programme
DEUS content – February 2012: Series 4
An overview of the video pieces of series 4 by DEUS, on display on the Urban Screens by DROPSTUFF and CASZuidas
Fresh DEUS content: Daniel Cockburn and the workshop results on the urban screens
Much to our excitement, we present a new delivery to the Digital Experiments on Urban Screens (DEUS), hosted by DROPSTUFF.nl and CASZuidas. From today onwards, you can observe the one minute video works that were made during a workshop by Canadian artist Daniel Cockburn as well as a new selection of surprising video works by [...]
IMPAKT meets FREEMOTE
Dive into the realms of creative programming with brief demonstrations about working with abstract data sets in visual programming environments.
Opening Night Part 1: Opening The Right to Know Free State
Instead of a conventional exhibition, this year the Impakt Festival will organize a Free State, a temporary autonomous zone in which visitors can indulge in a wide variety of mind-broadening behaviour. In the Free State, the different faces of social media platforms become visible, both in day-to-day use and in times of revolution.
Opening Night Part 2: The Impakt Festival in Outline
The headlines of the festival will be featured in a varied programme. On this opening night, curators and artists involved in this year’s festival will present a quick preview of things to come. With a selection of films, fragments and presentations, visitors will get a neat scan this year’s festival.
Opening Night Part 3: The Oceans Academy of Arts (OAOA) & Stellar OM Source
The Oceans Academy Of Arts (OAOA) is a hybrid artists’ collective that functions as a platform for ideas about art and culture, and the representation thereof. The division of roles of OAOA participants is interchangeable in every respect. Depending on the project, they transform into artists, spectators, partners or curators. With its approach, OAOA consciously [...]
Data Machinery #1
Gerhard Benedikt Friedl, Germany & Austria, 2004, 35mm, 01:13:00 min.
Data Machinery #4
Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Germany, 16mm, 1992, 01:46:00 min.
Banned Videos
In the project ‘Banned Videos’, Amsterdam based Upload Cinema sets out to collect and display videos around the world that have been removed (or attempted to be removed) from the web,
DEUS: Dutch Experiments on Urban Screens
In collaboration with DROPSTUFF.NL Impakt will exhibit its DEUS presentations on large urban screens at the central stations in Eindhoven and The Hague.
Closing Event: YouTube Battle
Buy your ticket here. Due to its gigantic success at the Impakt Festival of 2010, we bring you the reprise of the infamous YouTube Battle. The most prolific YouTube experts from our festival programme enter into a battle with each other: who is going to show us the weirdest, most fantastic or pathetic clip? The [...]
Daniel Cockburn #1: You Are In A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, All Different
Cockburn playfully puts language under the microscope: not only the many spoken and written words that wind their way through his work, but the vocabulary of cinema itself.
Daniel Cockburn #2: You Are Here
Daniel Cockburn, Canada, 2010, video, 79:00 min.
Panorama Event Night #1: Amazing Discoveries
The Panorama Events Nights in Theater Kikker are full of short films, presentations of art projects and live interviews with the filmmakers and artists themselves.
Panorama Event Night #2: Let’s Get Physical
The Panorama Events Nights in Theater Kikker are full of short films, presentations of art projects and live interviews with the filmmakers and artists themselves.
Panorama Event Night #3: Breaking Bad
The Panorama Events Nights in Theater Kikker are full of short films, presentations of art projects and live interviews with the filmmakers and artists themselves
Panorama Event Night #4: Bestiality
The Panorama Events Nights in Theater Kikker are full of short films, presentations of art projects and live interviews with the filmmakers and artists themselves.
Elodie Pong, Contemporary
Elodie Pong, Switzerland, 2011, video, 70:00 min
Chokepoint
By: Chokepoint Project workshop registration via rsvp@impakt.nl During the recent uprising in Egypt, in January 2011, the order was given to “turn off” the Internet, sending shock waves around the world. Murmurs were heard of US security agencies and American politicians asking for access to a similar kill switch. These actions force us to look [...]
