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.
![Digital images of plastic above seawater](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/Sissel-Marie-Tonn-Plastic-Hypersea-2021-600x399.png)
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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Thu 27th May — Sun 31st Mar 2024![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/11/Cartography_004-600x399.jpg)
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.
Read moreOne-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface \\ Hakeem Adam and Maxwell Mutanda
Thu 27th May — Sun 31st Mar 2024![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-14-at-12.11.40-600x399.png)
The Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania are amongst the richest sites of late Jurassic fossils that have ever been found. A former German…
Read moreNot A Single Bone \ Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles (2017)
Fri 22nd Sep — Sun 24th Sep 2017![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2017/07/34018201313_07b3ae4d9c_k-1-600x399.jpg)
What if, in the far future, we cannot read the electronic documents, images and multimedia files, that proliferate our worlds today? Digital…
Read moreDigital Dark Ages Tour \ Various Artists (2017)
Fri 22nd Sep 2017![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2018/05/Basiony_30-Days-of-Running-in-the-Place_2.1-1-600x399.jpg)
Ahmed Basiony was one of the few contemporary artists in Egypt who was consistently experimenting with the tools of new media. One…
Read moreThirty Days of Running in Place \ Ahmed Basiony (2011)
Fri 30th Sep — Mon 28th Nov 2011![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2018/05/The-Peoples-Secretary-1-600x399.png)
“Liang Zhifu as a Party member regards the wellbeing of people under the heaven as his duty. He remains committed, with a…
Read moreThe People’s Secretary \ Zhang Qing (2011)
Fri 30th Sep — Mon 28th Nov 2011![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2018/05/maxresdefault-1-600x399.jpg)
Los Angeles-based video artist Rachel Mayeri has worked with primates for years, studying how they respond to different types of media and…
Read morePrimate Cinema: Apes as Family \ Rachel Mayeri (2011)
Fri 30th Sep — Sun 2nd Oct 2011![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2018/08/5055125874_15ea5edaee_o-600x399.jpg)
Starting as a work of fiction, design is always oriented towards a possible future; a community of users that have yet to…
Read moreDesigned Disorder (2010)
Sat 2nd Oct — Sat 30th Oct 2010![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2018/08/empires-borders-600x399.jpg)
Internationally acclaimed Taiwanese video artist Chen Chieh-jen sees his work as ‘an act of connection, linking together the history of people who…
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