[spectre] Call for Artists - Online Commissioning Programme

[Jennifer Stoddart]

Call for artists 
Online Commissioning Programme
A partnership project between Cumbria County Council and folly.

folly, a leading digital arts organisation working in Lancashire, Cumbria and online
is working with Cumbria County Council (CCC) to develop a three year online commissioning programme exploring arts participation online.

One artist commission per year will be launched acting as imaginative, participatory, consultation tools to encourage people to reflect and share their perceptions of culture in areas of creative and geographic isolation.

Folly will act as the project manager to commission the artists and provide technical support and is calling for artists to propose new work addressing the commissioning programme objectives set out below.

Rationale:

Cumbria County Council Cultural Unit have approached folly to develop a new online piece of work that invites the user to actively participate and contribute views, thoughts and ideas in a creative, reflective and imaginative form.   

Folly and CCC arts unit are looking for work that develops online overtime.  We are interested in commissioning work that has a lifespan of at least 12 months to form part of an ongoing online programme. 

Folly and CCC are interested in commissioning work that illustrates a cumulative effect of people's engagement with a piece of work or environment online over time.

The online commissioning programme has been established with the aims:

To connect Cumbria to future ideas
To explore a different view of Cumbria.
To create a data bank of contemporary views of culture in areas of creative and geographic isolation.
To test using the internet as an effective consultation tool.
To examine the potential of digital art to draw audiences/users to a deeper consideration of issues and creative ideas.
To strengthen the profile of Cumbria as a county that is a dynamic and exciting place in which to live, visit and create.
To encourage people to think creatively.

folly promote the use of Free and Open Source Software and encourage artists to use FOSS. 

Artist fee
£4000 including VAT.
Supplementary expenses of up to £100.

Copyright:
 
Copyright would stay with the artist as the creator but any software developed for the project would be licensed under the latest general public license and any other works developed as part of the project would be licensed under creative commons attributions share alike.  

folly welcome submissions from international artists 

Deadline for submissions Monday 22nd October 2007
Artists will be contracted from 1st November 2007 to develop a new piece of online work by end of March 2008.
Project will launch on 1st April 2008.

For more information contact Jennifer Stoddart, folly Programme Coordinator on jennifer.stoddart 'at' folly.co.uk or +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

Please include:
A recent CV and examples of past work.
An outline proposal of no more than 3 sides of A4.
A completed equal opportunities form.

folly is committed to Equal Opportunities in our employment, programme and services.

Partners:

folly
www.folly.co.uk 
folly is a leading digital arts organisation specialists in the creative use of technology and committed to arts participation online.

The Cultural Policy Unit of Cumbria County Council (CCC)
http://www.cumbria-artefacts.org.uk/ 

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