IMPAKT Centre for Media Culture
@impakt-nl.bsky.social
IMPAKT is a media arts organization based in Utrecht and founded in 1988. Through talks, screenings, exhibitions and the annual IMPAKT Festival, we present critical and creative views on contemporary media culture and arts, in an interdisciplinary context.
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Ambient Propaganda, opening 29 August, explores a new understanding of propaganda as ambient influence, where ideology is subconsciously incorporated into everyday digital culture.
Info: impakt.nl/events/2025/...
Image: Noura Tafeche, Annihilation Core Inherited Lore (2025)
Ambient Propaganda, opening 29 August, explores a new understanding of propaganda as ambient influence, where ideology is subconsciously incorporated into everyday digital culture.
Info: impakt.nl/events/2025/...
Image: Noura Tafeche, Annihilation Core Inherited Lore (2025)
July 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
SAVE THE DATE
Ambient Propaganda, opening 29 August, explores a new understanding of propaganda as ambient influence, where ideology is subconsciously incorporated into everyday digital culture.
Info: impakt.nl/events/2025/...
Image: Noura Tafeche, Annihilation Core Inherited Lore (2025)
Ambient Propaganda, opening 29 August, explores a new understanding of propaganda as ambient influence, where ideology is subconsciously incorporated into everyday digital culture.
Info: impakt.nl/events/2025/...
Image: Noura Tafeche, Annihilation Core Inherited Lore (2025)
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Marianna Stefanitsi
Marianna Stefanitsi is an interdisciplinary practitioner working across art, research, and communication. Her practice centers on creative labor, art institutions, digital media, and intersectional feminism.
More: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Marianna Stefanitsi is an interdisciplinary practitioner working across art, research, and communication. Her practice centers on creative labor, art institutions, digital media, and intersectional feminism.
More: impakt.nl/residencies-...
June 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Marianna Stefanitsi
Marianna Stefanitsi is an interdisciplinary practitioner working across art, research, and communication. Her practice centers on creative labor, art institutions, digital media, and intersectional feminism.
More: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Marianna Stefanitsi is an interdisciplinary practitioner working across art, research, and communication. Her practice centers on creative labor, art institutions, digital media, and intersectional feminism.
More: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Lena Defay
Lena Defay is a User Experience Researcher with a background in the tech industry, focused on designing user-centric systems.
Ream more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Lena Defay is a User Experience Researcher with a background in the tech industry, focused on designing user-centric systems.
Ream more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
June 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Lena Defay
Lena Defay is a User Experience Researcher with a background in the tech industry, focused on designing user-centric systems.
Ream more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Lena Defay is a User Experience Researcher with a background in the tech industry, focused on designing user-centric systems.
Ream more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Montse Ollés Roig
Montse Ollés Roig is an interdisciplinary researcher driven by the potential of art, design and participatory processes for social change and social justice.
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Montse Ollés Roig is an interdisciplinary researcher driven by the potential of art, design and participatory processes for social change and social justice.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
June 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Montse Ollés Roig
Montse Ollés Roig is an interdisciplinary researcher driven by the potential of art, design and participatory processes for social change and social justice.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Montse Ollés Roig is an interdisciplinary researcher driven by the potential of art, design and participatory processes for social change and social justice.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Gema FB Martín
Gema FB Martín does academic research on how technologies work & their societal impact from a psychological perspective. She works as a lecturer & researcher focusing on sound fiction & conceptual projects.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Gema FB Martín does academic research on how technologies work & their societal impact from a psychological perspective. She works as a lecturer & researcher focusing on sound fiction & conceptual projects.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
June 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Gema FB Martín
Gema FB Martín does academic research on how technologies work & their societal impact from a psychological perspective. She works as a lecturer & researcher focusing on sound fiction & conceptual projects.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Gema FB Martín does academic research on how technologies work & their societal impact from a psychological perspective. She works as a lecturer & researcher focusing on sound fiction & conceptual projects.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Joyce den Hertog
Joyce den Hertog is a creative technologist and a mixed-media artist with a curiosity for the intersection between technology and traditional arts such as dance, poetry, and theatre.
joisujoisu.nl
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Joyce den Hertog is a creative technologist and a mixed-media artist with a curiosity for the intersection between technology and traditional arts such as dance, poetry, and theatre.
joisujoisu.nl
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
June 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Joyce den Hertog
Joyce den Hertog is a creative technologist and a mixed-media artist with a curiosity for the intersection between technology and traditional arts such as dance, poetry, and theatre.
joisujoisu.nl
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Joyce den Hertog is a creative technologist and a mixed-media artist with a curiosity for the intersection between technology and traditional arts such as dance, poetry, and theatre.
joisujoisu.nl
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Jaap Goldhoorn
Jaap Goldhoorn comes from a background in engineering with an interest in exploring the social realities of an increasingly technologically advanced society.
