Best of 2008

What would an Arabic Hema look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high quality headscarves? 3 Arabic scarfs (kaffia) for the price of 2? Tunics or djellabas? School...

A two-day course centered on experimenting and iteratively fine-tuning urban designs with FabLab. Use materials such as frames and stencil sheets in combination with light and mirrors in order to...

In this concentrated hands-on course participants will develop prototypes for playful hybrid world applications. We will focus on designing physical toys with digital and/or networked components. We'...

Beauty Parlour was a public meeting in preparation of a ikikik! (mememe!). ikikik! was an exhibition about self-representation on the net. Instead of shopping all day long just to find the perfect...

Our International Marriage Agency and Consulting Service was open for women and men from Wed to Sun from 4 to 8 p.m. Experienced professionals were there to answer all your questions. Every day we...

Looking for a new friendship, cultural dipping or creative impulse? Curious about other people and cultures? Then Gastarbeider (Immigrant) Dating was something for you! From January 27th to the 16th...

Koen Vanmechelen tries to find the best chicken clone, UNIVERSAL COSMOPOLITAN CHICKEN. He breeds chickens from national races to get to a bastard chicken that has all genes of the national chicken.

Nostalgia and Chaos was an installation that showed different aspects of contemporary Argentinean cultural production. It was also part of Mediamatic's Gastarbeider dating series.

A quick guide to making electronic circuits with the FabLab 3D milling and scanning machine. With the support and versatile skills of Marc Boon participants will be guided through the simple steps to...

"Vaarwel Amsterdam" (Goodbye Amsterdam) is a poem by Vicente Zito Lema, performed by Lidewij Mahler and Aimee Zito Lema.

During the “Gastarbeider Dating” (Guestworker Dating) exhibition at Mediamatic, Kyoko Inatome and Emiko Chujo presented “Japan, New & Old, In & Out”. A meeting point with a series of performances and...

We first showed a screening of the Japanese film: Japan The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女 - Toki o Kakeru Shōjo, also known as TokiKake). Later on everyone enjoyed the karaoke bar. Tonight was...

Shabera Night was presented by Japanese creators living in the Netherlands, Dutch and foreign creators who are influenced by Japanese culture, organizations, groups, music bands etc. After an evening...

Zhana Ivanova and friends set out to make a film tribute to one of her favourite Bulgarian movies, TOPLO (1978). As her cast she invited all the Bulgarians she could find. The Mediamatic visitors did...

By means of dynamic interaction both indoors and outside in the public sphere and a growing presentation in the exhibition space, Gil & Moti tended to generate an informal critical discussion with...

Learn and play with new electric designer materials - a new 1-day workshop with Leah Buechley on the uses of new electric designer materials in e-Fashion and wearables. During the workshop Leah was...

For 4 days long everyone was able to enjoy a live evolving audio collage consisting of interviews, commentary, music and fun. The Audio-streaming was running all through the day and night with both...

"I realize that slowly I have become the representative of my country to all my friends in the Netherlands. Therefore I invited a group of 11 artists to join my project, most of them are none...

Conclusions of a research about Persian dance in a form of a live happening. The visitors were directed to pose in front of the camera a selection of movements with the assistance of storytelling

By using and combining various sources of projections and lights, fingercams, mirrors, foils, lenses, projection surfaces and more, participants will explore non digital ways to generate amazing...

An evening on environmental awareness through the visualization of power consumption and CO2 footprint. Featuring Tiffany Holmes, Beatriz da Costa, Michael Mandiberg, Yolande Harris, Esther Polak and...

A two-day course centered on experimenting and iteratively fine-tuning urban designs with FabLab. Use materials such as frames and stencil sheets in combination with light and mirrors in order to...

Mediummatic didn't only take place during the day. Everyone was welcome to stay overnight as well. Today's programme was Trance Travelling .

It was the first in a series of evenings on The Power of Negative Thinking. Mediamatic wanted you to say no and stay critical. Tonight's theme was the Development of the Self in the 21st Century

STEIM was in danger. In our opinion the disappearance of STEIM would be a disaster. In support of STEIM, Mediamatic and DNK-Amsterdam organized some tailgate parties on May 30 and June 6 of 2008 on...

