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Introducing BK-NU: the Network of Visual Arts in Utrecht
BK-NU (Beeldende Kunst Netwerk Utrecht) is the name of the Utrecht art network that brings together six institutions for contemporary art: Academiegalerie; BAK; Casco; Expodium; FOTODOK; and Impakt. BK-NU focuses on art, design, fashion, media arts, documentary photography, and art in the public space, thus covering a broad spectrum within the arts sector in Utrecht. [...]
Impakt + Center for Humanities: teaming up again!
In 2011 the Centre for the Humanities (CfH) at Utrecht University, in collaboration with the department of New Media & Culture and the Impakt Festival, initiated the CfH-Impakt Festival Fellowship. Last year, Mercedes Bunz gave an in-depth and stimulating realization of this new idea. Read more about the successful and versatile collaboration in 2011. In [...]
Call for Curator(s) – Impakt Festival 24-28 October
Call for Festival Curator(s) NO MORE WESTERNS IMPAKT, foundation for critical media culture in Utrecht invites interested parties to submit curatorial proposals for the Impakt Festival 2012, which takes place from 24 to 28 October focussing on the theme No More Westerns. The Impakt Festival is the annual culmination of Impakt’s activities as a foundation [...]
Press release: Cannibalizing Cannibal Myth – 20 May
Sunday 20 May 2012 16:00-22:00 p.m. at Impakt Headquarters, Lauwerecht 10, Utrecht A Sunday afternoon and evening at Impakt HQ action packed with a reading, films, music and a Brazilian BBQ: on 20 May, we have a scrutinizing look at Brazilian myths in a programme compiled by artist Joris Lindhout and curator Maaike Gouwenberg who [...]
Impakt vacancy for Festival Producer
Impakt vacancy for Festival Producer – this vacancy is aimed for Dutch speaking candidates! Stichting Impakt richt zich op het presenteren en produceren van mediakunst in een kritische context. Hiertoe organiseren we het Impakt Festival dat dit jaar plaatsvindt van 24 t/m 28 oktober. De kern van Impakt wordt gevormd door een algemeen directeur, een [...]
Impakt vacancy for PR and Publicity
Impakt has a vacancy for a PR and Publicity person. Please note: only Dutch-speaking candidates are eligible. Stichting Impakt richt zich op het presenteren en produceren van mediakunst in een kritische context. Hiertoe organiseren we het Impakt Festival dat dit jaar plaatsvindt van 24 t/m 28 oktober. De kern van Impakt wordt gevormd door een [...]
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 [...]
Impakt Hosts: Ideas Waiting to Happen
Ideas Waiting to Happen brings together creative and technical professionals to find new applications for new technologies. Participation and dinner is free. The best idea is rewarded with cash, exposure and tech support.
Impakt WORKS: What’s going on?
Next to organizing events and the annual Impakt festival, there is more happening behind the screens at Impakt we want to keep you informed about. An important part of our activities consists of Impakt WORKS: in addition to our long established artist in residence agenda, we now have made a first selection for the brand [...]
Impakt tip: DEAF 16-20 May Rotterdam
DEAF: The Dutch Electronic Art Festival 16.05-20.05.2012, Rotterdam Get more information here!
Panorama Program 2012 – Call for submissions
The Impakt Festival 2012 will be held from 24 to 28 October in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The annual screening program during the festival, Panorama, contains a selection of the best new video works from over the world. We are looking forward to your submission of daring, experimental, critical, subversive, unheard of and surprising film and [...]
LabMIS São Paolo: Call for Applications DEADLINE EXTENDED until 2 May!
For the the second time around, Impakt is glad to collaborate with LabMIS in organizing a two-way residency exchange. LabMIS, the residency program of the Museum for Image and Sound in São Paulo, Brazil, will provide for Dutch artists to work at their premises, while Impakt welcomes a Brazilian artist in Utrecht. Dutch artists and [...]
