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[Gareth Howell]

Trampoline, Nottingham based new media platform continues its regional tour,
Bouncing off the Satellites, at the Old Library in Mansfield on the 8th
October at 8pm.
 
Bouncing off the Satellites is a five date tour of the East Midlands region,
aimed at providing a meeting place for arts workers and artists from around
the region to present work, view work, and discuss in an informal, social
environment. Each event will be focussed around a different area of digital
and new media arts work, with a key speaker presenting a model of work,
alongside Trampoline's signature mix of computer based work, screenings,
music and live art.
 
The tour is accompanied  by a website which contains examples of work shown,
transcripts of presentations, message boards, and live chat areas.  There is
also be a 'homepage maker', where organisations and artists can build their
own homepage, allowing them to post images, text and links to the site.
 
The site acts as a hub for artists and arts organisations around the region,
and will continue to exist as a functional meeting place after the tour has
finished. 
 
The next event is entitled Virtual Villages, Space for Everyone, and
explores the use of digital arts within the community, from projects like
Tea,Toast and Technology, a digital arts project with older people from
South Derbyshire, to virtual online worlds which allow people from all over
the world to meet in one space. Speakers include Jeanie Finlay of Ruby, the
artist who co-ordinated Tea, Toast and Technology, who launches the YOTA
funded project 'HomeMaker' and Rachel Jacobs, a member of Active Ingredient,
talking about the participatory digital arts projects she has been involved
in, and looking at online communities.Trampoline regulars Tournaphone, Frank
Abbott and AV_DV provide fun, thrills and sonic spills, alongside film
screenings, internet art and projections.
 
Bouncing off the Satellites 02 : Virtual Villages, Space for Everyone
Tickets £3/£2. Speakers begin at 8pm.
 
Bouncing off the Satellites is funded by East Midlands Arts and the Arts
Council of England.
 
If you are interested in submitting work for the tour, please ask them to
contact Trampoline at 0115 8409272, or e-mail
gareth at active-ingredient.co.uk. The website is available at
www.bouncingoffthesatellites.co.uk
 
Yours,
 
 
Gareth Howell