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Jaap Goldhoorn comes from a background in engineering with an interest in exploring the social realities of an increasingly technologically advanced society.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
June 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Jaap Goldhoorn
Jaap Goldhoorn comes from a background in engineering with an interest in exploring the social realities of an increasingly technologically advanced society.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Jaap Goldhoorn comes from a background in engineering with an interest in exploring the social realities of an increasingly technologically advanced society.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Freyja van den Boom
Freyja van den Boom is a researcher exploring how anticipatory governance can shape emerging technologies for better futures while mitigating risks and harm caused by increasingly AI-enabled societies.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Freyja van den Boom is a researcher exploring how anticipatory governance can shape emerging technologies for better futures while mitigating risks and harm caused by increasingly AI-enabled societies.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
June 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Freyja van den Boom
Freyja van den Boom is a researcher exploring how anticipatory governance can shape emerging technologies for better futures while mitigating risks and harm caused by increasingly AI-enabled societies.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Freyja van den Boom is a researcher exploring how anticipatory governance can shape emerging technologies for better futures while mitigating risks and harm caused by increasingly AI-enabled societies.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Antoine Begon
Antoine Begon is a software developer and digital artist challenging the dominance of major platforms while preserving space for freedom, expression and poetry in the cyber world.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Antoine Begon is a software developer and digital artist challenging the dominance of major platforms while preserving space for freedom, expression and poetry in the cyber world.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
June 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Antoine Begon
Antoine Begon is a software developer and digital artist challenging the dominance of major platforms while preserving space for freedom, expression and poetry in the cyber world.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Antoine Begon is a software developer and digital artist challenging the dominance of major platforms while preserving space for freedom, expression and poetry in the cyber world.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Caitlin van Bommel
Caitlin van Bommel is a New Media and Digital Culture student at UVA, focusing on accelerationist philosophy and Silicon Valley. She has contributed to multiple exhibitions and projects.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Caitlin van Bommel is a New Media and Digital Culture student at UVA, focusing on accelerationist philosophy and Silicon Valley. She has contributed to multiple exhibitions and projects.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
June 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Caitlin van Bommel
Caitlin van Bommel is a New Media and Digital Culture student at UVA, focusing on accelerationist philosophy and Silicon Valley. She has contributed to multiple exhibitions and projects.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Caitlin van Bommel is a New Media and Digital Culture student at UVA, focusing on accelerationist philosophy and Silicon Valley. She has contributed to multiple exhibitions and projects.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | David van Walderveen
David van Walderveen is a designer working with various mediums, currently at an institute for fundamental energy research, bridging scientific knowledge with industry, politics, & the general public.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
David van Walderveen is a designer working with various mediums, currently at an institute for fundamental energy research, bridging scientific knowledge with industry, politics, & the general public.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
June 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | David van Walderveen
David van Walderveen is a designer working with various mediums, currently at an institute for fundamental energy research, bridging scientific knowledge with industry, politics, & the general public.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
David van Walderveen is a designer working with various mediums, currently at an institute for fundamental energy research, bridging scientific knowledge with industry, politics, & the general public.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Luis Ferreira
Luis Ferreira is a creative technologist focused on bridging the digital and physical to enable new forms of creativity and expression.
www.luisferreira.tech
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Luis Ferreira is a creative technologist focused on bridging the digital and physical to enable new forms of creativity and expression.
www.luisferreira.tech
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
May 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Luis Ferreira
Luis Ferreira is a creative technologist focused on bridging the digital and physical to enable new forms of creativity and expression.
www.luisferreira.tech
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Luis Ferreira is a creative technologist focused on bridging the digital and physical to enable new forms of creativity and expression.
www.luisferreira.tech
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Kaspar Ravel
Kaspar Ravel is a researcher in tactical media, as well as a teacher and artist designing and employing safe(r) technologies to address societal issues.
www.itskaspar.com
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Kaspar Ravel is a researcher in tactical media, as well as a teacher and artist designing and employing safe(r) technologies to address societal issues.
www.itskaspar.com
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
May 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Kaspar Ravel
Kaspar Ravel is a researcher in tactical media, as well as a teacher and artist designing and employing safe(r) technologies to address societal issues.
