Mediamatic Presentations
Lectures, performances, concerts, screenings, parties
Artists, designers, researchers and other makers present and discuss their work.
Artists, designers, researchers and other makers present and discuss their work.
12 speedy 5-minute presentations about art, people, technology and new media. From digital research to fine art, and from documentaries and graphic novels to activism.
Where are mobile games at at the moment, and where are they heading? 13 game developers, journalists, artists and programmers presented their work, and their plans for the future. From platform games...
Games are an easy way of addressing complex issues and igniting people to get involved. How can mobile games contribute to a better future? What good can a mobile game do? Louise Downe (UK) of Tate...
After arcade machines, consoles, handhelds and installations, we've finally reached the virtual Level 5: Mobile Games. The three-day Mob Fest marks the end of the Arcade exhibition. An Ignite evening...
15 short, smart and clever talks, joined and bound by one simple rule: twenty slides, five minutes. We selected fifteen artists, designers and a lost theorist who build, design and construct. Ignite...
15 short, smart and clever talks, joined and bound by one simple rule: twenty slides, five minutes. The Arcade exhibition is rapidly expanding. We invited fifteen speakers to talk with us about games.
15 short, smart and clever talks, joined and bound by one simple rule: twenty slides, five minutes. Central theme? Games!
15 short, smart and clever talks, joined and bound by one simple rule: twenty slides, five minutes. Central theme? Sensors!
Ignite Amsterdam 2 took place during Museum Night. Speakers, musicians and writers were joined and bound by one simple rule: twenty slides, five minutes.
Donderdag 3 juni - Mediamatic Bank
Presentations about data-visualization, the use of Processing in digital arts and the beauty and versatility of this programming language.
Before Sur Place makes its own mark on Dutch bike history, we were provided with the necessary knowledge of our predecessors by Otto Beaujon, collector and chairman of the historic 'Old Bike Club'...
The Japanese term 'Pecha Kucha' roughly translates as chit-chat or irritating chatter. As a happy crossbreed between an elevator pitch and speed dating, Pecha Kucha Night will present 12 participants...
The 5th Round showed the fruits of hard work at different fronts. The HvA students' final iPhone app presentations were greeted with lots of enthusiasm and even a prize. Babs Baden filled our diaries...
Salon with Mahmoud Hamdy (Cairo), Sjocosjon (Amsterdam) and Sina Khani (Tehran/Amsterdam). About streetart, design, photography, good and bad artists. Start 8.30 pm.
The 4th Round was a copious one. With Arie Altena, Kees Vernooij, DUS Architects and Jur, we treated subjects as diverse as cycling history, urban planning, exhibition design and bike messenger...
And we want you to participate in this celestial bliss! Now we’ve got your attention, we promise you an evening of varied artist presentations and a party to close with. Starring Basim Magdy (Cairo...
For the 3rd Round, EHVFXD 's co-founder Takahiro Honda joined us from Eindhoven. Together with Khanh Ly, he has created one of the nicest-looking Dutch fixed blogs around. However exciting EHV may be
Launch of talentocubano.net , which aims at promoting the Cuban underground music scene. The world knows that music is an essential ingredient of Cuban life, but lack of institutional support
An evening of performance, lecture, seed planting and visual bombardment of an artistic and activist nature. Foundland presents speakers, artists and a campaign strategy company in preparation of the...
Greenland is no longer cold, it's cool! This Sunday 14th February at 4 pm, Mediamatic is proud to present for the first time in Holland Najannguak L. Svæd, who belongs to an emerging generation of...
At our first Sur Place gathering we were happy to welcome many fixed gear enthusiasts. We listened to presentations by Gijs and Sammy of Pristine Fixed Gear, and Vera and Cheryl of Cyclic Amsterdam.
A salon with writer Maria Golia (Cairo) and photographer Jan Adriaans (Rotterdam) about photography, Cairo's car-culture and Egypt's visual history.
