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Mary Mazziotti
I am a self-taught visual artist working primarily in hand-embroidery on textiles with a special interest in “memento mori”, a genre that reflects on the impermanence and fragility of life, nations...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
20Feb 2020Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
13Feb 2020Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
6Feb 2020Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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The Making(s) of Biryani
by Masuma Halai Khwaja
Masuma Khwaja is a brilliant artist from Karachi, Pakistan, whom we are excited to welcome as our first guest artist of 2020. During her one-week research stay with Mediamatic in mid-January
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
The Smell of Rain
- Odorama 37 with Saša Spačal, Frank Bloem, Rosalie Bak, Henk Jonkers and Leanne Wijnsma20Feb 2020Most of us remember how the streets smell after a summer rain. This smell is called petrichor and is partly caused by the organic compound geosmine and bacteria that help organic matter decay. Over...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting Textiles
with Margherita Soldati
How can you use unconventional materials and techniques to manipulate textile in shapes, textures and patterns? During the workshop, artist Margherita Soldati will introduce you to manipulating...
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Recepten: Open Aroma Lab
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A Blame, A Barrier
Olfactory Discourse Regarding the Other
R: Dutch children weren’t allowed to be held, [because] later they’d smell of [our] sweat. Holding them wasn’t allowed… [T]hey [The Dutch] were afraid [of their children] being soaked in sweat, sweat...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
POSTPONED | Soap Alchemy
- with Liza Witte21Mar 2020Read here about our recent measures regarding COVID-19 Soap used to be made by combining animal fat and wood ash. Our resident expert Liza Witte will guide you through the process of creating your...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Composing Fragrance
with Frank Bloem
In this workshop, artist, and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop, you will have...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Distilling a Scent Bouquet
with Frank Bloem
Distillation is an ancient process that has long been used to extract essential oils from biological materials like fruits, spices, or even hair! During this workshop you will be introduced to the...
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Gunpowder: Fireworks and Fatality
The smell of fireworks, of the sulfur within the ignited gunpowder, permeates the streets of Amsterdam as the Central European Time Zone welcomes in the new year. Illegal for the public’s usage at...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meta_bolus
20Feb 2020- by Saša Spačal and Mirjan Švagelj3Aug 2020Come and smell the rain in the biotechnological installation ‘Meta_bolus’ by Saša Spačal and Mirjan Švagelj . Meta_bolus exposes the planetary metabolic process as an exchange of certain boluses or...
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Jonas Klinkenberg
Profile of Jonas Klinkenberg, a Germany-based artist and performer. He is involved with Mediamatic's Olfactory History of Oosterdok upcoming exhibition, through the ongoing 'Private Dreams and Public...
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Jan Jedenak
Profile of Jan Jedenak, a Germany-based artist and performer. He is involved with Mediamatic's Olfactory History of Oosterdok upcoming exhibition, through the ongoing 'Private Dreams and Public...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
30Jan 2020Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
23Jan 2020Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
16Jan 2020Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Tobacco’s Transculturation
From a Botanical Specimen to a Powdered Delight
The arrival of tobacco in Europe has been traced back to the late 15 th century, when the Botanist Francisco Hernández de Toledo brought the first seeds to Spain as part of the colonial mission. The...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
9Jan 2020Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent composition plus of...
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Smoke, Snuff, and the Cosmos
Tobacco in Amerindian Rituals
Before tobacco entered the European markets as a luxury good, particularly among the elites of the 16 th century, it already had a thousand-year long history among the Amerindian communities, which...
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The Amsterdam Koffiehuis
What does gentrification smell like?
Amsterdam is undergoing a continual process of gentrification. Opinions towards gentrification are far from homogenous and have been extensively reported on, but one question rarely asked of this...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Composing Fragrance
- with Frank Bloem16Feb 2020In this workshop, artist and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop you will have...