AND Festival 2009 \\ Liverpool, UK \\ 23 – 27 September
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival premiered in 2009, welcoming audiences to experience the best in new cinema and media art in a celebration that spilled from screens and galleries into the streets and imaginations of Liverpool. AND created a space where artists and filmmakers could offer striking new perspectives, and visitors could enjoy, discuss and interact with ideas, in a festival that questioned the normal and championed a different approach. Audiences were told to expect an eclectic array of screenings, installations, online projects, public realm interventions, workshops and live events, with a distinctive emphasis on ideas and discussion.
As part of the online programme, curator Michael Connor provided the pizza and took us back to the heady days of 2004,…
Read moreStupid Pet Trick Pizza Party (2009)
Sun 27th Sep 2009
Founded by artists Tapio Mäkelä and Marko Peljhan, M.A.R.I.N. was a mobile residency programme set on board a catamaran sailboat, redesigned and equipped to be a sustainable environment for transdisciplinary research in arts, sciences and technology.
Read moreM.A.R.I.N. \ Media Art Research Interdisciplinary Network (2009)
Tue 28th Jul — Fri 9th Oct 2009
The AND Salons were a series of midday panel discussions at Chameleon, Liverpool. An eclectic array of experts from the worlds of…
Read moreAND Salons \ Contract, Infect, Compete, Desire (2009)
Thu 24th Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2009
AND Festival 2009 previewed a demo version of Blast Theory’s Rider Spoke in Liverpool inviting the audience to feed into its development…
Read moreRider Spoke \ Blast Theory (2009)
Fri 25th Sep 2009
Nearly 100 years after DW Griffith’s epic Birth of a Nation was released, DJ Spooky (aka Paul D Miller) applied a “DJ…
Read moreRebirth of a Nation \ DJ Spooky (2009)
Fri 25th Sep 2009
This BBC Big Screen interactive commission enabled Liverpool audiences to transform their heads into a giant spinning spotted cuboid by using the…
Read moreHungry Hungry Eat Head \ Hudson-Powell & Joel Gethin-Lewis (2009)
New commission Hand From Above encouraged us to question our normal routine, when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to…
Read moreHand From Above / Chris O’Shea (2009)
The Sound Before You Make It was an installation sited at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology). It is a sculptural…
Read moreThe Sound Before You Make It \ Jaki Middleton & David Lawrey (2009)
Wed 23rd Sep — Sun 29th Nov 2009
Sunday was an exhibition sited at Open Eye Gallery. Duane Hopkins has received widespread critical acclaim for his distinctive portrayals of British…
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