A description of your site en-gb http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/ Your copyright information 15 Thursday 18 - Friday 19 March
7pm & 9pm
The Dukes, Lancaster

Part musical, part dream play, Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls is a magical story of forbidden love, criminality and the possibility of finding redemption in the unlikeliest of places.

Tickets available at the Dukes Box Office 01524 598500]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=143 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=143 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:18:38 UTC
Initiated thanks to a folly Lanternhouse International (FLI) residency / AND Commission]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=142 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=142 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:04:46 UTC
Friday 2 - Saturday 3 April
11am – 5pm
Grizedale Forest Park, Cumbria

Thursday 8 April
12- 5pm
Towneley Hall & Gardens, and Burnley town centre

folly presents a festival celebration of Portable Pixel Playground.
Come and play with inflatable sound sculptures, virtual bugs living in a sandpit and try out new ways of playing Hide and Seek and Treasure Hunt.

Featuring Too Much of a Mouthful and No Traces of Sentimentality by Andy Best & Merja Puustinen, Cubed by Giles Askham & Luke Hastilow and Glowing Pathfinder Bugs by Squidsoup.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=141 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=141 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:58:57 UTC Saturday 10 April
Time 8pm til late
41 King Street, Blackburn, Pennine Lancashire

Join us for the grand finale as we celebrate an action packed festival with Plaid (Warp Records). The British electronic duo Andy Turner and Ed Handley will be performing a unique live AV set to help AND close with an electronic bang!

Tickets £7

Booking details to follow.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=140 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=140 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:55:01 UTC Sat 10 April
6pm – 8pm
Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington, Pennine Lancashire

AND invites The Cloud Project to discuss the implications of nanotechnology. How will the alteration of physical matter via nanotechnology change how and what we consume. Is our disordered eating connected to our planet’s broader economic crisis?

All Salons will be acompanied with food, drink and stimulating company!

Book in advance.

Further details to follow.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=139 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=139 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:51:06 UTC Saturday 10 April
2pm
King William Street, Blackburn, Pennine Lancashire

Based in New York, Improv Everywhere cause scenes of chaos and joy in public places.

For AND Improv Everywhere and YOU reclaim the streets of Blackburn in a flashmob spectacle.

For information about how to get involved make friends with AND.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=138 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=138 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:47:17 UTC Saturday 10 April
Empty Shop
12 - 5pm
Blackburn, Pennine Lancashire

A hands on, show and tell event of self-made and hacked devices for making
media art. Like a creative technology car boot, Interface Amnesty represents an emerging and developing sector of artists, hobbyists and makers in the UK experimenting with electronics and technology.

Meet the makers and play!]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=137 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=137 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:44:17 UTC Friday 9 – Saturday 10 April
After dark
King William Street, Blackburn

A playful interactive light installation exploring how we use our bodies to move and communicate in a material world. When people enter the space they become active participants, as magnetic bodies themselves, animating and redistributing the flow of energy within the system.

AND COMMISSION]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=136 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=136 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:41:06 UTC 27 March – 11 April
12 - 5pm Saturday to Thursday
The Parlour, Towneley Hall and Gardens, Burnley, Pennine Lancashire

Internationally renowned artist Stanza will take over the historic parlour at Towneley Hall with a feast of data collection and visualization.

Initiated thanks to a folly Lanternhouse International (FLI) residency]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=135 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=135 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:36:32 UTC Friday 2 April
7.30pm
The Yan, Grizedale Forest Park, Cumbria
Dir: Neil Jordan / UK / 75 mins / 1984 / Cert 18

Scratch ‘n Sniff ambassadors Bompas & Parr in collaboration with producer Bren O’Callaghan present a unique screening of the fairytale horror-fantasy The Company of Wolves. The audience will actually be able to smell what is happening on screen.

For the event aromas are created that capture the scent of key moments of the film. These are micro-encapsulated and printed onto special scratch ‘n’ sniff cards issued to the audience on arrival. The technique was pioneered by American director John Waters for his 1981 film Polyester. He termed it ‘Odorama’.

Directed by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa) and dredged from the depths of 1984, The Company of Wolves is a reworking of Little Red Riding Hood and is based on author Angela Carter’s interpretation of the fairy tales of Charles Perrault. It stars Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea and Sarah Patterson as the precocious lead Rosaleen, a young girl on the cusp of sexual awakening. The film contains disturbing and remarkable scenes of human-animal transmogrification.

Visitors to the Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Cinema will be able to get stuck into free refreshments and visit the wolf transformation station. Fur coats, red capes and storybook dress are encouraged, but not essential. A meaty menu of food that tie in with the film is being created and screenprints by acclaimed poster artist Simon Misra available for sale.

