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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: MOVING IMAGE
Our call for submissions has now commenced... We’re seeking moving image work of any form whether it be a feature, short, or artistic piece, there really are no restrictions. Click here to find out more.

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
This deadline has now passed. We will be recruiting volunteers for the festival in October soon so make sure you keep a look out for future opportunities on our website in the coming weeks.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=171 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=171 Wed, 26 May 2010 11:09:08 BST
Squidsoup is an open group of collaborators built around Anthony Rowe, Gaz Bushell and Chris Bennewith.

Anthony Rowe, creative lead and Squidsoup founder, is also Associate Professor of Interaction Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (www.aho.no). Gaz Bushell is main programmer at Squidsoup, and also Lead Programmer for a digital marketing company specializing in viral games. Chris Bennewith is visual designer at Squidsoup, and also Associate Professor, Head of the Institute of Visual Communication at Massey University, Wellington (NZ). Liam Birtles is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Production at Arts University College Bournemouth.

Others involved include James Lane (altzero, Ghosts, Come Closer), Scott Arford (altzero), Sam Britton (altzero), Ollie Bown (altzero, Driftnet), Cyan (altzero), Cliff Randell (Come Closer) and Piers Watson (Virtual Puppeteers) – and many many others who have helped us and played with us along the way.

Squidsoup’s work can be experienced online, and in shared spaces, physical and virtual installations, games and software tools.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=164 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=164 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:18:02 GMT
Andy Best was born in the South of England in 1963. He studied Fine Art (Sculpture) in Cardiff, Wales, before coming to Finland with a study scholarship in 1988.

Andy has participated in numerous group and one person exhibitions in Finland and internationally. He is currently a researcher in Crucible Studio, Media Lab, Aalto University School of Art and Design, Helsinki.

Merja Puustinen is a doctoral candidate at the Fine Arts Academy (Kuvataideakatemia) in Helsinki, Finland.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=163 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=163 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:16:32 GMT
Luke Hastilow has a background in electronics and software engineering, and his current research explores human-computer interfaces. Luke has been exploring the symbiosis of art and technology since childhood. From the exploration of synthesizers and circuit-bending at the age of 5, to the design of real-time embedded systems technology for robotics on TV, Luke's passion is centred on exploiting technology for artistic purpose.

Recently, Luke has been focusing his research on the Human-Computer Interface, exploring the development of transparent ubiquitous computing technology that will link seamlessly artists and their technology.

Askham and Hastilow met at the Digital Arts Media and Technology Action Group (DAMTAG) at London Metropolitan University.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=162 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=162 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:12:39 GMT Bernhard (founder of etoy) and Lizvlx. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of
the most uncatchable identities - controversial and iconoclast - of the contemporary
European techno-fineart avantgarde. ubermorgen is a German word for "the day
after tomorrow" or "super-tomorrow". The permanent amalgamation of fact and
fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one’s working materials,
which for UBERMORGEN.COM also include international rights [Legal Art], democracy
and global communication networks. French philosopher Jean Baudrillard once said
about UBERMORGEN.COM: "ubermorgen means the day after tomorrow, a slight tip
towards their aestehtic and activist vision and prejudice, they are hardcore and
radical in their actions and they are extremely strange and highly intelligent people.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=161 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=161 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:11:48 GMT
In early 2010 Simon completed his Liverpool to Liverpool public art work, documenting the journey of a container ship to Liverpool through 181 drawings permanently etched into the paving and glass of a new public space in Liverpool. Past works also include Antarctica Dispatches, a series of daily drawings dispatched 'live' from Antarctica and 13, commissioned by Channel 4 and Arts Council England. Simon is also a lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=160 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=160 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:09:32 GMT
His current work plays with the boundaries between photography, film, and installation, and has been exhibited at the International Society for Electronic Arts, the European Media Arts Festival, Media Art Friesland, the Moscow International Film Festival, and the Chelsea Museum of Art in New York among others. He has received multiple grants from the Princess Grace Foundation, New York Council for the Humanities, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=159 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=159 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:08:29 GMT http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=158 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=158 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:06:24 GMT
James’ controversial recent work with ‘surveillance cinema’ in projects such as (re)collection and Surveillance Suite uses computer vision software to extract demographic and behavioural information from video footage. The footage is then automatically reorganised and recontextualised into narratives, often based upon classic film scripts.

