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Let Us Praise The Vernacular! Impakt Net Art: Online exhibition 2012 Let Us Praise The Vernacular! Impakt Net Art: Online exhibition 2012
Impakt Net Art 2012:Let Us Praise the Vernacular! As we have become indifferent to the omnipresent multinationals, templates and logos and increasingly estranged from specific [...]
Dirty Beaches #NMW Mixtape Dirty Beaches #NMW Mixtape
Presenting a mixtape from one of No More Westerns’ favorite musicians, Dirty Beaches (aka Alex Zhang Hung-Tai), who couldn’t join the festival this year but [...]
“I don’t really understand it myself, either”: notes on Panorama event #2, The Young Ones “I don’t really understand it myself, either”: notes on Panorama event #2, The Young Ones
The second Panorama screening of Impakt 2012 focussed on the work of five young artists working in the Netherlands. All of them were present at [...]
No Place Like Home: Notes on Panorama Screening #2, Sweet Home Barbarism No Place Like Home: Notes on Panorama Screening #2, Sweet Home Barbarism
The Panorama screenings, as the name suggests, tend to be all about broadening horizons. So it might seem a bit contradictory at first to program [...]
Memeify the World Memeify the World
I’m not sure if you can say Saturday morning’s Meme Masterclass escalated, but, well, we ended up with a wall full of festival paper scraps. [...]
A cowboy is a cowboy is a cowboy: Meta-Cowboyism A cowboy is a cowboy is a cowboy: Meta-Cowboyism
Last night’s screening on meta-cowboyism last reminded me of the cowboy sets you can buy in a toy store, containing a hat, a sherrif’s badge [...]
Interview with Lauren Alexander of Foundland Interview with Lauren Alexander of Foundland
Foundland is Lauren Alexander and Ghalia Elsrakhi, two Amsterdam-based artists. For Impakt, they contributed a video installation to The Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography in [...]
THE BEST WAY TO COVER UP A LIE THE BEST WAY TO COVER UP A LIE
„It is deucedly difficult to tell a lie when you don’t know the truth.” Peter Esterhazy The new video by Ruben Gutierrez, which he has [...]
An interview with Jaap Kooiman An interview with Jaap Kooiman
Jaap Kooimans, senior lecturer of Media and Culture studies at Amsterdam University, gave a talk yesterday afternoon called ‘Karaoke Americas’. In it, he argued against [...]
The Music Is the Message: Filastine Masterclass The Music Is the Message: Filastine Masterclass
Anecdotes about riots at G8 summits are not the first thing that come to mind when you think of a masterclass by an acclaimed producer. [...]
Signifying Nothing: context, culture, and cats. Signifying Nothing: context, culture, and cats.
While introducing the No More Western screening Sorry, This Video Is No Longer Available On Youtube, curator Kate Taylor mused a bit on the nature [...]
The Impakt Festival 2012 has begun The Impakt Festival 2012 has begun
An unsuspecting visitor last night at Theater Kikker may have gotten the impression that the Youtube battle was already in full effect, as festival curators [...]
An Interview with Omar Kholeif An Interview with Omar Kholeif
Although the program only mentioned that Omar Kholeif’s talk would be about the Gazawood project, it quickly became clear that Kholeif had bigger plans. In [...]
Easterns: Notes on How The West Was One (Part Two) Easterns: Notes on How The West Was One (Part Two)
For a cinephile such as myself, it seems only logical that Asian filmmakers are making so many Westerns these days. After all, the genre that [...]
#Womeninbinders: Memes as political critique #Womeninbinders: Memes as political critique
By Max Laane Mitt Romney battles Barack Obama for the presidency of the United States of America this year. In the clip above Romney uses [...]
DEUS: DUTCH EXPERIMENTS ON URBAN SCREENS DEUS: DUTCH EXPERIMENTS ON URBAN SCREENS
In collaboration with DROPSTUFF.NL Impakt will exhibit its DEUS presentations on large urban screens on the Utrecht Jaarbeurs and at the central stations in Breda, Eindhoven, [...]
