Friday 16 October 2009 / 19:00 / Theater Kikker , Utrecht, The Netherlands
Free entrance

Internet is often considered as “timeless”, an endless space of connected websites and data files, a media sphere where users can wander about blindly, unaware of time. At the same time we face a growing proliferation of spam, dead links, pop-ups and search queries that lead nowhere. How to define the experience and perception of time spent online? When is information “fresh”? How do trends develop on the Web? How fast do they wear of? These are the issues addressed by the projects curated by Sabine Niederer for Impakt Online.

During the Impakt Festival, these online art projects will be presented in the presence of some of the artists.

Theo Deutinger (AU) will present “World at Work”, a multilayered visualisation of people’s work patterns in different time zones, in the form of a world clock.

Daan Odijk (NL) is one of the developers of “A Tag’s Life”, a project that researches the rise and fall of tags on the basis of data collected from Flickr.

Richard Rogers (NL) will speak about the IP-browser, which only allows to surf on close-by IP addresses. A form of “slow browsing” which opens new perspectives on the Web.

Constant Dullaart (NL) will share his collection of web pages – or “ready-mades” as he calls them – situated in the far out limits of the Web: domains for sale that no one wants to buy and dumps of Internet junk.