IMPAKT IS LOOKING...
for enthusiastic and ambitious students who wish to gain experience in one of the following areas:

Program assistance
Management
Publicity & marketing
Production & Coördination
Education
see descriptions underneath


IMPAKT STARTED...
in 1988 with the organisation of the first Impakt Festival. The Impakt foundation was called into life in 1993. Impakt resides in the Dutch city of Utrecht, where most of its activities take place, although involvement in presentations elsewhere in the Netherlands or abroad is often sought.
The core of the organization is formed by Arjon Dunnewind (founder and artistic leader) and Marc Boonstra (management). The Impakt team consists mostly of project employees and interns. During the festival the team expands with approximately 75 volunteers, who among other things, help with construction activities, manning the desks, and catering.

IMPAKT AIMS...
to offer a platform for innovative and interdisciplinary audio-visual arts, both nationally and internationally.

IMPAKT ...ADVENTURES IN SOUND AND IMAGE
IMPAKT FESTIVAL
Impakt Festival offers the ultimate combination of art, event, and experience. The festival presents the most recent developments in the field of international film- and videoart, Visual art, music, and new media. The program varies from critical analysis of culture to image poetry and from hightech audiovisual design to idiosyncratic sounds emerging from the underground. Interaction between art and the visitor is a focal point for the organisation. Impakt Festival is a meetingpoint and a meltingpot. Visiting the Festival means making new acquaintances and experiences in an informal and relaxed environment.


IMPAKT EVENTS
During the year Impakt organises monthly Impakt Events, small-scale manifestations in which single artists or themes are presented. Generally, Impakt invites an artist to act as the curator and presenter of a film program, concert night, exhibition, etc. These presentations are generally accompanied by foods an beverages that have been especially designed to fit in with the program.

IMPAKT ONLINE
Throughout the year, Impakt produces and presents net.art projects on its web gallery www.impaktonline.nl.

IMPAKT WORKS
Impakt Works, Impakt's Audiovisual production house, offers artists from the Netherlands and the rest of the world the possibility to work on their projects, resulting in presentations of their works at the festival or at one of the events.

RAISING IMPAKT
With Raising Impakt we offer a wide range of educational programmes for students of Cultural and Artistic Education at any level. The themes are based upon the program of the Impakt Festival and other Impakt activities. The educational program consists of workshops, film screenings, and guided tours at the festival.

IMPAKT OFFERS...
students a fine opportunity to supplement years of study with the necessary working experience.

Impakt is a small organisation. As a consequence, interns get to see a lot of the various aspects of cultural business. We stimulate this by having plenary consultation meetings regularly. Furthermore, all interns are full members of the team.

Impakt is well versed in the arts sector. Since Impakt focuses on various art disciplines, we have a considerable network of contacts both nationally and internationally. This enables students to network during their work placement. Additionally, we point out interesting openings, conferences, etc. to students. When possible we'll organise a group outing. Because of the many guest locations Impakt always uses, students can have a backstage look at various museums, cinemas, theatres, and galleries.
Internships can start by mutual agreement.

Nota bene: Unfortunately Impakt isn't able to offer payment for interns.

PROGRAM ASSISTENCE:
Final responsibility for all Impakt projects lies in the hands of the artistic leader.
Programming is done by himself, but also by editors, host curators, and a selection committee. This entails doing a lot of research and keeping in touch regularly with artists and other institutes in the field of audiovisual art and new media. As programme assistant, you will be helping the artistic leader with his tasks, taking over practical things like finding the location of works and making appointments. This internship provides you with the opportunity to gain valuable experience in the world of arts and to build up a network. At the same time, provided you take the opportunity, you will be able to see a lot of different works and thereby increase your frame of reference of film/video art.

You are involved in:
-investigating the availability and whereabouts of films;
-contacting distributors, galleries and individual makers, and making appointments;
-composing and producing tapes

Your are:
-flexible, social, and take the initiative where possible;
-excellent in communicative skills, both in Dutch and English;
-good at multi-tasking
-motivated, eager, and willing to expand your capacities;
-independent and have active working attitude.

If you are interested in a work placement at Impakt, please send a short letter with your motivation and curriculum vitae to Marc Boonstra
marc[at]impakt.nl.


MANAGEMENT
The Impakt Foundation is an organisation with a full year program. For this, a management department is required that creates the preconditions necessary for realising this program. As a management assistant, you are involved in all aspects of managing the organisation. This work placement is especially interesting for students who are interested in all aspects of cultural entrepreneurship: the acquisition of funds and sponsoring, financial reporting, management, etc. A good insight in the cultural field is considered an advantage.

You are involved in:
-acquiring subsidies, sponsors and funds;
-financial reporting;
-personnel management and the recruitment of volunteers;
-keeping contact with related organisations and representing Impakt;
-project management.

Your skills are:
-you are interested in finance and management;
-you have good communicative skills;
-you are motivated, eager and willing to expand your capacities;
-you have an independent and active working attitude.

If you are interested in a work placement at Impakt, please send a short letter with your motivation and curriculum vitae to Marc Boonstra, marc[at]impakt.nl.


PUBLICITY & MARKETING
The Impakt Festival draws attention to itself through making and distributing printing material, through advertising, and through writing and sending out press releases. The department that is responsible for this is called Publicity. This department is divided in three categories, for each of which we are looking for a trainee:
-Publicity, which produces and distributes publicity material;
-Media, which produces and distributes press releases and which draws attention to Impakt in the media;
-Marketing, which studies (new) target groups and ways to reach them and which tends to the development and maintenance of Impakt's image.