Panorama #1: Rediscovering the Cinematic
Buy your ticket here Shorts programme Although the advent of film lies more than one hundred years behind us, the visual language of that period never ceases to amaze. The focus of this programme lies in the early-day means, techniques and ways to create the cinematic illusion of movement and suspense. A contemporary translation of [...]
Panorama #2: Cooking Up the Big Bang
Looking forward into the future has always tickled our imagination.
Panorama #3: The Glamour of Everyday Life
Buy your ticket here Shorts programme A rainy Sunday visit to a military air show, a transvestite’s lonely Christmas, projections of your mother on strangers and the ramifications of growing up in an artists’ family. Even the undisputed cornerstone of society hides an immensely exciting reality.
Panorama #4: Revisiting the Past
Buy your ticket here Program with short films Reliving past events can give us surprising new insights. Major historic events are comprehendible only when they are translated in a manageable form. With precision, fantasy, romance and elegance, history is held up to the light.
Festival Fellow – Mercedes Bunz
we proudly present this year’s festival fellow: Mercedes Bunz. Her fellowship will address digital truth, critical approaches to data visualization, and socio-political issues of digitalization and citizenship.
Jailbreak Programme 1
Curated by Florian Wüst. Starting with early television and computer technology, Jailbreak #1 looks at the realities behind the production of media content.
Jailbreak Programme 2
Curated by Florian Wüst. The constantly shifting power relationship between users and owners, producers and mediators, individuals and corporations functions as a thematic denominator to the films in Jailbreak #2
WE-tube-o-theek
Curated by Johan Grimonprez. The WE-tube-o-theek functions as a temporary short circuit of the management regime of fear and the distraction of overconsumption.
Impakt Online Event: The Right to Database in collaboration with SKOR | Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte
The widespread availability of data has led to an explosion of creative practices formulated around the collection, analysis, and visualization of information. The inevitable backend of these exercises, the database, will be forefronted in this program by Impakt Online and SKOR NetArtWorks.
The Right to Know (and Copy)
This ongoing online exhibition explores the impossibility of secrecy and the limits to openness. With: Metahaven, Dagan Cohen and Hendrik Jan Grievink & Coralie Vogelaar.
Hosted by A Public Domain
Public Domain invites you to explore, in unexpected places, the tensions between language, ownership and code in networked environments.
Nachtelijk Buitenspelen (Playing Outside At Night)
Saturday, November 5th is another one of those nights when Utrecht’s cultural souls gather on the streets together to play games.
A Hack a Day…
Join other do-gooders, code-heroes and pizza-lovers to wrestle with the raw data from municipalities, provinces etc. Participants will have the opportunity to develop a concept and present it during the festival. Nerds Unite!
Hidden Riddims #1: Sacral Ceremonies
Sacral Ceremonies delves into the rhythms and sounds of the music that usually exists behind the closed-door ceremonies of Voodoo, Candomble or Winti.
Hidden Riddims #2: Footwork Freak Out
DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn of the Chicago Footwork movement will bring a barrage of click, breaks and samples based on crunk and ghettotech.
The Right To Know: Free State
This year the Impakt Festival is organizing a Free State; a temporary autonomous zone in which visiters can partake in a variety of out-of-the-box activities.
Getting Rough with Media: The ‘Right to Know’ Summit
Focusing on the ‘need to know’ the Summit discusses how digital media – engulfing our daily lives – are now open in not only new but perhaps previously unimagined ways.
Trouble Ahead: The Struggle for Secrecy and Transparency
Coordinated by Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Mirko Tobias Schaefer and Imar de Vries (MA New Media and Digital Culture, Utrecht University)
Videowall: Babel – Hendrik Dusolier
Videowall is a project from Cultuur & Ondernemen (previously Kunstenaars&CO) and Stadsschouwburg Utrecht.
Casco: Our Autonomous Life?
Come drop by and watch the pilot episode of ‘Our Autonomous Life?’, a hilarious new situation comedy offering a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes life of a fictional ‘woongroep’.