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Dance Divine + Elisa Lind
Dance Divine started with Diana Dobrescu’s love for musical digging, soon giving life to a hybrid musical project. The project, born in 2017, grows in different fields, keeping an eye on the...
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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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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Wild Yeast Hunting
- with Wolter Jonkman and Ad van Nuenen24Nov 2019One of the most important tastemakers in your beer happens to be a living organism: yeast. Most beer brewers buy their yeast from expensive suppliers, but what to do if you want to work with your own...
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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...
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Diana Munteanu
Exhibition Assistant
I come from a broad academic background in art and media, mostly from music and film studies, both critical and organizational. I am interested in curating events, spaces, artworks, be it making...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark June Yu
Bodemdrang
A Neo Futurist Dinner in retrospect
Four days in late November, every evening, Suzanne Bernhardt and Chef Thor invite guests to a journey through various “earth”: from hardened rock, grainy sand, molten “lava” to burnt clay, crumbly...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Contemplative Bath(tub)
14Dec 2018- by Giorgio Gasco31Dec 2021With this installation Giorgio Gasco represents his internal conflict: Should a designer always choose for a sustainable completion of the design to save the planet, or does he allow himself the...
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In 2019 we worked with these people
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Aslı Hatipoğlu
Artist / Cook
Aslı is a textile culinary artist who's interdisciplinary social practice focuses on curating participatory dinners and installations that shed light on how culinary history and agricultural politics...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Soffitto
3Nov 2018- by Margherita Soldati1Dec 2022Is it allowed to touch the ceiling? With Soffitto, Margherita Soldati proposes another way of experiencing the space around us by engaging with our senses. In the multi-sensorial installation
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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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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Kunstformen der Natur
5May 2018- Temporarily not on show18Jun 2020Ernst Haeckel's most beautiful bio-organisms in and around Mediamatic. Ernst Haeckel was a 19th century evolutionary biologist, together with Adolf Giltsch he made fascinating lithographs of bio
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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...
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Mediamatic 2018
Scroll down for a quick overview of our highlights, go here to see the full overview of our 2018 program or click here to view who we worked with this year.
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Kate McLean
British designer and mapper of urban smellscapes Kate McLean is Programme Director, Graphic Design at CCCU and PhD candidate at RCA. She researches fine-grained, human-centred olfactory perceptions...
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Gwen van der Zwan
Gwen van der Zwan is a Dutch writer, journalist, producer, photographer, and performer. As a journalist, she works for VICE, The Next Web, KRO-NCRV, Human, Skateism, and other platforms. Pluim will...
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Philipp Kolmann
3-Package Deal kunstenaar 2021 - 2022
Philipp Kolmann is an Austrian designer based in the Netherlands. His work entwines numerous disciplines, including anthropology, microbiology, perfumery and botany. It is his goal to extend the...
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Neo Futurist Dinners
Vision for the food of the future
In the Neo Futurist Dinner series, Mediamatic invites different artists and cooks to present their vision for the food of the future. Along these lines we question the way in which food, art, science...
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Maaike Hommes
Programme and Events Manager 2017 - 2018
Looking for a more ethical relation to nature and other species, I am especially interested in experimenting with different forms of relationality beyond western humanism. Being open to the many...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Klara Ravat
The Aroma Lab
23Jun 2017- Version one of the Mediamatic Aromalab was a workspace for Klara Ravat.1Oct 2017We’re presenting the latest addition to Mediamatic’s Biotoop: The Aroma Lab. This a work station in which scent distillation is put into practice. The DIY olfactory lab has originally been set up by...
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The Mediamatic Sluisdeurenloods
A cultural landmark
The Sluisdeurenloods or 'Canal Lock Gate Warehouse' was originally built at the end of the 19th century, before being dismantled, moved, and reconstructed at Dijkspark in 1957. The building is now...
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Spyros Drosopoulos
Spyros Drosopoulos is a fragrance engineer and is the creator of niche perfume line Baruti . Starting with a PhD in neuropsychology with specifications in sleep and memory, he was intrigued by how...