People
The Artists, Designers, Curators and other makers that make Inhuman Carnaval with us
This is an ongoing and growing overview starting with the DDW'21 project week.
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Anne Hofstra
Artistic Research
Anne is an artist and artistic researcher. In 2023 she created the show KIP, that plays at Mediamatic.
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Conny Groenewegen
Fashion designer and textile artist
Conny Groenewegen zooms in on the issues associated with industrial production and labor processes.
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Kristin Maurer
What do I do?
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Anouk Beckers
Artist, designer and researcher
In 2022 Anouk Beckers has worked at Mediamatic to develop the Costume Lab and a program for the Inhuman Carnival research project. Anouk Beckers works as an independent fashion designer and...
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Nadie Borggreve
Artist
Nadie Borggreve’s embroidery echoes and is deeply rooted in nature. Her creations have a pictorial aspect that transport the viewer into a multitude of settings. We walk through forests dressed in...
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Kiki van Caspel
Kiki van Caspel graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in January 2018. Her vision is to create things in a personal way, and in a manner that will lift people's mood. She aims to work...
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Studio Nepco
Performance art collective
Studio Nepco is an internationally operating, Amsterdam-based performance art collective specialised in fantastic costumes. They describe themselves as a cloud in which music and visual distortion...
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Lennart Vader
Performance artist and designer / Studio Nepco
Lennart Vader is a Dutch performance artist and designer working in theatre and performative projects with Studio Nepco
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Jesse Asselman
Visual artist, painter and performer
Jesse Asselman is a visual artist, painter and performer. With an inter-disciplinary background in theatre, art and medicine, they have a long held fascination for creative practices and processes.
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Arne Hendriks
Pigeon Tower Artist
Arne Hendriks is an artist and researcher on human ecology. He believes we should be more generous towards ourselves in allowing radical new ideas and practices to re-define our relationship with the...
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Thomas Thwaites
Designer, Artist, & Author
Thomas Thwaites explores the psychological and social impacts of technology. His research and making process is often interwoven as a story, told through live performance-lectures, published books
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Katja Novitskova
Artist, curator and researcher
Katya Novitskova is an Estonian artist based in Amsterdam. Her work focuses on issues of technology, evolutionary processes, digital imagery and corporate aesthetics. Novitskova is interested in...
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Lea Jenny
Graduate from Design Academy of Eindhoven
Lea Jenny recently graduated from the Design Academy of Eindhoven. They have developed a multi-disciplinary approach with a sensibility for cultural phenomena involving different styles and...
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Selma Carlsson
Fashion designer
Selma Carlsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden 1996. Currently she's studying Fashion Design at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, graduating in 2022. As a designer, Selma works with ideas of...
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Hanne Johne
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Iris Woutera
Sensory and spatial artist
The spatial work of Iris Woutera focuses on all the senses. The essence is kinetic; an interaction between the movement of the human body and the material of her sculptures. Each of her works...
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Iris Klaver
Fashion and print designer
Iris Klaver is a designer and a recent graduate from AMFI. During her studies she specialised in print & textile design. In using a combination of traditional crafts and digital innovations...
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Desirée Hammen
Fashion designer and artist
Desirée Hammen graduated from Artez Institute of the Arts in Arnhem, 2003. She works as a fashion designer and artist in her hometown Eindhoven.
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Caz Egelie
Artist, curator & teacher
Caz Egelie creates installations, performances, two-dimensional works and videos. In their multi-disciplinary body of work the visual vocabulary of the works is combined with Caz' conceptual approach
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Simon Marsiglia
Simon Marsiglia is an Amsterdam-based Swedish maker of contemporary adornments in all shapes and forms. He holds a BA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. It is impossible, no, irrelevant, to...
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Rosan Selles
Rosan Selles is a designer based in Amsterdam. Having graduated in 2019 from Amsterdam Fashion Institute, she founded Studio Selles the following year. The studio values nature, craftsmanship
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Susan Kooi
Multi-disciplinary visual artist
Susan Kooi graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam in 2012. Since then she has been active as a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Amsterdam. Alongside her individual artistic...
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Anna Frijstein
Multi-disciplinary artist
Anna Frijstein is a multidisciplinary artist working in the digital, social and visual realms. Her practice includes performance, social experiments, video, drawing, flirts with the digital, and...
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Jorn Konijn
Architect & Design Curator and Writer
Jorn Konijn (18th July 1977, Hoorn, The Netherlands) is an architect & design curator and writer based in Amsterdam. He curated several exhibitions, such as the official Dutch pavilion for the...
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Benedikt Fischer
Benedikt Fischer studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, as well as spending a term as a visiting student at Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden. His work has been exhibited extensively...
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Paolo Cirio
Artist
Paolo Cirio is an artist that works with legal, economic, and cultural systems of the information society. He shows his research and intervention-based works through artifacts, photos, installations
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Bodil Ouédraogo
Bodil Ouédraogo's work is informed by the connections she finds after thoroughly examining different cultural aspects that at first glance seem to be far apart. How can a connection between diverse...