Impakt Blog: Magic Nihilism – a John Butler Workshop experience
By Freyja van den Boom The Impakt workshops, hosted by current Impakt artists in residence, are a great way to get an inside look into the artist’s mind and learn some tricks of the media art trade. This time it was ‘electronic artist’ yep ! John Butler from Glasgow who gave a three day talk [...]
Impakt tip: Workspace 12 Call for entries
Filmhuis Den Haag presents: BNG WORKSPACE PROJECTPRIJS 2012 – CALL OPEN NOW Submit your proposal for a new installation exploring the boundaries of film, and win €9000,- to execute your project. Read more about the Call for Entries.
Mu & Impakt present: Robotics & More – WORKSHOP
On March 22nd and 23rd, Mu and Impakt are joining forces for a collaborative workshop. This two day class is an introduction to robotics and digital fabrication, hosted by Mu resident artist duo Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet Sola. Amongst the used techniques are Arduino and laser cutting, in order to create your own hybrid [...]
Save the date! Impakt Festival 24 – 28 October 2012: No More Westerns
Save the date! Impakt Festival 24 – 28 October 2012
Impakt Event: Resynthesizing Reality – John Butler 1 March
Alarming, short clips that call into mind infomercials and Public Announcements: to John Butler it’s the most appropriate medium to criticize our current conditions of existence. Governments and corporations use certain codes when they address us, as citizen or as consumer. This idiom is one of Butler’s main sources of inspiration. His works are text [...]
Impakt Event: Architectures of Exclusion – 29 February
An event that investigates the dynamic relationships between politics, morals and architectures – whether physical or virtual –
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 [...]
John Butler Workshop: Synthetic Information – 3D visuals and animation
Join the workshop “Synthetic Information” by John Butler, using graphic animation, text and 3D visuals – 28, 29 February and 1 March
Daniel Cockburn and all the mistakes to make.
At the Impakt headquarters students, professional filmmakers and enthusiasts gathered for a workshop by filmmaker and video artist Daniel Cockburn. Having his first feature You Are Here successfully screened at the Impakt festival this year and being praised as a rare literary talent I was curious to learn script writing from Toronto’s best new video artist.
Impakt producer of the forthcoming Zesbaans project: Moviemosh
With Impakt as producer, and with the kind support of the Nederlands Filmfonds, Utrecht-based collective Zesbaans will be working on the concept development of their new project Moviemosh. This development is planned for February, March and April, after which Zesbaans is hoping to realize this work in May.
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.
Call for Artists: Impakt WORKS Residencies 2012
please note this call is now closed Impakt Works residencies take place at Impakt in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The call is open to both Dutch and international artists. A residency period can run from February 2012 onwards, and generally lasts two months. This includes: accommodation, a studio, basic technical facilities and equipment, and reimbursement of [...]
John Butler – Impakt Artist in Residence
Impakt was happy to host our first Artist in Residence of 2012: John Butler. Hailing from Britain and mostly working on critical animation, Butler has been realizing a workshop Synthetic Information during his stay at Impakt in February. Thursday 1 March, John gave an entertaining artist talk, of which a report will be online soon. [...]
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 [...]
Impakt tip: Call for Entries Rijksakademie Residency 2013
The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (est. 1870) aims to develop top talent in the international visual art world and promotes the position of art and artists in today’s society. Deadline for new applications is February 1, 2012
Impakt program at Studium Generale ArtEZ
Impakt presentation at ArtEZ for the Studium Generale, including contributions of Lars Leeuw of the Ongemotiveerd Kunstenaars Collectief (Unmotivated Artists Collective), Foundland, Face2Facebook and David O’ Reilly.
Dominic Gagnon – Impakt Artist in Residence
Selected from the September 2011 call for proposals is Canadian artist Dominic Gagnon. Inventor, director and active performer on the international scene, Dominic Gagnon considers cinema as a technique for measuring the immeasurable or as a discipline of chaos.