At Mediamatic's Kaffemik 2 Anne Sofie Hardenberg talked about her new book 'Kampen for en Far', Cunera Buijs about the history of Greenlands clothing and Tekke Terpstra was interviewing writer Ole...
Ole Jorgen Hammeken is a filmmaker and hunter, born in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. Before he went to Uummannaq he was studying law, but had this burning passion inside himself to be a real Eskimo...
The Japanese term 'Pecha Kucha' roughly translates as chit-chat or irritating chatter. As a happy crossbreed between an elevator pitch and speed dating, Pecha Kucha Night will present 12 participants...
On Saturday 28 November the first phase of the multiyear event 2030: War Zone Amsterdam will be launched with Blitz presentations by thirty international artists and collectives. Curator Brigitte van...
Hassan Khan is an artist, musician and writer. He lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. At Mediamatic he presented I am not what I am , an associative talk. " In this relationship I do not want to...
The Japanese term 'Pecha Kucha' roughly translates as chit-chat or irritating chatter. As a happy crossbreed between an elevator pitch and speed dating, Pecha Kucha Night will present 12 participants...
The Japanese term 'Pecha Kucha' roughly translates as chit-chat or irritating chatter. As a happy crossbreed between an elevator pitch and speed dating, Pecha Kucha Night will present 12 participants...
Wednesdaynight Mediamatic held an Out of Place salon with presentations by artists Donna Akrey and Osama Dawod.
An evening of urban dislocation that plunged us in Cairo, De Bijlmer and Amsterdam Noord.
The patented system to avoid death by PowerPoint came to Amsterdam for the ninth time, bringing with it the very good, the mediocre, and the clueless. Pecha Kucha, Japanese for ‘the sound of...
The Passed Away Salon of Wednesday 25 March 2009 was a special evening about death, with presentations in which death was approached from many different perspectives. Pathologist Frank van de Goot...
It was a substantial night with the launch of a limited edition magazine, a ceremony and music, all to celebrate the collective. Hosted by the design department of the Sandberg Institute.
Say Yes / No to the Internet was part of "The Power of Negative Thinking" nights. With three different presentations on the subject, Mediamatic hoped to stimulate you and me to break from this...
During this night, Theodore Watson, Julian Oliver (NZ), Yolande Kolstee and Jan Torpus (CH)/Alex Schaub (CH) showed those who were present that Augmented Reality combines the "real" world with the...
It was the first in a series of evenings on The Power of Negative Thinking. Mediamatic wanted you to say no and stay critical. Tonight's theme was the Development of the Self in the 21st Century
What do we wear these days? And how do we present ourselves online? Leah Buechley (USA), Marina Toeters, Jennifer Delano and elfriendo helped the participants to flaunt our fanciest selves.
Anne Helmond, a new media lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, spoke about the increasing popularity of widgets and what this means for the identity of the blog and the blogger.
An evening on environmental awareness through the visualization of power consumption and CO2 footprint. Featuring Tiffany Holmes, Beatriz da Costa, Michael Mandiberg, Yolande Harris, Esther Polak and...
This evening Dr. Dorothea Franck tried to seek deeper answers, using a philosophic and Buddhist perspective. In the field of self representation, she deals with the gap between self perception from...
During this evening two very different presentations on the topic of professional self representation were given as part of the Mediamatic Beauty Parlour events. First up were Elsa, Rustan and Stefan...
Number seven of the Beauty parlour salons. This time it was up to the virtual character Mouchette and the online services of Staffan and Ayumi.
"Avatars are fast becoming the main vehicle through which we navigate an ever more complex online landscape” During this evening a presentation was given by Pighed, the author of " I, Avatar; The...
During Beauty Parlour #05, as part of the ikikik! series of Mediamatic, presentations were held on the subject of classical self representation. The presenters were: Christopher West, Aline Weyel
Koen Vanmechelen tries to find the best chicken clone, UNIVERSAL COSMOPOLITAN CHICKEN. He breeds chickens from national races to get to a bastard chicken that has all genes of the national chicken.
