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.
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
Fri 25th Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2026
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
Fri 25th Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2026
Intra Protocol is a site-responsive immersive audiovisual work by Sally Golding and Matt Spendlove that transforms the cinema into a living instrument.
Read moreIntra Protocol \\ Sally Golding and Matt Spendlove
Sat 26th Sep 2026
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
Fri 25th Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2026
Psychedelic audio-visual sculptures explode from land and water, and the Liverpool skyline playfully shapeshifts revealing a surreal alternate reality of the urban landscape in this new AR work.
Read moreThe Blue Violet River \\ Anita Fontaine
Thu 24th Jun — Sun 27th Jun 2021
Does Spring Hide Its Joy was an immersive audio experience by American composer Kali Malone featuring musicians Stephen O’Malley and Lucy Railton….
Read moreDoes Spring Hide Its Joy \\ Kali Malone
Thu 1st Jul — Sun 4th Jul 2021
Scalarama Merseyside presented an evening focused on water activism on film, using local footage on the historical misuse of water and the…
Read moreHeadwaters \\ Turbulent Flow
Wed 23rd Jun 2021
What can we learn from cinema preservation in the quest to protect water? As cinemas reopened once more, Scalarama Merseyside presented an…
Read moreHeadwaters \\ Show and Flow
Wed 16th Jun 2021
Link to text – All Power to the {Historical} Imagination! by McKenzie Wark Follow – Collective Reading: From Modes of Production to…
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