Call it a (p)remake: The Otolith Double Bill Call it a (p)remake: The Otolith Double Bill
“We are not images, not sounds, not even fictions. Just script, twenty pages in a drawer. An idea, a possibility, nothing more”. This is how [...]
The political made personal: Notes on the HKU <3 NMW opening at the Academy Gallery. The political made personal: Notes on the HKU <3 NMW opening at the Academy Gallery.
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Space is the Place, Anyplace Space is the Place, Anyplace
“The music is different here, the vibrations are different, not like planet earth”, as Sun Ra, donning an outfit reminiscient of King Tut, describes the [...]
Back to the Non-Western Future: Samantha Culp @ HKU Back to the Non-Western Future: Samantha Culp @ HKU
In each of the three installments of the Back to the Future movie trilogy, the main character Marty McFly wakes up either in the past [...]
Top Goon’s director Jameel on the NOS news Top Goon’s director Jameel on the NOS news
The Dutch news station NOS made a report in the NOS news on Top Goon, the satirical puppet show about Syria on October 18. Top Good [...]
Al Arabi Al Hor – The Free Arab Al Arabi Al Hor – The Free Arab
„Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.” – Jean-Luc Godard
The Wit and The Fury: notes on AES+F The Wit and The Fury: notes on AES+F
In August of this year, punk collective Pussy Riot made headlines worldwide after three of their members were sentenced to jail on a charge of [...]
How the West was One part 1 + 2 How the West was One part 1 + 2
How the West was One (part 1) ‘Meta-Cowboyism’ How the West was One (part 2) Westerns from the East You can visit both parts of [...]
IMPAKT CLUB NIGHT IMPAKT CLUB NIGHT
On Friday 26 October, Impakt Festival NO MORE WESTERNS promises to peak in obscure nightlife credibility, with a NON WESTERN UNDERGROUND CLUB NIGHT that’s action [...]
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
In what’s perhaps the single greatest moment in Marjane Satrapi’s brilliant autobiography Persepolis, the 8-year old protagonist buys a denim jacket on the black market, [...]
ONLINE TICKET SALE ONLINE TICKET SALE
Buy your tickets online HERE. Buy the tickets for the festival programs in Filmtheater ‘t Hoogt HERE. PRICES EVENT PRICE REDUCED PRICE All-inclusive Festival Pass €30,- [...]
Welcome to The Impossible Black Tulip Welcome to The Impossible Black Tulip
Long nights of building, enough stress to last a lifetime and several litres of blood, sweat and tears culminated in this year’s festival exhibition, titled [...]
Live Stream Canvas Live Stream Canvas
The #NMW Live Stream Canvas consists of a flow of references which study and expand on the exhibition’s themes and the festival as a whole. [...]
Impakt Online: Let Us Praise the Vernacular! Impakt Online: Let Us Praise the Vernacular!
As we have become indifferent to the omnipresent multinationals, templates and logos and increasingly estranged from specific cultural traditions and folklore, we see at the [...]
Festival Exhibition: The Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography Festival Exhibition: The Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography
Opening: Thursday 11 October, 20 – 24:00h With music by D.V. Grammofoon at 22:00h Opening hours: 12 till 23 October: Tue-Fri from 11.00 till 17.00h and on [...]
Panorama artist in focus: Rubén Gutierrez Panorama artist in focus: Rubén Gutierrez
Exploring post-isms and their meaning(lessness) is a prominent part of Gutiérrez’s practice. He has made several series like the Post everything drawings, which are in [...]
Closing Event: YouTube battle Closing Event: YouTube battle
For all YouTube freaks, cat film lovers and for those who had to miss prior editions, the last film evening will once again be hosting [...]
Panorama Event #3: Rigid Regimes Panorama Event #3: Rigid Regimes
Satirically approaching Syria’s regime is far from risk free. Amid the threatening political situation, the Masasit Mati collective nevertheless tries to put a smile on [...]
Panorama Event #1: Unstating the Obvious Panorama Event #1: Unstating the Obvious
Mediengruppe Bitnik enters into an amusing dialogue with the invisibly omnipresent, permanent surveillance system. By hacking the camera system at a tube station in London [...]
