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  • Image: Nadya Peek, Willem Velthoven 5 Feb 2007

    Sock puppet with Poon at Mediamatic

    Puppet and fish by Nadya, photo by Willem
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  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Kamilè Vaitkuté, Jiwei Zhou

    A Taste from the Ocean: Poppy Seed Mycelium

    It smells like...fish!

  • About Tempeh Ware

    Save the world by eating your plate

    Most people know tempeh as an Indonesian side dish, appearing in small, rectangular chunks on a plate. But the time to be square is over, and new shapes enunciate the future of food in sustainable...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Kamilè Vaitkuté, Jiwei Zhou

    Tempeh Dinner First Trial!

    Buckwheat and bulgur tempeh sheets' first trial for closed food
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Bokashi Containers

    Composting with microorganisms

    The organic waste coming from the kitchen of Mediamatic ETEN finds a special companion in its composting process: the Bokashi container.  This system uses effective microorganisms to enable low...

  • Mediamatic has moved to DijksPark in 2014!

    to Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam

    As of December 1st, Mediamatic moved to their new location on Dijksgracht 6. On this beautiful spot near the waterside (within walking distance from Central Station!) we will continue and intensify...
  • Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell

    Being responsible for Bokashi

    and other useful information

    The amount of time to give to Bokashi really depends on what is happening at Mediamatic. Is the restaurant open? Is communal lunch happening? What season is it?  Being responsible for the Bokashi...
  • Mediamatic Eten Kamilè Vaitkuté

    Are you prepared for the Halloween?

    This post is about our FIRST impressions of raw tempeh, organic shapes and a crumb of Halloween spirit. After this silent break, we have decided to separate our update into two different posts. We...

  • In the End, We Only Have Ourselves

    Body as a Restaurant by Zane Cerpina

    Time is of the essence. Human progression and technological advancements have led us to turn our world to the new age- the Age of Man; the Anthropocene. When we can no longer rely on mother nature’s...

  • Andy Smith

    The face of the AndyFace

    Andy Smith is a Flock / Jaiku / Symbolic Table developer who has an interesting hobby. He calls himself Andy “Bad Motherfucker Smith"
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Kamilè Vaitkuté, Jiwei Zhou

    Buckwheat Tempeh Tastes like Black Bread!

    In order to find out a nice taste of tempeh ware,  we have been growing  fungus rhizopus oryzae on different ingredients. This time we tried bulgur, buckwheat, corns and pop corns.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jiwei Zhou

    Experience the Moulds: Somewhere between Food and…

    As lab interns, we already get used to eating our lab-grown moulds. Now let's step away from our perspective: how many of you are afraid of eating fungus, even knowing that a large part of our...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jiwei Zhou

    "How did you make it?" Curiosity from Mouldy Food…

    Today 4 colleagues helped us tested the eating experience with our idea from last blog: what if people rip off the mycelium to eat the food inside? What if the food is already grown with mycelium and...

  • Waterkefir

    The drink of the centenarians

    Waterkefir is a fermented drink, with a sparkly and fresh taste. The water is fermented by the waterkefir grains, that contain a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. The fermented drink is not...

  • Cultural Dating

    on the future of museums, archiving and cultural institutions

    TIME magazine choose YOU, the internet user, as person of the year 2006. Meanwhile however, the cultural sector is not making many moves to harness the potential of the enormous amounts of active...

  • Non - Recommended Blog: Neandernews

    Credit where credit's due. Even when it's a right wing blogger.

    Danish imams lobbyed with spiritual leaders in arabic countries to protest against the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten publishing cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. They used more than the...

  • Media make normal people like me ANGRY

    Actually, de Volkskrant had an exellent "comic war" analysis by green left MP Naima Azough. The image was put right above it. In all it's daemonising glory. A shouting islamic man in black religious...
  • Paul Groot 6 أيار / مايو 2007

    It's Happening Now

    inderdaad een gebeuren tussen Houellebecq en Hooligans

    Het verslag van een insider Nergens ooit zoveel geregel en gedoe gezien als bij de toegang tot "It's happening now", zondagavond 6 mei voor het POST CS gebouw en bij Club 11.
  • 1 Jan 2005

    What are the Issues Covered

    @ the Interactive Narration Workshops?

    In each Workshop we view the Possibilities and Difficulties surrounding Interactive Narration from the Perspective of the Participants' Discipline.

  • Mushrooms are taking over the Dutch media

    “Scientists, designers and dreamers are working on a revolution”.

    For the last couple of months Motherboard, the technological arm of Vice have been on board to interview designers, scientists and mycelium experts about their work with fungi. The result is...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Mediamatic Eten Kamilè Vaitkuté, Jiwei Zhou

    It smells like fresh bread!

    As the taste of lupin tempeh was only pleasant to Willem, we all together decided to test the mycelium growth on different materials. We collected different grains (the ones that we have a personal...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jiwei Zhou

    Tempeh Ware with Flavour

    Research continues to make tempeh ware more interesting

    A food design research, aiming to optimise tempeh bowl tastes, texture, shapes, thickness and appearance, in order to create an interesting meet with tempeh bowls in our restaurant Mediamatic Eten. 

  • Living Roof project

    If you can’t beat them, join them.

    Living Roof geeft een sterke verbetering van de leefkwaliteit van golfplaten hutten in Zuid-Afrikaanse townships. We presenteren in 2014 in Kaapstad (world design capital) een eerste ontwerp waarbij...

  • Oo, Oo That Smell

    What is that distinct smell after enjoying a plate of this green veggie?

    Asparagus. A lean, green vegetable with a dramatic list of healthy benefits. Many people are aware that asparagus is heart healthy, high in antioxidants, contains characteristics to heighten your...
  • Mediamatic Eten Kamilè Vaitkuté

    Chef Tommaso Buresti has something to say about…

    As nice as it is to play with a raw tempeh, eating it unprepared is not the best idea. Jiwei and I sneaked into the kitchen to cook our samples (about which you can read in the previous   post ).

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