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Mediamatic Fabriek
Preparing Migration
19Jun 2012Yesterday we worked on the Kantine, trying to find the best way to build it and experiment on its design. pH values are still our priorities, so we continued to test them in order to stabilize their...
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Berndnaut Smilde
Beeldend kunstenaar. Woont en werkt in Amsterdam. Haalde in 2005 zijn MA Fine Art aan het Frank Mohr Institute. Sindsdien had hij solotentoonstellingen in NP3 (Groningen 2012) en de Process Room van...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Nursery and Kantine Sunday
17Jun 2012On June 17th the Aquaponic Group will meet around 13:00 (1 pm) at the Van Gendthallen in Amsterdam to finish the nursery for fishes and plants seedlings and build a diesel kantine. Also we're going...
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Dušan Rodić
Concerned with maintaining art communities and institutions, Dušan investigates the role essential societal elements such as food production and shelter can play in securing autonomy for artists and...
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Erik Maier
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Researching and Building
12Jun 2012Our last building Sunday was very productive: we did several chemical tests on water, improved the tripledecker tower by replacing the grow beds' metal supports with bamboo, strengthened the LEd...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Fishes/plants nursery and PH values
10Jun 2012We have already built three systems, now it's time to dig into some important aspects: how to control Ph values? What is a good plant fertilizer?
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Trouw Amsterdam
Duplicate It!
14Jun 2012A diverse event with bands, lots of activities, and of course, contemporary art by Vito Acconci, Marc Bijl, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Piet Parra, Wolfgang Tillmans, and others.
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dertien hectare
Agricola Novus
12May 201217Jun 2012Atelier Van Lieshout zal gedurende een kleine maand op het terrein van dertien hectare een groot aantal beelden (bestaand en nieuw werk) presenteren met als thema Agricola Novus, de nieuwe boer.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Meeting
5Jun 2012Let's make things better!
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Workshop: Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS
Bio Data Visualisation Workshop
13Jun 2012The objective of this experimental workshop is to re-explore and re-map Amsterdam. We will engage with the slime-mold and make use of its awesome cognitive skills, discovering new patterns in our...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Workshop
6Jul 2012At Mediamatic we've been experimenting with aquaponics: a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. We want to continue sharing our knowledge and enable...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Group meet Sensemaker
29May 2012During last Saturday's workshop, with the help of enthusiastic volunteers, we built a 4-storey aquaponics system. Now it's time to think how to improve it and arrange its tuning.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Raft system and LED lights
22May 2012Plants are quickly growing in both systems and fishes seem to be at ease in the small tank. Last meeting we focused our attention on the floating rafts, using bamboo and net baskets to plan and build...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Big sunday planting
20May 2012The big system started its cycle. We planted vegetables in the two grow beds and installed LED lights. Now we have to prepare the floating boards for seedlings and settle the net to protect the...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Final plumbing for the big system
15May 2012Both systems are quickly growing. The small one officially started its cycle with fishes and plants while the 4-bed system needs few more steps to be ready. Besides, we decided to use two grow beds...
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Takashi Homma
Takashi Homma is a photographer from Japan and started his career in the 1990s with the selection of immature children and young folks as a photographic subject. His early renowned artwork, Tokyo...
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Foto verslag Aquaponics
Video's & foto's door de weken heen in de Mediamatic fabriek.
In de Mediamatic fabriek in Amsterdam aan de oude V.O.C. Kade wordt elke week druk gewerkt aan het Aquaponics project.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Time to finish the big system!
13May 2012After chemical tests, plants and LED lights, the small system is almost ready. Now our work continues on the big one: plumbing, washing clay pebbles, planting, lighting…we have so much to do!
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foam
Nina Poppe - AMA
10May 2012Photographer Nina Poppe (Germany, 1979) has spent a significant amount of time together with the Ama. These legendary fisherwomen of the Japanese island of Ise-Shima dive for Abalone, using no...
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Sylvia Bernstein
Sylvia Bernstein is the president and founder of The Aquaponic Source and the Vice Chairman of the Aquaponics Association. She also manages AquaponicsCommunity.com, the largest US-based online...
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Book: Sylvia Bernstein 11 Nov 2011
Aquaponic Gardening
A Step by Step Guide to Growing Fish and Vegetables Together
Aquaponic Gardening is the definitive do-it-yourself home manual, focused on giving you all the tools you need to create your own aquaponic system and enjoy healthy, safe, fresh, and delicious food...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
PH-testing of the water and discussion on water…
8May 2012The Aquaponics Group will meet at the Van Gendthallen to talk about how to extract the heat from the LED-lighting, and how to build a system that uses that heat to heat the water in our aquarium. We...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Chemical Testing, Plumbing and LEDs
6May 2012After plants and worms, our small system is almost ready to welcome fishes, but first we have to do some chemical tests on the water.