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Impakt Event: Resynthesizing Reality – John Butler 1 March

Alarming, short clips that call into mind infomercials and Public Announcements: to John Butler it’s the most appropriate medium to criticize our current conditions of existence. Governments and corporations use certain codes when they address us, as citizen or as consumer. This idiom is one of Butler’s main sources of inspiration. His works are text [...]

Impakt Event: Architectures of Exclusion – 29 February

An event that investigates the dynamic relationships between politics, morals and architectures – whether physical or virtual –

DEUS content – February 2012: Series 4

An overview of the video pieces of series 4 by DEUS, on display on the Urban Screens by DROPSTUFF and CASZuidas

John Butler Workshop: Synthetic Information – 3D visuals and animation

Join the workshop “Synthetic Information” by John Butler, using graphic animation, text and 3D visuals – 28, 29 February and 1 March

Final Public Lecture: Impakt Festival Fellow Mercedes Bunz

The Internet allows the citizen to interact with governments and politicians in a different way. The potential, but also the boundaries of the new five-minute activism has to be explored and analysed.

Impakt Presents: Paranoid Schizophrenic at STRP Festival

Het Impakt Festival Utrecht presenteert Paranoid Schizophrenic, drie films die je meenemen de afgrond in.

Daniel Cockburn: Presentation “All The Mistakes I’ve Made”

The art world is bursting with events where artists present an anthology of the highlights of their career to a slightly bored audience. The Canadian filmmaker Daniel Cockburn gladly turns this tradition around.

François Chastanet: Lettering in Public Space

Click here to see the video of this workshop Workshop: 10:00-18:00 Lecture: 20:30 François Chastanet has a background in architecture and graphic design specializing in typography. His published work is an anthropological and historical approach to typography in public spaces. From this standpoint he investigated, through photography, the origins of “Cholo writing”, the graffiti of Latino [...]

Daniel Cockburn: Workshop Scriptwriting and Performance for Film/Video/Urban Screens

WORKSHOP: SCRIPTWRITING AND PERFORMANCE FOR FILM/VIDEO/URBAN SCREENS Scriptwriting is usually thought of as a discipline specific to Hollywood and narrative feature films. But the tools of screenwriting, and the act of writing a script, are very applicable to the making of experimental and independent films and videos — and there are various ways to use [...]

Festival Fellow Mercedes Bunz Inaugural Lecture: On Digital Truth

Impakt, The Centre for Humanities and the MA New Media & Digital Culture from Utrecht University proudly present the first Impakt Festival Fellow, Mercedes Bunz PhD. Mercedes Bunz (Magdeburg, 1971) is an art historian, philosopher and journalist. She was the founder and the head editor of the legendary German magazine “De-Bug” and worked from 2009 [...]

Visualizing the Cost of Culture

Statistics and visualizations are used by both the government and the private sector to make political statements; sometimes playfully, sometimes out of necessity. With contributors from Amsterdam, Bratislava and Novi Sad, this event explores the politics of visualizations.

Impakt Does VJ op de Dom

Impakt will present a delightful part of the program, with two true sound- and visual artists.

Impakt at the Drijf In

Celebrate the annual Uitfeest in Utrecht in your boat or on the wharf of the Bumuurde Weerd at the “Drijf In” cinema

Things To Come: Oral Sight-Seeing

How can mobile platforms facilitate new forms of storytelling? Which urban secrets is the city of Utrecht hiding behind the unwritten stories of its inhabitants? And what are the problems we encounter when confronted with the tension between fact and fiction in oral tradition? We give you all the answers. So close your eyes and prick up your ears.

Impakt joins DROPSTUFF.NL in Venice with DEUS 2011!

From June 2011, within the DROPSTUFF.NL programming in the Netherlands and Venice’s 54th Biennale, the Impakt Festival has been invited to make a short selection of Dutch films, video clips, and interactive projects.

Impakt Workshop: Creative Coding With openFrameworks

Impakt proudly presents two workshops about openFrameworks by Rick Companje. At May 28th a beginner’s workshop will take place followed by an intermediate workshop at June 11th.

Wayne Horse presents ‘The Ill-Mannered Milkman’

Impakt is honoured to present the Dutch premiere of “The Ill Mannered Milkman,” the new film of Willehad Eilers, aka Wayne Horse.

Impakt Event: Julius von Bismarck

The work of German artist Julius von Bismarck is a combination of radical ideas, technological contrivance and conceptual elegance.

UNMA #5: Tagging the City

The fifth Utrecht New Media Evening features artists, activists, academics, and developers who discuss the new digital graffiti practices, and how they can establish alternative communicative systems that remain bottom-up and subversive.

Impakt Open Air #4

The summer seems so far away already, but this final edition of Impakt Open Air brings the sun back to Utrecht for a short while. Let yourself be surprised by cutting edge animation, hilarious cult videos, found footage, unexpected plots and liberating madness, while being served by a BBQ, a cocktail bar and DJs.

Impakt Open Air #3

Open air cinema with surprising, funny, revolutionary and frightening short films, a cocktail bar, barbecue, DJs and live interviews with film makers.

Impakt Open Air #2

Open air cinema with surprising, funny, revolutionary and frightening short films, a cocktail bar, barbecue, DJs and live interviews with film makers.

Impakt Open Air #1

Open air cinema with short, surprising, funny, revolutionary and frightening short films, a cocktail bar, a barbecue and DJs and live interviews with the film makers.

Impakt Open Air

Four summer weekends with short films, BBQ and dj’s

Let yourself be surprised by cutting edge animation, hilarious cult videos, found footage, unexpected plots and liberating madness, while you are enjoying a BBQ, a cocktail bar and DJs.

Impakt Event: Reynold Reynolds

From November 2009 through to January 2010, Reynolds was an artist-in-residence at Impakt. During his residency, Reynolds worked on his first feature film, The Ultraviolet Catastrophe. In this Impakt Event, some material from this film will be premiered