Impakt (Utrecht, NL) presents critical and creative views on contemporary media culture and innovative audiovisual arts in an interdisciplinary context. To this end Impakt organises the annual Impakt Festival. Next to this year-round Impakt Events are arranged: short projects or screenings centering a certain theme, movement, or artist.

Centro Multimedia (CMM) is a media art center in Mexico City dedicated to the experimentation, research, training and dissemination of artistic and cultural practices related with electronic media since almost 18 years. It has six workshops or laboratories: working facilities for interactive systems, digital graphics, audio, virtual reality, moving image and robotics/electronic interfaces. Within this framework, CMM established a media lab for the development of projects requiring a transdisciplinary process for the production of these.

Since 1991 BANDITS-MAGES, located in Bourges, France, supports the creation and research in the field of moving image and media arts. The heart of the association is the production and dissemination of film and video as well as sound art and multimedia objects. Its action therefore focuses on three main tasks: artistic production, dissemination of works and raise of awareness. Bandits-Mages offers artists a space of aesthetic freedom and research: a scalable and high-performance multimedia studio, a place of production and exhibition “The Haïdouc” and a residence venue in the city centre.

Hotel Weltfrieden was originally opened in 1905 by the hotel owner Rudolf Dietrich under the name Metropol-Hotel. In 1924, Dietrich converted the building and renamed it Gaststätte Haus Dietrich. In the wake of the financial crisis he sold it in 1931 to the brewery Eger, who managed it up to 1941 under the name Egerer Hof. In 1952 the hotel was reopened as Hotel Weltfrieden. It was the first HO Hotel (HO – GDR’s centralised trade cooperation) in Halle. In 1974/75 the buildings in Große Steinstraße 63/65 were incorporated into the business.

The Vorderhaus Schauburg was built in 1953 by the agriculturalist Carl Friedrich Rosch. In 1888 the house acquired a new use as a restaurant through the publican Wilhelm Köhler who began operations in the Gasthof zum alten Schwan. This changed at the end of the 19^th century. From 1897 on, the Vorderhaus Schauburg served both as sport hotel and restaurant for the velodrome which had been built at the same time in the hall of what was later to become the Schauburg. The house was bought by the stone mason and sculptor Paul Gellert in 1918.