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Mediamatic Fabriek
Researching and Building
12Jun 2012Our last building Sunday was very productive: we did several chemical tests on water, improved the tripledecker tower by replacing the grow beds' metal supports with bamboo, strengthened the LEd...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Fishes/plants nursery and PH values
10Jun 2012We have already built three systems, now it's time to dig into some important aspects: how to control Ph values? What is a good plant fertilizer?
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Amsterdam Tattoo Museum
Lezing Tijs Goldschmidt
14Jun 2012Juni, maand van de ontdekkingsreizigers in het Amsterdam Tattoo Museum. 4 lezingen, 4 tentoonstellingen.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS
Bio Data Visualisation Workshop
13Jun 2012The objective of this experimental workshop is to re-explore and re-map Amsterdam. We will engage with the slime-mold and make use of its awesome cognitive skills, discovering new patterns in our...
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author Albert Sanchez Piñol 13 Oct 2005
The Cold Skin
(la pell freda)
Playfully conscious of its B-movie plot, Cold Skin avoids the associated pitfalls. The narrator tells his story with detachment as he documents his experiences with the sea fiends. Rather like Lord...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Workshop
6Jul 2012At Mediamatic we've been experimenting with aquaponics: a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. We want to continue sharing our knowledge and enable...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Aquaponics Group meet Sensemaker
29May 2012During last Saturday's workshop, with the help of enthusiastic volunteers, we built a 4-storey aquaponics system. Now it's time to think how to improve it and arrange its tuning.
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Raft system and LED lights
22May 2012Plants are quickly growing in both systems and fishes seem to be at ease in the small tank. Last meeting we focused our attention on the floating rafts, using bamboo and net baskets to plan and build...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Big sunday planting
20May 2012The big system started its cycle. We planted vegetables in the two grow beds and installed LED lights. Now we have to prepare the floating boards for seedlings and settle the net to protect the...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Final plumbing for the big system
15May 2012Both systems are quickly growing. The small one officially started its cycle with fishes and plants while the 4-bed system needs few more steps to be ready. Besides, we decided to use two grow beds...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Time to finish the big system!
13May 2012After chemical tests, plants and LED lights, the small system is almost ready. Now our work continues on the big one: plumbing, washing clay pebbles, planting, lighting…we have so much to do!
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Sylvia Bernstein
Sylvia Bernstein is the president and founder of The Aquaponic Source and the Vice Chairman of the Aquaponics Association. She also manages AquaponicsCommunity.com, the largest US-based online...
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Book: Sylvia Bernstein 11 Nov 2011
Aquaponic Gardening
A Step by Step Guide to Growing Fish and Vegetables Together
Aquaponic Gardening is the definitive do-it-yourself home manual, focused on giving you all the tools you need to create your own aquaponic system and enjoy healthy, safe, fresh, and delicious food...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
PH-testing of the water and discussion on water…
8May 2012The Aquaponics Group will meet at the Van Gendthallen to talk about how to extract the heat from the LED-lighting, and how to build a system that uses that heat to heat the water in our aquarium. We...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Fish, Worms and Books
1May 2012Tonight we'll discuss what kind of fish to grow and why. And where do we get worms? Also, we've bought 5 books (Bernstein). can you all bring your book so someone else can take and read it? RSVP here...
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Teuge
A space odyssey
23Jun 2012Magische truffels, meditatieve thees en verrassende p...'s
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Singing Sentinels & Camera Futura
27Apr 2012During the opening of New Order 5, dozens of canaries flew through Mediamatic Fabriek. The birds' song subtly changed as we slowly altered the atmospheric make-up, pre-enacting a post-carbon world.
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Slime Mold Computing
Gathering intelligence from brain-less organisms
Physarum polycephalum, better known as slime mold, is a simple organism that can solve some very complex problems. Slime molds are intelligent enough to find their way towards food through complex...
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-ulture, -onics- and -iology
Seven terms explained
All these words ending in -ulture, -onics and -iology, but what do they mean and most of all: how do they differ from each other? Here's trying to get a quick grasp on them.
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Meet Your Energy Avatar
10Mar 20121Jul 2012Life on Earth 21st century: Are you sure you are really just a human being? Then what is that halo of energy hovering above you, with a size of a blue whale? Do you want meet him? Do you want to meet...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Mind Igloo
6Apr 20121Jul 2012A relic of a post-future, the hot air balloon once stood for pioneering: the first object that allowed mankind to travel through the sky. For the fourth New Order exhibition, the balloon becomes a...
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Biomodd
Symbiosis between biological and electronic systems
Nature and technology are not juxtaposed but rather fused into imaginative hybrid installations.
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rijkshemelvaartdienst
Stadsplantendiner met expositie
5May 2012In het kader van de bevrijdingsdag 5 mei 2012 zijn er in a'dam verschillende bevrijdingsmaatijden.
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Singing Sentinels
27Apr 20121Jul 2012Coal miners once hammered rock with twittering canaries living beside them, their changing song a warning alarm for a dangerous gas leak. These living sensors watched over us and kept us safe. For...