His work has been exhibited worldwide and has received national and international recognition including the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board Innovation Award, Creative Capital Artist’s Trust.

James' commission for AND was initiated thanks to a Folly Lanternhouse International (FLI) residency. FLI Residencies offer support to artists working with new technologies to develop their ideas and extend their practice.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=157 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=157 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:05:04 GMT
Interface Amnesty is presented by Sound Network to provide an opportunity for exchange between communities of artists, musicians and the public through live music, sound art, new music and the moving image.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=156 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=156 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:04:00 GMT
As founder of Improv Everywhere Charlie Todd has produced, directed, performed, and documented the group’s work for over eight years. He is also a teacher and performer of improvised comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Charlie is the author of Causing a Scene, a book about Improv Everywhere published by Harper Collins.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=155 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=155 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:03:06 GMT
KMA choose to prioritise the illumination of people and their relationships, over the lighting of buildings. Rejecting the historical notion of the citizen as a passive spectator, KMA’s work celebrates the dynamics of human movement rather than the facets of historic buildings.

KMA has consistently received extensive national and international press coverage with commissions including those from the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Royal Opera House, and the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.

Whilst KMA’s work has dramatically transformed famous iconic spaces, such as London’s Trafalgar Square, it has proved equally successful in more intimate environments, such as the Renaissance Courtyard of the Palazzo S in Terni, Umbria. Kit and Tom have also collaborated with other prominent artists on a wide range of projects in theatre, television, film and academia.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=154 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=154 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:01:43 GMT
Current shows include Decode at V&A London and upcoming Pace Digital, New York in addition to lecturing, performance delivery, and audiovisual interactions.
Stanza's involvement with AND was initiated thanks to a Folly Lanternhouse International (FLI) residency. FLI Residencies offer support to artists working with new technologies to develop their ideas and extend their practice.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=153 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=153 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:57:26 GMT
Their projects explore how the taste of food is altered through synaesthesia, performance and setting. The distinctive texture, manipulability and the historic role of jelly provides Bompass & Parr with a unique platform to examine food and architecture, exploring notions of taste.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=152 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=152 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:56:02 GMT
As an artist Rob examines the developments of technology in public space through interactive public artworks, to experimental films, photography and audio work. He has exhibited at The Lab, San Francisco; the (re)load exhibition at Antena; Chicago and more recently has exhibited at the ‘Without You I’m Nothing’ show at Green Lantern Gallery, Chicago, and the ‘Squirrel!’ exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Centre Woodside, New York. In 2009 Rob received the DIGIT Excellence in Cinematography prize for his film Canaries in the Coalmine.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=151 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=151 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:54:33 GMT http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=150 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=150 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:53:31 GMT http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=149 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=149 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:52:21 GMT
Matt’s diversified cross-platform production has led him to collaborate with globally respected pianist and composer Max Richter, creating films to accompany Richter’s live performance. Shows have included Territorias Festival, Seville; Wordless Music Season, New York; Unsound Festival, Krakow; and Teatro Della Pergola, Florence. Recently on display at the Brecnock Museum & Art Gallery was a piece developed with Deirdre Nelson as part of the National Museum of Wales’ Artist Object Project. The piece called Shift explored sound as a means to animate ceramic shards and coal dust.

Matt ‘s latest feature Dummy Jim follows his debut feature film Follow The Master which premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival and was the second-fastest selling film of 2009.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=148 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=148 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:49:28 GMT
In early 2010 Jennie completed the first Radar artists' residency at Lancaster Library. Radar is a new programme of artists' residencies in public libraries across Lancashire, a partnership between folly and Lancashire County Libraries and Information Services.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=147 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=147 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:48:07 GMT http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=146 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=146 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:45:24 GMT
Performances combine film, animation, puppets, costume, mechanical sets and gothic vaudeville through a number of characters including bureaucrats, scientists and eccentric poets. Their trademark style enables characters to seamlessly step out of projected films onto stage and back again, creating a comic dynamic between film and performance.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=145 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=145 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:42:44 GMT
The politicisation of Ellie’s work has been accompanied by a rigorous questioning of both the function of art and the role of the artist in the age of continuing crisis, exemplified in essays including ‘How Can We Continue Making Art? and ‘Altermodernism: The Age of Stupid.’ Ellie’s recent work explores the relationship between art and activism, moral beliefs and political action, leading to her Bring Back British Rail campaign and being the first artist to openly publicise an Environmental Policy.
]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=144 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=144 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:02:44 GMT ARCHIVE
Lancaster: 18 – 19 March 2010

