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Mediamatic has moved
After a few lovely years in the Post CS building, Mediamatic is now located in Duintjer CS (the ABN AMRO bank building).
Duintjer CS
From the 1st of July 2008
Our great new exhibition space is located in the old bank store on ground floor (Vijzelstraat 68).
And our office is located at Vijzelstraat 72, 3rd floor, suite 3.10.
Phone numbers and other contact details are unchanged.
Our mail address remains: Postbus 17490, 1001 JL, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.09.07.08, Deborah Meibergen Read more
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Dance Film in Space
Until 1928 all films were dance films...
The best subject for film is dance. Both are about image, movement and action.
The camera was the first tool to be able to preserve dance.
Dirk van Oosterbosch showing the possibilities of his hacked keyboard. -
Foto taken by Florian Thalhofer
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Foto taken by Florian Thalhofer
For the Interactive Dance Film Workshop @ Cinedans a group of 16 international film makers, choreographers and dancers met in Amsterdam for 5 days to get in touch with the latest edition of the Korsakow System. Korsakow is an application used to create databased interactive films, with huge visual possibilities. As film maker and trainer in this workshop David Hinton pointed out: Film is capable of complexity in time, but not in space. Korsakow is capable of complexity in time AND space!
To be able to contextualize the workshop project not only on the screen, but also in a wider physical context, Dirk van Oosterbosch gave an inspirational introduction on sensor based electronics on Wednesday. He showed different possibilities of input, working with various sensors connected to an Arduino and a hacked keyboard, that connected the input to the running Korsakow project.
On the first day lectures were held by David Hinton about the relations between choreography and film and the development of dance films. Simon Fildes discussed his HyperChoreography project, that explores the crossroads between dance film and hyper media. The latest project inspired by the notion of HyperChoreography is Move-Me by Simon Fildes and his partner Katrina McPherson. In a sort of video booth, users can select a little choreographic score of several well known choreographers, that they can than perform t...
09.07.08, Deborah Meibergen Read more
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Press release June 19th, 2008
We are liquidating our library
in protest of the cultural funding stalemate
Mediamatic will give away all its books. Our library will cease to exist in protest of the impasse between the Raad van Cultuur and Minister Plasterk on cultural subsidies. We call on the public to come collect the full book collection and to take care of the cultural capital themselves. Mediamatic can no longer do it on their own.
Melancholy in the Library (before distribution)
Rules for participating in the distributed library can be found here
“The deadlock between Minister Plasterk and the Raad voor Cultuur on the development of an infrastructure for the arts will lead to a step back instead of forwards. While we want to innovate and develop,” states Willem Velthoven, director of Mediamatic. “I do not want to revert to 2003. Though that is what the result of all this is threatening to be. We are not going to wait around and will concentrate on the core issues. Our own library will become a luxury we cannot afford,” according to Velthoven.
That is why Mediamatic is calling on the public to come and care for the library themselves. They are calling on everyone to come and collect the books, magazines and multimedia. That can be done on Saturday, June 28th from 16:00 to 21:00 and on Sunday June 29th from 12:00 to 17:00, in the office of Mediamatic in the Post CS building, Oosterdokskade 5, fifth floor. There will also be music and a book bar.
The only condition that comes with the free books is that the person needs to register (for free) on the Mediamatic website. And that he or she must promise to lend the book to another member if she or he requests it. Thus we create a distributed library. The books and the new owners will remain accessible through the Mediamatic website....
19.06.08, Michel Langendijk Read more
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Nan is Dood
Nan Hoover is op 9 juni 2008 in Berlijn overleden.
Ze was ziek.
We zullen haar missen.
Als kunstenaar. Als mentor. Als vriend.
Nan Hoover performance -
Picture of a performance that Nan did in Het Kijkhuis in The Hague in 1984
De crematieplechtigheid vindt op maandag 16 juni om 17.30 uur in Berlijn plaats, in het Haus der Begegnung, Fürstenbrunner Weg 10-12.
Op vrijdag 20 juni om 17.00 uur is er een herdenkingsbijeenkomst in het Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam.
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10.06.08, Michel Langendijk Read more
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Party
We love STEIM
No fun without them
STEIM is in danger. We think the disappearance of STEIM would be a disaster. In support of STEIM, Mediamatic and DNK-Amsterdam will be organizing some tailgate parties on May 30 and June 6 on the PostCS parking lot. The parties start at 21:00 with performances stemming from STEIM grounds. After the performances STEIM-supportive-DNK-DJs will take over and facilitate dancing.
The GarageBOX bar is open!
djsniff
With TokTek, DJ Sniff (NL/JP) + Fedde ten Berge (NL), OneManNation (SG/NL) + Richard Scott (UK), DNK-Friday DJ Unit (The Real Master Fader, Mr Fooo, The Snail, guest DJ Minty Fluttershy) and The paradigm of Intuitive Science, a Kirlian performance by Melanie Bonajo (NL) and Kinga Kielczynska (PL).
What is wrong with STEIM? Both the Amsterdam Kunstraad as the Raad voor Cultuur have advised to discontinue structural finance for STEIM. That means that the financial foundation needs to be entirely rebuilt. As far as we are concerned, STEIM is an important part of the basic cultural infrastructure. STEIM fulfills a necessary LAB function in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the rest of the world.
- Tom Verbruggen alias TokTek makes spectacular compositions with joysticks, laptops and many self made instruments. He will take you to a world where images have no meaning.
- DJ Sniff (Takuro Mizuto Lippit) is one of the best turntablists in the world. To him the turntable is the ultimate autonomous instrument. Seeing and hearing him will acutely make you a Sniff-fan for life.
- One Man Nation brings forth his own brand of music, visuals and performance art as the various disciplines amalgamate smoothly into the musical flow of improvises beats and samples to create his desolate soundtrack. Controlling his computer via various hardware controllers, you are promised a very physical and present performance.
