About the call:

Impakt Works residencies take place at Impakt in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The call is open to international artists and artists from the Netherlands. Each residency period lasts two months, from November 2011 onwards. Projects that can start already in November have priority. The residency includes: accommodation, a studio, basic technical facilities and equipment and reimbursement of traveling expenses up to 250 euro. Artists in residence may receive a “per-diem” stipend not exceeding 1000 euro in the two-month period.

Impakt Works is a residency program for media artists, artists working with digital media, video, sound, interactive technologies etc. The Impakt Works residencies are project based, with a finished work, for instance an (interactive) installation, a performance or a video, as the end result. Applicants should be prepared to execute and complete their proposed project within the two-month duration of the residency.

Proposals can work with this year’s Impakt Festival topic ‘The Right to Know’ but this is by no means necessary – the call is open to all proposals.

About the festival topic: The 2011 Impakt Festival theme: “The Right to Know” examines the tension between the desire of openly accessible information and the urge to withhold information from others on political, economical or privacy grounds. What does openness offer us and what are the possible downsides of total transparency? Which set of skills do citizens need to empower themselves in this increasingly data driven society? Read more about it here.

Deadline for residency proposals: October 20th (post date): Please submit your project proposal for the Impakt Works residency to works(at)impakt(dot)nl before October 20th, using this form.

Past Impakt Works resident artists (in order of appearance): E*Rock, Aleesa Coheene, Bas Van Koolwijk, Victor Alimpiev, Martin Brand, Ola Vasiljeva, Manuel Saiz, Thomas Köner, Ania Molska Petill, Kurt D'Haeseleer, Manon Bovenkerk, Wayne Horse, Reynold Reynolds, Peter Burr, Julio Soto & Scott, Steve Reinke, Rosa Menkman, Erik Bünger, Jean-Charles Hue, James T. Hong, Linda Hilfling, Marc Tuters & Ricarda Franzen.