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 30th Aug 2012

Clearing is a new work by Ultimate Holding Company (UHC) that seeks to create a dialogue around the subject of higher arts education and the globalized trade in ‘knowledge capital’. The piece takes data from the University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and the London stock market Stock Exchange to create an animated digital display and a physical space for critical reflection.

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Clearing / Ultimate Holding Company (2012)

Thu 30th Aug — Sun 2nd Sep 2012
Ongoing

29 August – 01 September 2012 The challenge was to take on a new identity, with a little help from Heath Bunting’s…

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New Identity Residency / Martin Johnson (2012)

Ongoing

Chasing Nimbus is a project that explores digital and analogue techniques for project moving images onto clouds from aircrafts. Artist, director and inventor Dave Lynch has been developing his ambition to deliver multiple projections onto water vapor canvases including urban vents, cooling towers, steam trains and clouds.

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Project Nimbus / Dave Lynch (2012)

Fri 31st Aug 2012
Wed 29th Aug 2012

30 August -01 September 2012 Using the master/slave model of communication, where one device or process has unidirectional control over one or…

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Master-Slave Invigilator System \ Jeremy Bailey (2012)

Wed 29th Aug — Fri 31st Aug 2012
Ongoing

This workshop explored ‘cross media’ practices for producing fiction, such as ‘Transmedia Storytelling’, ‘Alternate Reality Games’ and ‘Dispersed Fiction,’ looking at how…

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Tactical Transmedia Fictions / Paolo Cirio (2012)

Fragments International Ensemble
Wed 18th Jul 2012

Inside/Out was a residency film project developed by Fragments International Ensemble in partnership with AND Festival and the Canal and River Trust….

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Inside/Out / Fragments International Ensemble (2012)

Wed 18th Jul — Sat 8th Sep 2012
Ongoing

As part of a residency initiated in 2011 by AND and DaDa (Disability and Deaf Arts), Irish composer and writer Ailís Ní…

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The Hearing Test / Ailís Ní Ríain & Andrea Pazos López (2012)

Fri 22nd Jun 2012

AND is proud to present the first UK solo exhibition of works by American artist Stanya Kahn, who presents a selection of recent drawings and video work, characterised by her signature blend of dark comedy, visceral characters and reluctant optimism.

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It’s Cool, I’m Good \ Stanya Kahn (2012)

Fri 22nd Jun — Sun 16th Sep 2012
Fri 22nd Jun 2012

For four weeks throughout the months of September and October 2011 Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair pedalled a plastic swan over 160…

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Swandown / Dir Andrew Kotting (2012)

Fri 22nd Jun 2012