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Folly Digital Media Arts Organisation to close
"Folly, the Lancaster-based digital arts
organisation, has announced its
decision to close.
Founded as the Folly Trust in 1989, Folly has worked successfully in
partnership across the North West, collaborating with a wide range of
cultural
and non-cultural organisations from the UK and beyond.Over more than 20
years, Folly has resented an active artistic programme
providing creative interaction and collaboration between artists and the
wider
community using technology.
Through projects like the Portable Pixel Playground, Digital Artist’s
Handbook
and Love Culture, Folly has delivered a year round diverse and innovative
programme of online projects, events, festival activities, artist
commissions,
exhibitions, artist residencies, workshops and conferences. Folly has also
been involved in successful partnership projects
like the Abandon Normal
Devices Festival which continues its journey round the North West this
Autumn.
Whilst being extremely proud of the Folly staff team and its achievements,
Folly Board of Trustees, in close consultation with stakeholders and
supporters including Arts Council England, has taken the reluctant decision
that it will not be possible to sustain the operations and work of Folly in
the
present financial climate.
Folly is grateful for the talent and commitment of its team and for the
valuable
support and friendship of its sponsors and partner communities. Folly has
maintained a close relationship with all in its professional and dignified
wind down,
that is taking place with immediate effect.
Peter Connor, Chair of the Folly Board of Trustees, said:
"We are confident that Folly’s legacy, reputation, impact and thinking will
live
on. Folly’s Board of Trustees, CEO Taylor Nuttall
and his staff team are now
bringing Folly’s operation to a close in a dignified manner.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our Staff, Funders,
Partners, Artists, and Participants who have been key to the success and
achievements of Folly’s artistic programme in Lancashire, Cumbria and across
the North West.
We hope that the legacy from Folly will remain within the Arts and Higher
Education sectors and continue in reinforcing the
strong landscape of digital
media arts in the North West and the UK."
Further information about Folly can be found at
www.folly.co.uk.
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Editor's notes
1. Folly, the leading digital media arts
organisation based in Lancaster, that
has since 1989 delivered socially engaged
programmes of artistic work across
Lancashire and Cumbria will be closing and
dissolving its charitable status
from the end of August 2011.
2. Folly (www.folly.co.uk)
was a leading digital arts agency, based in
Lancaster, that worked across England’s North
West. Folly's aim was to lead,
promote, maintain, improve and advance the field
of cultural activities that
embrace the creative interaction between arts and
technology, by presenting
an artistic programme that provides collaboration
between artists and the
wider public
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