The third public meeting in preparation of an exhibition about self-representation on the net, that kicked off in July 2008. Niels van Doorn, PhD student en junior lecturer criticized self...
This Beauty Parlour was the second public meeting in preparation of ikikik! (mememe!). ikikik! was an exhibition about self-representation on the internet, that started in July 2008. This time it was...
Beauty Parlour was a public meeting in preparation of a ikikik! (mememe!). ikikik! was an exhibition about self-representation on the net. Instead of shopping all day long just to find the perfect...
We celebrated the final day of the El HEMA with presentations by Sietske Tjallingii's Burka Big Band, Partizan Publik, the poet Baban and musician Monir from Iraq, Elena Simons (known for her book on...
Musicians from the Middle-East performed in the El HEMA on sunday afternoon. By playing their traditional instruments they gave an introduction to sounds from another world. Joël Bons, from the Nieuw...
What do Intifada and Dabke, the popular folkdance of the Levant, have in common? Very little, at a first glance. However, manifestations of political and national identity are very much intertwined...
From the back alleys of Cairo to Manhattan delis, humus is perhaps the most celebrated dip from the Middle East and Arab world. Both staple and beloved snack, the origin of this chickpea delicacy is...
Artist and game designer Julian Oliver (NZ) demonstrated his own recent mixed-reality project, 'LevelHead'. He also talked about Mixed Reality games that seek to incorporate the material and/or...
A poetic title for evening about that which our TV screens fail to show us: the streets of Baghdad where apart from carnage and destruction there is life, love, culture, history, memory and present.
Artist C.E.B. Reas (USA / Los Angeles) has co-developed a cultural tool called Processing . It's a open source software package that enables people to program interactive and visual things on their...
On this evening everyone could enjoy choc-a-bloc with video art, images, audio and performance, strung together by 3 distinguished guests: Mounira Al Solh, Paul Keller and Tarek Atoui. The evening...
During this evening there were several screenings of new experimental films from the Middle East and North Africa: In collaboration with the independent DVD label Lowave , which promotes experimental...
The last El HEMA meeting brought finalizations as well as new collaborations. A rouse of applause filled Mediamatic’s exhibition hall as El HEMA graphic designers presented the latest and final...
The 8th El HEMA weekly meeting proved to be a melodious blend of music, dance and literature. As the white entrance hall to the Mediamatic exhibition room gradually became a vivacious red, inside the...
Mediamatic unveiled the first Arabic chocolate letter—possibly ever made—at the 7th weekly meeting for the upcoming El HEMA exhibition. The letter, created by Bernardo Gaeiras, signified only one of...
The Japanese term 'Pecha Kucha' roughly translates as chit-chat or irritating chatter. As a happy crossbreed between an elevator pitch and speed dating, Pecha Kucha Night will present 12 participants...
The thursday brainstorming sessions for the El HEMA exhibition double as a community cultural forum, bringing together individuals from all realms of art. Good Arabs, “Bad Arabs,” nostalgic Arabs
Ook deze keer kon iedereen langs komen om nieuwe ideeën te delen voor een project over een (op dat moment) denkbeeldige Arabische Hema. Deze werd later ook daadwerkelijk gerealiseerd.
De derde brainstormavond over hoe een denkbeeldige Arabische Hema eruit zou kunnen zien.
De opdracht voor deze avond was: Hoe zou een een project over een denkbeeldige Arabische Hema eruit zien? Met presentaties van onder anderen Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares en Tarek Atrissi.
Mediamatic organiseerde 10 'Koopavonden' met presentaties en ideeën van ontwerpers, kunstenaars en andere specialisten over de inrichting van de denkbeeldige El HEMA .
During this salon the following took place: Fresh Rietveld-student interaction design, honest clothing by Annouk Post, Edo Paulus' second life and a performance by The Philosopher and Invisible Iva.
