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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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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.
Save the date! Impakt Festival 24 – 28 October 2012: No More Westerns
Save the date! Impakt Festival 24 – 28 October 2012
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 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.
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
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, [...]
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 [...]