Theatre group Imitating the Dog wowed with their part-musical, part-dream play, Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls, a magical story of forbidden love, criminality and the possibility of finding redemption in the unlikeliest of places.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=143 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=143 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:18:38 GMT
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The project uses status updates and demographic profiles, from Facebook users who live in Barrow, to automatically generate video narratives. Data from Facebook is combined with related footage from YouTube and selections from a database of video portraits to create one new video each day. The result is a dynamic snapshot of how we fit into the network of stories that we participate in every day. The videos evolve to keep pace with how we change, both individually and collectively.

The status updates that the project selects are typically from a number of different users, as the software will seek out the best combination of available posts until it finds something that can be considered a story. This ‘script’ will then be used to construct a short film: a split screen in which one half consists of clips from a video portrait database filmed in advance, with people from Barrow who match the demographic profile of each status post; and the other half is footage automatically found on YouTube, with tags that match the text in the status post.

This is the first artwork to be made inside Facebook. By joining this application, data from your Facebook profile -- age, gender and status updates -- will be analyzed for narrative content, and potentially used to generate a short film. Your name will not be used, and your identity will remain private.

Supported by Signal Films and the North West Evening Mail. Initiated thanks to a folly Lanternhouse International (FLI) residency / AND Commission]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=142 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=142 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:04:46 GMT ARCHIVE
Grizedale: 2-3 April 2010, Burnley and Towneley Hall: 8 April 2010

folly’s Portable Pixel Playground helped us to celebrate the festival with inflatable sound sculptures, virtual bugs living in a sandpit and new ways of playing Hide and Seek and Treasure Hunt. Follow the link to take a look at the Portable Pixel Playground in action: www.flickr.com/groups/portable-pixel-playground/

Featuring Too Much of a Mouthful and No Traces of Sentimentality by Andy Best & Merja Puustinen, Cubed by Giles Askham & Luke Hastilow and Glowing Pathfinder Bugs by Squidsoup]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=141 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=141 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:58:57 GMT ARCHIVE
41 King Street, Blackburn, Lancashire: 10 April 2010

Plaid (Andy Turner and Ed Handley) performed a unique live AV set for our grand finale and helped AND to close with an electronic bang!]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=140 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=140 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:55:01 GMT ARCHIVE
Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington, Lancashire: 10 April 2010

Fuelled by food, drink and stimulating company The Cloud Project creators Zoe and Cat discussed the implications of nanotechnology on our relationship with food.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=139 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=139 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:51:06 GMT ARCHIVE
Blackburn: 10 April 2010

For our Blackburn adventure we teamed up with New Yorkers Improv Everywhere. 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.


Check out the original instructions HERE]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=138 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=138 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:47:17 GMT ARCHIVE
Waterloo Pavilions, Church Street, Blackburn, Lancashire: 10 April 2010

Interface Amnesty was a temporary shopfront and car boot for people
making and hacking their own interfaces and devices to make art and
music.

Artists included:

Adrian McEwan & Dan Lynch

Rather than demonstrating anything, Adrian McEwen and Dan Lynch worked on a new electro-mechanical contraption to manifest an online audience's appreciation into a physical space, as part of the preparation for an upcoming Rathole Radio gig.

They also brought along Bubblino to watch over proceedings and blow bubbles whenever AND was mentioned on Twitter.


Inari Wishiki & Simon Jones
Inari and Simon showed a prototype automated noodle bar device; a machine for socialising and eating!


InProcess:ing: DIY 3D Scanning: Lewis Sykes, Dave Mee, Elliot Woods, Gary Carroll, Julian Star

Using a technique and open source tools developed by media artist Kyle McDonald you could get scanned in 3D and learn about the simple DIY setup of scanner.