Timo Arnall (N) , Nicolas Nova (CH) , Giles Lane (UK) , and Sascha Pohflepp (D) presented their projects and inquiries into the most fascinating and relevant engagements between the internet
This evening's salon was on the subject of cultural identity. Two presentations were held. The first was on McDeutsch, a book on the role of German language on the national identity, and the second...
Matt Biddulph was contracted by the renown scientific journal Nature.com to build gigantic bacteria in Second Life. He held a lecture on his results on this evening at Mediamatic.
This night's programme was: Explaining Wifio, bSites and the Girlfriend Experience, the presentation of the Radio-to-Go workshop results and a live avatar/callers mix by Nathalie Bruijs en Sasker...
It was an early salon dinner party and the performances were based on E.E. Cummings by Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis. The CI project was presented by Marije ten Brink and the micro-green...
This salon brought you two presentations by Nir Nadler and Chris O'Shea, and the results of the Machinima Contest 2006.
The participants of the Arduino Wearables workshop presented their final results to the general public. Interactive clothing articles or wearable switches; anyone could come and see what was created.
The physical and the digital world are fusing, according to Julian Bleecker. The virtual life is becoming entangled with the real life, and the other way around. This Blogjects lecture showed us all...
Three new & beautiful online crossmedia projects for children were presented at this salon. This was also the Kick-Off of the workshop Interactive Television for Children organized by Mediamatic and...
A salon with presentations of Nicu Sebe on emotion recognition, Stani Michiels on his nomadic internet cafe and Tjebbe van Tijen on his scrolls.
Tijdens deze salon sprak men over cosplayers, dollfies en tot leven gewekte karakters. Dit alles stond in het kader van de Cosplay exhibitie (The Cosplay Show) dat tussen 15 juli en 27 augustus te...
A domestic salon about (il)legal chairs, animated tables, and Romanians you can't get out of the living room. On Otaku, Doringer vs Acconci's Illegal Chair Project , the interface-free RFID media...
A rampant night salon in Stedelijk Museum, with games, music and installations, and with Mediamatic contributing The Bob Block Machinima Show by Friedrich Kirschner.
A salon with some new games, as thought up by graphic design students from the Rietveld Academy, a presentation by Régine Débatty of we-make-money-not-art a display of various products as thought up...
The presentations during this salon, war oriented due to the exhibition Le Mépris, (or Contempt) named after the film by Jean-Luc Godard, included two works by L.A. Raeven, an analysis of both...
A salon with Mark Meadows, writer of Pause and Effect , who spoke on his latest project, including a videogame made in collaboration with Radiohead, Annie Lennox and Frank Gehry, two groups of...
Deze speciale salon gaf de bezoekers de mogelijkheid om deel te nemen aan een rondleiding door het EnergeticA Museum aan de hand van speciale gasten die uitleg gaven over hun FAVORIETE object.
A Mediamatic screening of the film by Cyrus Frisch, in which the method actors were heavyweight addicts and the story was an intentional double of a play and borderlines on that which is wrong.
With presentations by Theo Jansen, creator of Strandbeesten , and by Zeljko Blace, a short film by Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters and a performance by Mike Ottink.
This salon had presentations on 2 projects by FreshDeuce, Steven Jouwersma's strange collection of slides, a report on a journey by train from Moskou to Beijing by Bert de Muynck and interactive...
Featuring Kisky Netmedia, fashion designer Dan Gonen, this year's Ars Electronica prize winner Mateusz Herczka and Tilda Swinton at the Venice Biennale.
An evening of film, fashion and lectures, with presentations by Twan Janssen, creator of the short Pilot 1.1 , Bastiaan Franken, kung-fu and video art researcher, Julie Peeters, who is, above all, a...
