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Obviously all of the artists that we worked with - we hadn’t worked with any of<br />

those artists before so that was a real opportunity for us. We also grew our<br />

volunteer database through this particular show because it offered people an<br />

obvious way into an arts organisation. That was all great. There were other<br />

contacts we could have made and followed up on more fully with the critic in<br />

residence at MIRIAD and a couple of people like that. I’m not aware of any<br />

professional contacts we have made.<br />

25. Has folly received any new opportunities because of this<br />

exhibition?<br />

I’m trying to sense whether some of the opportunities came out because of the<br />

exhibition or because of the broader festival as well and some of those will be<br />

mixed in between and not just because one or the other and so I think that<br />

within the city, it’s a small city but the arts organisations have a strong cultural<br />

offer but they don’t often have the time to talk to one another and don’t<br />

necessarily collaborate. I feel that based on this and f.city there are many more<br />

opportunities for us to pursue of that ilk and people are more willing to work<br />

with us because of the calibre of what we can deliver is strong. The press that<br />

was covered has been really positive. That has led to more people being aware<br />

of us.<br />

26. Has there been any impact on traffic to folly’s website because of<br />

the exhibition?<br />

No, there was an impact on traffic yes but what’s actually happened is that<br />

during the period of the exhibition and the festival the traffic massively went up<br />

and then it dipped again since because there was less activity. Its now growing<br />

again because one thing was it had an impact on our programme because of the<br />

amount of capacity resources it needed we had a lull in programme afterwards<br />

and that’s the reason there was a dip in web traffic. The thing that has had the<br />

biggest impact is the Human Beans piece therefore the amount of downloads<br />

from that piece after the exhibition has been massive. It still continues to be<br />

and it is now drawing on bandwidth now.<br />

27. Has being involved in PBB had any effect on what folly will do in<br />

the future?<br />

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