AND Festival
AND is renowned for producing the UK's only nomadic, site-responsive digital arts festival, commissioning works that combine creativity, technology and science. We platform extraordinary art in unexpected locations, from caves and car parks to forests and ferries, from multiplayer platforms and mines to observatories and online portals. Find out more about AND Festival 2026 where we playfully interrogated the hidden infrastructures that shape how we live and connect.
Over one transformative weekend, AND Festival returns to deliver extraordinary art and site-responsive installations in Barnsley, collaborating with visionary artists and creative technologists that push the boundaries of immersive experiences.
Read moreAND FESTIVAL 2026
Fri 25th Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2026
As part of AND Festival 2026, MONOM hosts an exclusive Barnsley Sonic 4DSOUND Spatial Masterclass.
Read more4DSOUND Spatial Masterclass \\ MONOM
Sat 26th Sep 2026
(W)HOLE uncovers hidden digital infrastructures through sculpture and AR, using manhole covers as portals to reveal interconnected systems.
Read more(W)HOLE \\ Clusterduck
An immersive spatial audio installation by MONOM exploring the acoustic memory of extraction and the hidden infrastructures beneath Barnsley’s industrial landscape.
Read moreAcoustic Memories \\ MONOM
Northern Passage: A Quest To Hopian is an interactive three-level game inspired by real locations in Barnsley, gradually transforming from sparse and inert landscapes into vibrant worlds.
Read moreNorthern Passage: A Quest To Hopian \\ Jazmin Morris
Krumville is a multi-screen film exploring memory, perception, and mediated experience through a fictional town created from remixing algorithmic image-making and personal recollections.
Read moreKrumville \\ Dian Joy
Hapi Tomorrow receives its world premiere at AND Festival 2026 as part of SERVER, the festival’s broadcast channel.
Created by visual artist Chepertom (Thomas Collet) and musician ZULI.
Hapi Tomorrow \\ Chepertom and ZULI
An audiovisual poem structured around the dialogues and wanderings of two characters confronting the contemporary world and its puzzling flows of interconnected phenomena.
Read moreChaos Theory \\ Metahaven
Unsecuring Infrastructures approaches AND Festival 2026 as a live research environment for thinking critically and speculatively about Barnsley’s designation as the UK’s…
Read moreUnsecuring Infrastructures
SERVER is a continuous, 7-hour, artist-led festival film channel creating space for critical reflection, speculative storytelling and interdisciplinary exchange.
Read moreSERVER \\ Going Away.tv
SERVER is a continuous, 7-hour, artist-led festival film channel creating space for critical reflection, speculative storytelling and interdisciplinary exchange.
Read moreSERVER \\ Screenings Programme
Fri 25th Sep 2026
SERVER is a continuous, 7-hour, artist-led festival film channel creating space for critical reflection, speculative storytelling and interdisciplinary exchange.
Read moreSERVER \\ Talks Programme
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Infrastructure as a lived, material and cultural condition
Want to enrich your understanding of AND Festival 2026? We unpack the complex, dynamic themes that unpin this year’s festival offering. From lived infrastructure to collective possibility through shared experience we ask: what is remembered, made new, or forgotten when the physical and social infrastructures we inhabit are constantly in flux?
An immersive spatial audio installation by MONOM exploring the acoustic memory of extraction and the hidden infrastructures beneath Barnsley’s industrial landscape.
Read moreAcoustic Memories \\ MONOM
Northern Passage: A Quest To Hopian is an interactive three-level game inspired by real locations in Barnsley, gradually transforming from sparse and inert landscapes into vibrant worlds.
Read moreNorthern Passage: A Quest To Hopian \\ Jazmin Morris
Krumville is a multi-screen film exploring memory, perception, and mediated experience through a fictional town created from remixing algorithmic image-making and personal recollections.
Read moreKrumville \\ Dian Joy
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A catalyst for new ideas and artforms
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a radical arts organisation, situated in the North of England and working globally. Since 2009, we’ve commissioned works which combine creativity, technology, and science challenging norms and fostering critical dialogue through immersive experiences. Nomadic yet rooted in community-building, we create space to imagine, challenge normative perspectives, and disrupt traditional art forms. Our mission is to be at the forefront of innovation through sector-defining collaboration and talent development.
Full programme and tickets are now live for the 10th edition of AND Festival. You can now unpack our festival programme of…
Read moreAnnouncing the AND Festival 2026 programme
Thu 16 Jul 2026
Today we announce the 14 participants taking part in Unsecuring Infrastructures as part of AND Festival 2026. Across the festival weekend, invited…
Read moreMeet the Unsecuring Infrastructures cohort
Fri 18 Sep 2026
AND Festival, the UK’s only nomadic festival of art, technology and digital culture, returns for its landmark 10th edition in Barnsley on…
Read moreAND Festival returns for 2026
Mon 01 Dec 2025
Abandon Normal Devices curatorial team unpacks the complex, dynamic themes that underpin this year’s festival offering. From lived infrastructure to collective possibility…
Read moreAND Festival 2026: Infrastructure as a lived, material and cultural condition
We are looking to create a team of volunteers to support us with our live events across AND Festival 2026 this September….
Read moreOpportunity: Volunteer at AND Festival 2026
Thu 23 Jul 2026
How might an encounter with contemporary art change what becomes visible within your own field of research? For Unsecuring Infrastructures at AND…
Read moreCLOSED: Unsecuring Infrastructures Open Call
Wed 12 Aug 2026
Using Barnsley as a site for experimentation, artists Dian Joy and Jazmin Morris, and spatial sound collective MONOM will each embark on…
Read moreIntroducing our first wave of artists for AND Festival 2026
Thu 18 Jun 2026
Artist and AND Creative Associate Hwa Young Jung has been working on Wild Natures, a long-term project exploring the experiences of migrant…
Read moreThe power of K-pop: Hwa Young Jung and Wild Natures
Fri 16 Jan 2026
We are pleased to announce the appointment of four new members to our Board of Trustees; Alex Boyes, Charmian Griffin, Anouk Focquier…
Read moreIntroducing AND’s new Board Members
Mon 20 Oct 2025
We are pleased to announce our participation in n-Space – a new initiative for interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists, technologists, academics,…
Read moreAND joins Somerset House Studios’ new interdisciplinary programme, n-Space
Wed 17 Sep 2025
In June, we co-commissioned W Brzask no. 36 at Ephemera Festival in Warsaw as part of our ongoing partnership with Unsound, supported…
Read moreA Gig at Sunrise: Reflecting on W Brzask at Ephemera Festival
Tue 08 Jul 2025
We are pleased to announce the appointment of two new Associate Board Members, Tom Shennan and Bridget Coderc. As part of our…
Read moreIntroducing AND’s new Associate Board Members
Mon 20 Oct 2025
We are pleased to announce socially engaged artist Hwa Young Jung as a Creative Associate – a programme bringing together artists, technologists,…
Read moreIntroducing our new Creative Associate Hwa Young Jung
Thu 31 Jul 2025- scroll to see more
Supporting AND
AND has carved a niche in the North of England, providing testing grounds for artists willing to take artistic risk through our site-specific festival format, collaborative research projects, or development opportunities with local and global partners. As a non-profit organisation, we rely on a mixture of individual giving, partnership work and long-term funding. Find out more about how you can support us today.