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.
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
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
A rundown but functional old vending machine stood alone in the Dukes Bar. Every now and again, without warning, it would spring…
Read moreVending Machine \ Ellie Harrison (2010)
Mon 15th Mar — Sat 10th Apr 2010
In 2010 AND commissioned US artist Rob Ray to create a new interactive mapping project in Grizedale Forest, GET LOST! The GPS and…
Read moreGET LOST! \ Rob Ray (2010)
Mon 1st Mar — Sun 4th Apr 2010
During the AND Festival in Grizedale Forest in 2010, interaction design collective duo Hudson-Powell spent time on site experimenting with with technologies…
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