A catalyst for new ideas and artforms
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a radical arts organisation, situated in the North of England and working globally. Since 2009, we’ve commissioned works which combine creativity, technology, and science challenging norms and fostering critical dialogue through immersive experiences. Nomadic yet rooted in community-building, we create space to imagine, challenge normative perspectives, and disrupt traditional art forms. Our mission is to be at the forefront of innovation through sector-defining collaboration and talent development.
AND Festival, the UK’s only nomadic festival of art, technology and digital culture, returns for its landmark 10th edition in Barnsley on…
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Mon 01 Dec 2025
We are pleased to announce the appointment of four new members to our Board of Trustees; Alex Boyes, Charmian Griffin, Anouk Focquier…
Read moreIntroducing AND’s new Board Members
Mon 20 Oct 2025
We are pleased to announce our participation in n-Space – a new initiative for interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists, technologists, academics,…
Read moreAND joins Somerset House Studios’ new interdisciplinary programme, n-Space
Wed 17 Sep 2025
In June, we co-commissioned W Brzask no. 36 at Ephemera Festival in Warsaw as part of our ongoing partnership with Unsound, supported…
Read moreA Gig at Sunrise: Reflecting on W Brzask at Ephemera Festival
Tue 08 Jul 2025
We are pleased to announce the appointment of two new Associate Board Members, Tom Shennan and Bridget Coderc. As part of our…
Read moreIntroducing AND’s new Associate Board Members
Mon 20 Oct 2025
We are pleased to announce socially engaged artist Hwa Young Jung as a Creative Associate – a programme bringing together artists, technologists,…
Read moreIntroducing our new Creative Associate Hwa Young Jung
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AND Festival
AND is renowned for producing the UK's only nomadic, site-responsive digital arts festival, commissioning works that combine creativity, technology and science. We platform extraordinary art in unexpected locations, from caves and car parks to forests and ferries, from multiplayer platforms and mines to observatories and online portals. Find out more about AND Festival 2026 in Barnsley where we’ll playfully interrogate the hidden infrastructures that shape how we live and connect.
Samukelisiwe Siphesihle Dube is a Black, queer multidisciplinary artist and practising tattoo artist from the province of Mpumalanga. Deeply influenced by her…
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Peut-Porter are a London-based Design Collective who develop participatory live-experiences. Headed by Alexa Pollmann and Bine Roth, the studio works with fashion,…
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While they might be signed to forward-thinking pop collective PC Music, Anglo-Polish artist felicita has always been difficult to define. Their collaborations…
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Jazmin Morris is a Creative Computing Artist and Educator based in Leeds.
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CAN is an Architecture and Ideas studio founded by Mat Barnes. Since its formation in 2016, CAN has built a reputation for…
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Founded in 2015 by Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos, the artist collective Keiken are collaboratively building and imagining speculative futures…
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Nina Davies (she/her) is a Canadian-British artist who considers the present moment through observing dance in popular culture and how it is…
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Michael-Jon Mizra (he/him) is a computer musician based in London. Whilst studying music at the University of Leeds (2009) he explored performativity…
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Petra Szemán (they/them) is a moving image artist working with animation and game-like landscapes. They roam the edge-territories of worlds both real…
Read morePetra Szemán + David Blandy
Kialy Tihngang is a Glasgow-based interdisciplinary artist working in textiles, costume, photography and moving image. She is interested in the inability of…
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Baff Akoto’s work embraces the fluidity of visual grammar, notions of plurality and (self) perceptions. Based in London, his practice explores the…
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Angela Chan is an independent researcher, curator and artist based in the East Midlands. Her work reconfigures power in relation to the…
Read moreAngela YT Chan
Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan filmmaker and visual artist whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world. Her films…
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Che Applewhaite is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Through intimate connections that reframe how we see; his work elaborates spiritual insights that…
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Impossible Perspectives
The first iteration of our latest XR development and commissioning programme, Impossible Perspectives, responds to Tatton Park’s rich landscape and connection to the Italian painter, Canaletto, whose alluring works hang in Tatton’s Mansion. Find out more about our commissioned creatives CAN and Peut Porter and their journeys to creating an ambitious site-specific immersive experience at Tatton Park.
Re-enacting the historical and modern flow of people, cargo, data and power One-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface invites you to walk amongst it and view how three continents are tethered via transatlantic data cables, air and sea routes and trade.
Read moreOne-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface \\ Hakeem Adam and Maxwell Mutanda
Fri 14th May 2027
At the beginning of 2020, Abandon Normal Devices, Arts Catalyst and Fast Familiar began The Networked Condition: Environmental Impacts of Digital Cultural Production,…
Read moreThe Networked Condition: How To Use the Digital Carbon Calculator
Wed 13 Jul 2022
Toxicity’s Reach presents a collection of installations, spanning multiple disciplines as a way of exploring how industrial chemicals that are found in our waterways affect humans, animals and the landscape we live in.
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