Panorama Screening #2: Sweet home barbarism Panorama Screening #2: Sweet home barbarism
Home is much more than where you grew up or where you live. This screening consists of the romance and horror of homeliness, trippy early [...]
Panorama Screening #4: Once upon a time in my memory Panorama Screening #4: Once upon a time in my memory
Stories are a major influence on our memory. From storytellers right the way through to narrative Hollywood films, stories are always characterised by personal perspectives, [...]
Panorama Screening #3: What are words worth? Panorama Screening #3: What are words worth?
“Words of nuance, words of skill, and words of romance are a thrill, words are stupid, words are fun, words can put you on the [...]
Panorama Screening #1: To beat or to join the system Panorama Screening #1: To beat or to join the system
Even the establishment is a temporary concept. The systems that keep the economy and society in one piece are challenged by other ideas or alternatives. [...]
Essay: Sohail Inayatullah – Futures dreaming Essay: Sohail Inayatullah – Futures dreaming
Is all science fiction western? Is there non-western science fiction? If so, what is its nature? Does it follow the form and content of western [...]
Essay: Sanne Stevens – Delete control: join the fight for netfreedom Essay: Sanne Stevens – Delete control: join the fight for netfreedom
“Syrian activists harnessed Facebook and Twitter to criticize the regime and rally protesters. Though Syria still has one of the most regulated internet and telecoms [...]
Essay: Ravi Naidoo – A south-south design axis Essay: Ravi Naidoo – A south-south design axis
Ravi Naidoo, interviewed by Cher Potter Ravi Naidoo is the founder of the International Design Indaba – an African design institution and the biggest design [...]
Essay: Katrien Jacobs – The effects of youth on pornography Essay: Katrien Jacobs – The effects of youth on pornography
Uploading and distributing DIY sex videos in China is a risky business with serious legal consequences but, nevertheless, people are regularly going about it. For example, [...]
Essay: Tegan Bristow – What is Afrofuturism to Africa Essay: Tegan Bristow – What is Afrofuturism to Africa
Unlike what the name suggests Afrofuturism has nothing to do with Africa, and a lot more to do with power imbalances and cyberculture in the [...]
Essay: DJ Rupture – Feedback loops Essay: DJ Rupture – Feedback loops
One of the things that make DJs so thrilling and so boring is the slim distinction between easy charlatanism and mind-melting talent. A bad DJ [...]
Essay: Damien G. Walter – Science fiction is a global language describing our shared future Essay: Damien G. Walter – Science fiction is a global language describing our shared future
In 1873 Jules Verne described the remarkable possibility of a journey made around the world in only eighty days in his pioneering eponymous science fiction [...]
Essay: W. David Marx – Meeting modernity Essay: W. David Marx – Meeting modernity
When compared to our current era of rapid globalisation, Japan may still win the prize for most extreme national transformation. After two hundred plus years [...]
Essay: Parmesh Shahani – Jugaad Innovation, Resourceful Lives Essay: Parmesh Shahani – Jugaad Innovation, Resourceful Lives
Jugaad is a Hindi word that can mean different things from a low cost fix that is imperfect but just good enough, to something innovative [...]
Essay: Kevin Bloom – But wait… what if this isn’t the End of the West? Essay: Kevin Bloom – But wait… what if this isn’t the End of the West?
The race between West and East has inspired a new genre of best-selling non-fiction, and is making celebrity names out of a growing number of [...]
Essay: Charlotte Bank – Mapping Creative Internet Activism in the Arab World Essay: Charlotte Bank – Mapping Creative Internet Activism in the Arab World
Background essay with the screening program Mapping Creative Internet Activism in the Arab World

By Charlotte Bank, Independent researcher, curator and writer, based in Berlin and Damascus.
Otolith Group [an Otolith double bill] Otolith Group [an Otolith double bill]
With this double bill, prize winning artists’ collective Otolith Group aligns itself with the festival’s theme of imagined worlds by seamlessly integrating archive footage with [...]
