Best of 2006

For a period of six weeks, Mediamatic's exhibition space was taken over by the N Collective, an international network of artists, experimental musicians and composers. Especially for this purpose...

During this lecture Ulla-Maaria Mutanen (University of Helsinki, Finland) talked about her idea on why we enjoy making things.

Deze speciale salon gaf de bezoekers de mogelijkheid om deel te nemen aan een rondleiding door het EnergeticA Museum aan de hand van speciale gasten die uitleg gaven over hun FAVORIETE object.

Mediamatic presents a 2-day workshop on social tagging, or Mobtagging. Mobtagging is what happens when groups of users freely apply and exchange labels (metadata) to online information. It allows...

With the Machinima workshop, Mediamatic traverses the intersection of filmmaking, animation and game development. Machinima was at this point a new form of filmmaking based on computer games...

A salon with Mark Meadows, writer of Pause and Effect , who spoke on his latest project, including a videogame made in collaboration with Radiohead, Annie Lennox and Frank Gehry, two groups of...

An exhibition modelled after Jean-Luc Godards film from 1963. With work by Yoko Ono, Marlene Dumas, Vittorio Santoro, Lars Eijssen and many others.

The presentations during this salon, war oriented due to the exhibition Le Mépris, (or Contempt) named after the film by Jean-Luc Godard, included two works by L.A. Raeven, an analysis of both...

In this new RFID & the Internet of Things workshop by Mediamatic, 5 great speakers guided the participants of the workshop through the technical, social and cultural issues relating to RFID and the...

A salon with some new games, as thought up by graphic design students from the Rietveld Academy, a presentation by Régine Débatty of we-make-money-not-art a display of various products as thought up...

A rampant night salon in Stedelijk Museum, with games, music and installations, and with Mediamatic contributing The Bob Block Machinima Show by Friedrich Kirschner.

A domestic salon about (il)legal chairs, animated tables, and Romanians you can't get out of the living room. On Otaku, Doringer vs Acconci's Illegal Chair Project , the interface-free RFID media...

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...

Before and during the upcoming Synch Festival, Athens will be swarming with audiovisual thrill seekers. The perfect event for progressive media makers to get involved with their audience in exciting...

Tijdens deze salon sprak men over cosplayers, dollfies en tot leven gewekte karakters. Dit alles stond in het kader van de Cosplay exhibitie (The Cosplay Show) dat tussen 15 juli en 27 augustus te...

A 24/7 shopwindow exhibition in Mediamatic's groundfloor gallery of over 40 of the best Dutch cosplay costumes. All costumes are based on existing manga, anime or videogame characters and made by the...

This was a showcase of the most important Cosplay movies, held on multiple nights. Who (or perhaps what) were the heroes of those dressed up like futuristic beings? We gave you the opportunity to...

Featuring Kisky Netmedia, fashion designer Dan Gonen, this year's Ars Electronica prize winner Mateusz Herczka and Tilda Swinton at the Venice Biennale.

A salon with presentations of Nicu Sebe on emotion recognition, Stani Michiels on his nomadic internet cafe and Tjebbe van Tijen on his scrolls.

40 years of visual narrative- an overview of the beautiful layered image rolls/ scrolls of Tjebbe van Tijen. Mediamatic hosted this exhibition with long and also very interesting panoramas telling...

Machinima is about making films in the realtime 3D environments of computer games. In this dense 4 day workshop, the participants learn skills from 3D animation, filmmaking and game design to become...

Radios with CARS attached. A gabba punk band and their copycats. A car park full of boomcars and passenger vehicles. Cranked up, FULL VOLUME. This was the Audio Drive of Sasker Scheerder and Aux Raus.

As a part of the exhibition Scroll, Mediamatic presents a visual lecture by Tjebbe van Tijen.The presentation was focussed on animation and story telling; the visual narrative media.

Cinekid, the International Film, Television and New Media Festival for Children and Mediamatic organise a workshop for professionals on interactive television for children during the Cinekidfestival.

Three new & beautiful online crossmedia projects for children were presented at this salon. This was also the Kick-Off of the workshop Interactive Television for Children organized by Mediamatic and...

Night Garden, sub-technical indoor garden, links new technology, next nature, contemporary art and its consumption. And you can have a really great dinner as well! Open Thurs / Frid / Sat from 6 - 11...

Tiny chips, cheap sensors and the possibilities of emerging smart fabrics, conductive yarns and cheap wireless communication (bluetooth or even rfid) make wearables easier and cheaper to make. During...

Mediamatic organized a one or two- day workshop on how to design and solder autonomous robots.

It was an early salon dinner party and the performances were based on E.E. Cummings by Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis. The CI project was presented by Marije ten Brink and the micro-green...