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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 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,
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 [...]
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)