Tickets £5

Booking details to follow.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=134 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=134 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:32:48 UTC
Fri 2 April
6pm - 8pm
Cafe in the Forest, Grizedale Forest Park, Cumbria

AND invites artists, UBERMORGEN.COM to answer questions raised by User Generated Illness. Joined by Andy Miah we elaborate on how in an era of self-diagnosis we assess our own health. Has medical expertise been abandoned for open source health solutions?

All Salons will be accompanied with food, drink and good conversation.

Book in advance.

Further details to follow.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=133 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=133 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:24:38 UTC Friday 2 - Saturday 3 April
Daylight hours
Grizedale Forest, Cumbria

Get Lost! turns participants into “disorienteers” misguiding themselves through Grizedale Forest using the map, compass and GPS as tools of deviation, introspection, and re-imagination. Disorienteers can also search for a take-home Get Lost! kit (or can download) and create their own adventures.

NOTE: You can Get Lost! with or without any GPS device. So, if you have one, bring it!

AND COMMISSION]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=132 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=132 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:21:10 UTC Friday 2 - Saturday 3 April

11am – 5pm
Grizedale Forest

Creative duo Hudson-Powell are going under cover in the forest. Playing with technologies such as video-tracking and augmented 3D graphics, making reality and fiction collide!

Follow their mission HERE!

AND COMMISSION]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=131 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=131 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:15:15 UTC Friday 2 – Saturday 3 April
11am - 5pm
The Log Cabin, Grizedale Forest Park, Cumbria

A unique interactive cinema experience using playing cards the viewer can mash up the films of Rambo live on screen.

AND COMMISSION]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=130 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=130 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:10:39 UTC Saturday 27 – Sunday 28 March
11am - 5pm
Flagmarket Square, Preston

AND is teaming up with the world’s first inflatable cinema to present an experimental and diverse film programme in the heart of Preston.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=129 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=129 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:05:16 UTC Saturday 27 March
12 – 1pm
The Harris Museum & Art Gallery

Join us for this fascinating insight from the artist himself as he takes us through the process of documenting his intriguing journeys.
Book in advance see website for details]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=128 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=128 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:03:28 UTC The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Sat 27 & Sun 28 March
Sat 10am – 5pm, Sun 11am - 4pm
Preview Fri 26 March 6.30pm – 8pm
Exhibition continues until Sat 5 June

The British premiere of Simon Faithfull includes two brand new works, which look at the way the artist continually questions, measures and tests his own experience of the world.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=127 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=127 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:52:45 UTC In the night sky over Preston
Friday 26 & 27 March
From 8pm


For two nights only visitors to Preston will be bathed in the fake moonlight of a strange apparition.

This event is weather dependent.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=126 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=126 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:45:40 UTC Thursday 8th April
8.30pm
The Dukes, Lancaster
Dir: Matt Hulse / UK / 75 mins

Hulse sets out on an offbeat pilgrimage, walking the 100 Mile South Downs Way with his girlfriend, dog and a bag full of Union Jack cocktail sticks.
Screening will be followed by a Q&A session with director Matt Hulse.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=125 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=125 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:40:38 UTC Lancaster Library
Thursday, 18th March
5.00pm-7.00pm

Join artist in residence Jennie Savage for the launch of this audio walk, exploring the multiple roles of Lancaster’s public library, as it searches for a new identity in the digital age.
This project is part of Radar, a new digital artists’ residency scheme led by folly and Lancashire County Libraries and Information Service.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=124 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=124 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 UTC Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
Mon 15 – Fri 19 March
11am - 5pm


A programme of short films that throw caution to the wind, including dramas, animations and artists using unconventional techniques. Here filmmakers present playful and provocative visions of the future and how our bodies operate within it.

Two programmes of short films that throw caution to the wind. Including dramas, animations and artists using unconventional techniques, here filmmakers present playful and provocative visions of the world and our bodies within it. From DIY hang gliding to washing machine fetishists, and formal explorations of digital code, these are mini mind-adventures for curious souls.

AND Short Films Programme 1 (18 certificate) – brief sexual nudity and swearing

Counters, 3’, Abby Mannock
A bright animated exercise in colour and counting.

Aanatt, 5’, Max Hattler,
Stunning stop-motion geometrics.

Rinse and Spin, 9’, Peter Snowdon
Mmmmm washing machines. Fetishes and freedom, with a spin dry.

The Accident, 3’, Sara Nesteruk
Postcards from various frames of mind, as family memory grows and recedes.

Binary Form, 2’30”, Chirstinn Whyte and Jake Messenger
Animated movement in binary code.

Francis, 8’30”, Let Me Feel Your Finger First
A nine-year-old ‘defective’ animated character, oddly observed by a child psychologist.

Light Years Away, 5’, Optimistic Productions
The city at night. On wheels.

Water, 1’, Susanna Hertrich
A short noir on drought.

It’s Nick’s Birthday 35’, Graeme Cole
A Super8 musical for cynics, slackers and inner-romantics.

