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Waag Society
The Beauty Kit Focus Group at the Waag Society
- With Isabel Burr Raty15Nov 2018For the past years Isabel Burr Raty, performance artist and independent filmmaker, has been exploring the cavities that make up the human female sexual organs, concluding that they have a hybrid...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Blind
3Nov 2018- Museumnacht Amsterdam 20184Nov 2018On November 3 we discover the Amsterdam museum night with all the senses except our eyes. Guide or be guided blindfolded through Mediamatic, and experience the most famous artworks in the dark. Taste...
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Aug '18 – Oct '21
Sjoerd Houben
Office / Venue Manager
After graduating from art school (MA Photography), I went looking for a new interesting environment. I found it at Mediamatic, where there's always something interesting happing. With a background in...
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Wash Your Guilt Away
SELF Human Soap, Schuldfabriek by Julian Hetzel
Schuldfabriek is a performative installation that takes place as a luxury cosmetic store. Their best-selling product? Guilt.
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'This mug is made from recycled materials'
The Set Of Matter Varies and This is not a "VÄRDERA" by Krisztina Czika
Krisztina Czika is a Hungarian designer who has been exploring the capabilities of human hair. Currently, she’s exploring the recycling of cosmetic wax and hair through her installation ‘ The Set of...
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Capturing human scent through enfleurage
In reference to Patrick Süskind’s Das Parfum
Patrick S ü skind’s Das Parfum (or Perfume: Story of a Murderer) is considered our cult classic. It tells us a story of a man with a superhuman sense of smell who we know as Jean-Baptise Grenouille.
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When can we start to objectify our hair?
Human Hair Transformation by Zsofia Kollar
Zsofia Kollar is a designer who uses hair as the primary medium. The human hair has many capabilities due to their nutrients. For this collection, Zsofia experiments with the hair as an absorbent...
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Intimate Currency
Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim
With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...
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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’.
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Visiting Hours
Every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday between 14.00 and 16.00, you are very welcome to step by our Open Aroma Lab. Smell our selection of aroma-molecules, learn about working with scent as a...
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The Dirt We Carry
Self Portrait by Amanda Cotton
For three months, Amanda Cotton documented her life using her face wipes for her ‘Self Portrait’ . These face wipes not only show the removed makeup, but also the dirt and oil that is inevitably...
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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...
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Could In-Vitro Leather be the new Pleather?
Pure Human by Tina Gorjanc
Tina Gorjanc proposes a whole fashion collection using biotechnical engineering. Similar to in-vitro meat, she would produce leather for her collection from a DNA hair sample from Alexander McQueen...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
The Taste of Elder: Judas's Ear
- A year of Elder: Zeger Reyers and Sander Nederveen7Mar 2019Blossom, branches, berries and Judas's Ear: you can find all these ingredients on or around the Elder tree, the Sambucus Nigra. Artist Zeger Reyers and Brouwerij Oedipus follow the tree the whole...
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Meet IFF
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
One of our partners during ArtOlfaction Amsterdam is IFF . IFF is an innovator of sensorial experiences that move the world. For over 129 years they've been practicing the art of discovery, creating...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Playhouse: How Not to Hurt Yourself and Others
- with Kendra Gaeta, Julianne Lee, Maxwell Williams, and Saskia Wilson-Brown16Jul 2018Always wanted to set up your own at-home perfume lab? Great! Let's show you how. This night is all about making Lab-safety fun, while teaching you how not to hurt yourself and others. You will learn...
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Modern Day Vampires
Consumption of blood whether it is human blood or animal blood in our modern culture has been associated to vampirism. In the past decade, our pop culture was fascinated by the fantastical stories of...
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The Ethical Way of Eating Blood
Blood Sausages by Gwen van der Zwan and John O'Shea
When tackling the ethics of food production and consumption, the notions of blood as food has always been a somewhat bloody and grim topic. Blood can be considered as the same level as meat, in a way...
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How to Cook with Semen
Semenology and The Natural Harvest Cookbooks by Paul Photenhauer
At what point does the taboo of consuming human secretions start and end? Taboos such as these perhaps become normalized as sexual fetishes. From there on we would think ‘ah right, just one of those...
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In the End, We Only Have Ourselves
Body as a Restaurant by Zane Cerpina
Time is of the essence. Human progression and technological advancements have led us to turn our world to the new age- the Age of Man; the Anthropocene. When we can no longer rely on mother nature’s...
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Humanarian-ism: The New Diet?
Imagine that you are constantly confronted with the impacts from your daily choices- the clothes you wear, or the food you eat. And maybe you may want to reconsider your choices now, perhaps opting...
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2018
Rosalie Nooter
Office & Event Manager
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Workshop: Grow Your Own Fungi!
- Basic mushroom and biomaterials introduction12May 2018It is said that the mushroom, and especially Mycelium has the potential to replace all sorts of (harmful) materials like plastics and batteries. Here at Mediamatic we are interested in the cultural...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Kool Abundance
- Keukenpraat met Arne Hendriks en Thorwald Voss20Feb 2018Tijdens deze reeks dinsdagavonden gaat kunstenaar Arne Hendriks in gesprek met verschillende koks, boeren, filosofen, dichters en theoretici over de waarde van ons voedsel. Vanavond reflecteren ze...