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  • Archive'23

  • Remko Andeweg

    Urban botanist at Bureau Stadsnatuur

    Remko Andeweg works as a city botanist at Bureau Stadsnatuur, part of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam. He specialized in the flora of the urban-industrial environment, vegetation...
  • Japanese knotweed
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  • Japanese Knotweed Festival '23

    Japanese Knotweed Program

    All exhibitions , workshops and events  during the Japanese Knotweed Festival.  Reserve your tickets  here *!  *We offer a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders. 
  • festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Japanese Knotweed Festival

    Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.

  • Understanding Japanese knotweed

    In conversation with Virgile Durando

    Virgile Durando is a product/material designer and researcher from France. He is our current artist in residency, presently working on collecting and developing knowledge regarding the re
  • Blog Leyang Fu

    (Re)naming a Plant – the Magic in a Name

    To many, calling a name equals casting a spell, as names are often assigned with magic or spiritual power. Such belief spreads widely geographically among different tribes. In modern days, we know...

  • 373 words to insult a plant

    In conversation with Alaa Abu Asad

    Killing without thought. Just one of the phrases that is used to discuss the Japanese Knotweed. A plant that does not even deserve to be thought about. It only deserves to be killed. Artist...
  • Japanese Knotweed Festival '23

    Exhibitions

  • Japanese Knotweed Festival '24

    Japanese Knotweed Program

    upcoming events

    All exhibitions , workshops and events during the Japanese Knotweed season.  Reserve your tickets here !  *We offer a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders. 
  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Alaa Abu Asad

    The Dog Chased its Tail To Bite it Off

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    Apr 2023
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    Apr 2025
    - by Alaa Abu Asad

    On a planet where the "native" status is a rare claim, Palestinian artist Alaa Abu Asad wonders which botanical species are acknowledged as legitimate inhabitants of nation states. While others will...
  • Japanese Knotweed Festival '23

    Workshops

    Participate in the various workshops to learn about and make with Japanese Knotweed!  Find all tickets  here ! Visit us at  Dijksgracht 6 in Amsterdam.

  • Nurturing Timeless Knowledge

    Living Tower Talk #3

    In the third episode of the Living Tower Talk series, titled "Nurturing Timeless Knowledge," attendees were treated to a fascinating exploration of ecocentrism, the beauty of circular movements...

  • Shields and Shelter

    A/artist roundtable with Kristin Maurer

    During this roundtable, long-time Mediamatic collaborator Kristin Maurer presented her design research about making a public swimming pool into a more accessible and comfortable space for people...

  • The Harmony of Disorder: Functionality in Messy…

    Living Tower Talk #2

    On the second episode of the Living Tower Talk , Mediamatic welcomed Amsterdam-based infrastructure activist Debra Solomon to talk about co-existing with non-human entities and what a multispecies...
  • Japanese Knotweed Festival '23

    People

    Here are the collaborators taking part in the Japanese knotweed festival Japanese Knotweed Brochure

  • Making 'Penny for your Thoughts' more accessible

    A/artist roundtable about funding applications

    During this roundtable, we talked about Mediamatic's open call for project proposals, 'Penny for your Thoughts' . What thoughts do the neurodiverse artists around the table have about the application...

  • Words, randomness and rules

    A/artist roundtable with Arjan van Amsterdam

    Arjan van Amsterdam is an artist and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. During this round table discussion, he introduced us to his work, from his application to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy up...

  • Living Tower Talks

    So much to learn. So much time.

    During the monthly Living Tower Talks, co-curated by  Arne Hendriks  and  Clemens Driessen , we come together to learn, discuss and rethink how we live. Mycelium-waste-pigeon-towers are taken as...
  • Message from the Supervisory Board

    A new era for Mediamatic

    Dear visitors, artists, friends, colleagues, stakeholders, critical observers, fans, sponsors, supporters and all others involved.
  • Japanese Knotweed Festival '23

    Harvesting Knotweed Responsibly

    Please prevent unintended spreading of knotweed

    Japanese Knotweed is a hyper-local resource in the Netherlands, and a wonderful edible and medicinal plant, full of beneficial qualities. However, it is important to approach harvesting with caution...

  • “Anxiety is the Japanese knotweed of mental…

    Presumably, anxiety is a challenge we all have dealt with at one point in our lives. Be it caused by the pandemic, wars, our fast paced lifestyles, our own personal challenges, or… THE JAPANESE...

  • Book Club: Visual Thinking

    A/artist roundtable about Temple Grandin's newest book

    Temple Grandin is a famous American academic, animal behaviourist, and autism spokesperson. Her new book, 'Visual Thinking', published in October 2022, is the latest in her series of books exploring...

  • Updates from the aquaponics

    Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse

    The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice
  • Proposal by: Natascha Nanji

    Welcome to Studio Swan

    Project proposal: An interpersonal, speculative fiction proposition

    Welcome to Studio Swan is a speculative proposition that asks what conditions would be appropriate for us to temporarily become with plant or animal? And why would this be something desirable or...

  • If you can't beat it, eat it!

    What we can learn from the fate of the passenger pigeon

    Flocks clouded the sky and cast a dark shadow over the land, stealing hours of daylight and sometimes days on end. This is not an exaggerated Hitchcock scene from ‘The Birds’ but rather a common...

  • Rooted Reflections

    A conversation with Alaa Abu Asad, Asli Hatipoglu, and Uno Fujisawa

    In their preparation for the 17th edition of the Neo Futurist Dinner “Knots, Weeds & Roots”, I sat down with artists Alaa, Asli, and Uno in order to discuss a bit more about what they have planned...

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