at Everyclick and raise money every time you search the internet!