Impakt Festival
dal 6/5/2008 al 10/5/2008
Segnalato da
6/5/2008
Impakt Festival
Different venues, Utrecht
Your space. A full program with activities, music, film, video and multimedia. With Web 2.0 everybody can create their own space and personality, and build a personal network of like-minded people. Frederico Solmi, Jan Peters, Victor Alimpiev and Hito Steyerl present their work and are interviewed about their ideas. The mediatheque offers access to the entire collection of films and videos collected over the 20 years history of the Festival.
Web 2.0 is vibrant with promise: communicating, exchanging and networking with applications that can be adjusted to the users wishes with increasing ease. This trend which fits the image of the individualization of society, at the same time nourishes the rise of specific subcultures.
With Web 2.0 everybody can create their own space and personality, and build a personal network of like-minded people.
But what exactly are the quality properties of these new structures and how do they relate to existing social contexts? Are Hyves and MySpace about social networking or are they merely platforms for vain self-exposure? Is a blog a public diary or a valuable contribution to the social debate? And what is the meaning of a festival now that makers can reach their audience through YouTube in an increasingly simple manner?
The Impakt Festival 2008 will address all of these issues. YourSpace will also shed a light on various subcultures and draw parallels between our current media society, Society 2.0, and important trends from the past. The program will comprise event evenings during which music, film, fashion and new media merge and meet.Sunday School centers on the relation between art and science. In Hybrid Playground social networking sites, mobile services and interactive applications converge. Film programs explore the influence of commerce on identity and dive into the gray area between candidness and exploitation. The Impakt Invites series focuses every day on a new international artist:
Frederico Solmi, Jan Peters, Victor Alimpiev and Hito Steyerl present their work and are interviewed about their ideas. The mediatheque offers you access to the entire collection of films and videos collected over the twenty years history of the Impakt Festival. In addition, every day of the festival a dinner is served and there are Impakt Parties on Friday and Saturday night.
Different venues: Theater Kikker, Filmtheater 't Hoogt
Utrecht