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  • Image: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Giulia Menicucci

    Gentle Ink at Expeditie Oosterdok

    On April 21st 2018 we publicly kicked off the collaboration between 12 art centers around the Oosterdok in Amsterdam with an open day for all. Mediamatic offered (among other things) Haeckel-tattoos...
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  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Christina Panholzer

    Catch’ Em all around Oosterdok!

    Step into the footsteps of Ernst Haeckel und explore your inner scientist

    Ernst Haeckel, as an biologist and artist in the 19th century, discovered many new species during his exploration tours around the world. You can now step into Ernst Haeckel's footsteps as a curious...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Gökçe Baykan

    Haeckel Hunt

    "Catch’em all around Oosterdok!" Remastered Blog

    "Institutions and enterprises have joined forces as Expeditie Oosterdok, to form an internatio­nal, innovative city quarter in which discovery plays a central role. The future of the city is being...

  • The Haeckel Project

    As some of you might have already noticed, reaching our location became a bit of an adventure due to construction works near Oosterdok. Yet, we are not isolated on our island, but there are still...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ernst Haeckel

    Haeckel Posters

    All 100 large scale posters (107x241), previously shown in the Kunstformen Der Natur exhibition are for sale for only €60,00.  Choose your plate  below   and send an   email  with your full name

  • The Links between Tattoo Culture and Autism

    Beautiful stimming; the experience of getting a tattoo and giving a tattoo as an autistic person

    Our latest interest within the A/artist Project is researching the link between the tattoo culture and autism. The idea came up when I mentioned in my interview at Mediamatic that I am enthusiastic...

  • Haeckel-File #2: Haeckel the fraud

    Haeckel was accused of committing fraud in order to give credibility to his theories. Is there any truth to the allegation?

  • Haeckel-File #3: Haeckel the Nazi

    Would evolution theory inescapably have to lead to fascist eugenics?

    Haeckel has not only been badmouthed for things he actually did or believed during his life (see the two previous Haeckel-Files on racism and fraud), he has also been partially blamed for what...

  • Haeckel in glass

    Mediamatic is not the only one paying homage to Ernst Haeckel's Kunsformen der Natur - The Dutch National Glass Museum have turned his work into "A Sea of Glass"

  • Haeckel-File #1: Haeckel the racist

    Maybe you have lately visited the Amsterdam library and its exhibition on slavery. If so, you probably came across this drawing from Haeckel. To our twenty-first century eyes, this is quite a...

  • Haeckel Bits and Pieces

    Ernst Haeckel is an inspiration to us. In the past, Mediamatic already expressed the admiration with programs around Haeckel as an evolutionary biologist as well as gifted draughtsman and painter.

  • Proteus

    Documentary film by David LeBrun

    This animated documentary charts the life of painter and biologist Ernst Haeckel, who, in the 19th century, makes a number of fascinating discoveries about what lurks below the sea. Haeckel uncovers...
  • Disclaimer: I’m nor a doctor or a nutritionist Laura Sanz Rosal

    The 5 Holy Ingredients of The Dinner of the Damned

    Explore the flavors of our inverted pentagram - Neo Futurist Dinner 16

    The inverted pentagram, a symbol of the dark, the macabre, the unexpected, perhaps also a symbol of the Dinner of the Damned ? In this article I introduce you to the 5 Holy duos of this experience in...

  • Haeckel-Files

    Enchanted by Haeckel’s art? So enchanted that you want to know more about this intriguing nineteenth century German scientist?

  • Haeckel’s Alalus: on the decolonization of the…

    Haeckel’s imagined Pithecanthropus Alalus is a conception of an “ape-man without speech”. In other words, Haeckel’s Alalus is a conception of a proto-human or a being-not-yet-men, and its lack of...

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