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort, 1794
Mediamatic salon about tags and communities. Presentations on the FlickrAutoBrowser, the film Celebration , on the Future News Networks Station , on nude photo sharing on Flickr.com and the opening...
A heartbreaking salon on the rebuilding of the broken relationships in former Yugoslavia.
Fow Pyng Hu introduceerde tijdens deze salon zijn film Paradise Girls (NL 2004, 97 min)..
Tijdens de Museumn8 2004 vond er bij Mediamatic de maandelijkse salon plaats. Met Wild Boar dresses, Machine therapy, MILKproject, Ubicomp en Culiblog. Inclusief warm eten.
Featuring the nightcaps of Eibert Draisma, Jorgos Loukakos' Scrambling and Martijn Tellinga with Sound Works.
Animated Miracles, Small Town Fashion, Nepco goes United Nations and Oorbeek's electro acoustical impro.
Interactieve DANCE-DRAMA, moving lights and Theatre FASHION by Aziz
Sophie Morner, Karen Heuter, Butterfly Works and Tinkebell.
Digital Mantras, Video Art in the Age of P2P Network, new N Collective CD and a Still Life Dinner.
Missed the Outdoor Projections? They were all shown on this night in Mediamatic's new space at the Oosterdokskade 5.
Braintec, Simon Yuill and Louise Berg.
Featuring: Rafael Rozendaal, Renzo Martens and Martin Butler.
Met presentaties van JODI en Kristina Andersen, een demonstratie van de game REZ en mode van GLOED.
Featuring Maurer United Architects , Goodwill, Micha Klein and Street Couture.
Featuring Berliner Gazette, Florian Kosak, Suat Özkan, Nezaket Ekici, Paola and Meshmet
Met Harold Schouten, Michiel j. Koelink, David Spreekmeester, Peter Tessel, Rob Coenen en Koop Reynders.
Met Matthijs de Bruijne, Tom van Gestel, Manel Esparbe, Catherine Henegan en Ritsaert ten Cate.
oder: Warum schwingst Du einen Hullahoop-Reifen um Deinen Hals?
Met presentaties van Marjolijn Ruyg, Yariv Alter Fin, Ram Katzir, Claudia Linders en muziek door De Biet.
Protokoll: Suat Oezkan, TV-Moderator
Met Maurice Nio, Bregtje van der Haak, Silke Wawro, Het Geheugen van Oost en een performance van Lars Eijssen.
Met Arie Altena, Todd Matsumoto, Jeanne van Heeswijk en Debra Solomon
Met presentaties van Anneke Saveur, Ton Venhoeven, Jannah Loontjens en Blossum.
Met Inge Willems, Jeroen Elfferich, Anna Abrahams en Jan Frederik Groot
Met Erwin Driessens en Maria Verstappens Tickle Salon, de resultaten van de Mediamatic/IDFA workshop. Non-lineair Vertellen en Sushi voor beginners.
Presentaties van Mediamatic nieuwe webleeromgeving, Cristina Garcia kinderboek en Nepco zelfgemaakt voedselketen
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The second Round became an evening full of variation with presentations about Goldsprint, Sunday at the Track and Amsterdam - Paris.
Met Two Things, de Italiaanse specialiteit Pastiera, een Russisch sprookje in een nieuw jasje en veejayen bij Skrjabin.
Met Robert Henke, Pascal Haakmat, Daniel Kurjacovic, Henk Boverhoff, Martin Butler en JOFF.
Met Annette Apon, Lies Janssen, Henk Jan Bouwmeester, Circus Elleboog, Thom Hoffman en Joes Koppers.
Salon met uitverkorenen van ...
Met presentaties van Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix, Terry Dunne, Bas Ben Zineb en Luc Houtkamp.
Met Jesper Juul, Winnie Terra, duo Arpeggio, Paul Perry en Gabriele.
Gene Sharp has enabled citizens of dictatorships across the world to overthrow their governments. Documentary maker Ruaridh Arrow showed significant fragments of the film he made about this...