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How the West was One part 1 + 2 Friday, 26 October 2012 How the West was One part 1 + 2 Friday, 26 October 2012
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 Friday, 26 October 2012 IMPAKT CLUB NIGHT Friday, 26 October 2012
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 [...]
Impakt Online: Let Us Praise the Vernacular! Thursday, 25 October 2012 Impakt Online: Let Us Praise the Vernacular! Thursday, 25 October 2012
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 [...]
Otolith Group [an Otolith double bill] Thursday, 25 October 2012 Otolith Group [an Otolith double bill] Thursday, 25 October 2012
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 Friday, 26 October 2012 Chief Boima Friday, 26 October 2012
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 [...]
Symposium: News in a multipolar world Friday, 26 October 2012 Symposium: News in a multipolar world Friday, 26 October 2012
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 Saturday, 27 October 2012 Delete control: Hivos free internet panel Saturday, 27 October 2012
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 Thursday, 25 October 2012 Beats Sin Fronteras Thursday, 25 October 2012
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 Sunday, 28 October 2012 Arab Futurism Sunday, 28 October 2012
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’ Friday, 26 October 2012 How the West was One (part 1) ‘Meta-Cowboyism’ Friday, 26 October 2012
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 [...]
Regional transformations through media Sunday, 28 October 2012 Regional transformations through media Sunday, 28 October 2012
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: Saturday, 27 October 2012 Shooting back in the African diaspora – The new West African film culture of London and Amsterdam: Saturday, 27 October 2012
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 Friday, 26 October 2012 Rebel Up! crew – DJ’s Sebcat and Palm M and VJ M Friday, 26 October 2012
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 Thursday, 25 October 2012 Artist presentation: Chto Delat?: Russian Spin-Doctors and the Limitations of Tactical Media Thursday, 25 October 2012
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 Saturday, 27 October 2012 Translating Foreign Television Formats Saturday, 27 October 2012
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 Saturday, 27 October 2012 Otherwoods: Nolly, Ghally and Bollywood Saturday, 27 October 2012
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) Thursday, 25 October 2012 Karaoke Americas + Different Moderns, Local Translations (ruangrupa) Thursday, 25 October 2012
Karaoke Americas (Talk) “American pop culture – Hollywood cinema, television, pop music – dominates the rest of the world through its hegemonic presence. Does that [...]
Festival Exhibition: The Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography Wednesday, 24 - Sunday, 28 October 2012 Festival Exhibition: The Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography Wednesday, 24 - Sunday, 28 October 2012
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, [...]
HKU <3 NMW Wednesday, 24 - Sunday, 28 October 2012 HKU <3 NMW Wednesday, 24 - Sunday, 28 October 2012
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 Thursday, 25 October 2012 Sorry, This Video is No Longer Available on YouTube Thursday, 25 October 2012
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 Saturday, 27 October 2012 Fourth Culture Kids Saturday, 27 October 2012
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 Saturday, 27 October 2012 Global South Futurism: Local mythologies and Science Fiction + Futures Dreaming Saturday, 27 October 2012
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 Sunday, 28 October 2012 Sino-African Silk Road + Fake, Hack, Innovate Sunday, 28 October 2012
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 Friday, 26 October 2012 How the West was One (part 2) Westerns from the East Friday, 26 October 2012
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 Saturday, 27 October 2012 Imagining a Future-West / Just Another Country Saturday, 27 October 2012
“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 Saturday, 27 October 2012 Infiltrating the Chinese meme Saturday, 27 October 2012
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 Friday, 26 October 2012 Non-Western shoot out: The Musical Friday, 26 October 2012
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 Saturday, 27 October 2012 An A to Z of K-Pop + Astropical Dub and Time-travel Saturday, 27 October 2012
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 Friday, 26 October 2012 Artist presentation: Foundland – Smoke and mirrors: Syrian digital propaganda Friday, 26 October 2012
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 Sunday, 28 October 2012 Tarzan and Arab: Gazawood Sunday, 28 October 2012
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 Thursday, 25 - Sunday, 28 October 2012 Round Tables Thursday, 25 - Sunday, 28 October 2012
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 Saturday, 27 October 2012 Translating Foreign Television Formats Saturday, 27 October 2012
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 Saturday, 27 October 2012 Mapping Creative Internet Activism in the Arab World Saturday, 27 October 2012
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 [...]
Cannibalizing Cannibal Myth (part 2) Thursday, 25 October 2012 Cannibalizing Cannibal Myth (part 2) Thursday, 25 October 2012
How Brazilian cannibals captured Western thinking, devoured and digested it.
Festival Curators Impakt Festival 2012 Friday, 17 August 2012 Festival Curators Impakt Festival 2012 Friday, 17 August 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 Thursday, 9 August 2012 Parmesh Shahani: Impakt Festival Fellow 2012 Thursday, 9 August 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 [...]