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  • presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Resomation, Saponification and Taxidermy

    26
    Jun 2019
    - Still Life 02 - with Sabrina Franken, Amber Veel, Liza Witte and Susanne Duijvestein

    Looking for a more eco friendly alternative for burying or cremating a dead body? How about dissolving it? Alkaline hydrolysis – also known as water cremation, aquamation or resomation - was...
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  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

    Resomating a Musk Rat

    What happens to our bodies after death? When choosing Resomation as a burial method, the answer is just as fascinating as it might give you the shivers. With resomation, the human body is dissolved...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link

    How is smell used as a disguise in beings?

    Exploring smell as a disguise. And how your nose is one of your most powerful faculties.

    This article explores how your nose is one of your most powerful senses and how in our new workshop "Smelling like a species" you can investigate smell in other beings and compose your own disguise...

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  • Becoming magnesium Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link

    Becoming magnesium

    Through scrunching & draping tinfoil: can I transform into magnesium?

    Through researching costume ideas for the Inhuman Carnaval, I came across the mineral magnesium. The rock and metal like texture reminded me of the scrunched up tin foil around the sandwiches my mum...

  • Nature Morte

    Death, Design and Sustainability

    We explore new approaches and designs for our own inevitable death with progressive funeral director Susanne Duijvestein. Lectures and workshops about architecture, rituals, life stories and the...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Our Labs

    Here at the Biotoop, you have access to our Bio Clean Lab, where you can work with microorganisms, and our Aroma Lab, where you can deepen your understanding of scents. Both can be rented.
  • Private workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Smelling Like another being

    with Frank Bloem

    In this workshop we explore the amazing smells that our natural world is rich of, by translating the odor of animals, insects, plants and bacteria into a perfume for humans. Smelling like a cockle in...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Andy Cartier

    Chimera Furniture

    Mycelium Experiments

    What if mycelium was combined to existing furniture to give them a new life? 
  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Distilling a Citrus Bouquet

    19
    Jan 2025
    - Turning waste into beauty with Frank Bloem

    In this workshop you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. We'll explore the...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    In 2022 we worked with these people

  • Fake-Eco Evaluation: Still Life at Mediamatic

    Is death truly sustainable?

    Death is one last action - a body left to account for. Some of us have already given it a thought, but how hard have we thought about our upcoming deaths, really? Mediamatic´s Still Life: death
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Susanne Duijvestein

    From Pest to Soil

    Humusating a Muskrat

    Maybe you have heard about the Muskrat, an ‘invasive exotic’ that likes to chomp on 'our' Dutch dykes. It was on the 22nd of May that one found their final resting place in one of the grow beds at...
  • 2022 Elise Chalcraft

    How do you imitate scents from nature?

    Frank speaking on NPO Radio 1 about Smelling Like Another Being

    Listen to our resident parfumier Frank Bloem as he talks about his recent workshop Smelling Like Another Being , developed here at Mediamatic, on NPO Radio 1.  
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Magdalena Thur

    The Resomation of Fungal tissue

    Could fungi provide the future fabric for death shrouds?

    Mediamatic's search for vegan fabric that could be used in Resomation, an environmentally friendly alternative burial method, led to testing fungal material.
  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Composing Fragrance

    19
    Jan 2025
    - with Frank Bloem

    In this workshop, artist, and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop, you will have...
  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Mediamatic in twenty-six words

    21
    Mar 2019

    Information Mediamatic in keywords Open 24/7 Mediamatic Biotoop, Dijkspark 6, Amsterdam The mural is located on the windows of the Sluisdeurenloods, right next to the bridge connecting to the...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Clara Casal, Nadja Nolte

    How-to Tofu

    Make your own Tofu from a batch of Soybeans

    Why not savour the amazing qualities of soybeans by making tofu at home!  Did you know that soybeans are largely indigestible? This is due to the presence of an enzyme inhibitor called protease...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jessica Cohen

    An Occult Dunghill in the Dijkspark

    What is that overgrown mound of flora and fauna in front of the Sluisdeurenloods? Visitors of Mediamatic will have noticed a peculiar sight in front of the barn. Is it a garden, a sculpture or an...

  • Phase one: Experimenting with Jellyfish

    How do you start a project with jellyfish? By experimenting on them. We were lucky to receive a number of jellyfish from the fisherman who usually supplied Mediamatic ETEN with oysters, and the next...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks

    Cartier

    Sept '20 – Pigeon Tower 03

    The third tower was build inside the Clean Lab . Two previous attempts to build a sturdy, living tower had failed. Time to take a step back. We did not know whether our principles were correct.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Essential Eau de Cologne

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Clara Casal, Nadja Nolte

    Okara Tempeh Recipe

    Reusing okara as a substrate for biofermentation : A plant-based protein source

    Most people know tempeh solely as the Indonesian dish consisting of fermented soybeans. However, many other alternatives can be used to grow tempeh. The Clean Lab team has discovered that the by
  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Building Aquaponic Systems

    with Saro van Cleynenbreugel

    Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Sculpting Textiles

    with Margherita Soldati

    How can you use unconventional materials and techniques to manipulate textile in shapes, textures and patterns? During the workshop, artist Margherita Soldati will introduce you to manipulating...

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