www.itskaspar.com
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Kaspar Ravel is a researcher in tactical media, as well as a teacher and artist designing and employing safe(r) technologies to address societal issues.
www.itskaspar.com
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Xuanning Chen
Xuanning Chen is an artist based in China and the Netherlands. Xuanning works with electronics, art, hardware, and software, as a means to design and sell modular synthesizer parts.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Xuanning Chen is an artist based in China and the Netherlands. Xuanning works with electronics, art, hardware, and software, as a means to design and sell modular synthesizer parts.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
May 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Xuanning Chen
Xuanning Chen is an artist based in China and the Netherlands. Xuanning works with electronics, art, hardware, and software, as a means to design and sell modular synthesizer parts.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Xuanning Chen is an artist based in China and the Netherlands. Xuanning works with electronics, art, hardware, and software, as a means to design and sell modular synthesizer parts.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Elena Zaghis
Elena Zaghis operates at the intersection of Digital Culture, Speculative Design, and Design Fiction, exploring alternative futures in this era of technological acceleration.
@666ultracorpo999.bsky.social
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Elena Zaghis operates at the intersection of Digital Culture, Speculative Design, and Design Fiction, exploring alternative futures in this era of technological acceleration.
@666ultracorpo999.bsky.social
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
May 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Elena Zaghis
Elena Zaghis operates at the intersection of Digital Culture, Speculative Design, and Design Fiction, exploring alternative futures in this era of technological acceleration.
@666ultracorpo999.bsky.social
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Elena Zaghis operates at the intersection of Digital Culture, Speculative Design, and Design Fiction, exploring alternative futures in this era of technological acceleration.
@666ultracorpo999.bsky.social
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Colas Fiszman
Colas Fiszman is a media artist & designer with a background in visual effects. He founded of Tyrell, a design studio specializing in media art installations & audiovisual performances.
www.tyrell.studio
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Colas Fiszman is a media artist & designer with a background in visual effects. He founded of Tyrell, a design studio specializing in media art installations & audiovisual performances.
www.tyrell.studio
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
May 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Colas Fiszman
Colas Fiszman is a media artist & designer with a background in visual effects. He founded of Tyrell, a design studio specializing in media art installations & audiovisual performances.
www.tyrell.studio
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Colas Fiszman is a media artist & designer with a background in visual effects. He founded of Tyrell, a design studio specializing in media art installations & audiovisual performances.
www.tyrell.studio
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Lina Mittendorff
Lina Mittendorff is a writer and spatial researcher studying at the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Institute. She is primarily concerned with the (im)material spatialities of everyday life.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Lina Mittendorff is a writer and spatial researcher studying at the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Institute. She is primarily concerned with the (im)material spatialities of everyday life.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
May 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Lina Mittendorff
Lina Mittendorff is a writer and spatial researcher studying at the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Institute. She is primarily concerned with the (im)material spatialities of everyday life.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Lina Mittendorff is a writer and spatial researcher studying at the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Institute. She is primarily concerned with the (im)material spatialities of everyday life.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Minka de Regt
Minka de Regt is an interdisciplinary feminist researcher, interested in merging sound studies, digital media, and multisensory ethnography.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Minka de Regt is an interdisciplinary feminist researcher, interested in merging sound studies, digital media, and multisensory ethnography.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
May 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Minka de Regt
Minka de Regt is an interdisciplinary feminist researcher, interested in merging sound studies, digital media, and multisensory ethnography.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Minka de Regt is an interdisciplinary feminist researcher, interested in merging sound studies, digital media, and multisensory ethnography.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Ayoon Ro
Ayoon Ro is an expanding her artistic practice into digital media, she works with animation, gaming, and extended reality (XR) with a focus on challenging how we experience memory and emotion.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Ayoon Ro is an expanding her artistic practice into digital media, she works with animation, gaming, and extended reality (XR) with a focus on challenging how we experience memory and emotion.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
May 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Ayoon Ro
Ayoon Ro is an expanding her artistic practice into digital media, she works with animation, gaming, and extended reality (XR) with a focus on challenging how we experience memory and emotion.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Ayoon Ro is an expanding her artistic practice into digital media, she works with animation, gaming, and extended reality (XR) with a focus on challenging how we experience memory and emotion.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Queenie F. Charles
Queenie F. Charles is a graphic designer, DJ, & new media artist. They explore the nostalgia associated with our uses of technology to reflect on evolving digital relationships.
