Along with IMPAKT, the Culturele Zondagen (“cultural Sundays”) would like to introduce the young e-culture sector in Utrecht. This sounds difficult, but isn’t. We’re not always aware but digital culture has become a part of everyone’s daily life. Learn about trends, projects, backgrounds and the history of digital culture. Organisations, artists and courses in Utrecht will open their doors and present various interesting and important projects about subjects that are relevant to today’s society. You can expect mixed-media installations, virtual reality, interactive games, multimedia performances, surprising lectures and presentations by digital designers, inventors and artists.

Overview:

Algorithmic Superstructures 12:00-17:00 at IMPAKT Center for Media Culture & Casco/Fotodok
Exhibition Academiegalerie 12:00-17:00 at Academiegalerie
Donna Verheijden and tour Algorithmic Superstructures 12:30-13:00 at IMPAKT Center for Media Culture
Presentations in the Academiegalerie 13:00-14:00 at Academiegalerie
Beerpong or Voltaire? 13:30-14:30 en 15:30-16:30 at Winkel van Sinkel
Anna Ridler and tour Algorithmic Superstructures 14:00-14:30 at IMPAKT Center for Media Culture
The Fall of the House of Usher and tour De line-up 14:30-15:00 at Centraal Museum
Post-Truth Cinema: High Tech, Low Life 15:30-17:30 at Cinema ‘t Hoogt
Coralie Vogelaar and tour Algorithmic Superstructures 16:30-17:00 at IMPAKT Center for Media Culture
I Spy With My Machine Eye 18:00-19:00 at TivoliVredenburg

Algorithmic Superstructures

What: Exhibition of IMPAKT Festival 2018
When: 12:00-17:00
Where: IMPAKT Center for Media Culture and Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons/Fotodok

Algorithmic superstructures are looking over your shoulder. Moving as you move, determining what you see, anticipating what you desire, they construct the reality around you. How and when did that happen, and why haven’t we noticed?

Exhibition Academiegalerie

What: Students of the HKU Fine Art en Image & Media Technology about the complex relationship between computer systems and our daily life
When: 12:00-17:00
Where: Academiegalerie, Minrebroederstraat 16

How do algorithms influence the way we see reality? In the exhibition The Way Out Is Through eleven HKU-students present work that responds to the theme of IMPAKT Festival 2018: Algorithmic Superstructures.

Donna Verheijden and tour Algorithmic Superstructures

What: Artist Talk and tour in the exhibition of IMPAKT Festival 2018
When: 12:30
Where: IMPAKT Center for Media Culture

Digital conceit, seduction and apparent freedoms, during her talk video artist Donna Verheijden will provide insight into her work. After the presentation you will explore the other works in the exhibition with a guide.

Presentations in the Academiegalerie

What: Presentations by students of the HKU Fine Art and Image & Media Technology
When: 13:00-14:00
Where: Academiegalerie, Minrebroederstraat 16

In short presentations 5 HKU students will talk about their work in the exhibition The Only Way Is Through in the Academiegalerie. In this exhibition students explore the complex relationship between computer systems and our daily lives.

Beerpong or Voltaire?

What: workshop by Lídia Pereira and Lucia Dossin
When: 13:30 and 15:30
Where: Winkel van Sinkel, Oudegracht 158

Are you an extrovert or an introvert? Are you flexible of rigid? Character traits can be used to predict your behaviour. During this workshop we show and discuss how you can be labelled by organisations.

Anna Ridler and tour Algorithmic Superstructures

What: Artist Talk and tour in the exhibition of IMPAKT Festival 2018
When: 14:00
Where: IMPAKT Center for Media Culture

Anna Ridler created an updated version of the Dutch still life for the 21st century: an artificial tulip controlled by the fluctuating price of the Bitcoin. After the presentation you will explore the other works in the exhibition with a guide.

The Fall of the House of Usher en rondleiding De line-up

What: Curators Talk at the work of Anna Ridler and tour of the exhibition
When: 14:30
Where: Centraal Museum, Agnietenstraat 1

N.B. Registration necessary! Send an email to: kassa [at] impakt.nl

Visit De line-up alongside the curators of the Centraal Museum,  an exhibition about drawing from the 1950s until now. Highlight of the day is The Fall of The House of Usher by Anna Ridler, an animation created by artificial intelligence.

Post-Truth Cinema: High Tech, Low Life

What: Screening with introduction and discussion by Yan Ting Yuen
When: 15:30
Where: Cinema ‘t Hoogt, Hoogt 4

As part of the film series Post-truth Cinema we will show High Tech, Low Life by Stephen Maing, a documentary about Chinese citizen journalism and internet censorship. Before the film documentary filmmaker Yan Ting Yuen will give an introduction.

Coralie Vogelaar en rondleiding Algorithmic Superstructures

What: Artist Talk and tour in the exhibition of IMPAKT Festival 2018
When: 16:30
Where: IMPAKT Center for Media Culture

What can the internet teach us about the workings of artificial intelligence? Coralie Vogelaar created a pen plotter robot that is fed by trolls from 4-chan. After the presentation you will explore the other works in the exhibition with a guide.

I Spy With My Machine Eye

What: Audiovisual performance by Liam Young
When: 18:00
Where: Hertz Zaal, TivoliVredenburg, Vredenburgkade 11

We know that they drop bombs on us and even deliver pizza’s, but how does the world look through the eyes of a drone? Take a look in this audiovisual performance by experimental architect Liam Young.