[spectre] ArtCast: open call for sound art

[Jennifer Stoddart]

ArtCast: open call for sound art 

folly, a leading digital arts organisation working in Lancashire,
Cumbria and online, is developing ArtCast, an ongoing series of
podcasting programmes at www.folly.co.uk, as a platform for public
access to new and innovative sound art. 

Building on the success of OWN [SOUND] ART (2007) at
www.folly.co.uk/soundnetwork, a series of podcasts specially
commissioned in partnership with SoundNetwork, folly intends to deliver
a quarterly series of podcasts exploring the possibilities of the
medium, and will launch the first in this series as part of VELOCITY,
folly's second Festival of Digital Culture:

VELOCITY Festival of Digital Culture - See the Bay differently
12th October - 3rd November 2007

Image of Morecambe Bay courtesy of Les Hodgson

VELOCITY is ground-breaking new arts festival where you can explore
digital art in the sublime context of the coastal rail route between
Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness. Presented in and around train stations,
online and for download at www.folly.co.uk  

VELOCITY is folly's second annual Festival of Digital Culture and builds
on the success of the f.city festival held in Lancaster city centre in
2006 which resulted in over 55,000 people engaging with new media art
practice.

VELOCITY will open up new ways of seeing life around Morecambe Bay,
engaging with the vibrant communities that line the coast and furthering
the role that the arts has in sustaining the spectacular landscape of
the South Lakes and North Lancashire.

VELOCITY... celebrating the role of creative technology in connecting
people to places. 

folly is calling for open submissions of existing audio work, from the
broad spectrum of contemporary sound art practice.  Submissions should
address themes and subjects broadly relating to the ethos of VELOCITY,
including but not limited to: travel, movement, landscape, engagement
with communities, rural sustainability.

VELOCITY will take place on and around the rail route from Lancaster to
Barrow-in-Furness in the North West of England, so folly is looking for
podcastable content which can be downloaded and experienced on journeys
through and around this area. As part of the festival, folly is also
keen to broadcast selected works via the loud speaker systems at
stations along the rail route.

Submissions are welcome from all artists working with sound,
experimental musicians and composers, writers and performance artists
etc, basically anyone who has created work which they consider to be
suitable for an audio podcast.

folly welcome submissions from international artists

The deadline for submissions is 14th September 2007

Sonic Arts Network, www.sonicartsnetwork.org, will join folly in the
selection of works in late September 2007

Successful submissions will be published as podcasts from 1st October
2007

Please note that there is no fee available for selected works

For more information contact Jennifer Stoddart, folly Programme
Coordinator on jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk or +44 (0)1524 388550

How to submit:
Files should be mp3s, no larger than 32MB. Submissions should be
accompanied by a submission form and equal opportunities monitoring
form, obtainable from jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk or phone +44 (0)
1524 388550 

Please send your submissions by email to jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk
Or on CD by post to Jennifer Stoddart, Programme Coordinator
folly, 6.4.4 Alston House
White Cross
Lancaster UK
LA1 4XQ

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and services