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Jimmy Paul
Fashion designer
JimmyPaul looks to past, present and future pop-culture references to create one-of-a-kind low brow fashion pieces, resulting in high-art fashion statements with a high fructose fashion DNA.
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Miles Worner
Designer
Miles Worner (@the_way_of_the_duck) is a designer and artist trained in the Leisure Department at the Design Academy Eindhoven, who graduated Cum Laude in 2021. Their current practice and philosophy...
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Venla Elonsalo
Fashion Designer
Venla Elonsalo is a fashion student at Aalto University Of Art, Design & Architecture in Helsinki. During her bachelor studies she expanded her knowledge of knitwear, woven fabrics, fabric printing...
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Peter Roessingh
Peter Roessingh is an evolutionary Biologist and Sensory Physiologist working at the University of Amsterdam. His main interests are chemical communication and the evolution of sensory receptors, in...
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Jelle Zandveld
Jelle Zandveld is currently assistant professor at the University of Utrecht at the department of Biology. He is and has been involved in teaching different (interdisciplinary) courses on evolution...
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Iris Toonen
Designer, researcher, teacher
Iris Toonen is a teacher and researcher at the Design Academy of Eindhoven. Her recent work has worked with making/becoming ‘trash’ material, by treasure hunting for unexpected fabrics in the harbor...
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Frollicking dance master
DJ Huppeldepup
Do beats stimulate mycelium growth?
During our gentle disco events we are dancing to music from DJ Huppeldepup. His all-time favorites run the gamut from innovative and alternative dance music and acid house to ambient music, post-punk
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Wannabeastar
Looking for new ways to express herself she came across good friend producer Aka Simon Little (STRFCKR/ Nevermindthestars). They hit it off straight away. Recording for a year straight, perfecting...
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Shirley Macholina
A music-entertainment Solo artist in style, Shirley Hart gives the Amsterdam fashion and dance scene some fresh and filthy allure with her dj performance. In 2019 she’d played at MOJO DTRH Swamp...
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Organization:
Gentle Ink
Story to ink, whats yours?
Onze tatoeëerders zetten zich in om de klanten met een uitzonderlijke klantenservice en een onvergetelijke ervaring tijdens uw bezoek aan Gentle Ink Tattoo Shop te geven. Onze tattooshop onderscheidt...
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Vita & Tijme
Artists
We start at the beginning, and get inspired by nature. This is where garment making starts, and we work with what that will bring us. To be continued…
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Teresa Borasino
"Thinking is learning all over again to see, to be attentive, to focus consciousness; it is turning every idea and every image, in the manner of Proust, into a privileged moment."
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Selçuk Balamir
GreenWar is a sustainable military development company. Making environmentally-friendly, carbon-neutral warfare possible. Selçuk will present a few of GreenWar's products.
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Angelique Spaninks
Directeur & Curator MU
Angelique is an experienced director with a demonstrated history of international curating. Skilled in art, design, digital culture, bio art & design and journalism. Strong professional with a Drs.
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Raphael Weyland
Environmental lawyer
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Nina van Tuikwerd
Graphic Design Studio
Studio Nina van Tuikwerd is an independent graphic design studio based in Amsterdam. Nina has a playful approach to design to show visual research and engagement to speculative thinking.
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Csilla Lakatos
Artist
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Iduna Snip
Iduna is currently studying at the design academy. One of her works made in the academy : a carton end paper wild boar were displayed in the "Inhuman Carnaval" exhibition at Dutch design week.
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Denise Huigen
Denise is currently studying at the design academy. One of her works made in the academy : a carton end textile elephant were displayed in the "Inhuman Carnaval" exhibition at Dutch design week.
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Frank Bloem
Artist, Curator and Aroma Lab Supervisor
Frank Bloem is an artist who uses scent as his primary medium. He studied Fine Arts at the Rietveld academy. In the summer of 2016, Frank changed his focus from visual art to olfactory-based works.
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Niklaus Mettler
Perfumer, Art director and Aroma Lab Team
Niklaus Mettler is a perfumer and art director who works with scent in a variety of contexts. He has worked with artists from different fields and established his own line of perfumes. His brand ...
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Willem Velthoven
In Heaven, there is no Information.
I'm an award winning designer, learner and cultural enterpreneur. I co-founded Mediamatic in 1983. I worked as director of mediamatic till summer 2024 together with my co-founder Jans Possel. I am...
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Jans Possel
founder
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Josie Dibnah
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Abigail Larasati Setiadi
Operations/HR/Office Manager (she/her)
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Sept - Dec 2021
Jana Stockerer
Programme & event assistant
During my time at Mediamatic I worked mainly on the production of Inhuman Carnaval at Dutch Design Week, BEFtival and the exhibition Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip .
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Naomi van Dijck
Artist/Curator (she/her)
(she/her) A curator and artist responsible for running the Mediamatic programme.
