AND Festival (Spring) \\ Cumbria, UK \\ 15 March – 10 April 2010
In Spring 2010, audiences joined AND Festival on a digital journey across real and virtual worlds in Cumbria, Lancashire and online, as they abandoned the city to head for the hills. Strange, playful and radical interventions took place across the Northwest’s stunning landscape as a host of artists, scientists and designers mapped the region to question our relationship with nature and technology, food and health, work and play.
Festival of new cinema, digital culture and art. Cumbria, Lancashire (UK) The second year of the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) took place…
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Mon 15th Mar — Sat 10th Apr 2010
At nightfall on the 26 & 27 March 2010 visitors to Preston were bathed in fake moonlight.
Read moreFake Moon \ Simon Faithfull (2010)
Fri 26th Mar — Sat 27th Mar 2010
Internationally renowned artist Stanza took over the historic parlour at Towneley Hall with a feast of data collection and visualization.
Read morePark \ Stanza (2010)
Sat 27th Mar — Sun 11th Apr 2010
Improv Everywhere are experienced at causing scenes of chaos and joy in public places and with their help we reclaimed the Blackburn streets in a flashmob spectacle.
Read moreMP3 Experiment \ Improv Everywhere (2010)
Sat 10th Apr 2010
Theatre group Imitating the Dog wowed with their part-musical, part-dream play, Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls, a magical story of…
Read moreTales from the Bar of Lost Souls \ Imitating the Dog (2010)
Thu 18th Mar 2010
Geoffrey Alan Rhodes created a unique interactive cinema experience inside a pleasant looking log cabin in the heart of Grizedale forest. Using…
Read moreArambo \ Geoffrey Alan Rhodes (2010)
Sat 3rd Apr 2010
Today, too, I experienced something I hope to understand in a few days was a site-specific artwork that auto-generated films based upon narrative data collected from Facebook profiles. Using a combination of status updates, YouTube uploads and video portraits, the work looked at people in Barrow-in-Furness from a range of different perspectives, each one a form of surveillance.
Read moreToday, too, I experienced something I hope to understand in a few days \ James Coupe (2010)
Wed 10th Mar 2010
The British premiere of Simon Faithfull includes two brand new works, which look at the way the artist continually questions, measures and…
Read moreRecent Findings \ Simon Faithfull (2010)
Sat 27th Mar — Sat 5th Jun 2010
A rundown but functional old vending machine stood alone in the Dukes Bar. Every now and again, without warning, it would spring…
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