#105 Interim Encounters

Relationships are often grounded in the most admirable qualities: intimacy, security, stability…We tend to confide in the specious predictability and...

#104 Debt jubilee: Metamorphosis

To feel at home is often understood as a sense of belonging. It emerges through familiarity, recognition, desire, and the relationships that connect us to...

#103 The Time We Call Waiting

Waiting is often seen as empty time — a delay between meaningful actions. In his essay On Waiting, Giovanni Gasparini challenges this view, describing...

#102 Pornographic Playground

Pornography functions as a playground for imagination, exploration, and escapism, loosening our ties to normative reality and generating a liminal space in...

#101 Round and Round We Go

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? [From “The Second Coming”]   Time is neither fixed...

#100 Mediality and Realness

Often described as the “first live global media event,” 9/11 was one of the most affective mediated spectacles of the 21st century. The hypermediation...

#099 Lost and found in Translation

We communicate through language: spoken language, body language, iconographic language, computer language and many more. To understand a language we need to...

#097 The Pornographic Kaleidoscope

Pornografie en de wens om opwindende kunst te creëren zijn al zo oud als de mensheid zelf. Door de eeuwen heen heeft erotische kunst zich aangepast aan...

#096 Moral Panic: Innocence Lost

“Children today have become the most ‘watched’ of all generations, their lives increasingly regulated by adults” (Robinson, 2008, p. 116). Concerns...

#095 Digital Amnesia

“Parce que leur mémoire est courte, les hommes accumulent d’innombrables pense-bêtes." - Toute la mémoire du monde, Alain Resnais [Because their...

#094 Dream Business

On average, we spend one third of our lives sleeping and 25% of this time dreaming. For centuries, people have tried to understand the meaning of our dreams...

#093 Nuclear Aesthetics

The invention of nuclear energy has brought a new imaginary: the consciousness that time may as well end. The iconic imagery of atomic blasts has...

#092 Therapeutic Reputational Laundering

Public celebrity feuds, vlogs, and confessional feeds: despite concerns of privacy since its inception, the Internet has been the space of choice for those...

#091 Re(al) Connection with the Public Space

As people move from place to place, they are always in their own world. In the digital era, our smartphones will always give us something to do in the empty...

#090 Interfacing With the Body

With ambient digital interfaces taking over a large part of our day to day interactions, the need to critically analyse the influence of these technologies...

#089 MAPPING THE FORGOTTEN SPACES

Since the scientific developments that came along with the Enlightenment, cartographers have been representing and visualizing spatial territories through...

#088 Mirror Image Observation

Living in this post-pandemic situation, we witness the waning of hyper-globalization and the building of barriers between countries, ethnicity and cultures....

#087 Capitalist Adaptability

The Capitalist Adaptability programme reflects our adaptability to the merciless competition of capitalism. Each work provides different perspectives from...

#086 Unfolding (self) portraits

The relationship between women and their bodies is complex and this is very much visible in how they relate to sexuality, as well as to motherhood and...

#085 Mediated Sensations: How Does it Make You Feel?

The ASMR internet culture has created a certain physical connection without a physical medium by highlighting subjective experience in a world of...

#084 Curated by Le Guess Who

Le Guess Who the Utrecht festival for fringe music will not take place this year, because of the Corona pandemic. Instead of their normal festival the...

#083 NATURE VS HUMANS?

The relationship between humans and nature is complex and is central in this programme; opposites that resonate with enemies, while sometimes we become one,...

#082 Love in the Time of Corona

Met deze Open Call for Works biedt IMPAKT kunstenaars in tijden van Corona een platform om hun werk te kunnen tonen. Deze vier werken zijn geselecteerd in...

#081 Open Call for Works

Met de Open Call for Works biedt IMPAKT kunstenaars in tijden van Corona de mogelijk om hun werk te kunnen tonen op het IMPAKT Channel. Deze vier werken...