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Héloïse Floc'h
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October '21 - April '22
Aya Koné
Pigeon Tower Assistant
During my final year of Sculpture within the Fine Arts Department of the Royal Academy of Art in Den Haag, I was a pigeon tower assistant, building mycelium towers with Arne Hendriks.
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September '18 – December '21
Anne Lakeman
Event and Programme Manager
After graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from the Photography Department and moving on from the Management Team at Cultureel Centrum 't Fijnhout, I ended up at Mediamatic as the Event and...
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Apr 21' - Nov 22'
Elise Chalcraft
Workshop Producer and Manager / Aquaponics Assistant
I have worked as an Aquaponics Assistant in Mediamatic's Greenhouse from April - September 2021 and moved from the greenhouse upstairs into the office to work as the workshop manager and producer...
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September '21 - January '22
Bogdana Schiopu
Communication Assistant
Hello there! My name is Bogdana and I'm a 22-year-old Finnish-Romanian. Currently, I'm entering my third and final year of my Communication Science Bachelor and I'll be working as a Communication...
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Oct - Dec 2021
Caroline Aravicius
Photography assistant
My name is Caroline and from Copenhagen, Denmark. I am currently completing my last year of photography communication bachelor degree, in Denmark and was a photography assistant at Mediamatic. So...
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Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Iliana Metaxa
Project and Program Assistant
During my one year working at Mediamatic, I was involved in a number of cultural projects like Beftival (Museumnacht 2021), Penny for your Thoughts , Radical Embroidery and Knit for Survival! . My...
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Jeanne Rousselot
Restaurant Manager / Neofuturist Dinner Assistant
My name is Jeanne and I am currently half of the duo of restaurant manager and am producing Neofuturist Dinner at Mediamatic. Initially trained as a designer at La Cambre in Brussels, I developed a...
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June 2021 - Jan 2022
Sadhbh O'Donnell
Exhibition and workshop assistant/ facilitator
My experience at Mediamatic has been a rollercoaster of sorts, but one that I would gladly get on all over again.
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July - Dec 2021
Abdul Hadi Paryani
Program and exhibition assistant
Hello everyone, my name is Abdul Hadi and I am 22 years old. I've been in the Netherlands for the past 3 years but I am from Pakistan originally and I am almost done with my bachelors at the...
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Julia van der Veen
Communications Manager 2020 - 2022
Van augustus 2020 tot maart 2022 werk ik bij Mediamatic. Als communicatie manager help ik om de projecten en experimenten op het snijvlak van kunst, biologie, wetenschap die op deze plek ontstaan
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March - Nov 2021
Linh Nguyen
Autistic Artist Researcher and Programs and Events Assistant
My name is Linh. I'm 21, born and raised in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I'm completing the last year of my Communication science Bachelor degree at the University of Amsterdam. I wrote my thesis on...
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Francesca Nicchiotti
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Saba van Hoften
At the moment I am working on the Mediamatic Webshop. I've been working for Mediamatic since 2007. I was part of the development of the El Hema exhibition in 2007. Last year I worked on several small...
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Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
Marguerite d'Ervau
Exhibition and Workshops Assistant
After completing my MA in European studies, I joined Mediamatic as an exhibition and workshops assistant with the desire to curate impactful exhibitions, workshops and events. During my time at...
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Sophie
Multispecies Dinner attendee
Hi, my name is Sophie! I am sometimes afraid of other dogs, but I love humans. You might recognise my human companion Frank Bloem , who just like me likes to explore the world through scent.
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Spinoza
Multispecies Dinner attendee
Hi, My name is Spinoza! I am a regular at Mediamatic and together with my human companion Sonja live in the nearby area. You'll often see us walking around the Oosterdok neighbourhood :) I am super...
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Floortje
Multispecies Dinner attendee
Hi, my name is Floortje. I have a dog sibling named Charlie and together with our human companions Yo and Andrea, we visited the first Multispecies Dinner at Mediamatic the 17th of januari. I really...
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Rivka
Multispecies Dinner attendee
Hi there, I am Rivka. I am a very sweet dog, but also a bit sensitive and nervous sometimes. Nonetheless I enjoyed the Multispecies Dinner very much. I really came out of my shell and even...
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Lodi
Multispecies Dinner attendee
Woof woof! I am Lodi and I am a small brown teckel. Usually I am rather shy and unsociable to both humans and other dogs, but at the Multispecies Dinner at Mediamatic I felt more sociable than usual.
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Charlie
Multispecies Dinner attendee
Hi there, I am Charlie! I am a super friendly and easygoing dog. I am blessed with a human family that loves me very much. When they heard about the Multispecies Dinner at Mediamatic, they all...
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Philipp Schuler
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Annelies Wina Doom
Artist and Curator
Annelies Wina Doom is a belgian conceptual installation artist curator photographer wanderer performer player dreamer wildly associative thinker Luna Blue White her cats & other stunning creatures...