[spectre] VELOCITY online

[Taylor Nuttall]

VELOCITY online

folly's VELOCITY festival is happening now, online and all around 
Morecambe Bay. We're especially proud of our content on the web, which 
reaches not just the Bay area but worldwide. Here are some of our 
current successes

Artcast
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ArtCast is folly's new ongoing series of podcasting programmes - a 
platform for public access to new and innovative sound art. You can 
listen on the web, or as a podcast!

For VELOCITY folly invited Sonic Arts Network to join us in the 
selection of podcasts from an international open call. Hear submissions 
- specially curated for VELOCITY - from artists working with sound, 
experimental musicians and composers, writers and performance artists, 
both locally and from across the world.

follyplay on Bebo
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Building on the success of our follyplay events and Virtual Creatures 
follyplay online experience, folly has launched a follyplay bebo page. 
You can play with virtual games such as Fly Guy and Tiny Grow, and of 
course, invite your friends!
www.follyplay.bebo.com is an exciting new way for folly to engage with 
new audiences from all over the world, sharing our enthusiasm for 
digital art and creative online participation.


Forest of Imagined Beginnings
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In the Forest of Imagined Beginnings there are no clear rules or 
objectives. It is simply an online landscape that is vulnerable to the 
whims and wants of the digi_club community who can adopt this digital 
terrain as their own. This new multi-user online environment – a new 
kind of forum or chat room - invites 12 -16 year olds to navigate and 
explore a beautiful landscape. digi_club members can explore the forest, 
embedding their own messages within the landscape and attaching 
conversations to trees planted by the artists. digi_club members can 
enter the forest right now at www.digi.org.uk/foib. Grown-ups have to 
content themselves with the pilot at http://www.folly.co.uk/forest

LitFest Live Lines
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Adopting the text message as a literary form, this Wednesday two writers 
- Sarah Murphy and Catherine Sadler - took their mobile phones on the 
trains around the Bay and, using Twitter, microblogged their way around 
the VELOCITY festival. Their thoughts, conversations, imaginings and 
observations are preserved online. Twitter has become a ‘sketchbook’ of 
their journey, revealing the interaction and dialogue they had with each 
other and their surroundings, online at 
http://twitter.com/livelines_one/with_friends

For more exciting VELOCITY events and artworks, visit the folly website 
soon!

VELOCITY
See the Bay Differently

www.folly.co.uk/velocity