Best of 2012

Celebrate the end of the Schommelclub in style. Dance your socks off to the otherworldly tunes by the newly found HontoHonto Deejay Team. Consisting of the ferocious Kristy (Modern Witch), Johann...

Tijdens twintig edities van Over Datum Eetclub bereidden eetgasten vorig jaar met steeds weer een andere topkok heerlijke maaltijden van over datum producten. Zembla maakt een reportage over...

We celebrated the closing of the Schommelclub with a weekend of partying. An airy performance took place on Saturday afternoon, and in the evening it was all about playful music and experimental...

We celebrated the closing of the Schommelclub with a weekend of partying. Costumes and cotton candy with the whole family on Sunday, but first a performance on Saturday afternoon, and some serious...

For people who haven't yet experienced the life-sized blue whale at Mediamatic FABRIEK, this weekend offers a special opportunity to meet the beautiful beast. In the dark space the artists will guide...

We've filled up our picnic baskets, packed our most colorful towel and went to a summer party on Sunday March 4. In addition to the exhibition Radiant Beach, we had a blast in the warmth of the...

During the third New Order exhibition, a new social order is in your hands. Graphic designers Femke Herregraven and Chris Lee developed a life sized, real-time board game evolving around the topic of...

This weekend we had a bubble movie screening inside DUS architects' Mind Igloo. You could pick your spot in the giant balloon, get comfortable and enjoy the film about a hot air balloon. Furthermore...

The Netherlands are stuck with a big overload of onions. To prevent them from rotting or being trashed, Mediamatic rescues a quarter of a million onions from Jo Flens, a farmer form Texel. In the...

Last weekend we had a great time building two different Aquaponic systems (a 4-beds mobile one and a smaller one as a test system). But our urban farm is not finished yet. We still have a lot of work...

Coal miners once hammered rock with twittering canaries living beside them, their changing song a warning alarm for a dangerous gas leak. These living sensors watched over us and kept us safe. For...

The high density 4-storey Aquaponic Edifice, together with the Diesel Kantine of João Negro, had its first showing at the Food and Architecture Fair in Amsterdam and it is now in Eindhoven for the...

The Aquaponics Group will meet at the Van Gendthallen to talk about how to extract the heat from the LED-lighting, and how to build a system that uses that heat to heat the water in our aquarium. We...

At the second opening party we showed the new artworks and installations that have been growing in the exhibition. People joined us for an epic mold battle, and listened to mushroom- and mold...

We served up a steaming bowl full of scientists, designers, and artists this month. From intimate design and illustration to scientific research into a new generation solar cells, and the...

780,559 names of Amsterdam residents have been woven into Maarten Baas' May 5 tablecloth. People came to Mediamatic Fabriek this weekend to find their names on the 60-meter-long piece. Saturday we...

WatSpinoza? ignites public discussion by asking questions based on Spinoza's writings. Mediamatic formulated the questions together with writer/philosopher Dirk van Weelden. In May 2012, 16 questions...

In De Etende Mens (Food Culture: Eating by Design) Premsela explores how design can enable us to make the changes to our food chain that are necessary to ensure a healthy future. Mediamatic's High...