InProcess:ing is an open forum for sharing creative coding and practice initiated by Cybersonica and Madlab. It focuses on the lovely and ever growing Processing language, environment and community (though not exclusively) as a vehicle to support and encourage creative collaboration and meaningful exchange between a diverse group of practitioners, creatives and hobbyists.

Full story can be found here on the InProcess:ing website
http://inprocessing.cybersonica.org/


Joe McLaughlin
Joe showed some oscillators/sound makers and his new Arduino guitar hack!


Sonodrome
Sonodrome design and create bespoke electronic music devices and software. Their devices are built by hand on the North East coast of England. Our main area of work covers computer interfaces, building musical instruments, electronics research and development, algorithmic music, sound/art installations, software and digital signal processing.


SQUIDFANNY
SQUIDFANNY is a well known contributor to the UK circuit bending scene applying his soldering iron to everything from a Casio VL-1 to a 909 analog drum pad and even the Amstrad CKX100.


SoundNetwork are supported by PRS for Music Foundation]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=137 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=137 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:44:17 GMT ARCHIVE
Blackburn: 9-10 April 2010

During April 2010 we invaded Blackburn city centre with this playful interactive light installation. The installation explores how we use our bodies to move and communicate in a material world. When people enter the space they become active participants, as magnetic bodies themselves, animating and redistributing the flow of energy within the system.

Follow this link to see more photographs: http://bit.ly/b5b6bv

AND COMMISSION]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=136 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=136 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:41:06 GMT ARCHIVE
Towneley Hall, Burnley, Lancashire: 27 March – 11 April 2010

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

When a visitor looked towards the window in the gallery they saw a digital virtual landscape of the view through the window. The artist embedded an image of the real world inside the artwork and using a network of multiple wireless sensors in Towneley Park recorded light, temperature, noise, humidity using customised environmental technologies.

Click here to view the project online

Presented in partnership with Mid Pennine Arts
Initiated thanks to a folly Lanternhouse International (FLI) residency]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=135 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=135 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:36:32 GMT ARCHIVE
Grizedale Forest (The Yan): Friday 2 April 2010

Scratch ‘n Sniff ambassadors Bompas & Parr collaborated with producer Bren O’Callaghan to present a unique screening of the fairytale horror-fantasy The Company of Wolves. The screening took place in a room fit for a fairytale and the guests got stuck into wolf themed free refreshments as well as visiting the ‘wolf transformation station’.

Though perhaps the most fascinating element of the screening was that the audience could actually smell what was happening on screen. Aromas were created that captured the scents of key moments in the film. These were micro-encapsulated and printed onto special scratch ‘n’ sniff cards issued to the audience on arrival. The technique was pioneered by American director John Waters for his 1981 film Polyester. He termed it ‘Odorama’.

Directed by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa) and dredged from the depths of 1984, The Company of Wolves is a reworking of Little Red Riding Hood and is based on author Angela Carter’s interpretation of the fairy tales of Charles Perrault. It stars Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea and Sarah Patterson as the precocious lead Rosaleen, a young girl on the cusp of sexual awakening. The film contains disturbing and remarkable scenes of human-animal transmogrification.

Acclaimed choreographer Micha Bergese, who appears within the film in the role of The Huntsman, attended the screening. One of director Neil Jordan's regular collaborators, Micha has also worked with and appeared alongside Tom Cruise (Interview With The Vampire), but is himself renowned as a director and choreographer for stage, screen and music, working with Mick Jagger, Leonard Cohen and Tina Turner, as an associate with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, artistic director of Mantis Dance Company and more recently with his own company mbp.ltd.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=134 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=134 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:32:48 GMT ARCHIVE
Grizedale Forest, Cumbria: 2 April 2010

AND invited artists, UBERMORGEN.COM to answer questions raised by User Generated Illness. The Salon explored how in an era of self-diagnosis we assess our own health.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=133 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=133 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:24:38 GMT ARCHIVE
Grizedale: 2-3 April 2010

Get Lost! turned walkers into “disorienteers” misguiding themselves through Grizedale Forest using a compass and the Get Lost! guide as tools of deviation, introspection, and re-imagination.