#080 WE ARE DATA

With each gesture we make and every act we undertake we transfer information, information that is part of our interaction with the people that are close to...

#079 SOFT MACHINES

The films in the Soft Machines filmprogramme explore the intersection of affect and machines, taking the concept of empathy as both its content and form....

#078 A Manifold of Maybes

The existential uncertainty posed by the open-endedness of the future seems to be of all times and places. Everywhere people look for omens of good fortune...

#077 Stardom

The star system was the method of creating, promoting and exploiting stars in Hollywood films. Movie studios would select promising actors and glamorize and...

#076 Nothing Replaces Work

Despite the fact that more and more work can be done by AI and algorithms, and physical labor is making way for service work, exhaustion seems more...

#075 Homo Ludens: Man the Player

Games are often seen as a sphere apart or an escape from reality, but is that really true? This program shows the many ways in which game and play are...

#074 Cyborgs

With the focus on the concept of the cyborg, which is a being with both organic and mechanic parts, this program explores different conceptions of a...

#073 Systematic Review

A valuable trait of the human species is our ability to collect, systematize, constantly upgrade and distribute information for the purpose of creating...

#072 Arteries of Asphalt, Veins of Steel

In the mid-1960s, as the automobile began to reshape European infrastructure on an unprecedented scale. The Swedish Geographer Torsten Hägerstrand first...

#071 Lamina of the Land

Passing through space, transportational infrastructure crosses landscapes without seeming to interact with them.

#070 I Shop Therefore I Am

In the 1920s Edward Bernays wondered how he could remove the negative connotations associated with the concept of propaganda, and deploy it in times of...

#069 Divergent Histories, Dissonant Wars

“Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.” John Berger.  

#068 Love Stories

Gabriel García Márquez wrote his book ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ with a special focus on love in various ways. Friendships, marriage, and forbidden...

#067 Hyper-real Warfare

Modern warfare rapidly fuses with high technologies. Smart missiles, lasers, drones and other weapons demonstrate horrifying, but at the same extent...

#066 Embodying gender

Films challenge the stereotypes associated with the narratives in which women live. They show how the preconceived notions about gender are embedded in...

#065 Down the Rabbit Hole

Is the search for reality like an endless sliding-down-and-into the rabbit hole? Or, is it just a temporary tunnel that can lead to a more stable...

#064 The Visual Manipulation Of The Mind

Moving images are, in their essence, a visual manipulation; a sequence of still images becomes a moving image.

#063 Monsters

“Monsters are created to embody the fears and anxieties of being human.”

#062 Magic

Apps, experiences, and other products are being marketed as if they are magical solutions to problems we may have or seem to have in our lives.

#060 Freefall Anthropology

#058 ARCHEOLOGY OF THE PRESENT

#057 BEYOND ARCHITECTURE

Good architecture is a visual adventure, a sculpture allowing you to submerge in. Our urban and industrial landscapes reflect history and their public...

#055 MY BODY, A MAZE

Having a body is not always easy. The body often is a battle scene of romances, exotic parasites, obscure sexuality and uncertainty.

#052 Desperate for Something Real

It might not seem like it, but our world is desperate. The omnipresent and anguished desire for anything real, frequently exploited for marketing purposes,...

#048 COOKING UP THE BIG BANG

Looking forward into the future has always tickled our imagination. Just like the idea that we are able to mould the future.

#042 Order at the Border

Political, ideological or religious authority can face collective resistance which questions the concept of what is right. But resistance can also consist...

#039 TO BEAT OR JOIN THE SYSTEM

Even the establishment is a temporary concept. The systems that keep the economy and society in one piece are always challenged by other ideas or...

#026 STAGED RELATIONS

The artificial relationships between cinema, theatre and the media are examined from a distance by artists and rearranged into a new configuration.

#022 The Banality of Evil

Since at least Stanley Kubrick’s HAL (2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968) cinematic imagination has reveled in the techno-disaster narrative of the benevolent...