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Impakt Event: Cannibalizing Cannibal Myth
Op zondag 20 mei worden Braziliaanse mythes bekeken in een presentatie en filmprogramma bij Impakt. Kunstenaar Joris Lindhout en curator Maaike Gouwenberg deden onderzoek in Brazilië naar de invloed van Gothic Literature. In aanloop naar het Impakt Festival 2012, met als thema ‘No More Westerns’ laten zij in dit event zien hoe vroege verhalen de [...]
Dutch Wife – Jesse Kanda
What happens exactly in Jesse Kanda’s short animation film Dutch Wife remains a mystery. A pond becomes one with an alien looking woman in a blindingly fair mystery.
Panorama Specials Elodie Pong #1: Contemporary – Q&A
This is the report of the Q&A with Elodie Pong at Impakt Festival 2011, at her screening of the feature film “Contemporary”.
John Butler, Impakt Event: Resynthesizing Reality
In Resynthesizing Reality Butler talked about his inspirations, the use of existing material, but also his techniques and how they originate in propaganda films. He for instance showed excerpts from “The War Game” (1965) by Peter Watkins.
Edwin Gardner, Impakt Event: Architectures of Exclusion
Architectures of Exclusion: a presentation focused on the political dimensions of architecture and the virtual realm. Three guest speakers adopted an interdisciplinary approach to discuss this issue which has a long-standing history and broad reach.
Juha van ‘t Zelfde, Impakt Event: Architectures of Exclusion
Architectures of Exclusion: a presentation focused on the political dimensions of architecture and the virtual realm. Three guest speakers adopted an interdisciplinary approach to discuss this issue which has a long-standing history and broad reach.
Gideon Boie, Impakt Event: Architectures of Exclusion
Architectures of Exclusion, a presentation focused on the political dimensions of architecture and the virtual realm. Three guest speakers adopted an interdisciplinary approach to discuss this issue which has a long-standing history and broad reach.
The Right To Know (And Copy) – an online exhibition
Impakt NET ART: ONLINE EXHIBITION formerly know as Impakt Online – Like advocates of radical transparency, this year’s Impakt Net Art artists have not only chosen to exercise their right to know, but also to share and copy the acquired content. Unveiling the legal labyrinth of The Cloud, collecting and screening banned videos, and appropriating the templates and icons that make up our modern world, the online exhibition explores the impossibility of secrecy and the limits to openness. With: Metahaven, Dagan Cohen and Hendrik Jan Grievink & Coralie Vogelaar.
Daniel Cockburn: Presentation “All the mistakes I’ve made”
Presentation of the anti-artist talk “All the mistakes I’ve made” by Canadian artist Daniel Cockburn. The talk took place on December 1st at Impakt Headquarters. Cockburn has stayed with Impakt for a residency from 27 November to 4 December 2011. The art world is bursting with events where artists present an anthology of the highlights [...]
François Chastanet: Lettering in Public Space Workshop
This workshop explored new ideas and innovative ways to take public spaces into our own hands.
Opening Night Part 2&3
Check out highlights from the festival’s opening night events
Hosted by A Public Domain Field Trip
Check out the highlights from the festival’s Hosted by A Public Domain Field Trip
Sacral Ceremonies
Check out this interview with Demdike Stare, from the festival’s Sacral Ceremonies Music Night
Free State Opening
Check out this video from the opening of the Impakt festival gallery.
Footwork Freak Out
Check out this interview with DJ Spinn and DJ Rashad, from the festival’s Footwork Freak Out Club Night.
Chokepoint Workshop
The workshops teach people how the Internet works, including its underlying structures.
Panorama Event Night #1: Amazing Discoveries
Check out this footage from Panorama Event Night #1: Amazing Discoveries
Panorama Event Night #2: Let’s Get Physical
Check out this footage from Panorama Event Night #2: Let’s Get Physical
Panorama Event Night #3: Breaking Bad
Check out this footage from Panorama Event Night #3: Breaking Bad
Panorama Event Night #4: Bestiality
Check out this footage from Panorama Event Night #4: Bestiality
YouTube Battle
Due to its gigantic success at the Impakt Festival of 2010, we bring you the reprise of the infamous YouTube Battle.
Banned Videos
Check out the videoblog of Remko Dekker. Enjoy the highlights of Dagan Cohen’s Banned Videos presentation.
Trouble Ahead: The Struggle for Secrecy and Transparency
Check out the video from the Trouble Ahead Conference
Mind Your Language
The films in this Impakt Channel category deal with language, communication, meaning and understanding.
Hacking The Engine
“Hacking the Engine” investigates the intersection of video games and contemporary media art.
Starship – Bernard Gigounon
Gigounon shows that alien objects landed on earth ages ago and that we do not even have to look that hard to find them.