Chief Boima Chief Boima
Chief Boima is a Sierra Leonean-American musician, DJ, cultural activist, and writer currently based in New York. Boima began his international DJ career on a [...]
Essay: An Xiao Mina – Five facts about the Grass Mud Horse Essay: An Xiao Mina – Five facts about the Grass Mud Horse
Maybe you’ve heard of the grass mud horse, the rare breed of alpaca that dwells in China’s Mahler Gobi dessert. It’s a noble beast constantly [...]
Symposium: News in a multipolar world Symposium: News in a multipolar world
The young 21st century shows profound geo-political transformations. New players in global economies and politics shape a multipolar world. This new world order is not [...]
Delete control: Hivos free internet panel Delete control: Hivos free internet panel
Together with Hivos, Impakt will be organising a panel discussion on online freedom of speech. The internet and social media play a major role in [...]
Beats Sin Fronteras Beats Sin Fronteras
For: musicians/producers, artivists & the curious Next to a live performance with MC Nova on the opening night, Filastine hosts a unique, intimate masterclass. Grey [...]
Arab Futurism Arab Futurism
Independent curator Nat Muller gives a talk on the reemergence of Arab Futurism in Middle Eastern contemporary art. Breaking with the dominance of cultural nostalgia, [...]
How the West was One (part 1) ‘Meta-Cowboyism’ How the West was One (part 1) ‘Meta-Cowboyism’
Whatever happened to the archetypal cowboy we know so well from spaghetti westerns? The ultimate (anti)hero seems to have never totally walked off into the [...]
Once Upon a Time in the Future-West… Once Upon a Time in the Future-West…
What if, in the not too distant future, the rapidly developing economies of the East overpower the Western hegemony – which is already not as certain as it wants to seem – in both economical and cultural sense?– So far this idea of the West’s decay mainly appeared as a dystopian vision of xenophobic right-wing leaders being a common panel in their demagogic rhetorics, but I can promise that the videos presented at the screening program Imagining a Future-West / Just Another Country at Impakt Festival 2012: No More Westerns will give a whole different, unexpected shape to this fantasy.
Regional transformations through media Regional transformations through media
This panel examines the transformations of regions through online media tools with a focus on Arab and Chinese youth. Researcher Zafka Zhang (China Youthology), new [...]
Shooting back in the African diaspora – The new West African film culture of London and Amsterdam: Shooting back in the African diaspora – The new West African film culture of London and Amsterdam:
Since the late 1980s, after the collapse of the colonial Anglophone West African film industries, uneducated video enthusiasts in Nigeria and Ghana have founded a [...]
Rebel Up! crew – DJ’s Sebcat and Palm M and VJ M Rebel Up! crew – DJ’s Sebcat and Palm M and VJ M
Rebel Up! presents the raw and organic sounds our world has to offer on the dancefloor: A global, political culture mash of European mestiza beats, [...]
Artist presentation: Chto Delat?: Russian Spin-Doctors and the Limitations of Tactical Media Artist presentation: Chto Delat?: Russian Spin-Doctors and the Limitations of Tactical Media
Dmitry Vilensky of Russian artists’ collective ‘Chto Delat?’ will talk about their work Russian Woods that is part of the festival exhibition and pertains to [...]
Translating Foreign Television Formats Translating Foreign Television Formats
Starting from Albert Robida’s early visions of the future of TV in 1883 to the rise of today’s expanded satellite and Internet protocol TV (IPTV) [...]
Otherwoods: Nolly, Ghally and Bollywood Otherwoods: Nolly, Ghally and Bollywood
Since the advent of moving images as mass entertainment, Hollywood has been a dominant maker of myths, shaper of dreams, and repository of personal memories [...]
Karaoke Americas + Different Moderns, Local Translations (ruangrupa) Karaoke Americas + Different Moderns, Local Translations (ruangrupa)
Karaoke Americas (Talk) “American pop culture – Hollywood cinema, television, pop music – dominates the rest of the world through its hegemonic presence. Does that [...]
