Data Church - Vito Boeckx
1—3 March 2019
A 3-DAY MINI-FESTIVAL Het Huis Utrecht and IMPAKT Center for Media Culture
AUGMENT AND DISRUPT Augment and Disrupt is a 3-day mini-festival that will explore various urgent topics surrounding the interactions between art, society and technology; from the contested territories of new digital platforms to the future of the interface. The programme of Augment and Disrupt is built around the annual conference of EMAP, the European Media Art Platform. EMAP is Europe’s biggest network of media art organizations, with eleven members and various associate partners from countries all over Europe. Speakers presenting at Augment and Disrupt range from renowned scholars, authors and reprentatives from Europe’s main media art festivals, to the young and emerging artists that are selected to produce new work in the residencies that are part of the EMAP platform. In addition to a wide variety of panels there are performances, screenings and exhibitions included in the programme. 2.
What Remains - Marloes de Valk
Media Art organizations that will present at Augment and Disrupt: Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens, Greece), Bandits Mages (Bourges, France), FACT Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool, United Kingdom), IMPAKT Center for Media Culture (Utrecht, Netherlands), Kontejner (Zagreb, Croatia), LaBoral Centro de Arte y Creaciรณn Industrial (Gijรณn, Spain), M-Cult (Helsinki, Finland), RIXC (Riga, Latvia), WRO Center for Media Art (Wroclaw, Poland), Werkleitz Centre for Media Art (Halle, Germany), transmediale (Berlin, Germany), Haunted Machines (United Kingdom) and many others.
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Friday 1 March
CONTESTED TERRITORIES Online platforms, games and new technologies such as VR and AR as the new and yet unchartered area’s of political debate and opinion making. 11.00 — 12.00 Art ♥ Media Media art in Europe: festivals, labs, exhibition spaces, residency programmes. A presentation by the eleven EMAP member organizations.
12.00 — 13.30 Truth that Lies Tour of the Truth that Lies Exhibition at IMPAKT Center for Media Culture.
12.00 — 13.30 Screening Gaming the Real World (Anders Eklund, 2016, Sweden, 73 mins)
14.00 — 15.30 Panel: Virtual Agoras, Can Games Change the World? How we can change the debate around games to allow for their potential for creating understanding and compassion as well new prospects for resistance? Panel with Wouter Moraal (artist, NL), Marc Schuilenburg (VU University Amsterdam, NL), Marloes de Valk (artist, NL), Lesley Taker (FACT Liverpool, UK). Moderator: Kristoffer Gansing (transmediale, DE).
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Friday 1 March 16.00 — 17.30 Panel: Understanding Datapolis. How Data Affects the City and Its Citizens Artists and researchers explore how art can help illuminate the way data is harvested, used and exploited in the urban environment and consequently its increasing influence on citizens and politics. Panel with Vito Boeckx (artist NL), Nanna Verhoeff and Sigrid Merx (Utrecht University, NL), DISNOVATION.ORG (Maria Roszkowska & Nicolas Maigret) (artists, FR/PL via video), Minna Tarkka (m-cult, FI). Moderator: Arjon Dunnewind (IMPAKT, NL)
18.30 — 19.30 Truth that Lies Tour of the Truth that Lies Exhibition at IMPAKT Center for Media Culture Operation Jane Walk - Müllner and Klengel
18.30 — 20.00 Screening Gaming the Real World (Anders Eklund, 2016, Sweden, 73 mins)
20.30 — 22.00 Operation Jane Walk A live online performance and virtual city tour of Manhattan, NY, by Leonard Müllner (AT) and Robin Klengel (AT), organised in collaboration with D.R.E.A.M. (RAUM) and introduced by Martijn de Waal (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, NL)
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Saturday 2 March
FUTURE INTERFACES How the future of the interface connects to discussions regarding agency and our relation to technology companies and providers. 14.00 — 15.30 Screening: We Are Data For details see impakt.nl
16.00 — 17.30 Panel: Your Interface, My Agency Who will design, produce and control the interfaces of the future? How can we maintain agency on these new platforms and intermediates that we will be so dependent on? Panel with Joana Moll (artist, ES), Sander Veenhof (artist, NL), Tobias Revell (curator, UK), Heracles Papatheodorou (Onassis Stegi, Athens, GR)
18.30 — 19.30 Truth that Lies Tour of the Truth that Lies Exhibition at IMPAKT
18.30 — 20.00 Screening: Future Interfaces For details see impakt.nl
20.30 — 22.00 Panel: The Body Extended How interfaces as extensions of our bodies can increase our capabilities, create social coherence or allow marginalized people to participate more fully in our society. Performance lecture by Marianna Maruyama (artist, NL/US/IT) and panel with Veronika Liebl, Ars Electronica (AT), Access and Disablism / New Emergences (NL/UK) and Marianna Maruyama (NL/US/IT). Moderator: Tobias Revell (curator, UK)
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Sunday 3 March
FUTURE INTERFACES 14.00 — 15.30 Panel: School of Non-Humans How do we talk to our machines and other intelligences? If an interface is the place or mode of interaction between human and technology, or between two entities, expanding the notion of communication to other, non-human systems creates possibilities of understanding and new dialogues previously not open to us. Panel with Tiziano Derme & Daniela Mitterberger (artists, IT/AT), Margherita Pevere (artist, IT/DE), Olga Majcen (Kontejner, Zagreb HR). Moderated by Barbara Perea and Jan Adriaans (main curators IMPAKT Festival 2019 Speculative Interfaces).
ART♥ MEDIA 16.00 — 17.30 Panel: Making Museums Future Proof How can we support presentations of art works that use digital media in museums and other contemporary art showcases? And how can we use new digital technologies to deepen the experience of the audiences of art events? Panelists and moderator: see impakt.nl
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Artificial Impact - Wouter Moraal
Venues
Tickets
Panels / Screenings / Performances
Panels and performances €8 (Discount* €7)
Het Huis Utrecht Boorstraat 107, Utrecht
Screenings €6 (Discount* €5)
Exhibition Truth that Lies and tours
Exhibition €4 (Discount €3)
IMPAKT Center for Media Culture Lange Nieuwstraat 4, Utrecht
* Discount for <18 / CJP / U-Pass
The 2019 EMAP Conference is organized by IMPAKT Centre for Media Culture. Partners EMAP-EMARE and RAUM (raumutrecht.nl). Funded by: