Call for Contributions: The City as Interface @ Impakt Online About the topic In December 2009, the Amsterdam-based new media research centre Institute of Network Cultures (INC) organized an event on Urban Screens in which artists, architects and theorists presented their research and design projects that regarded the city as a space of informatics, buildings as interactive surfaces, and mobile phones as pocketsize urban screens. Building on this research and design practice, and collaborating with the INC, the International Urban Screens Association, and other parties such as Vurb.eu and De Verdieping, Impakt online will commission new works within this field of interest. Engaging with changing conceptions, structures and practices of urban landscapes, the Impakt Online topic of “The City as Interface” works meaningfully with the Impakt festival’s overall theme of ‘Matrix City’. ‘Matrix City’ maps out the recent developments in this new urban landscape along two regularly intertwining lines. On the one hand, the city is viewed as a gathering place of subcultures and communities. Another viewpoint reflects on the city as an immersive audiovisual environment, as a modal structure in which virtual and real systems merge. About the call Impakt online will select and support a max. total of three online projects to be presented at Impakt.nl/online. In addition, applicants may also submit a proposal for a residency at Impakt headquarters in Utrecht, as part of the Impakt Works program, which includes a workspace and housing facilities for a period of two months.
Deadline for Impakt Online project proposals: April 30, 2010 Please submit your proposal (max 1000 words) and a short bio (max 500 words) to online(at)impakt(dot)nl, by April 30, 2010. N.B. Impakt online projects are indeed presented online, so please do not submit ideas for art installations for the Impakt Festival. Deadline for Impakt Works residency proposals: March 31, 2010 Please submit your proposal for an Impakt Works residency (max 1000 words) and a short bio (max 500 words) to online(at)impakt(dot)nl, by March 31, 2010.
About Impakt Online Impakt Online is a platform for Internet art, powered by Impakt and curated by Sabine Niederer. Impakt is an organization for innovative and interdisciplinary audio-visual arts, both nationally and internationally, that resides in the Dutch city of Utrecht. Past Impakt Online participants (in order of appearance): Igor Stromajer, Tamar Schori, Ramesh Srinivasan, Michelle Teran, Marc Tuters, Angie Waller, Marika Dermineur, Joanna Griffin, Depart, Franz Alken, Natalie Jeremijenko, JODI and Cori Arcangel, Virtual Marathon Team, Jaromil, Teun Karelse, Govcom.org, Koert van Mensvoort, Dominik Bartkowski, Gazira Babeli, Linda Hilfling, George Holsheimer & Mirjam ter Linden & Daan Odijk & Putri Sadiqah & Raoul Siepers, Theo Deutinger, Constant Dullaart.
Contact Info Website: www.impakt.nl/online Producer: Pim Verlaek, Curator: Sabine Niederer Mail: online(at)impakt(dot)nl, Impakt Headquarters: +31 30 2944493. 
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