AND COMMISSION]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=132 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=132 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:21:10 GMT ARCHIVE
Grizedale Forest: Friday 2 - Saturday 3 April 2010

During our Grizedale adventure creative duo Hudson-Powell went under cover in the forest. Playing with technologies such as video-tracking and augmented 3D graphics they made reality and fiction collide!

The result of their experimentation was Grazing Jellies. The project created a view into the forest where cosmic slugs munched on melon slices. These hungry hallucinations were inquisitive as well as starving, if there was movement in the trees or some chatter on the ground they would pay it a visit.

Grazing Jellies was an Augmented installation piece which allowed any real world environment to be augmented with graphic forms and be inhabited by virtual creatures. The system uses a display and camera setup to create a window for the viewer to observe the mixed scene.

See the making of Grazing Jellies here:

http://grazingjellies.tumblr.com/

AND COMMISSION]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=131 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=131 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:15:15 GMT ARCHIVE
Grizedale Forest, Cumbria: 15 March – 10 April 2010

Geoffrey Alan Rhodes created a unique interactive cinema experience inside a pleasant looking log cabin in the heart of Grizedale forest. Using playing cards the viewer could mash up the films of Rambo live on screen.

To find out more information head over to Dazed Digital and Little White Lies where you can read all about the project and the artist behind it.

AND COMMISSION]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=130 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=130 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:10:39 GMT ARCHIVE
Preston: 27-28 March 2010

On the 27-28 March 2010 AND teamed up with the world’s first inflatable cinema to present an experimental and diverse film programme in the heart of Preston.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=129 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=129 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:05:16 GMT ARCHIVE
The Harris Museum & Art Gallery: 27 March 2010

A fascinating insight from the artist himself that explained the process of documenting his intriguing journeys.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=128 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=128 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:03:28 GMT The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Sat 27 & Sun 28 March
Sat 10am – 5pm, Sun 11am - 4pm
Preview Fri 26 March 6.30pm – 8pm
Exhibition continues until Sat 5 June

The British premiere of Simon Faithfull includes two brand new works, which look at the way the artist continually questions, measures and tests his own experience of the world.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=127 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=127 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:52:45 GMT ARCHIVE
Preston: 26-27 March 2010

At nightfall on the 26 & 27 March 2010 visitors to Preston were bathed in fake moonlight. Follow the link to see more of this strange apparition: http://bit.ly/9AFz34]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=126 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=126 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:45:40 GMT ARCHIVE
The Dukes, Lancaster: 8th April 2010

A screening and Q & A session of Matt Hulse’s Follow the Master. In this offbeat film Hulse sets out on a pilgrimage, walking the 100 Mile South Downs Way with his girlfriend, dog and a bag full of Union Jack cocktail sticks.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=125 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=125 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:40:38 GMT ARCHIVE
Lancaster Library, Lancaster: 18th March 2010

Artist in residence Jennie Savage designed an audio walk that explored the multiple roles of Lancaster’s public library, as it searches for a new identity in the digital age.

Click here to learn more about the project and to hear the accompanying audio file

The project was part of Radar, a new digital artists’ residency scheme led by folly and Lancashire County Libraries and Information Service.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=124 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=124 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 BST ARCHIVE
Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University: 16 – 19 March 2010

The Peter Scott Gallery housed AND’s very own short film programme.
Including dramas, animations and artists using unconventional techniques filmmakers presented playful and provocative visions of the world and our bodies within it. From DIY hang gliding to washing machine fetishists, and formal explorations of digital code, these were mini mind-adventures for curious souls.

AND Short Films Programme 1 (18 certificate) – brief sexual nudity and swearing

Counters, 3’, Abby Mannock
A bright animated exercise in colour and counting.

Aanatt, 5’, Max Hattler,
Stunning stop-motion geometrics.

Rinse and Spin, 9’, Peter Snowdon
Mmmmm washing machines. Fetishes and freedom, with a spin dry.

The Accident, 3’, Sara Nesteruk
Postcards from various frames of mind, as family memory grows and recedes.

Binary Form, 2’30”, Chirstinn Whyte and Jake Messenger
Animated movement in binary code.

Francis, 8’30”, Let Me Feel Your Finger First
A nine-year-old ‘defective’ animated character, oddly observed by a child psychologist.