PUBLICITY
You are involved in:
-collecting texts and images for flyers, the festival guide, posters, etc.;
-editing texts and having them translated;
-keeping contact with the design agency LAVA and supervising the design;
-supervising the printing process and keeping contact with the printer;
-distributing the printing material over the mail and in person.

MEDIA
You are involved in:
-writing press releases;
-keeping contact with journalists and editing boards;
-having the adverts designed by LAVA and published in the media;
-acquiring adverts for the festival guide and the website;
-keeping the website up-to-date (by means of a Content Management System).

MARKETING
You are involved in:
-sponsoring;
-organising target group research and publicity campaigns;
-developing Impakt’s image.

ALL
Your skills are:
-you have excellent communicative skills in Dutch and English (especially with respect to grammar and spelling);
-you are flexible;
-you want to get the most out of yourself and the organisation;
-you have a commercial attitude and the mentality of a salesman (Media);
-you are motivated, eager and willing to expand your capacities;
-you have an independent and active working attitude.

If you are interested in a work placement at Impakt, please send a short letter with your motivation and curriculum vitae to Marc Boonstra
marc[at]impakt.nl.


PRODUCTION & COORDINATION
There is much to be organised if you want to realise a program. Each production begins with investigating whether a project is achievable from a technical and a financial perspective. If it is decided to do a certain project, the work shifts from research to coordination and logistics. This requires much contact with all involved, which might include curators, artists, galleries and distributors. Furthermore, much time will go into keeping contact with people from the location, suppliers, mechanics and other people who are involved in the practical realisation. The producers of Impakt are responsible for all logistics. The trainees assist them in this. Sometimes, a trainee will just walk along with a producer. At other times, a trainee may lead a specific sub-project almost independently. In general, productions are multi-faceted; the same goes for this work placement.
The festival team is divided in a number of clusters:
-Film/Video;
-Exhibition;
-Music;
-New media;
-General logistics.

FILM/VIDEO
The production of Film/Video consists of screening media works in various clusters in a cinema.

You are involved in:
-investigating the availability and whereabouts of films;
-contacting distributors, galleries and individual makers;
-tending to the print traffic;
-arranging that short films are converted and edited for screening;
-contacting mechanics and film theatres;
-financial monitoring.

Your skills are:
-you have affinity with Film/Video and you like to watch many films in a short time;
-you have good communicative skills;
-you are motivated, eager and willing to expand your capacities;
-you have an independent and active working attitude.

EXHIBITION
The exhibition is the part of the festivals that is most museum-oriented. It consists of one large project or several small projects within a museum-like context. As a production assistant, you work on one or more projects. Organising an exhibition is a long-term and intensive process. You will be involved in this process, right from the conceptual start up to the final realisation.

You are involved in:
-making artistic decisions;
-investigating the achievability and the financial possibilities;
-contacting artists, curators, mechanics and people from the locations;
-financial monitoring.

Your skills are:
-you have good communicative skills;
-you are motivated, eager and willing to expand your capacities;
-you have an independent and active working attitude;
-you have a practical understanding of constructions and a technical understanding of the audiovisual arts.

MUSIC
The production of music consists for the most part of concerts and sometimes of sound installations and performances.

You are involved in:
-making deals with musicians and booking agents about things like the length of the performance, the accommodation, the technical requirements and the payment;
-doing the stage management, arranging the sound check and the line-up in collaboration with the mechanics;
-the financial settlement.

Your skills are:
-you have affinity with music;
-you have good communicative skills;
-you are motivated, eager and willing to expand your capacities;
-you have an independent and active working attitude.

NEW MEDIA
See Impakt Online.

GENERAL LOGISTICS
The general logistics of the festival involves all logistics that cannot be linked directly to one of the specific programs. Thus, you will be responsible for the furnishing of the festival. Just like any other festival, Impakt wants to make the guest location its own territory, with an atmosphere that reflects the character of the festival. For this purpose, flags, banners and complete new interiors are used. As a trainee in general logistics, you will be involved in their design and realisation. The festival of 2006 is a special challenge with that respect, since the normal indoor activities will be complemented this year by many outdoor activities like Open Air Screenings, the Floating Cinema, the Audio Picnics and the AV-BBQ's.

You are involved in:
-coordinating and establishing the festival desk, the multimedia centre, the bar, etc.;
-applying for licences;
-drawing up instructions for the booking office and the like;
-having the tickets and passepartouts designed.

Your skills are:
-you have excellent communicative skills;
-you are able to keep track of complex situations and you are practical;
-you have an independent and active working attitude;
-you are good in directing people;
-you are flexible and you can handle changes well;
-you are motivated, eager and willing to expand your capacities.

If you are interested in a work placement at Impakt, please send a short letter with your motivation and curriculum vitae to Marc Boonstra,marc[at]impakt.nl.


EDUCATION
Since the 2003 edition of the Impakt Festival, Impakt as its own educational program called Raising Impakt. The program focuses on secondary schools and aims to introduce young people aged 12 to 18 to the power and diversity of audiovisual media. The themes of the programs are derived from the Festival and other Impakt programs. Activities consist of workshops, film screenings and guided tours. For the educational department we are looking for a motivated intern, who is willing to pass on his or hers passion in art to youngsters.

You will be involved in:
-concept development of the educational program;
-promoting of the program and keeping in touch with institutions;
-realizing activities, regarding the production as well as the content.

Requirements:
-affinity with art education and working with young people;
-good communicative skills;
-motivation, eagerness and a will to expand your capacities;
-independent and active working attitude.

If you are interested in a work placement at Impakt, please send a short letter with your motivation and curriculum vitae to Marc Boonstra,marc[at]impakt.nl.