AND Festival 2015 \\ Grizedale Forest, UK \\ 18 -20 September
The festival created a space where audiences could experience the forest anew through inviting world-class artists to create new art works for the historical site. We turned the forest into a laboratory, which became a temporary haven for filmmakers, artists, creative technologists, philosophers and scientists, who explored the secret infrastructure of the forest and natures processes. The programme provided new perspectives on the forest, through the eyes of the plants, animals and machines that inhabited it, allowing visitors an insight into natures technologies as well as emerging trends in digital practice.
We are part of the privileged third of the world’s population that has access to the Internet. Teams at Facebook and Google…
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Peak Simulator was a new sculptural installation from Matthew Plummer Fernandez that juxtaposed computer-generated landscape over the ‘natural’ landscape. In the early…
Read morePeak Simulator / Matthew Plummer-Fernandez (2015)
Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015Spreadkom was an alternative communication system created especially for the forest by Slovenian collaborators BridA (Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango and Jurij Pavlica) . This…
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Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015Humans often see figures and forms in clouds, whether that’s animals, faces and even god. This kind of perception also appears in…
Read moreCloud Face / Shinseungback Kimyonghun (2015)
Fri 18th Sep — Sun 6th Dec 2015This new work brought together two contrasting viewpoints and histories of search and rescue missions. Drawing inspiration and research from the ‘Gibson…
Read moreSearcher / Jen Southern (2015)
Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015Artist Geraldine Pilgrim developed a weekend workshop that looked at the meaning of ‘home’ and how our personal relationship to this word…
Read moreHome / Geraldine Pilgrim (2015)
Sat 19th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015Flight wasn’t just explored through drones and UAV’s at Grizedale Forest, but through Space aircraft too. Officially the Space Race has arrived…
Read moreOrigami Space Race / Saso Sedlacek (2015)
Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015From deep within the forest, we can see the landscape visualised by the same machines that were used for its construction. The…
Read moreWhere the City Can’t See / Liam Young (2015)
Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015The UK Premiere of a new iteration of Love Motel for Insects, site-specific to Grizedale Forest, was a large-scale living sculpture for…
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