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Private workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Radical Embroidery
with Desirée Hammen
Do you think embroidery is reserved to stitching flowers? Or that you can only embroider on fabric? In the last decades, embroidery has evolved from a traditionally feminine and domestic practice to...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Casting Doubt
1Oct 2022- Weekend of Science2Oct 2022Are you fundamentally lonely? Do you break taboos? Join us and start Casting Doubts (Twijfel Zaaien) in Amsterdam's newest hotspot: Dijkspark. Thirty questions about life and art lead you along the...
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Sept '22 - Feb '23 Ariana Amirhosseini
Ariana Amirhosseini
Exhibition assistant
Architect, researcher, spatial and experience designer
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Thomas van der Sman
Thomas van der Sman is a Dutch designer based in Amsterdam. He and Philipp Kolmann designed and crafted rammed earth tables for the Ears of Earth dinner.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor16Oct 2022Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor11Sep 2022Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor13Aug 2022Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Project: Natlab Annelies Wina Doom 16 Oct 2021
More like this: Schubben / Scales
Annelies Wina Doom @ Dutch Design Week
For the Inhuman Carnaval Costume Lab at Dutch Design Week DDW Eindhoven, Mediamatic asked A W Doom to help our participants gain some inspiration. She made a series of recorded explorations of the...
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Can an Artwork be Autistic?
Using keywords to identify autistic characteristics in artworks
Repetition, extreme consistency, radical truth, cataloging, systematising, questioning, over- and understimulation. All of these words are part of a list the A/artist team brainstormed last year...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Costume Lab
W e are hosting an Open Costume Lab where we invite fashion designers, artists and complete beginners, to make costumes of amazing species from our ecosystem. There is room for experimentation and...
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We grew a new project nursery: Penny for your…
Project Nursery
There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended. Penny for your Thoughts is our project nursery
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Becoming magnesium Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link
Becoming magnesium
Through scrunching & draping tinfoil: can I transform into magnesium?
Through researching costume ideas for the Inhuman Carnaval, I came across the mineral magnesium. The rock and metal like texture reminded me of the scrunched up tin foil around the sandwiches my mum...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Observational Plant Drawing
- with Annemarie Verschoor5Jun 2022Seeing is knowing is seeing is knowing... A biology, foraging and drawing workshop in one! Together with biologist and artist Annemarie Verschoor, you will be guided through the different dimensions...
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Processing Stimuli through Drawings
A/artist discussion about art, self-perception and inclusion
Visual artist Ida (name changed for privacy) gave a presentation about her work and her artistic process. Ida's work consists of drawings of impressions from her daily runs, which she constructs...
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Chiesetta della Misericordia Willem Velthoven
When the body says Yes
23Apr 2022- The Dutch contribution to the Venice Biennale 2022 is a very cosy space.27Nov 2022Melanie Bonajo: "It is essentially a cuddle space which centralizes the clitoris as the epicentre of social design and a place for worship". This was the motto of the amazing environment that Bonajo...
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building with Mycelium
- with Arne Hendriks26Aug 2022Pigeons are seriously underappreciated. That's a mistake. Not only are they incredible navigators, fantastic cleaners-up of street left-overs, powerful cultural metaphors of hope and peace, and a...
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building with Mycelium
- with Arne Hendriks and Aya Kone29Jul 2022Pigeons are seriously underappreciated. That's a mistake. Not only are they incredible navigators, fantastic cleaners-up of street left-overs, powerful cultural metaphors of hope and peace, and a...
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building With Mycelium
- with Arne Hendriks27May 2022We're building towers for feral pigeons with waste mycelium from an oyster mushroom farmer. Building with living stuff is challenging but fun and a great reminder that it is not all about control or...
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Proposal by: Alena Grahn
Erotic Ecology
Project proposal: Our Human Bodies
This project aims to explore the erotic in our local ecology through the senses. As we are expanding our relationship with this idea, the research will be performed as ritual. In our exploration, we...
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Proposal by: Si Knight
Multisensory Listening Rituals
Project Proposal: for Reducing Stress
As you may well have experienced, life today can be very stressful. As a result of this, many people are currently in desperate need of finding ways to reduce their stress levels. Yet contemporary...
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Proposal by: Pauline Rip
Cooking Ghosts
Researching elficology
How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? Cooking Ghosts is a project based on research done by...
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Proposal by: René Nissen, Avery Franken
Disrupting Citizenship
Project proposal: Arrhythmia as the Urban Condition
The world around us may make us feel like we are required to be our most “productive” selves, and like “unproductive” behaviour is penalised. These rules can be written – a contract, for example, may...
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Proposal by: Lena Trost
(Digital) Glass Tasting
Project proposal: How glass becomes odour
My artistic research is about how glass becomes odour. Glass is an odourless material. But therefore, I claim, it can be used to tap into our own biological olfactory memory - which is the goal of...
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Proposal by: Jennifer Kumer
When My Time Comes
Project Proposal: an End-of-Life Conversation Game
How do we prepare to die? Not usually a question we want to spend a lot of time thinking about, and yet, it's incredibly important. It’s often a question not answered until it is too late. This...