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.
AND is renowned for producing the UK’s only nomadic, site-responsive digital arts festival, commissioning works that combine creativity, technology and science. They platform extraordinary art in unexpected locations, from caves and car parks to forests and ferries, from multiplayer platforms and mines to observatories and online portals.
All events are free to attend. Booking is encouraged for our festival commissions Krumville, Northern Passage: A Quest To Hopian, Acoustic Memories and durational work Intra Protocol to guarantee entry at your preferred time.
Presenting works:
Acoustic Memories (new commission for AND Festival)
MONOM
Elsecar Heritage Centre
Fri 25 – Sun 27 September 11-7pm with slots on the hour – ticket booking encouraged
An immersive spatial audio installation exploring the acoustic memory of extraction and the hidden infrastructures beneath Barnsley’s industrial landscape. A new commission for AND Festival 2026.
Krumville (new commission for AND Festival)
Dian Joy
Barnsley Civic
Fri 25 – Sun 27 September 10-6pm with slots on the hour – ticket booking encouraged
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. A new commission for AND Festival 2026.
Northern Passage: A Quest To Hopian (new commission for AND Festival)
Jazmin Morris
Barnsley Market, The Glass Works
Fri 25 – Sun 27 September 10-6pm with sots on the hour – ticket booking encouraged
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. A new commission for AND Festival 2026.
Chaos Theory
Metahaven
Elsecar Heritage Centre
Fri 25 – Sun 27 September 11-7pm Drop-in
An audiovisual poem structured around the dialogues and wanderings of two characters confronting the contemporary world and its puzzling flows of interconnected phenomena.
Hapi Tomorrow (World premiere)
Visuals by Chepertom (Thomas Collet) and music by ZULI
Screening as part of SERVER at Barnsley Civic
Time TBA
An audio-visual work mapping a landscape where the birth and death of human civilisation ripple across the computer screen. A world premiere.
Intra Protocol (new iteration)
Sally Golding and Matt Spendlove
Parkway Cinema
Sat 26 Sept 4-7pm Durational – ticket booking encouraged
Intra Protocol is a site-responsive immersive audiovisual work that transforms the cinema into a living instrument.
SERVER
Going Away.tv
Barnsley Civic
Fri 25 – Sun 27 September 10.30-5.30pm Drop-in
SERVER is a continuous, 7-hour, artist-led festival film channel creating space for critical reflection, speculative storytelling and interdisciplinary exchange.
(W)HOLE (adapted iteration)
Clusterduck
Locations TBA
Fri 25 – Sun 27 September 10-6pm Public Relam
(W)HOLE uncovers hidden digital infrastructures through sculpture and AR, using manhole covers as portals to reveal interconnected systems.
Unsecuring Infrastructures
A live research environment for thinking critically and speculatively about Barnsley’s designation as the UK’s first Tech Town, through the lens of the festival’s core commissions.