Within the short time frame of three days participants conceptualize and construct a prototype of their own Augmented Reality Game. The focus of the workshop, the AR, is about playing with virtual...

During this night, Theodore Watson, Julian Oliver (NZ), Yolande Kolstee and Jan Torpus (CH)/Alex Schaub (CH) showed those who were present that Augmented Reality combines the "real" world with the...

The Parking Lot Party was a music marathon with performances by Byungjun Kwon, Nanko, JS Lach, Keir Neuringer / Rafal Mazur, the band Sightings ("Guitar, bass and drums reconfigured for a new purpose"...

Say Yes / No to the Internet was part of "The Power of Negative Thinking" nights. With three different presentations on the subject, Mediamatic hoped to stimulate you and me to break from this...

Together with the Cinedans Festival, Mediamatic organises a workshop on interactive dance film. In this workshop, 16 international dance filmers, editors and choreographers make interactive online...

This night was a night of fashion, art, activism and performance with artists, stylists, video directors, DJ's, happenings and video clips by Andrea Crews .... at the opening of Me! Me! Me! Fashion.

ikikik! (me me me!) was all about DIY Fashion and showing yourself on the internet. An exhibition / upcycling / catwalking / photoshoot / coworking and storysharing fest that made you feel & look...

This second upcycle yourself workshop was part of ikikik! (mememe!). During this day, the Andrea Crews Collection gave everyone the opportunity to create their own marvelous outfit out of old vintage...

It was a playful training on how to work with your body and looks. Not for models, but for all the rest of us who want to look good.

Finally child labour was fun! In this workshop kids were given the opportunity to design their ultimate catwalk sneaker and get a self designed shirt with their own drawings. Haute Couture was...

Due to popular demand Mediamatic decided to prolong Ikikik. A great reason to throw a party!

In the days immediately preceding PICNIC 2008, Mediamatic set up another heavy duty Hacker Camp. If you didn't know yet, PICNIC is an outstanding high-profile conference at the intersection of media

Women who want to be men, men who want to be women and everything in between. Mediamatic's exhibition Kiki on Steroids! was an intimate exploration of the world of transgenderism and self

Friday October 17 Mediamatic celebrated the opening of the new exhibition Kiki on Steroids!, about transgender and selfrepresentation on the internet. With over 350 visitors it was a big success.

Designing hybrid toys with Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino of Tinker.it This a summary of and some comments on the excellent lecture of Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino that she delivered in the context of...

It was a substantial night with the launch of a limited edition magazine, a ceremony and music, all to celebrate the collective. Hosted by the design department of the Sandberg Institute.

Mediamatic and B3 Media organized an action packed 5-day workshop about audiovisual projects for a mix of new media platforms and channels. The workshop participants came with their own project ideas...

It was a night filled with performances, workshops and music, all relating to the exhibition Kiki! on Steroids.

A Myspace or Hyves for your organization? Twitter in your museum? Flickr to extend your collection? 'Kom je ook?' showed you the most inspiring web2.0 examples. A symposium for cultural heritage...

Mediamatic and IDFA organized a 5-day workshop to augment your documentary practice. Participants researched which new media tools worked for their content ideas, and how to incorporate them. We also...

Cassian Harrison (Britain from Above) and Maartje Nevejan (Couscous & Cola and Couscous Global) are two documentary directors who initiated truly new ways of making documentaries. During their...

At the 27th of November the GRAPHIC SERVICES by students of the first year of graphic design at the Rietveld Academie were exhibited at the Mediamatic Bank in Amsterdam.

The MobileDevCamp, already in its second installment, brought techies from all over the country (and even from the UK and Finland!) together to teach them about the latest developments in mobile...

Martin Butler's The Girlfriend Experience was staged at For God's Sake! / Pixxelpoint festival in Slovenia. The Girlfriend Experience attracted worldwide attention when it was presented for the first...