Nollywood vs. the world Nollywood vs. the world
In 1992, a Nigerian businessman called Kenneth Nnebue imported a stock of blank video tapes. He soon found out that he had ordered too many, [...]
Impakt Friends Impakt Friends
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ACCELERATOR: an interview with Grey Filastine ACCELERATOR: an interview with Grey Filastine
Filastine: There’s almost nothing normal about what we do on stage. We use a shopping cart, a broken kilinda, which was probably from Africa at [...]
Opening Impakt Festival 2012: New World Perspectives Opening Impakt Festival 2012: New World Perspectives
The festival curators Samantha Culp and Cher Potter present a number of brief presentations on the highlights of the No More Westerns programme. Artists and [...]
Opening concert LIVE: FILASTINE ft. NOVA Opening concert LIVE: FILASTINE ft. NOVA
American Grey Filastine, who lives in Barcelona, scours the globe for sounds, samples, instruments and styles, takes them home and incorporates them into his music. [...]
Festival Exhibition: The Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography Festival Exhibition: The Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography
The exhibition The Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography shows a dialogue between artists, designers, and anonymous authors of the digital universe. The exhibition space itself, [...]
Panorama Event #2: The Young Ones Panorama Event #2: The Young Ones
‘Culturele Zondag’ 28 October carries the them ‘Young/Younger/Youngest’. THE YOUNG ONES gives a stage to new talent and young makers. FREE ENTRANCE. Language: Dutch.
HKU <3 NMW HKU <3 NMW
from 19 Oct till 28 Oct, opening 19 October, 17:00h Sat 20 October from 13:00 till 18:00h Wed 24 until Sat 27 October from 11:00 [...]
Sorry, This Video is No Longer Available on YouTube Sorry, This Video is No Longer Available on YouTube
Film expert Kate Taylor explores how Japan’s most popular video site, Nico Nico Douga, started out as a simple website that linked videos from YouTube, [...]
Fourth Culture Kids Fourth Culture Kids
The term “Third Culture Kid” has grown in popularity as a way to describe children who are raised between two cultures – the daughter of [...]
Global South Futurism: Local mythologies and Science Fiction + Futures Dreaming Global South Futurism: Local mythologies and Science Fiction + Futures Dreaming
To paraphrase the novelist William Gibson, ‘The future is already here – it’s just not very well distributed’. This program explores the very real proof of this [...]
Sino-African Silk Road + Fake, Hack, Innovate Sino-African Silk Road + Fake, Hack, Innovate
China’s increasing economic involvement in broader Africa is one of the biggest current stories in the ongoing narrative of China’s rise as a world power. [...]
How the West was One (part 2) Westerns from the East How the West was One (part 2) Westerns from the East
The “Western” film genre may have originated in the USA, but has been an astoundingly flexible export, embraced and adapted by cultures around the world [...]
Imagining a Future-West / Just Another Country Imagining a Future-West / Just Another Country
“The Collapse of the West” has always been a “problematic” concept, usually wielded by right-wing ideologues as an all-purpose scare tactic to oppose diversity, change, [...]
Infiltrating the Chinese meme Infiltrating the Chinese meme
Zafka Zhang (China Youthology) brings his experience doing field research with youth communities across various cities of China into this workshop on what’s now and what’s next in Chinese Internet [...]
Non-Western shoot out: The Musical Non-Western shoot out: The Musical
DJ, artist and curator Jonas Ohlsson (DJ Lonely) and historian, activist and organiser Friso Wiersum (dubcovsky) are both underground music fanatics with a passion for [...]
An A to Z of K-Pop + Astropical Dub and Time-travel An A to Z of K-Pop + Astropical Dub and Time-travel
Utrecht Hallyu community – unite! This experimental DJ set/multimedia presentation by Heather Corcoran outlines an A to Z of Korea’s mainstream pop music, K-Pop, with [...]
Artist presentation: Foundland – Smoke and mirrors: Syrian digital propaganda Artist presentation: Foundland – Smoke and mirrors: Syrian digital propaganda
Artist duo Foundland discuss their investigation into found Internet images manipulated by the Syrian Electronic army for the purpose of creating pro-Syrian propaganda, focusing on [...]
