Impakt Festival

Since its first edition the Impakt Festival has been offering a variety of events including video and film screenings, exhibitions, conferences, talks, concerts and dance nights.

The 1990s editions were characterized by an, already proven, experimental research that formed a positive stimulus to the past image and soundculture and a necessary supplement to the mass media’s supply of entertainment.

[2] 2003 It's Happening Again: Fashion, Music, Politics[3] 2004 Cultural Autopsy 2005 Adventures in Sound and Image[4] 2006 The Great Outdoors[5] 2007 Adventures in Sound and Image[6] 2008 Yourspace[7] 2009 Accelerated Living[8] During the 2000s editions, works from Annika Larsson, Magnus Wallin, Norman McLaren, Miranda July, Matthew Barney and Reynold Reynolds were screened at Impakt Festival, in addition to many others.

The programme explored shifting geopolitical landscapes on the world stage and aimed to preview the imminent changes in visual culture.

[11] Guest curators included Samantha Culp and Cher Potter, they stated that: "We hope to share some of the isolated charges and momentary signs we’ve noticed that indicate a new and imminent awareness – a set of cultural and social movements emerging from regions operating along alternative storylines to the west, in the spaces between pre-modernism and postmodernism".

Additionally, Dutch graphic design team, Metahaven's music video for Holly Herndon's Interference, premiered alongside other Impakt Festival commissions.

The Festival took place from 25 until 29 October 2017 under the title Haunted Machines & Wicked Problems, and was curated by Natalie Kane & Tobias Revell.

The Festival of 2018 took place from 24 until 28 October 2018 under the title Algorithmic Superstructures, and was curated by Luba Elliott, Alex Anikina and Yasemin Keskintepe.

The festival featured talks by Eliot Higgins of investigative collective Bellingcat, Adam Greenfield, Metahaven, Julia Kloiber, Evgeny Morozov a.o.

In the past few years Impakt has made use of other venues for exhibitions, talks, conferences as Academie Galerie, Studio T (Utrecht University).

In recent years this has comprised around thematic focus in addition to a Panorama programme which showcases the best in innovative visual art.

Additionally, Impakt collaborates with LabMis, the production and research centre at São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound, in a two-way residency exchange between Brazil and The Netherlands.

March 2015 saw an event, 'Land of Desire', showcasing the work by Dutch Impakt artist-in-resident Donna Verheijden, and featuring a talk by eminent media theorist and founder of the Institute of Network Cultures Geert Lovink.