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Link event. 1 (4%) had found out about it at Lancaster University’s Institute for
the Contemporary Arts (LICA) and 1 (4%) had seen a poster.
4.5.6 Partner interviews
This section describes an interview study of two key individuals from folly the
primary partnering organisation on the ‘PBB’ exhibition. The primary aim of
these post-exhibition interviews was to solicit their reflections on the exhibition.
This offered an opportunity to capture these partner’s qualitative opinions.
The researcher asked each of these individuals to explain folly’s mission and to
state what their role in the organisation was.
1. Can you briefly explain folly’s mission?
Creative Specifically we are interested in supporting and looking at
Director ways of supporting artists working with technology. Looking
at how to help audiences understand what the implications
might be and also very specifically looking at ways in which
we work with audiences and whether they are acting
themselves as producers or co producers of content.
Programme …folly’s mission is an ever evolving mission, principally we
Manager have a distributed programme across Lancashire, Cumbria
and on line. We will eventually have a venue back in 2008.
2. Can you briefly state what you do at folly?
Creative My role is Creative Director and that means that
Director predominantly I set the curatorial vision for the
organisation. Artistic vision and manage the programme
team and the communication team within that which I am
also heavily involved in the general organisation in
development for the company.
Programme I am the Programme Manager I started being responsible
Manager for all the public facing aspects of our programme… that
includes all of our exhibitions and things like film nights, etc.
and festivals.
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