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  • Janna Coomans

    PhD Candidate at the Centre for Culture and History of the University of Amsterdam.
  • Archeology
  • Philosophy
  • Science
  • History
  • Theory

  • Bibliography

    Olfactory History of Oosterdok

    English bibliography Allen , Catherine. “To be Quechua: The Symbolism of Coca Chewing in Highland Peru”. American Ethnologist , 8, no. 1 (February 1981): 157-171. doi:10.1525/ae.1981.8.1.02a00100.

  • Best of Mediamatic

    Here you can find an overview of our favorite projects made in 2020. Click here for a  summary of all our projects per year  or  our upcoming events . 
  • Heel erg veel en nog lang niet genoeg!

    Mediamatic Show

    Hier vind je een selectie van onze projecten van de afgelopen 4 jaar. En een kleine impressie van belangrijke en grote projecten van de afgelopen 40 jaar. Kijk hier voor alle jaaroverzichten. 

  • About Solarpunk: a radical inclusive vision for…

    What is Solarpunk? A new imaginary for a green and ecological future: the concretization of Posthumanism

    Solarpunk is a movement transcending speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism, that endeavors to answer the question: "What does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?

  • The dilemma of the modern artist

    From Manet to Warhol

    In the essay Myth of Artisthood, that our project is based on, the famous Dutch art critic, Camiel van Winkel is dividing all the artists in three different types: Romantic, Modernistic and the Beaux
  • 1 Jan 2002

    Alex Adriaansens (1953 - 2018)

    visual artist

    Alex Adriaansens was  director of V2_ until June 2018, and afterwards was an advisor and consultant at V2. As the artistic director of V2_he was also responsible for the DEAF bi-annual festival one...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Lex Wouterloot 1 Jan 1994

    Celestial Data for the End of Time

    The Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, have elevated data collection to a religious plane, especially the collection of genealogical data. They are the...
  • book: Stuart A. Kauffman 1 Jan 1993

    Origins of Order

    Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution

  • Vinegar Making

    A guide and story around vinegar-making

    This article is part of the 4 article series  "Vinegar Making". A series that aims to bring light into vinegar, the liquid that spices up salads and unclogs toilets.  Dive into an...
  • book: 1 Jan 1990

    Versuch einer Geschichte der Rechenmaschine

  • Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…

    #1 Leren luisteren naar niet-mensen is een politieke aangelegenheid

    In de serie ‘Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit?’ schrijf ik blogs over uitdagende theorieën uit de ecofilosofie. Ik introduceer de ideeën, ter informatie of inspiratie. Daarna zullen er...

  • The Sewage System as Political Infrastructure

    What can sewers tell us about the functioning of our modern democracy? About the role of technology and infrastructure in politics? The sewage system isn’t ‘just there’ as a neutral entity; instead

  • Bad smell as a war weapon

    How stink has been used to spread psychological warfare in (recent) history

    Since the 19th century the main focus of our society has been on deodorisation: thighs, city, people must not smell bad, and we try to banish bad smells from our daily life.  Our sensibility...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Oosterdok

    Olfactory History of Oosterdok

    Getting Nosy about the Past

    Our research and programmes initiated since 2019 aims to augment the histories that have flowed through Oosterdok, or Eastern Dock, through more embodied and sensorial artistic practices. The...
  • Frascati

    Crisis in Frascati

    Strategieen van de kunstenaar

    Frascati roept in maart de crisis uit. We breken de theatermuren open en slepen de wereld naar binnen. Wat brengt de dag vandaag? We zien valutaduikvluchten, macht & paniek. We horen een roep om...

  • The Chair That Bleeds

    The Red Series 001 Breath Chair by Hyun-Gi Kim

    We consider chairs to be one of those everyday inanimate furnitures that fills the room. And like many inanimate objects, they’re often taken for granted because chairs are always being made. But...

  • Het Middel

    Een aan het genre ontstegen ideeënroman

    Dirk van Weelden, Het Middel Pagina's: 256 ISBN: 9789045701271 Prijs: € 18.90 Uitgeverij Augustus 2007

  • It makes death look okay!

    3D at the Ik R.I.P. opening

    3D paid a visit to the Ik R.I.P. opening. See what he experienced. Review taken from the 3D List: Week # 21 Subscribe for this weekly email service at sos.kunst [at] gmail.com
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1994

    Heidegger On-Line

    Interview with Michael Heim

    Michael Heim has been called the 'philosopher of cyberspace'. Translator of Heidegger and author of 'Electric Language, A Philosophical Study in Word Processing', he has organized various American...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1996

    vol. 8#4 The Religion Issue

    Editorial: Are People the Gods of the Algorithms?

    The word avatar does not occur in this issue of Mediamatic.

  • A must-smell exhibition at VU

    Aromatic Art (Re-)constructed: In Search of Lost Scents

    Co-curated by the mind behind our Odorama series, Caro Verbeek, the exhibition entitled Aromatic Art (Re-)constructed: In Search of Lost Scents on view in the main building of VU is an extensive...

  • Residency: Scent and Protest

    During a residency with Art Olfaction Amsterdam at Mediamatic, Cohene will explore formulas for neutralizers for scent-based crowd control methods such as 'The Skunk’. 

  • Spinoza

    Superster uit de gouden eeuw

    Er bestaat slechts één substantie, met één en dezelfde natuur Wie vrij is schrijft zichzelf de wet voor Het doel van de staat is de vrijheid

  • Lola's Chewing Gum

    Discover the oldest DNA found in a chewing gum.

    What happens if you are chewing gum while doing research about human secretions? Well, this ordinary piece of chewing gum has become my inspiration for a Secretopic research. 

created Anya Subich modified Anna Pedersen

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