Daniel Cockburn – Impakt Artist in Residence
Canadian artist Daniel Cockburn will be staying with Impakt for a residency. Since 1999, writer, filmdirector and video-artists Daniel Cockburn has worked at the intersection between art, avant-garde cinema and narrative film.
Pekka Sassi (FIN) – Impakt Artist in Residence
Impakt had invited Finnish artist Pekka Sassi for a residency within our Impakt Works residency programme.
Blog: Workshop François Chastanet: Lettering in Public Space
De workshop en de presentatie van François Chastanet op zaterdag 12 november waren een groot succes. Vincent de Boer van het ontwerpers blog Vormplatvorm was erbij en schreef er deze blog over: “Afgelopen zaterdag organiseerde het Impakt Festival samen met Hoax een workshop met François Chastanet. Een typografie-baas uit Frankrijk die jullie waarschijnlijk wel kennen, [...]
Impakt Highlights: Dimension Play at SPLIT Film Festival
Dimension Play at SPLIT Film Festival
Impakt Highlights screening at Loft project ETAGI, St. Petersburg, Russia
Overview of the Loft Project ETAGI in Saint-Petersburg
Final Public Lecture: Impakt Festival Fellow Mercedes Bunz
The Internet allows the citizen to interact with governments and politicians in a different way. The potential, but also the boundaries of the new five-minute activism has to be explored and analysed.
Impakt Presents: Paranoid Schizophrenic at STRP Festival
Het Impakt Festival Utrecht presenteert Paranoid Schizophrenic, drie films die je meenemen de afgrond in.
Daniel Cockburn: Presentation “All The Mistakes I’ve Made”
The art world is bursting with events where artists present an anthology of the highlights of their career to a slightly bored audience. The Canadian filmmaker Daniel Cockburn gladly turns this tradition around.
Blog: Mercedes Bunz Interview by Nicola Bozzi pt. 2
Our interview with London-based journalist and academic Mercedes Bunz continues with the second and last part. Here we ask her more about the way the Internet is shaping the future of journalism. I think your take on the technological turn of journalism is very interesting: feeds, automatic articles, all of these technologies might change what [...]
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François Chastanet: Lettering in Public Space
Click here to see the video of this workshop Workshop: 10:00-18:00 Lecture: 20:30 François Chastanet has a background in architecture and graphic design specializing in typography. His published work is an anthropological and historical approach to typography in public spaces. From this standpoint he investigated, through photography, the origins of “Cholo writing”, the graffiti of Latino [...]
Daniel Cockburn: Workshop Scriptwriting and Performance for Film/Video/Urban Screens
WORKSHOP: SCRIPTWRITING AND PERFORMANCE FOR FILM/VIDEO/URBAN SCREENS Scriptwriting is usually thought of as a discipline specific to Hollywood and narrative feature films. But the tools of screenwriting, and the act of writing a script, are very applicable to the making of experimental and independent films and videos — and there are various ways to use [...]
Festival Fellow Mercedes Bunz Inaugural Lecture: On Digital Truth
Impakt, The Centre for Humanities and the MA New Media & Digital Culture from Utrecht University proudly present the first Impakt Festival Fellow, Mercedes Bunz PhD. Mercedes Bunz (Magdeburg, 1971) is an art historian, philosopher and journalist. She was the founder and the head editor of the legendary German magazine “De-Bug” and worked from 2009 [...]
Visualizing the Cost of Culture
Statistics and visualizations are used by both the government and the private sector to make political statements; sometimes playfully, sometimes out of necessity. With contributors from Amsterdam, Bratislava and Novi Sad, this event explores the politics of visualizations.
Impakt Does VJ op de Dom
Impakt will present a delightful part of the program, with two true sound- and visual artists.