Tarzan and Arab: Gazawood Tarzan and Arab: Gazawood
Writer and curator Omar Kholeif, will present and reflect on “Tarzan and Arab: Gazawood” (co-commission with Cornerhouse Manchester), a duo that makes pastiches of Hollywood [...]
Round Tables Round Tables
A daily (real-time) selection of NMW festival guests from the fields of art, design, criticism, futurism and technology discussing and proposing structures for a fresh [...]
Translating Foreign Television Formats Translating Foreign Television Formats
Starting from Albert Robida’s early visions of the future of TV in 1883 to the rise of todays expanded satellite services (IPTV), William Uricchio, Director [...]
Mapping Creative Internet Activism in the Arab World Mapping Creative Internet Activism in the Arab World
Since the beginning of the popular uprisings in the Arab world in late 2010, the Internet has seen an increasing amount of activist videos commenting [...]
Virtual Agoras – Six videos from Syria inspired by the events of the Uprising Virtual Agoras – Six videos from Syria inspired by the events of the Uprising
The video program Virtual Agoras, curated by Charlotte Bank, previously screened at KW Institute for Contemporary Art as part of the 7th Berlin Biennale and at an Impakt Event in June is now on show in De Balie, Amsterdam, on the 7th of October.
VJ op de Dom: Impakt presents Filastine VJ op de Dom: Impakt presents Filastine
In case you already had plans for this friday night, you can hereby cancel them and join us for what is to be a historical [...]
Cannibalizing Cannibal Myth (part 2) Cannibalizing Cannibal Myth (part 2)
How Brazilian cannibals captured Western thinking, devoured and digested it.
Hybrids and bastards, or: Musical archeology in a GIF cave Hybrids and bastards, or: Musical archeology in a GIF cave
by Friso Wiersum Music, amongst many other things, can take you home. In a world with 43 million people living on the run, multitudes of [...]
#NMW curator Cher Potter in Utrecht #NMW curator Cher Potter in Utrecht
Last week one of our two festival curators, the lovely Cher Potter, visited the Impakt headquarters in Utrecht. Cher covers 50% of the curatorial team [...]
Oppan Gangnam Style! Oppan Gangnam Style!
MTV once was short for ‘Music Television’. Although the name is still the same, these days most of the programming consists of showing the daily [...]
Simba, the last Prince of Ba’ath Country Simba, the last Prince of Ba’ath Country
Foundland, a young art, design and research practice based in Amsterdam, presented a sparkling new version of the publication and a video installation called “Simba, the last Prince [...]
Step into the world of the GRASS MUD HORSE Step into the world of the GRASS MUD HORSE
The No More Western theme of the Impakt Festival 2012 will guide you amongst others through the digital visual culture of emerging countries such as [...]
Impakt Festival 2012 – Banner II Lava Impakt Festival 2012 – Banner II Lava
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Impakt Festival 2012 – Banner Lava Impakt Festival 2012 – Banner Lava
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VOLUNTEERS WANTED FOR THE IMPAKT FESTIVAL 2012 VOLUNTEERS WANTED FOR THE IMPAKT FESTIVAL 2012
Do you want to be part of a festival full of art, music, film and discovery? The Impakt festival 2012 is coming up and you [...]
Festival Curators Impakt Festival 2012 Festival Curators Impakt Festival 2012
The Californian curator and writer Samantha Culp, currently based in Shanghai, and the South-African researcher and writer Cher Potter, based in London, have been appointed [...]
Parmesh Shahani: Impakt Festival Fellow 2012 Parmesh Shahani: Impakt Festival Fellow 2012
Impakt, in collaboration with The Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, are proud to present Parmesh Shahani as the second IMPAKT – CfH Festival Fellow at the Impakt [...]
Panorama Program 2012 – Call for submissions 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 [...]
Impakt + Center for Humanities: teaming up again! 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, [...]
No More Westerns – on the theme No More Westerns – on the theme
Save the date! Impakt Festival 24 – 28 October 2012