AND Festival (Spring) \\ Cumbria, UK \\ 15 March – 10 April 2010

In Spring 2010, audiences joined AND Festival on a digital journey across real and virtual worlds in Cumbria, Lancashire and online, as they abandoned the city to head for the hills. Strange, playful and radical interventions took place across the Northwest’s stunning landscape as a host of artists, scientists and designers mapped the region to question our relationship with nature and technology, food and health, work and play.

Mon 15th Mar 2010

Festival of new cinema, digital culture and art. Cumbria, Lancashire (UK) The second year of the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) took place…

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AND Festival 2010 (Spring)

Mon 15th Mar — Sat 10th Apr 2010
Fri 26th Mar 2010

At nightfall on the 26 & 27 March 2010 visitors to Preston were bathed in fake moonlight.

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Fake Moon \ Simon Faithfull (2010)

Fri 26th Mar — Sat 27th Mar 2010
Sat 27th Mar 2010

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

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Park \ Stanza (2010)

Sat 27th Mar — Sun 11th Apr 2010
Sat 10th Apr 2010 Ι 14:00

Improv Everywhere are experienced at causing scenes of chaos and joy in public places and with their help we reclaimed the Blackburn streets in a flashmob spectacle.

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MP3 Experiment \ Improv Everywhere (2010)

Sat 10th Apr 2010
Thu 18th Mar 2010 Ι 19:00, 21:00

Theatre group Imitating the Dog wowed with their part-musical, part-dream play, Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls, a magical story of…

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Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls \ Imitating the Dog (2010)

Thu 18th Mar 2010
Ongoing Ι 10:00 - 17:00

Geoffrey Alan Rhodes created a unique interactive cinema experience inside a pleasant looking log cabin in the heart of Grizedale forest. Using…

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Arambo \ Geoffrey Alan Rhodes (2010)

Sat 3rd Apr 2010
Wed 10th Mar 2010

Today, too, I experienced something I hope to understand in a few days was a site-specific artwork that auto-generated films based upon narrative data collected from Facebook profiles. Using a combination of status updates, YouTube uploads and video portraits, the work looked at people in Barrow-in-Furness from a range of different perspectives, each one a form of surveillance.

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Today, too, I experienced something I hope to understand in a few days \ James Coupe (2010)

Wed 10th Mar 2010
Sat 27th Mar 2010

The British premiere of Simon Faithfull includes two brand new works, which look at the way the artist continually questions, measures and…

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Recent Findings \ Simon Faithfull (2010)

Sat 27th Mar — Sat 5th Jun 2010
Mon 15th Mar 2010

A rundown but functional old vending machine stood alone in the Dukes Bar. Every now and again, without warning, it would spring…

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Vending Machine \ Ellie Harrison (2010)

Mon 15th Mar — Sat 10th Apr 2010