Security Anthem – Kent Lambert
An ode to flowers, fear, potatoes, and paranoia, with a special appearance by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft
Attack – Fernando Huck en Eduardo Srur
Atentado (Attack) is a response to the capacity of art to intervene in the public space. Atentado was Srur’s first video and the author’s first collaboration, in which they use paint bomb interventions on advertisement billboards on the streets of Sao Paulo.
Sissiaen Lahio (The Suburb Within) – Pekka Sassi
A film about communication, narration and presence. ‘Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, but today is a gift’. That’s why it’s called present.’
Rigid Regime – Erkka Nissinen
A pornographic monologue about sense certainty in Hegelian sense’ with ‘a strong home-made look and feel
Everytime – Broersen & Lukács
A virtual Britney Spears singing the song ‘Everytime’.
Week End – Thomas Galler
Footage taken from youtube, originally recorded by U. S. Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Ebedi Dönüş (Eternal Return) – Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen
Loneliness, love and family: these universal themes make up the leitmotif of a film which provides a specific view of the modern-day human condition.
Beginning an Ending – Lopun Alkuja & Jani Ruscica
The seven amateur actors of Beginning an Ending morph the “blank canvas” of the film studio into a temporary stage for their visions of the future, revealing in the process the very nature and fragility of how images are constructed.
Quoi de Neuf Docteur? – Jean-Charles Hue
The movie focuses on a spirited adolescent and the viewer gets an intimate fragment of the boy’s nonchalant way of living life.
You and Me – Karsten Krause
A woman is walking towards her husband’s camera through four decades. A love story accompanied by the voice of another woman, reading a poem by E.E. Cummings.
Line – Johanna Reich
Artist and art fuse, the person seems to disappear in front of the camera.
Y’a Plus D’os – Jean-Charles Hue
It should have all been so peaceful around the fire, a glass of sky (Whisky) in hand.
You’ll Never Walk Alone – Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure
For this work Van Hulzen travelled through Uganda for three months together with Sander Breure. You’ll Never Walk Alone shows young men playing in surrealistic scenes that refer to Western film history and popular culture
The Two Teams Team – Manuel Saiz
A short film about the differences and similarities in video-art and cinema.
Secret Machine – Reynold Reynolds
In Secret Machine, a protagonist encounters an antagonist that is studying her, measuring her body and comparing her to units of space and time.
Night School – Erkka Nissinen
An assortment of characters are brought into a total institution where they are subjected to various mandatory exercises. The cast ranges from cooks to bears and prostitutes to digitally rendered panda bears
Hypno Project – Doug Fishbone
This project examines how people react to stimuli under the influence of hypnosis
Naufrage – Clorinde Durand
Naufrage lists fears: the narration stops at the frozen instant. But Naufrage relates something. What is it talking about ? We don’t know…
Lionel – Ola Vasiljeva
Ola’s work is impulsive and gives a humoristic view on the relationship between the icon culture and the visual arts. She specializes in video, primitive animations and illustrations.
Welcome To My Brain – Frank Koolen
‘Welcome to my brain’ shows a scan of the brain of the artist while he’s, very concentrated, thinking of the use of this specific video.
Punch – Wayne Horse
Young wayne horse is using a boxing doll to punch himself in the mouth.
Die Orgie – Wayne Horse
Most of the cast of the illmannered milkman, plus several befriended artists, plus some strangers came together to perform this milk, yogurt and feather orgy.
The Watchers – Ton Meijdam, Thom Snels, Béla Zsigmond
Camera systems have been programmed to predict human behavior and recognize the risk potential of individuals. Forget artificial intelligence, this is artificial judgment, and its for your own security.
Kapitaal – Ton Meijdam, Thom Snels, Béla Zsigmond
Typo-Animation that gives you a clear impression of the enormous amount of visual stimuli that plague us every day.
Pimp My Planet – Ton Meijdam, Thom Snels, Béla Zsigmond
We live in a time where everything or everyone can be upgraded or ‘pimped’. After the worldwide acceptance of plastic surgery, it was time to subject our worldly possessions (Pimp my Ride) and digital identities (Facebook) to an esthetical and/or functional upgrade.
Battery Cage – Ton Meijdam, Thom Snels, Béla Zsigmond
Chickens interact in incredibly defined manners and form complicated social structures. Contrary to popular believe, Scientific research at the University of Sidney pointed out that chickens living in a battery cage are happier. Their free range sisters suffer from more stress, constantly living in fear of predators.
Eden – Manon Bovenkerk
Tussen de flatgebouwen van Schalkwijk ligt de idyllische tuin van Eden. Maar ook daar is het niet helemaal pluis met langzaam ontploffende bomen en opgejaagde wezens, komt de zondvloed uit onverwachte hoek.
Flying Cars – Wayne Horse
Footage of my steam engine rocket-car compiled on thu 11.07.08 at 15h30
Moon – Frank Koolen
An unexpectedly restless portrait of a neighbouring celestial body.