Run Time: 72’


AND Short Films Programme 2 (15 certificate) – adult themes, appropriate for 15 year olds, brief violence

2 Minute Warning, 2’, Ann Guest
Bird flu. You have two minutes. You have been warned.

Out of Space, 3’, Anna Cady
A camera dives and shifts with a disabled swimmer underwater.

Burlesque, 11’, Tim Shore & Gary Thomas, in collaboration with Anaïs Bouts
“...in the polymorphous world of the burlesque, where everybody gives and receives blows at will… violence is universal and without consequences, there is no guilt.” Pascal Bonitzer, Le Champ aveugle (1982)

Interloper, 1’11”, Dawn Woolley
Strange perspective and an unsettling reflection.

Dead Dog, 8’, Edward Jeffreys
A man who fears the worst when his beloved dog goes missing sets out with his girlfriend to confront the local gamekeeper.

Hang Gliding, 2’, Katy Merrington
Amateur flight DIY-style.

Outcasts, 30’, Ian Clark
A girl in love, a pop star in peril, and a gang on the run… Someone is going to get burned!]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=123 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=123 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:04:12 UTC
Find us at www.ugi-heal.me / AND Commission]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=121 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=121 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:26:13 UTC Mon15 – Sat 10 April
Various locations for the duration of the festival

Join AND on a delicious sensory journey as this unique art and science experiment tours across the region in an ice-cream van. Cat and Zoe will be serving nano ice-cream, creating strawberry flavoured clouds and exploring developments in nanotechnology.
Developed in partnership with the Peter Scott Gallery and Experimentality, at Lancaster University]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=120 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=120 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:18:30 UTC The Dukes
Mon 15 – Tues 16 March
7.30pm

Combining Forkbeard’s famed mix of visual trickery, film and outlandish storylines The Colour of Nonsense is a comedy thriller which takes us on a journey through the shifting borderlands between sense and nonsense, burrowing into the puzzle of why we see the way we see.

The Colour of Nonsense is a tale of a priceless piece of art and the mayhem which follows its theft. Things weren’t going very well at the studios of Splash, Line & Scuro, cutting edge conceptualists, until out of the blue comes a million pound job. A commission for the very first, completely genuine piece of invisible artwork.

With nods at Edward Lear and The Emperor’s New Clothes, Forkbeard’s riotous new comedy explores creativity and paralyzing indecision.

"Mesmerising magic"
The Independent


Tickets available at the Dukes Box Office 01524 598500]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=119 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=119 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:43:32 UTC The Dukes Bar
15 March – 10 April
Mon - Sat 10am -11pm, Sun 7pm - 11pm


An installation for which an old vending machine is reprogrammed to release snacks only when news relating to the recession makes the headlines on the BBC News RSS feed.
A rundown but functional old vending machine stands alone in the Dukes Bar. Every now and again, without warning, it springs into life - spewing out free packets of crisps for gallery visitors. The machine has been modified. It no longer functions in the conventional way - at the whim of snack-hungry theater goers - but instead now finds itself in the control of outside forces... Its new nervous system is a networked computer. Hidden out of view and running special software, it continually scans the news on the BBC News RSS feed - commanding the machine only to release snacks when words relating to the recession make the headlines.

Whilst seemingly an act of generosity - gifting free food at moments when further doom and gloom is reported - the Vending Machine also hints towards a time in the future when our access to food may literally be determined by wider political or environmental events. We may not be able to access what we want, when we want, at the touch of a button.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=117 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=117 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:54:32 UTC
AND are seeking volunteers and interns to support us on the next leg of our exciting AND journey across the region.

Based at folly in Lancaster the AND Festival team is now recruiting festival, film & new media loving volunteers from all backgrounds that are keen on getting involved, supporting us during the run-up and delivery of the festival.

If you love the buzz of festivals, have some time to spare in March and April, are over 18 with a confident, outgoing and friendly manner then we would love to hear from you!

The roles available for volunteers include: stewarding, information assistance, festival promotion, supporting the recording and documentation of events, helping with install and de-install of artworks, assisting with set-up and clearing of events, and carrying out market research. Volunteering is an excellent and fun way to meet new people, gain new skills, share your skills and experience, gain insights into the industry and enhance your CV.

If this sounds interesting to you please download an information and application below and send your details to tor.townley@folly.co.uk

download information on internships & volunteering

download volunteer application form

download internship application form]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=111 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=111 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:57:36 UTC Did You Abandon Normal Devices?

Time to tell us what you think.

As a first time festival we are keen to hear what audiences have to say, to find out a bit about you and how you got to know us and help us plan for the future.

Whether you have visited the festival events and screenings, participated in debates or workshops, enjoyed the social life or simply joined us online we are curious and interested to know your impression. The survey takes about ten minutes, so fix yourself a brew and get typing.

