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NEMO
Mediamatic @ Transnatural
7Sep 20127Oct 2012Transnatural explores the interactions between technology and ecology. During the opening day of the festival we’ll be building an aquaponics tower at NEMO, hopefully with your help. The tower will...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Tuesday BBQ-day
14Aug 2012Last sunday was a really productive day. We started the first steps of our very own germination room by seeding different kinds of vegetables in rockwool cubes and in clay pebbles to see what will...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Germination Time
12Aug 2012Last tuesday the whole Aquaponics Group was reunited again in the Mediamatic Fabriek. We talked about the last few weeks, an overview of the events and developments.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Easy Tuesday
7Aug 2012At this Sunday’s Meeting the Mediamatic Aquaponics Group met at the Fabriek to do some basic water testing and general maintenance. The new part of the tower’s broken water pump arrived and we were...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Relaxed Sunday
5Aug 2012The Aquaponics Group spent Tuesday at our Vijzelstraat location doing some repairs on the new tower. We fixed the syphons and found the problem to be that there were too few openings and that they...
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Ingo Niermann
German writer and artist
Selected bibliography: Choose Drill, Hatje Cantz, 2011 The Future of Art: A Manual, with Erik Niedling, Sternberg Press, 2011 Deutscher Sohn, with Alexander Wallasch, Blumenbar, 2010 China ruft dich
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Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS
Adjusting the New Tower
31Jul 2012This past meeting the Aquaponics Group started at the Fabriek to test the water in the systems. We then traveled to Vijzelstraat to the Mediamatic Bank where we checked on the new tower, built at our...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Open Sunday
29Jul 2012At our last meeting we mainly prepared for the upcoming Aquaponics Workshop taking place this Saturday in the Mediamatic Bank. Tools and supplies were organized and sorted for the migration to our...
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Waag Society
PostNatural Organisms of the European Union
16Sep 2012Eleven preserved specimens of life forms that were intentionally altered by humans.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Preparing for Saturday's Workshop
24Jul 2012Sunday again tested the results of our experiment and found that the pH levels changed un expectedly. Wendy was kind enough to give us some extra plants from her garden so we added those to our...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Measuring and Constructing
22Jul 2012At the past meeting we made our way through the long to-do list we had. We got more organized by putting together a shopping list and sorting out the documentation of our test results. We also had a...
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Caroline
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Getting Organized
17Jul 2012Sunday we added some new aromatic herbs, bought from the Sunday Market next door, to our system. We also increased the amount of water in both the new four story edifice and the small system.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Adding to the Current Systems
15Jul 2012This past meeting we tested the water of the systems as well as added a bit of phosphoric acid. We also built a new tap for the pebble washing system in order to more effectively rinse the clay...
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Cat communication
Aleksandra Kalashnikova
Photographer and image editor at Mediamatic. Moved to Amsterdam from Kiev (Ukraine), where was working as photojournalist for 6 years. Love my life, rock'n'roll and cats.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS
Aquaponics Workshop
28Jul 2012At Mediamatic we're in the know about aquaponics: a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. We want to continue sharing our knowledge and enable you...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Fine Tuning the New Four-Story Edifice
10Jul 2012Last friday was our second Aquaponics Workshop where we built a new high density four-story edifice to replace the one currently on loan to the Designhuis in Eindhoven. Participants in the sold out...
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Workshop: New Energy Docks: Green Metropole
Aquaponics Workshop @ Festival of Cools
10Oct 2012At Mediamatic we're in the know about aquaponics: a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. We continue to share our knowledge by organizing workshops...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics: a review before the workshop
3Jul 2012The high density 4-storey Aquaponic Edifice, together with the Diesel Kantine of João Negro, had its first showing at the Food and Architecture Fair in Amsterdam and it is now in Eindhoven for the...
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Exhibition: Designhuis
De Etende Mens
29Jun 20126Jan 2013In De Etende Mens (Food Culture: Eating by Design) Premsela explores how design can enable us to make the changes to our food chain that are necessary to ensure a healthy future. Mediamatic's High...
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A Short Introduction to Interdisciplinary Artist…
It’s difficult to introduce Sonja, because there is no one specific word that can define her profession. Her work does not fit easily into standard categories: it includes art objects, living...
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Food Center Amsterdam
Voedzelf/Feedself
24Jun 2012The 2012 theme of the National Day of Architecture is food and architecture. Mediamatic's aquaponics project Voedzelf/Feedself and the Biodiesel Canteen by João Negro featured at the Food...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Custom Aquaponics Group Workshop
1Jan 201331Dec 2013Aquaponics is a sustainable eco-system for food production that combines the cultivation of plants and fish. Mediamatic designs aquaponic installations on a Dutch scale. Sustainable mini-nurseries...
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The Bio Data Visualisation Workshop Experience
And the amazing uses of slime-mold
Mold, slime, intelligent design, art... could these concepts ever be linked together? The Bio Data Visualisation Workshop held by artists Sonja Bäumel and Maurizio Montalti proved that they should.