Impakt at the Drijf In
Celebrate the annual Uitfeest in Utrecht in your boat or on the wharf of the Bumuurde Weerd at the “Drijf In” cinema
Rosa Menkman – Impakt Artist in Residence
Impakt has selected the artist Rosa Menkman for the exchange artist-in-residence program with LabMIS. She will be working until December the 31st at the Museum for Image and Sound (MIS) in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Lucas Bambozzi – Impakt Artist in Residence
The Brazilian artist Lucas Bambozzi was selected for the residency at Impakt in Utrecht during July 2011.
Linda Hilfling – Impakt Artist in Residence
Linda Hilfling was Impakt Artist in Residence in 2011.
Marc Tuters & Ricarda Franzen – Impakt Artist in Residence
Marc Tuters & Ricarda Franzen were Impakt artists in residence in April 2011.
Things To Come: Oral Sight-Seeing
How can mobile platforms facilitate new forms of storytelling? Which urban secrets is the city of Utrecht hiding behind the unwritten stories of its inhabitants? And what are the problems we encounter when confronted with the tension between fact and fiction in oral tradition? We give you all the answers. So close your eyes and prick up your ears.
Impakt joins DROPSTUFF.NL in Venice with DEUS 2011!
From June 2011, within the DROPSTUFF.NL programming in the Netherlands and Venice’s 54th Biennale, the Impakt Festival has been invited to make a short selection of Dutch films, video clips, and interactive projects.
Impakt Workshop: Creative Coding With openFrameworks
Impakt proudly presents two workshops about openFrameworks by Rick Companje. At May 28th a beginner’s workshop will take place followed by an intermediate workshop at June 11th.
Reynold Reynolds – Impakt Artist in Residence
Reynolds and Impakt have been working together since 2001. This pages is about Impakt Artist in Residence program with Reynold Reynolds in December 2010.
Wayne Horse presents ‘The Ill-Mannered Milkman’
Impakt is honoured to present the Dutch premiere of “The Ill Mannered Milkman,” the new film of Willehad Eilers, aka Wayne Horse.
Impakt Event: Julius von Bismarck
The work of German artist Julius von Bismarck is a combination of radical ideas, technological contrivance and conceptual elegance.
UNMA #5: Tagging the City
The fifth Utrecht New Media Evening features artists, activists, academics, and developers who discuss the new digital graffiti practices, and how they can establish alternative communicative systems that remain bottom-up and subversive.
Impakt Event: Jean Charles Hue
The French artist Jean-Charles Hue finds his subjects in the fringes of society. Like his main characters his films are rough, direct and upfront.
James T. Hong – Impakt Artist in Residence
James T. Hong was Impakt Artist in Residence in February 2011.
Jean-Charles Hue – Impakt Artist in Residence
Jean-Charles Hue was Impakt Artist in Residence from November till January 2011/12.
Wayne Horse – Impakt Artist in Residence
Wayne Horse was Impakt Artist in Residence in October 2010.
Impakt Open Air #4
The summer seems so far away already, but this final edition of Impakt Open Air brings the sun back to Utrecht for a short while. Let yourself be surprised by cutting edge animation, hilarious cult videos, found footage, unexpected plots and liberating madness, while being served by a BBQ, a cocktail bar and DJs.
Impakt Open Air #3
Open air cinema with surprising, funny, revolutionary and frightening short films, a cocktail bar, barbecue, DJs and live interviews with film makers.
Impakt Open Air #2
Open air cinema with surprising, funny, revolutionary and frightening short films, a cocktail bar, barbecue, DJs and live interviews with film makers.
Impakt Open Air #1
Open air cinema with short, surprising, funny, revolutionary and frightening short films, a cocktail bar, a barbecue and DJs and live interviews with the film makers.
Impakt Open Air
Four summer weekends with short films, BBQ and dj’s
Let yourself be surprised by cutting edge animation, hilarious cult videos, found footage, unexpected plots and liberating madness, while you are enjoying a BBQ, a cocktail bar and DJs.
