Online

IMPAKT Workshop: VJ-ing in Zoom

Jeroen Witjes (IMPAKT), Sabrina Verhage (Creative Coding Amsterdam)

Want to shine during the Bal Masqué on 11 September? This workshop is about VJ-ing and focuses on creating video backgrounds and other video effects to use in your performance. We learn how to create and use virtual backgrounds, visualizations and gifs and looping videos to create a vibrant, fun presentation.

Sonic Garden - Fri. Sept. 10

Siavash Amini (IR), Active Listeners Club (IR), Sepand Jamshidy (IR), Dariush Sardari (IR)

Siavash Amini (IR) is a composer from Tehran, Iran. He has worked with renowned international labels Room40, Hallow Ground, Opal Tapes and Umor Rex for the better half of the past 10 years.

IMPAKT Workshop: Face and body filters

Yun Lee and Jonathan Reus, from iii, instrumentinventors.org, The Hague (NL)

Use filters like a pro and get ready for the Bal Masqué. With the use of software like Zoom, OBS and Snap Camera, we can create our own virtual backgrounds, digital masks, video compilations and even perform live coding and VJ sets. In this workshop we delve into the colorful world of filters, guided by performing artists Yun Lee and Jonathan Reus from iii.

Sonic Garden - Thu. Sep 9

Saba Alizadeh (IR), Sohrab Motabar (IR), Reza Atashran (IR)

Saba Alizadeh (IR): Born in Tehran in 1983, Saba Alizadeh is an unparalleled figure at the forefront of contemporary Iranian music. Alizadeh subsequently studied experimental sound practices at Calarts in Los Angeles. He began expanding his musical cosmos utilizing different instruments and methods of composing. Apart from Kamancheh, no-input mixer, modular synthesizer, laptop have been the main instruments that Alizadeh has created his sonic cosmos with. Alizadeh also uses a lot of manipulated historic audio recordings and field recordings in a neo-musique concrète fashion. Treating sound as an object has always been Alizadeh’s fascination. 

Bal Masqué: EMAP Closing Party at Ars Electronica, organized by IMPAKT

European Media Art Platform (EMAP), IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture]

The Bal Masqué is a virtual club night: a corona-proof merger of an online dance battle, a digital masked ball and a multitude of VJ-sets. We will have many international partners and guests, since it is the closing party of the EMAP 2018-2021 program. You are all invited to wear your craziest digital masks and party with us.

CODE: Reclaiming Digital Agency

IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (NL), School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe (DE)

As our lives are increasingly taking place online, digital rights are important. But what are our online rights? How can we influence policies? CODE brings together artists, non-artists, politicians and policymakers in a dialogue to implement and improve laws and legislation that will protect our rights as digital citizens and online consumers.

White Sample Live Set

Ignacio Cuevas | White Sample (CL)

Analog live set playing with the Autonomy/Dependency installation of electromechanical systems with plants. Music in between ambient, electroacoustic and electronica in a biological environment.

Learning in STEM: Taking a Step Further

Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci

Wenn es darum geht, die Vielfalt der BesucherInnen – insbesondere junger Menschen und Schulen – anzusprechen, besteht eines der Hauptanliegen von Wissenschafts- und Technologiemuseen darin, zu verstehen, wie man am besten ansprechende Erfahrungen mit MINT-Fächern fördern kann, die bestmöglich auf die Lernenden ausgerichtet sind. Wie können wir einen Ansatz entwickeln, der das „wissenschaftliche Kapital“ der Lernenden mindestens genauso viel wertschätzt, wie das Fachwissen?

Cooking for Freedom

Maria Felices (CL)

What is freedom for you? For many, freedom is just a matter of doing “Whatever we want”. So we go around thinking that we are free; But blackmail starts from within as we get to cover our needs, We decide to study, to get a job so we can “Pay the bills”, but at the end of the day we give up our time for money. Now with that money we think that we can buy “Whatever we want” but now we don’t have our time, so rush into the supermarket to get our food, as it will be easier to get it from there, now big corporations also control what we eat. But the decisions that we make are given by the possibilities of our contexts, and for years we have the illusion of choice.

Autonomy / Dependency

Ignacio Cuevas (CL), Fabián Andrade (CL)

The Republic of the Mountain is constituted as a utopian micronation, decentralized and intangible, which activates an ephemeral appearance from the foothills of the Andes towards the limits of our perception, to find out more join us in this conversation with Enrique Rivera, our art curator and get to become a citizen of the republic.