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Activating in Yorkshire for the first time, AND Festival will take place in Barnsley on Fri 25 – Sun 27 September 2026…
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Unsecuring Infrastructures approaches AND Festival 2026 as a live research environment for thinking critically and speculatively about Barnsley’s designation as the UK’s…
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Impossible Perspectives is an Abandon Normal Devices XR development and commissioning programme with its first iteration in collaboration with Cheshire East Council…
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See Me Appear is an immersive artwork by Studio Peut-Porter that uses advanced virtual production techniques including virtual performance capture, augmented reality, and ambient soundscapes to bring speculative narratives of Tatton Park’s historic residents to life.
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THREE FIELDS was an international digital arts collaboration launched in 2025 bringing together artists, cultural organisations, and creative technologists across India, South…
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n-Space is an initiative for interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists, technologists, academics, and industry professionals, led by Somerset House Studios. AND,…
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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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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 moreAND Festival 2021: One-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface \\ Hakeem Adam and Maxwell Mutanda
Explore the AND Festival 2026 programme:
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.
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Fri 25th Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2026
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
Fri 25th Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2026
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
(W)HOLE uncovers hidden digital infrastructures through sculpture and AR, using manhole covers as portals to reveal interconnected systems.
Read more(W)HOLE \\ Clusterduck
Fri 25th Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2026
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
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
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
SERVER is a continuous, 7-hour, artist-led festival film channel creating space for critical reflection, speculative storytelling and interdisciplinary exchange.
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