Light Years Away, 5’, Optimistic Productions
The city at night. On wheels.

Water, 1’, Susanna Hertrich
A short noir on drought.

It’s Nick’s Birthday 35’, Graeme Cole
A Super8 musical for cynics, slackers and inner-romantics.

Run Time: 72’


AND Short Films Programme 2 (15 certificate) – adult themes, appropriate for 15 year olds, brief violence

2 Minute Warning, 2’, Ann Guest
Bird flu. You have two minutes. You have been warned.

Out of Space, 3’, Anna Cady
A camera dives and shifts with a disabled swimmer underwater.

Burlesque, 11’, Tim Shore & Gary Thomas, in collaboration with Anaïs Bouts
“...in the polymorphous world of the burlesque, where everybody gives and receives blows at will… violence is universal and without consequences, there is no guilt.” Pascal Bonitzer, Le Champ aveugle (1982)

Interloper, 1’11”, Dawn Woolley
Strange perspective and an unsettling reflection.

Dead Dog, 8’, Edward Jeffreys
A man who fears the worst when his beloved dog goes missing sets out with his girlfriend to confront the local gamekeeper.

Hang Gliding, 2’, Katy Merrington
Amateur flight DIY-style.

Outcasts, 30’, Ian Clark
A girl in love, a pop star in peril, and a gang on the run… Someone is going to get burned!]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=123 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=123 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:04:12 GMT
Find us at www.ugi-heal.me / AND Commission]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=121 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=121 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:26:13 GMT ARCHIVE
Preston: 27 March, Grizedale Forest Park: 1st April, Blackburn 10th April:, Haworth Arts Gallery, Accrington: 10th April

During our spring festival we were joined by The Cloud Project, a unique art and science experiment that takes place in an ice-cream van. Cat and Zoe served nano ice-cream, created strawberry flavoured clouds all while exploring developments in nanotechnology.

The project was presented in partnership with the Peter Scott Gallery and Experimentality, at Lancaster University]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=120 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=120 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:18:30 GMT ARCHIVE
Lancaster: 15 – 16 March 2010

The Colour of Nonsense is a comedy thriller which takes you on a journey through the shifting borderlands between sense and nonsense, burrowing into the puzzle of why we see the way we see.

It tells the tale of a priceless piece of art and the mayhem which follows its theft. Things weren’t going very well at the studios of Splash, Line & Scuro, cutting edge conceptualists, until out of the blue comes a million pound job. A commission for the very first, completely genuine piece of invisible artwork.

Forkbeard are famed for their innovative mix of visual trickery, film and outlandish storylines and they certainly lived up to expectations when they kicked off AND festival 2010.

"Mesmerising magic"
The Independent]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=119 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=119 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:43:32 GMT ARCHIVE
The Dukes Bar, Lancaster: 15 March – 10 April 2010

A rundown but functional old vending machine stood alone in the Dukes Bar. Every now and again, without warning, it would spring into life - spewing out free packets of crisps for gallery visitors. The machine had been modified. It no longer functioned in the conventional way - at the whim of snack-hungry theater goers - but instead found itself in the control of outside forces...

Its new nervous system was a networked computer. Hidden out of view and running special software, it continually scanned the BBC News RSS feed - commanding the machine only to release snacks when words relating to the recession make the headlines.

Whilst seemingly an act of generosity - gifting free food at moments when further doom and gloom is reported - the Vending Machine also hinted towards a time in the future when our access to food may literally be determined by wider political or environmental events. We may not be able to access what we want, when we want, at the touch of a button

The vending machine itself managed to hit the headlines and was featured on Radio Lancashire, BBC News and comedy show The Bubble.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=117 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=117 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:54:32 GMT LAUNCH COMMISSIONED ARTWORK

Laric scans the daily news and invents URLs based on current cultural and political issues, technological developments, word combinations and future Hollywood movie titles. Purchased domains are then scratched off the list of ‘still available’ URLs, a scorecard for the artists’ accuracy in forecasting profitable domain squatting investments. Building on earlier versions of the work, Laric ports the project to Twitter in a micro-blogging format that becomes a real-time snapshot of contemporary life.

