I am pleased to announce the launch of folly's new online experience: Virtual Creatures is an online exhibition offering a playful and interactive experience within a virtual environment for new audiences of folly. Each artist-created Virtual Creature will exist within cyber space as a living entity to be petted, visited and/or played with.
A different creature will be highlighted each month at www.folly.co.uk/creatures to encourage visitors to explore the meaning and intent behind the creature's creation and existence, connect with other visitors and folly staff by contributing to discussions and express their opinions in forums and comments sections. folly is a not-for-profit digital arts organisation, working in Lancashire, Cumbria and online. ***PRESS RELEASE*** New folly webspace a home to Virtual Creatures www.folly.co.uk/creatures The internet is full of artificial life, and as you surf the web you might happen upon some of these invented beings. But for your convenience and pleasure, in this online exhibition folly has brought together in a new webspace the work of five artists who have created their own virtual creatures for you to play with. These creatures all live in cyberspace, where you can pet, tease, manipulate and connect with them. Once you've visited and fallen for these creatures, you can talk about them in folly's specially created online forum where we will be highlighting a different creature every month. Internationally-renowned artists featured in the project include Igloo and Jason Van Anden. folly Programme Co-ordinator Jennifer Stoddart said "Virtual Creatures is part of our follyplay campaign, designed to reach out to new people not yet familiar with digital art. By setting sophisticated pieces of computer programming in a fun and interactive context, we hope many new people will realise the possibilities of this exciting approach to creativity". Visit the creatures now at www.folly.co.uk/creatures ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre