AND produces, develops and stages one of the biggest media arts festivals in the UK. Travelling to and mapping a different terrain every occurrence, AND Festival is a rehearsal space and catalyst for new models of working. The programme invites new ways of seeing the world through re-negotiating our relationship to place featuring live cinema events, installations, online projects, residencies, public realm interventions exhibitions, performances, games and apps.

Thu 3rd Oct 2013

AND Festival 2013’s film programme looked at technological innovations in cinematography and the language of cinema to start a conversation about an…

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AND Festival Film Programme 2013

Thu 3rd Oct — Sat 5th Oct 2013
Thu 3rd Oct 2013

The hidden activity and geography of real-time peer-to-peer file sharing via BitTorrent is revealed in The Pirate Cinema, an online project by Nicolas Maigret.

This live work produces an arbitrary mash-up of the BitTorrent files being exchanged in real time, based on the traffic of the Pirate Bay’s top100 videos.

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The Pirate Cinema / Nicolas Maigret (2013)

Thu 3rd Oct — Sat 5th Oct 2013
Sat 5th Oct 2013 Ι

5 October 2013 Marking the centenary of her birth, we honoured the work of Golden Age actress, inventor and Austro-American Hedy Lamarr….

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Experiment Perilous (2013)

Sat 5th Oct 2013
Sat 18th Sep 2010

Recorders was a solo show from ambitious Mexican-Canadian electronic artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, which showcased two world premieres and four UK premieres revealing his ongoing interest in misusing surveillance and biometric technology to create platforms for participation.

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Recorders \ Rafael Lozano-Hemme (2010)

Sat 18th Sep — Sun 30th Jan 2011
Wed 23rd Sep 2009

AND was proud to present an exhibition and personal appearance by the renowned American artist Carolee Schneemann, who took over Tate Liverpool’s…

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Precarious \ Carolee Schneemann (2009)

Wed 23rd Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2009
Sat 2nd Oct 2010

AND’s paean to cinema! UnSpooling invited artists and spectators to join in the act of navigating and constructing cinema. Presenting over 20 international artists…

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UnSpooling \ Artists & Cinema (2010)

Sat 2nd Oct — Sat 9th Jan 2010
Fri 4th Oct 2013

4 October 2013 As part of AND 2013 The Kazimier hosted a one off performance promising an experience which would safeguard participants…

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Future Primed / Kazimier (2013)

Fri 4th Oct 2013
Thu 24th Sep 2009

Strange Attractors – The Anatomy of Dr Tulp was a study of embodied discourse; how we use our bodies to move and to communicate in a material world, and how our bodies mediate between the internal and external worlds, at a microscopic and global level.

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Strange Attractors \ KMA (2009)

Thu 24th Sep — Wed 14th Oct 2009
Sat 1st Oct 2011

Preston is the UFO capital of the UK, alleging more sightings of alien spacecraft than any other city in the country. Inspired…

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Piercing Brightness \ Dir Shezad Dawood (2011)

Sat 1st Oct 2011