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Oosterdok
A Brief History of Oosterdok
Changes throughout the centuries
Oosterdok is a body of water in Amsterdam. Nowadays, the eastern dock plays a crucial role in adorning the Amsterdam skyline. It features proud contemporary architecture that stand stark against the...
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Oosterdok Irene de Craen
The dirtiest street in the Netherlands
A busy city is often a smelly city...
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Oosterdok Irene de Craen
Warehouse of smells
The once massive warehouse of the VOC on Oostenburg Island must have been an extreme olfactory experience...
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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...
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Oosterdok
Partners
Olfactory History of Oosterdok
Amsterdam Museum Bureau Marineterrein City Archeologist Jerzy Gawronski Expeditie Oosterdok OBA (Amsterdam Public Library) Oude Kerk Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Leather Galore
- Odorama 32 - with Justus Tomlow, Daniel Soliman, Billie van Katwijk, Raymond Timmer and Frank Bloem27Jun 2019This time at Odorama, we’ll have a chance to talk about something sexy, something cool, something functional, and something luxurious - leather. With a lot of different speakers lined up, this...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Oosterdok
Open Call 2019 Olfactory History of Oosterdok
This open call is closed
Before Covid19, we were planning an ambitious event in Amsterdam about the Sensory History of Oosterdok, the eastern part of the old harbour of the city. Related to this project, Mediamatic issued an...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Distilling a Scent Bouquet
- with Frank Bloem7Jul 2019Finding ways to trap smells in a bottle was a quest that went on for ages, until distillation was discovered. Distillation is an ancient process that has long been used to extract essential oils from...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Soulpicks Festival
- Join our multi-sensory Tour and come to smell music18May 2019To celebrate the launch of the Soulpicks app, Mediamatic joins in on the fun with a free Multi Sensory Tour for those that download the festival app. After the tour, come and enjoy one of Amsterdam's...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Expeditie Oosterdok, 100 jarig bestaan OBA
- Doe mee aan de open tour, maak je eigen doodskleed of leer over het maken van parfum19May 2019Mediamatic opent op 19 mei haar deuren voor de bezoekers van Expeditie Oosterdok! Vandaag kun je gratis meedoen aan een van onze open tours en kun je workshops volgen over het maken van parfum of het...
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Heaven Scent
You can now resurrect the unique smell of your deceased loved one, for $600.
So we’ve seen smell dating . But it turns out that is just the first whiff of what’s to come in terms of personal odour and relationships. French company Kalain now offers a service that promises...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Scent from Heaven
- Odorama 31 - with Sanne Groeneveld, Miguel Matos, Claudia de Vos, Annalisa Butticci and Caro Verbeek3May 2019With scents being so uncontrollable, invisible and intangible, is it really a surprise that mankind would associate it to the divine? We will explore the mysterious smell of the famous ancient...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Composing Fragrance
- with Frank Bloem8Dec 2019In 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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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Composing Fragrance
- with Frank Bloem10Nov 2019In this workshop, you will learn the basics of scent composing. Artist and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. At the end of the workshop you will have theoretical...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Composing Fragrance
- with Frank Bloem13Oct 2019In this workshop, you will learn the basics of scent composing. Artist and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. At the end of the workshop you will have theoretical...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Composing Fragrance
- with Frank Bloem15Sep 2019In this workshop, you will learn the basics of scent composing. Artist and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. At the end of the workshop you will have theoretical...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Introduction to Smell
- with Frank Bloem7Jul 2019A trained nose smells more and knows what to do. Always been interested in natural perfumes, scent compositions or the making of your own fragrance? In this 3 hour intensive workshop, you will learn...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Workshop: Distilling a Scent Bouquet
- Distill a unique essential oil from your own chosen materials12May 2019Finding ways to trap smells in a bottle was a quest that went on for ages, until distillation was discovered. Distillation is an ancient process that has long been used to extract essential oils from...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Workshop: Composing Fragrance in the Distillation…
- Introduction to the art of scent distillery14Apr 2019Distillation is a complicated process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. The search for capturing, or better yet extracting, the smells from flowers and plants has been around...
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Mediamatic Eten Marie-Claire Springham
Making Scents
Let's change the way we look at body odour.
Love poet Pablo Neruda described how “better than any word, is the pulse of your scent.” When polishing and perfuming ourselves for a first date, are we missing a trick?
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Milk - Scent of a Woman
- Odorama 30 - with Lizzie Marx, Marie-Claire Springham and Spyros Drosopoulos4Apr 2019This edition we will be submerged in the most intimate and influential fluid among mammals, we look at the curious historical concept of the womb as an olfactory organ with Lizzie Marx , we tackle...
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Arthur Oosterbaan
Arthur is an all-round field biologist. He’s been working for many years as curator and nature guide at Ecomare, the center for Wadden and North Sea on the island of Texel. Ecomare is a nature museum
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Lizzie Marx
Olfactory Art Historian
Lizzie Marx is a History of Art PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge and the 2018–2019 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Rijksmuseum, where she researches the visual representations of smell in...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Ambergris
- Odorama 29: with Vibeke Mascini, David Deijmann, Frank Bloem, Lizzie Marx and Arthur Oosterbaan14Mar 2019Ambergris is the rare perfume ingredient that is found on beaches, that brings fixation to perfumes and that is worth its weight in gold. The 14th of March will be wholly dedicated to this mysterious...