Sharing a Beautiful Sunset – Jasper Elings
A video composed of images of sunsets, found by Google image search.
Flashings in the Mirror – Jasper Elings
One picture after the other – a mirror, a flash and different photographers. As the images quickly pass, one can discern the perfect circle the flash traces in the mirror.
Ms Providenskiya – Manon Bovenkerk
Providenskiya is a small port in the furthest corner of Siberia. So is the motorship MS Providenskiya named after this desolate place, or does the name of the ship refer to ‘providence’ and is the arrival of the ship an act of some higher power?
Walross – Wayne Horse
A volumptous woman in a handmade leather walrus suit is rolling through a shower room. The cameraman provides the soundtrack.
Mediamatic Presentation at Visualising the Cost of Culture – Hightlights
Mediamatic has developed infographics that challenge the heavy Netherlands cultural spending cuts by placing them playfully in the perspective of other public spending.
VJ op de Dom
VJ op de Dom 2011 marked this year’s event from Treaty of Utrecht. Impakt presented a delightful part of the program, with two true sound- and visual artists.
Things to come: Oral sight-seeing – Ronald Lenz (7scenes/waagsociety)
7scenes is a mobile storytelling platform connecting different media to specific locations in order to generate a new city experience. Ronald Lenz is creative director of 7scenes and head of the Urban Reality Lab of Waag Society.
Things to come: Oral sight-seeing – Marc Tuters & Ricarda Franzen
New media researcher / artist Marc Tuters (Canada) and playwright / sound artist Ricarda Franzen (Argentina/ Germany) present “Ritournelle”, a mobile application functioning as a tour of the Utrecht underworld. This app integrates audio mythical memories of indigenous Utrecht inhabitants into a radio play-like project. The project makes use of the 7scenes application.
Things to come: Oral sight-seeing – Dr. Stef Scagliola
The scientific conscience of the evening is museologist and military historian Stef Scagliola. She specializes in oral history, ego documents, military cultures and handling of the effects of violent conflicts. She will go into the potentially controversial use of oral tradition in history.
Things to come: Oral sight-seeing – Allard van Hoorn
The oeuvre of artist Allard van Hoorn maneuvers between architecture, sound and visual arts.
Things to come: Oral sight-seeing – Highlights
In ancient rites, Australian Aborigines already mapped territories by means of song in so-called song lines. In this way, valuable information about both their spiritual and physical habitat was passed on from generation to generation. This edition of Things To Come zooms in on sound and oral transfer as a means of navigating through space and time. Under the header “Oral Sight-Seeing”, scientists, artists and developers present projects which navigate through urban space by means of audio, and concentrate on the role of locative media for the purpose of digging up oral histories.
Wayne Horse’s Presentation at Impakt Kokerloods – Highlights
Impakt is honoured to present the Dutch premiere of “The Ill Mannered Milkman,” the new film of Willehad Eilers, aka Wayne Horse.
Wayne Horse’s Presentation at Impakt Kokerloods – Full Version
Impakt is honoured to present the Dutch premiere of “The Ill Mannered Milkman,” the new film of Willehad Eilers, aka Wayne Horse. Eilers (Germany, 1981) is connected to the Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts as multidisciplinary artist.
Julius von Bismarck’s presentation – Highlights
The work of German artist Julius von Bismarck is a combination of radical ideas, technological contrivance and conceptual elegance. At Impakt, he presented the widely applauded Image Fulgurator, a machine which physically manipulates photographs of both journalists and tourists alike
Evan Roth’s presentation UNMA#5: Tagging the City – Full version
Evan Roth is an artist and researcher based in Paris who explores the intersection of free culture and popular culture, making work simultaneously for the contemporary art world and the “bored at work” network.
Evan Roth’s presentation UNMA#5: Tagging the City – Highlights
Evan Roth is an artist and researcher based in Paris who explores the intersection of free culture and popular culture, making work simultaneously for the contemporary art world and the “bored at work” network.
Jeroen Jongeleen’s presentation at UNMA#5: Tagging the City – Highlights
15 minutes of highlights from Jeroen Jongeleen’s presentation at the Utrechtse New Media Night #5 ‘Tagging the City’.
Jeroen Jongeleen’s presentation at UNMA#5: Tagging the City – Full version
The Rotterdam-based artist Jeroen Jongeleen, Influenza, presents subtle interventions, which seem to target advertisements, architectural structures and signs that regulate public behavior.
Mirko Schaefer’s presentation at UNMA#5: Tagging the City
This presentation was an introduction at Utrecht New Media Night #5 to graffiti culture, a history of graffiti, graffiti as a expressive medium in urban space.
Mirko Schaefer’s presentation at UNMA#5: Tagging the City – Highlights
Video highlights 15 minutes from Dr. Mirko Tobias Schaefer’s presentation. Dr. Mirko Tobias Schaefer is assistant professor at the Department for Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University.