- The DNK-Friday DJ Unit plays the ...
24.05.08, Willem Velthoven Read more
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666: welcome recognition
Dutch arts council (Raad voor Cultuur) recommends substantial raise in Mediamatics public funding.
We were very happy and proud to read the advice about our plans for the coming 4 years. The Arts council of the Netherlands praises our current practice and recommends that the ministry of culture increase support for our activities with 300% to 666.000 euros per year. We copy the text of their advice below. The full report can be found on www.cultuur.nl. The Mediamatic foundations plan for 2008-2011 is attached as a PDF. By the way, it is in no way garanteed that we'll actually receive this money. That is subject to complex negotiations that will take at least till september 2008.
Beoordeling
Mediamatic voldoet aan de criteria die de subsidieregeling hanteert voor een ontwikkelinstelling. De instelling heeft een duidelijk accent op experiment en ontwikkeling. Verdieping en ontwikkeling van het e-cultuurterrein in relatie tot (ontwikkelingen in) de maatschappij staan hierin vaak centraal.
Mediamatic heeft een toegankelijk, zichzelf enigszins relativerend, beleidsplan geschreven. In het brede pakket aan activiteiten gaan experiment en publieksbereik hand in hand. De Raad is van mening dat Mediamatic een actief medialab is. Zo is het niet alleen zichtbaar in de e-cultuursector op zich, maar ook in de samenleving. Dankzij een duidelijke visie zijn de producten en projecten van de instelling scherp gekozen en bovendien worden ze vakkundig uitgevoerd. Wat Mediamatic aan research doet, brengt het ook naar buiten.
Mediamatic ontwikkelt nieuwe vormen van participatie en laat zich hierbij niet leiden door de techniek maar door (de vraag van) het publiek. Door de focus op daadwerkelijke participatie krijgen de plannen en projecten inhoudelijk handen en voeten, met een vanzelfsprekende inbedding van inter- en multiculturele issues. De resultaten van Mediamatic zijn publiek toegankelijk in de vorm van tentoonstellingen, workshops en andere openbare evenementen. Publieksbereik staat bij de instelling hoog in het vaandel. Bij Mediamatic worden de onderwerpen, de projecten en het publiek erg goed op elkaar afgestemd. Hierdoor worden soms honderd...24.05.08, Willem Velthoven Read more
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SensorMania
Notes from the e-Fashion day
Interactive fashion needs technology. If we want our clothes to move, sense and light up, then we will need the materials to do this for us. There are a lot of very interesting materials out there, but their engineers may never have considered them as possible fashion fabrics. Mostly their purpose is more industrial- shielding, antibacterial or other such practical things.
a handmade, flexible, sewable and washable microcontroller
Leah Buechley, who designed the sewable version of the Arduino microcontroller, is fascinated with materials, and especially with using them for interactive projects close to her body. She was in Amsterdam for one day, and during that day she presented a circus of some of the cooler sensors and actuators she has been working with lately. Stretch, bend and press sensors, conductive thread, velcro and rubber, and much more.
24.04.08, Nadya Peek 1 commentsRead more
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2 april 2008
EL HEMA on the Road
Kosmopolis adopteert El HEMA
De tentoonstelling en winkel EL HEMA reist in 2008 met Kosmopolis door Nederland. Het multimediale platform Kosmopolis maakte vandaag bekend dat zij de El HEMA adopteert. De El HEMA is in mei te zien in Utrecht, in juni en juli in Den Haag en in augustus en september Rotterdam.
EL HEMA is een initiatief van Mediamatic en was van 24 augustus 2007 t/m 6 januari 2008 te zien. De aanleiding voor de denkbeeldige Arabische HEMA waren vijf nieuwe Arabische digitale lettertypen. De tentoonstelling trok ruim 50.000 bezoekers en won de Nederlandse Design Prijs in de categorie Visuele Identiteit. Lees meer over EL HEMA.
El Hema winkel chocolade shoppen
02.04.08, Michel Langendijk Read more
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Low-tech & High-brow
images from your kitchen sink
Lo-tech VJing
A painting looks like it has been painted. A photograph looks like it has been photographed. And yet, I am not bothered by an image being so obviously silkscreened. Why is it then, that I am so annoyed at animations that look like Flash, CD-roms that look like Director MX and the latest science fiction box office success looking like it could also be an advertisment for the latest possibilities in After Effects?
Klaas and Arne, electro acoustic visual
Some people create their own aesthetic by creating their own software: Bob Sabiston's A Scanner Darkly or Waking Life are wonderfully unique in their imagery. However, not everyone has the cash for full fletched software development for a visual project. This results in too much motion too constrained by too little software. Animators and VJs have it tough.
Last week at the Mediamatic EcoVis salon, we had the pleasure of 6 pairs of VJs performing simultaneously to our local electro-acoustic improvisation band Oorbeek. These were the results of the 1-day Lo-Tech VJ workshop. None of them looked like Photoshop filters, nor did any of them look alike. They projected onto all the white walls available, on top of the Oorbeek band members, who politely donned white boiler suits to minimize their visual appearance for the occasion.
...30.03.08, Nadya Peek Read more
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Sorry indeed
Last night we finally watched Wilders own sorry movie.
It used a lot of footage from terror attack by islamist groups. The footage that we've all seen more than enough during the past years. Wilders' 10 minute collection is filthy. He interlaced it with Qur'an quotes suggesting that all these crimes are justified and prescribed by Islam. Of course one could have done the same with the old testament. Boring demagogy that is so transparent that it will hardly convince anyone of anything. Embarrassing indeed. Can we now get back to work please? Thank you.
28.03.08, Willem Velthoven 1 commentsRead more
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