Read More: impakt.nl/residencies-...
www.queenparamount.com.
Queenie F. Charles is a graphic designer, DJ, & new media artist. They explore the nostalgia associated with our uses of technology to reflect on evolving digital relationships.
Read More: impakt.nl/residencies-...
www.queenparamount.com.
May 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Queenie F. Charles
Queenie F. Charles is a graphic designer, DJ, & new media artist. They explore the nostalgia associated with our uses of technology to reflect on evolving digital relationships.
Read More: impakt.nl/residencies-...
www.queenparamount.com.
Queenie F. Charles is a graphic designer, DJ, & new media artist. They explore the nostalgia associated with our uses of technology to reflect on evolving digital relationships.
Read More: impakt.nl/residencies-...
www.queenparamount.com.
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | August Kaasa Sundgaard
August Kaasa Sundgaard is a digital culture researcher & artist. He explores post-internet art, digital subcultures, & the military-entertainment complex through writing, video and publications.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
August Kaasa Sundgaard is a digital culture researcher & artist. He explores post-internet art, digital subcultures, & the military-entertainment complex through writing, video and publications.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
May 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | August Kaasa Sundgaard
August Kaasa Sundgaard is a digital culture researcher & artist. He explores post-internet art, digital subcultures, & the military-entertainment complex through writing, video and publications.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
August Kaasa Sundgaard is a digital culture researcher & artist. He explores post-internet art, digital subcultures, & the military-entertainment complex through writing, video and publications.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Susannah Montgomery
Susannah Montgomery specializes in making complex topics, such as AI, misinformation, and European values, tangible through interactive experiences.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Susannah Montgomery specializes in making complex topics, such as AI, misinformation, and European values, tangible through interactive experiences.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
May 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Susannah Montgomery
Susannah Montgomery specializes in making complex topics, such as AI, misinformation, and European values, tangible through interactive experiences.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Susannah Montgomery specializes in making complex topics, such as AI, misinformation, and European values, tangible through interactive experiences.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Sophia Bulgakova
Sophia Bulgakova is a Ukranian interdisciplinary artist, scientist and activist. She works with art, technology, & contemporary social structures, focusing on cultural identity, perception, & imagination.
Read More: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Sophia Bulgakova is a Ukranian interdisciplinary artist, scientist and activist. She works with art, technology, & contemporary social structures, focusing on cultural identity, perception, & imagination.
Read More: impakt.nl/residencies-...
May 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Sophia Bulgakova
Sophia Bulgakova is a Ukranian interdisciplinary artist, scientist and activist. She works with art, technology, & contemporary social structures, focusing on cultural identity, perception, & imagination.
Read More: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Sophia Bulgakova is a Ukranian interdisciplinary artist, scientist and activist. She works with art, technology, & contemporary social structures, focusing on cultural identity, perception, & imagination.
Read More: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Denisa Půbalová
Denisa Půbalová is an audiovisual artist, researcher, creative coder, and lecturer focused on environmental philosophy, critical posthumanism, and technological infrastructures.
www.denisapubalova.com
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Denisa Půbalová is an audiovisual artist, researcher, creative coder, and lecturer focused on environmental philosophy, critical posthumanism, and technological infrastructures.
www.denisapubalova.com
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
April 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Denisa Půbalová
Denisa Půbalová is an audiovisual artist, researcher, creative coder, and lecturer focused on environmental philosophy, critical posthumanism, and technological infrastructures.
www.denisapubalova.com
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Denisa Půbalová is an audiovisual artist, researcher, creative coder, and lecturer focused on environmental philosophy, critical posthumanism, and technological infrastructures.
www.denisapubalova.com
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Franc Archive
Franc Archive, with a background in urban art, graphic design, and media art, creates immersive, multi-screen installations with an urban character and satirical edge.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
📸 Hanne van der Velde & Gabe Kamphuis
Franc Archive, with a background in urban art, graphic design, and media art, creates immersive, multi-screen installations with an urban character and satirical edge.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
📸 Hanne van der Velde & Gabe Kamphuis
April 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Introducing CODE 2025 Participants | Franc Archive
Franc Archive, with a background in urban art, graphic design, and media art, creates immersive, multi-screen installations with an urban character and satirical edge.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
📸 Hanne van der Velde & Gabe Kamphuis
Franc Archive, with a background in urban art, graphic design, and media art, creates immersive, multi-screen installations with an urban character and satirical edge.
Read more: impakt.nl/residencies-...
📸 Hanne van der Velde & Gabe Kamphuis