Oliver Laric (b. 1981, Austria), is an artist based in Berlin. He is one of the co-founders of the platform VVORK. Recent exhibitions include 'I love the Horizon', Le Magasin-Centre National d'art Contemporain, Grenoble, 'Montage: Unmonumental Online', New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and 'Becks Fusions', ICA, London.


Still Available - Twitter version is a commissioned artwork as part of the AND Online Programme titled From Now On This Blog is Going to Be.... Full programme information here.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=100 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=100 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:25:32 BST LAUNCH COMMISSIONED ARTWORK

Lonergan works his way through each day of the film Groundhog Day, giving a slideshow commentary that is not quite from the point of view of its lead character Bill Murray. Riffing on the popular film using its own narrative device, it becomes a bootleg cover version that underlines the film’s ubiquity in popular consciousness – ‘groundhog day’ being a stand-in term for repetition in common conversation. The dry-humored, hypnotic piece highlights the banal in the blog genre.

Guthrie Lonergan is an artist/Internet user based in Hollywood, California. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale, and the Sundance Film Festival, and written about in Artforum, Rhizome.org and The Wall Street Journal. He is a co-founder of the Nasty Nets Internet Surfing Club. All of his work is on http://www.theageofmammals.com.

Groundhog Day is a commissioned artwork as part of the AND Online Programme titled From Now On This Blog is Going to Be.... Full programme information here]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=98 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=98 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:25:49 BST LAUNCH COMMISSIONED ARTWORK

A marathon surfing session aims to turn up every possible manner of unauthorized Star Wars related cultural production that exists on the internet - fanart, fanfiction, amateur costume, remakes, tributes, remixs and mashups. In an antagonistic gesture towards George Lucas’ trigger-happy approach to pursuing even the most benign instances of copyright infringement, the collection touches on the ambiguity of fair use laws as well as visualizing the useless struggle any content owner faces in the networked world.

John Michael Boling (b. 1983, USA), is an artist and internet user living in Athens, GA. He was born in 1983 in Rome, GA. He is the creator of http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/ and was a founding member of http://www.nastynets.com.


Art for George Lucas is a commissioned artwork as part of the AND Online Programme titled From Now On This Blog is Going to Be.... Full programme information here]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=97 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=97 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:52:58 BST Dates: 20 – 27 September 2009

NOW ONLINE! COMMISSIONED ARTWORKS BY GUTHRIE LONERGAN, JOHN MICHAEL BOLING, OLIVER LARIC, AND HANNE MUGAAS.

Taking its title from a piece by Michael Bell-Smith - a simple Google search for the phrase - From Now On This Blog Is Going To Be… is a curated selection of artist commissioned blogs to be realised online throughout the festival dates.

The novice blogger often sets out with huge expectations – from the number of readers to the frequency of posts to the quality of content. But the unedited, open nature of the medium means the blog often fails to find a cohesive voice, instead left abandoned in lost hopes and unrealized potential. As Bell-Smith’s piece suggests, the blog creator is burdened with a nagging guilt that leaves its traces in posts that attempt to revamp and revive the failed blog.

Freed from obligation of an indefinite commitment, the artists create time-limited ‘fantasy’ blogs that are realized exclusively for the festival dates. The blogs will become a forum for the alternate personas and quirky ideas of the artists. In turn, the commissioned artists act as official festival bloggers in an Abandon Normal Devices style; not conforming to the documentarian image and likely not even covering the festival itself.

The selected artists maintain ongoing blog presences that contrast with their fantasy blogs, in addition to art practices that revolve around the internet. They are: Oliver Laric (b. 1981, Austria), co-founder of www.vvork.com; John Michael Boling (b. 1983, USA), contributor to http://www.rhizome.org; Hanne Mugaas (b. 1980, Norway) maintainer of the independent art and ebay blog (http://www.hanne-mugaas.com/); and Guthrie Lonergan (b. 1983, USA), co-founder and contributor at http://www.nastynets.com.

From now on this blog is going to be… is 2009’s AND net art programme. Alongside talks by Lonergan and Laric in the Salons programme, and a special screening of viral video curated by Michael Connor , this programme highlights new creative practices on the net.]]> http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=27 http://archive-spring-2010.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=27 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:32:45 BST