During 2013, Jisc distributed a call for proposals from UK sites who were looking to undertake some innovative projects using technolgies within the arts. Jisc selected 3 projects, and provided funding in the region of £10,000 to each project. The projects were as follows:

A new version of LOLA has just been released, which I’m sure will be of interest to you all. The most significant thing is that they have been working on reducing the bandwidth needed to run LOLA. The new version - LOLA v1.3.0 has the following new features:

- new video rendering features:

 - free stretch/zoom with fixed aspect ratio;

 - remote video window can be duplicated and zoomed differently;

 - new pixel interpolation techniques to render zoom in better quality;

- some preconfigured basic layouts for video windows;

For those in the education sector working with audio, EchoDamp is a freely available piece of software designed to audio mixing and echo control. Designed for both Mac and PC it aims to prevent echo without altering or limiting the audio frequency range. This allows for much better audio quality whilst using a range of software (such as DVTS, Conference XP etc).

Want to find out more about international arts projects? Sign up to the network-arts@terena.org

This mailing list is used to discuss the equipment and staffing requirements for interactive performing arts education, multi-site performance events and high quality netcasting over high-end features.

There are an array of other useful mailing lists for your needs. These can be found at:

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/mailinglists/a-z/index.html