Online Survey Here]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=108 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=108 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:13:37 UTC LAUNCH COMMISSIONED ARTWORK

Laric scans the daily news and invents URLs based on current cultural and political issues, technological developments, word combinations and future Hollywood movie titles. Purchased domains are then scratched off the list of ‘still available’ URLs, a scorecard for the artists’ accuracy in forecasting profitable domain squatting investments. Building on earlier versions of the work, Laric ports the project to Twitter in a micro-blogging format that becomes a real-time snapshot of contemporary life.

Oliver Laric (b. 1981, Austria), is an artist based in Berlin. He is one of the co-founders of the platform VVORK. Recent exhibitions include 'I love the Horizon', Le Magasin-Centre National d'art Contemporain, Grenoble, 'Montage: Unmonumental Online', New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and 'Becks Fusions', ICA, London.


Still Available - Twitter version is a commissioned artwork as part of the AND Online Programme titled From Now On This Blog is Going to Be.... Full programme information here.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=100 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=100 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:25:32 UTC LAUNCH COMMISSIONED ARTWORK

Lonergan works his way through each day of the film Groundhog Day, giving a slideshow commentary that is not quite from the point of view of its lead character Bill Murray. Riffing on the popular film using its own narrative device, it becomes a bootleg cover version that underlines the film’s ubiquity in popular consciousness – ‘groundhog day’ being a stand-in term for repetition in common conversation. The dry-humored, hypnotic piece highlights the banal in the blog genre.

Guthrie Lonergan is an artist/Internet user based in Hollywood, California. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale, and the Sundance Film Festival, and written about in Artforum, Rhizome.org and The Wall Street Journal. He is a co-founder of the Nasty Nets Internet Surfing Club. All of his work is on http://www.theageofmammals.com.

Groundhog Day is a commissioned artwork as part of the AND Online Programme titled From Now On This Blog is Going to Be.... Full programme information here]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=98 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=98 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:25:49 UTC LAUNCH COMMISSIONED ARTWORK

A marathon surfing session aims to turn up every possible manner of unauthorized Star Wars related cultural production that exists on the internet - fanart, fanfiction, amateur costume, remakes, tributes, remixs and mashups. In an antagonistic gesture towards George Lucas’ trigger-happy approach to pursuing even the most benign instances of copyright infringement, the collection touches on the ambiguity of fair use laws as well as visualizing the useless struggle any content owner faces in the networked world.

John Michael Boling (b. 1983, USA), is an artist and internet user living in Athens, GA. He was born in 1983 in Rome, GA. He is the creator of http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/ and was a founding member of http://www.nastynets.com.


Art for George Lucas is a commissioned artwork as part of the AND Online Programme titled From Now On This Blog is Going to Be.... Full programme information here]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=97 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=97 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:52:58 UTC Dates: 20 – 27 September 2009

NOW ONLINE! COMMISSIONED ARTWORKS BY GUTHRIE LONERGAN, JOHN MICHAEL BOLING, OLIVER LARIC, AND HANNE MUGAAS.

Taking its title from a piece by Michael Bell-Smith - a simple Google search for the phrase - From Now On This Blog Is Going To Be… is a curated selection of artist commissioned blogs to be realised online throughout the festival dates.

The novice blogger often sets out with huge expectations – from the number of readers to the frequency of posts to the quality of content. But the unedited, open nature of the medium means the blog often fails to find a cohesive voice, instead left abandoned in lost hopes and unrealized potential. As Bell-Smith’s piece suggests, the blog creator is burdened with a nagging guilt that leaves its traces in posts that attempt to revamp and revive the failed blog.

Freed from obligation of an indefinite commitment, the artists create time-limited ‘fantasy’ blogs that are realized exclusively for the festival dates. The blogs will become a forum for the alternate personas and quirky ideas of the artists. In turn, the commissioned artists act as official festival bloggers in an Abandon Normal Devices style; not conforming to the documentarian image and likely not even covering the festival itself.

The selected artists maintain ongoing blog presences that contrast with their fantasy blogs, in addition to art practices that revolve around the internet. They are: Oliver Laric (b. 1981, Austria), co-founder of www.vvork.com; John Michael Boling (b. 1983, USA), contributor to http://www.rhizome.org; Hanne Mugaas (b. 1980, Norway) maintainer of the independent art and ebay blog (http://www.hanne-mugaas.com/); and Guthrie Lonergan (b. 1983, USA), co-founder and contributor at http://www.nastynets.com.

From now on this blog is going to be… is 2009’s AND net art programme. Alongside talks by Lonergan and Laric in the Salons programme, and a special screening of viral video curated by Michael Connor , this programme highlights new creative practices on the net.]]> http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=27 http://andfestival-new.clockhosting.net/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=27 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:32:45 UTC