Erik Bünger – Impakt Artist in Residence
Erik Bünger was Impakt Artist in Residence in July/August 2010.
Manuel Saiz – Impakt Artist in Residence
Manuel Saiz was Impakt Artist in Residence in August 2010.
Steve Reinke – Impakt Artist in Residence
Steve Reinke was Impakt Artist in Residence in July 2010.
Peter Burr – Impakt Artist in Residence
Peter Burr was Impakt Artist in Residence in February/March 2010.
Impakt Event: Reynold Reynolds
From November 2009 through to January 2010, Reynolds was an artist-in-residence at Impakt. During his residency, Reynolds worked on his first feature film, The Ultraviolet Catastrophe. In this Impakt Event, some material from this film will be premiered
UNMA – Utrecht New Media Evening #4 Augmented Reality
The Berlin Wall is gone but on the screen of your mobile phone you can see it right back on the spot where it used to be. The technology making this possible – Augmented Reality – is in the center of attention right now.
LOOP Barcelona 2010
Impakt presented the program Impakt Highlights: Dimension play at the LOOP festival 2010 in Barcelona.
Things To Come: Off & On the Grid
Now that the bottom of our fossil fuels has come into sight, we urgently ask ourselves: where will I get my energy from? Should we all get ‘off the grid’ and generate our own energy without third party interference?
UNMA – Utrecht New Media Evening #3 Brain-Computer Interfaces
This edition will go into the present and future potential of brain-computer interfaces. Developers, researchers and artists will give away the latest developments of these interfaces.
Impakt Event: Johan Grimonprez
In Double Take, his second feature film, the Belgian filmmaker and artist Johan Grimonprez delves into the increasing influence of television, news, cinema and advertising on our understanding of the present and the past.
Neighbours at the Dutch Urban Culture Festival at Vinzavod in Moscow
In cooperation with BoomBoom Moscow Impakt presents the exhibition: NEIGHBOURS
Things To Come #2
Things To Come is Impakt’s new programme series concerning the social, ethical, artistic and philosophical dimensions of upcoming techno-social developments.
Impakt Event: Doug Fishbone
With Fishbone’s indisputable hilarious monologues, he reflects on currents in social, cultural and political life.
Unma #2: What’s Cooking? And Where?
The Impakt, Z25 and NetNiet.org foundations present the second edition of the “Utrecht Nieuwe Media Avond” (Utrecht New Media Evening)
LOOP Barcelona 2009
The LOOP Fair is the 1st Fair exclusively dedicated to videoart, and an unmissable meeting point for professionals and videoart lovers.
Video Linearity
The National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow present VideoFormat [Linearity], an exhibition on notions of linearity in contemporary video art. The exhibition has been co-curated by Arjon Dunnewind / Impakt.
Neighbours in Budapest
Dutch society is changing, although opinions differ on the direction and impact of these changes. Immigration, integration and the position of new cultural and religious values play an important role in this discussion. How do the ‘old’ Dutch citizens deal with the new elements in their society and how to the ‘new’ Dutch citizens relate to the open-minded image of the Netherlands.
Neighbours in FIlmhuis Den Haag/Zaal 5
Dutch society is changing, although opinions differ on the direction and impact of these changes. Immigration, integration and the position of new cultural and religious values play an important role in this discussion. How do the ‘old’ Dutch citizens deal with the new elements in their society and how to the ‘new’ Dutch citizens relate to the open-minded image of the Netherlands.
‘Neighbours’ Programme In Toronto
This special double feature was conceived as an exchange between two festivals, the Impakt Festival in Utrecht and the Images Festival in Toronto, on the occasion of the SHIFT Festival.
Rainbow Bites in Liverpool
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool has invited Impakt to present the video’s of the Rainbow Bites program.
Highlights at the Lux
The Lux in Nijmegen has invited Impakt to present the Highlight program of ‘Your Space’.