Kindness campaigner Bernadette Russell was commissioned to create the Manifesto of Care as part of Frequency Festival 2019. The Manifesto of Care has been made into a blog, podcast, and social artist Dan Thompson designed and created posters bearing the words of the manifesto. It's a co-created, carefully constructed architecture of hope, declaring our plans and actions for building a better, more caring tomorrow.
Who am I? To be human is to ask questions, even about our very existence, but what if we asked google these questions instead? Would some people get better answers than others?
We look to our phones and devices for answers, but do they let us make ourselves anew, or just replicate the biases in the non-digital world?
My Soul Is A Search Engine was commissioned for Frequency 2019.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dolly Sen is a writer, artist, and filmmaker. Her work aims to subvert perceptions around madness and being "othered". She’s trying to alter the faulty programming of society that thinks being mad is a virus and not a response to the system it finds itself in. No person is a spam folder.
www.dollysen.com
Inspired by the way sci-fi creates fictional universes, artist Sophie Rogers uses digital software to create navigable simulations of imagined places and scenes.
In August 2019 Sophie undertook a residency with Mansions of the Future, resulting in a digital commission to coincide with Frequency Festival.
This new online commission combines simulations of alternate realities with research into Donna Harraway’s writing on how the human and non-human are inextricably interlinked.
A series of public performances held in Liverpool and Salford (© Photo credits Amina Bihi) as well as a collection of eight video/text/audio essays available on his website.
YouKnow is a research project that was initiated by a residency at FACT Liverpool and the BBC in Salford and London.
By looking at BBC journalists’ workflows, BBC R&D experiments, and real world events, this research aims to evaluate the impact of automation and Artificial Intelligence in the construction and consumption of news items. This research has materialised itself through several outputs:
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Thomas Grogan is Franco-British artist and design researcher based in London. With a background in Industrial and Speculative Design, he has developed a practice that is driven by ethnographic research, investigating current and future social issues surrounding emerging technologies. His work varies from installation, filmmaking, to performance.
www.thomas-grogan.com
Are Facebook & Google dangerous?
They sure are.
Disrupt the accepted wisdom of safety.
We need to reinvent, and own, new ways of using the digital world to promote freedom of expression and freedom from exploitation by capitalism.
ABOUT THE WRITER
Born in Cardiff, Wales, Phil has been writing full time for the past 14 years. Inspired and fascinated by fiction since childhood Phil started writing in his early teens. Alongside his writing he has also been creating photography for 50 years, exploring the still image and the written word.
In recent years, Phil's writing has run the gamut from feature film screenplay to novels to writer in residence to children's books and more.
www.philcoskerwriter.com
This photographic project by Willa Jamieson looks at the ethics of surveillance, taking Streetview images of individuals minding their own business in their garden or street, and turning them into postcards. Wish you were here?
Willa Jamieson is a Lincolnshire based photographer studying BA Photography at the University of Lincoln. Her work covers a variety of subjects, primarily focusing on abandoned spaces and derelict landscapes, places discarded by society.
Large scale black and white images show the magnitude of an industrial quarry and how it disrupts the surrounding landscape. A quarry can have multiple impacts on the environment; visual intrusion, dust, damaged landscape, loss of land and a deterioration in water quality.
Created in response to the Frequency Festival 2019 theme, 'Disruption=Cultural Reinvention', Robert’s photographs put the often-unearthly quarry landscapes front and centre, while her captions explore the work the industry is doing to restore this land to agriculture or woodland.
This free online session on Wednesday 18 August, 1pm-4pm (BST) is led by light artist Thomas Buckley, who will introduce participants to the basics of hacking, breaking, and inventing things, exploring themes of scale, surface, and working in a way that’s accessible.
As a proud partner in Digital Democracies we are pleased to announce the second Artist Development event - Masterclass #2: The Art of Sound. This free online session on Wednesday 21 July, 1pm-4pm (BST) is led by artist and sound designer Thor McIntyre-Burnie (Aswarm GB).
Frequency Festival returns 28-31 October 2021 with a theme reflecting our times: Connection Frequency Festival returns to animate the streets of Lincoln and exhibit works online for 4 days this autumn. This year’s theme of Connection is inspired by our desire to reconnect again. It is a response to the environment, digital inequity and re-emerging from the pandemic.
WE-Hope and Digital Democracies have announced a Call-Out for Artists to create a new interactive digital animation that will premiere at this year's festival in October. (Deadline: 5 July 2021)
Frequency is seeking an experienced Event Producer to lead on the delivery of this year's International Festival of Digital Culture in Lincoln. (Deadline: 2 July 2021)
At the launch event of Frequency 2019, University of Lincoln filmed for their Why Arts Matter campaign. Hear from some of the partners of Frequency Festival 2019 and industry guests speak about Why Arts Matter and how we can all help to support and grow the arts.
A short film featuring the events, installations, experiences and happenings at Frequency International Festival of Digital Culture 2019.
Video highlights of day 3 at Frequency Festival 2019, Lincoln.
#WhyArtsMatter is a campaign by one of our core festival partners, University of Lincoln, to put arts back on the national, political and social agenda.
