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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 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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.