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For my blog Arts Funding Detective I want to write about this organisation: AmbITion. It's right up my street and hopefully your street as well, as it's about 'helping organisations achieve their 21st century sustainability ambitions through implementing integrated IT and digital developments'.

Why the need for AmbITion?

Other sectors have recognised and responded to some specific challenges and opportu… Continue

Just submitted a new 4iP proposal to build a Long Tail of Art Wiki:

A huge amount of visual art is produced across the UK each year. Fascinating work comes and goes, often subsidised by the various Arts Councils and other institutional funders or scraped together by eager artists or hosted by art schools. But mostly when it's done, it's done. There is no record of the everyday everywhere art and artists. There is no way to take a look across the UK at the big picture. When the show is done, it… Continue

Folly have found some:

We’ve been talking here at folly about twitter (and as an organisation we are now twittering at twitter.com/follydigitalart), so it seems like a good time to look at some of the artistic projects which have been using the platformi:

folly first engaged with twitter during 2007’s VELOCITY festival of digitali culture, when we collaborated with litfest on the Livelines project –… Continue

Jemima Kiss at the Guardian blog reports that the first 4iP project has been released, and it's a football community tool.

"First off the blocks is #FC, a community conversation tool for football clubs that uses the messaging platforms Twitter and Jaiku. The mastermind is Rick Waghorn, subject of yesterday's Elevator Pitch for his 'Addip… Continue

I just had coffee with an old friend of mine at Brighton University who told me she had become Director of ISEA. And that the next ISEA is at the University of Ulster in association with Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, 23 August - 1 September 2009. Such a great event and right in 38minutes territory.

ISEA 2009

Waterfront Hall Belfast

With HUBS at Coleraine, Derry and Dublin

The Inter-Society for Electronic Art… Continue