29 August – 02 September 2012 In the summer of 2012, Abandon Normal Devices invited visitors to experience a festival that highlighted…

AND specializes in a celebration of live, interactive and misfit cinema. AND 2012’s programme was transmitted online and across Manchester to karaoke…

#1 The Art of Success We often have romanticised preconceptions of artists as impoverished yet passionate creators, but how does this work…

What is glitch aesthetics? Is dropping data like dropping acid? And who is The Artist 2.0? Grab your datamoshing goggles and have your questions answered by this online project and exhibition from net art pioneer Mark Amerika.

Featuring digital video art, digitally manipulated still images, game design, stand-up comedy, sound art, electronic literature and a mock museum catalogue in free e-book and print-on-demand editions.

It’s a scientific fact that teen brains are particularly alive, active and sensitive; fast, risking-taking blobs that make creative and sometimes bizarre leaps, giving them an evolutionary edge.

Putting these highly adaptable brains to the test, we’ve assembled a teen panel to answer your problems at a special event at First Street. Submit online, then see our teens in action on 01 Sep.

SweatSHOP is an interactive, performative installation using humour and play to critique and subvert corporate practices. Using a local business as the temporary Mellor Management headquarters and under the guise of a corporate consultant, Mellor will attempt a test of endurance, cycling on a bicycle attached to a small generator powering a LED “SHOP” sign.

This inspiring seminar allows the audience to join Jeremy on his exciting ride, the day he became an opera singer, and gives them the impetus to take opportunities that scare them and find greatness in uncertainty that they could never find in experience.

Monetised was a performance that looked at how we materialise our dreams by monetising specific aspects of them, and the difference between…

Created by ‘faux queen’ trixxie carr, a born-female drag queen orphan from San Francisco, The Right to RULE was the performance-party highlight…