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Journal

New Cinema Days starts this week, so we caught up with selected artist Yambe Tam to uncover the creative ethos behind her…

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Q&A with New Cinema Days Artist, Yambe Tam

Mon 17 Apr 2023
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Recently, we sat down with New Cinema Days selected artist Che Applewhaite to find out more about his latest projects and who…

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Q&A with New Cinema Days Artist, Che Applewhaite

Thu 13 Apr 2023
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Working on all nine editions of AND Festival since 2009 – involving collaborations with hundreds of artists including Eva and Franco Mattes,…

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2023 is set to be a year of change for Abandon Normal Devices

Thu 30 Mar 2023
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Over the last six months, we’ve been working with six individuals on Unseen Futures, our inaugural fellowship programme. Right from the start,…

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Not Your Usual Kind of Fellowship

Tue 28 Mar 2023
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We’re excited to be bringing a live AV screening of Lorem’s Distrust Everything to the UK on Wednesday 19 April, as part…

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Live AV screening of Distrust Everything by Lorem, featuring Acre

Mon 27 Mar 2023
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Earlier this month, we sat down with New Cinema Days selected artist Grace Ndiritu to find out more about her creative processes,…

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Q&A with New Cinema Days artist, Grace Ndiritu

Mon 13 Mar 2023
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Current Programme

Over the last six months, we’ve been working with six individuals on Unseen Futures, our inaugural fellowship programme. Right from the start,…

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Not Your Usual Kind of Fellowship

Tue 28 Mar 2023
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Ongoing

Unseen Futures is our new fellowship programme, centred on dialogue, access and shared experience. Who will be taking part?  We’re delighted to…

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Unseen Futures

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Ongoing

March 2022 – ongoing Impossible Perspectives is a multi-year research and artist development project, which will culminate in a site-wide exhibition at…

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Impossible Perspectives

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The Networked Condition: Environmental Impacts of Digital Cultural Production is an ongoing exploration of the often-hidden environmental impact of the creation and…

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The Networked Condition

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Thu 27th May 2021

Toxicity’s Reach presents a collection of installations, spanning multiple disciplines as a way of exploring how industrial chemicals that are found in our waterways affect humans, animals and the landscape we live in.

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Toxicity’s Reach

Thu 27th May — Sun 31st Mar 2024
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Ongoing

Book now for our seminar and screening day, on Thursday 20 April at SODA in Manchester.  New Cinema Days is for anyone studying…

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New Cinema Days

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Thu 27th May 2021

Re-enacting the historical and modern flow of people, cargo, data and power One-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface invites you to walk amongst it and view how three continents are tethered via transatlantic data cables, air and sea routes and trade.

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One-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface \\ Hakeem Adam and Maxwell Mutanda

Thu 27th May — Sun 31st Mar 2024
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Artists

Lorem is an individual/multiple identity working across sound and media, and exploring states of consciousness and emotional datasets through visceral narrative AV…

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Lorem

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Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan filmmaker and visual artist whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world. Her films…

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Grace Ndiritu

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Che Applewhaite is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Through intimate connections that reframe how we see; his work elaborates spiritual insights that…

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Che Applewhaite

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Yambe Tam is an artist and ordained Zen Buddhist creating contemplative experiences through sculpture, video games, and immersive installations. These works meditate…

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Yambe Tam

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Uma Breakdown (they/them) is an artist interested in animals, horror, queer feminist literature, and games design. Everything they make is about some…

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Uma Breakdown

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Julieta Gil (she/her) is a Mexican artist currently based in Oregon. Her practice engages with new media, archives, fiction, and memory. Julieta’s…

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Julieta Gil

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Eternal Engine are an artistic queer duo of Jagoda Wójtowicz (she/her) and Martix Navrot (he/him). Their experimental research combines audio-visual praxis and…

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Eternal Engine

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Liz Mputu (she/her) is an artist based in Florida and through wifi connection. A ‘multiplatform, multimedia artist and Registered Nurse who engages…

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Liz Mputu

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Luiza Prado de O. Martins is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work examines themes around fertility, herbal medicine, coloniality, gender, and…

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Luiza Prado de. O Martins

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Hakeem Adam is a Ghanaian digital artist, and freelance arts and culture writer, exploring the power of narrative, transmitted through various creative outlets including poetry, creative writing, photography, video art and sound design.

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Hakeem Adam

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Sissel Marie Tonn is a Danish artist based in The Hague, The Netherlands. In her practice she explores the complex ways humans perceive, act upon and are entangled with their environments.

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Sissel Marie Tonn

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Mary Maggic is a non-binary Chinese-American artist currently based in Vienna, Austria. Their work spans amateur science, public workshopology, performance, installation, documentary film, and speculative fiction.

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Mary Maggic

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Maxwell Mutanda is a pluridisciplinary artist/research/designer whose meticulously detailed collages, data visualisation and architectural practice investigate the role of globalisation and environmental protection.

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Maxwell Mutanda

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Baff Akoto’s work embraces the fluidity of visual grammar, notions of plurality and (self) perceptions. Based in London, his practice explores the…

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Baff Akoto

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enorê is a Brazilian artist working between digital and physical media, currently based in London. Their work revolves around the fluidity of…

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enorê

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Kialy Tihngang is a Glasgow-based interdisciplinary artist working in textiles, costume, photography and moving image. She is interested in the inability of…

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Kialy Tihngang

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Thomas Buckley is an artist and storyteller based in Brighton, using new media and the lower senses to create immersive works, working…

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Thomas Buckley

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