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  • Image:

    Still Life with a Stoneware Jug, Berkemeyer, and…

    Pieter Claesz (Dutch, 1597/98 - 1660)

    his painting features a stoneware jug, a glass berkemeyer (drinking glass), a pipe, a snuff box, dice and shells, objects associated with recreational pursuits like smoking, drinking, gaming and...
  • History

  • Jet Rocket, Sega, 1970

    Arcade flight simulator and the gem of our collection

    Jet Rocket, released by SEGA in 1970, is a flight simulator that makes use of visual techniques which were also used for military flight simulators. By playing with a real controller stick in a...

  • Pachinko, i.a. Nishijin & Sankyo, from 1980…

    Extremely addictive

    The first Pachinko machines appeared in Japan around 1920 and were initially intended as children's toys. A decade later Pachinko became very popular among grown-ups as well. It's highly addictive...

  • Residency: Scent and Protest

    During a residency with Art Olfaction Amsterdam at Mediamatic, Cohene will explore formulas for neutralizers for scent-based crowd control methods such as 'The Skunk’. 

  • Shoppen met Mirjam

    Online verkiezing van de mooiste nieuwe aanwinst

    Winnaar pitch tijdens KJO1 - Web 2.0 Het Tropenmuseum wil zijn bezoekers mee laten beslissen over welke nieuwe aankoop de collectie gaat verrijken. Via een internetverkiezing, gekoppeld aan een...

  • PICNIC '06 Welcome Reception

    As part of the welcome reception, the European Archive will celebrate its official launch.

  • Joodse Huizen

    herdenking van Joods Amsterdam

    Het project ‘Joodse Huizen’ verbindt Amsterdammers van nu met de Amsterdammers van toen. Zij geven een gezicht aan de namen van alle in de oorlog omgekomen Joodse Nederlanders. Op 4 mei 2011 werden...

  • Scentless Apprentice Radio Show

    Scentless Apprentice is the first aromatic radio show, anywhere, ever! Come to Mediamatic and listen to the live show  featuring a concoction of interviews, true stories, tall tales, and cultural...

  • The Hard Surrender of The Navy Terrain

    As someone who is not born or raised in the Netherlands, I thought the Navy Terrain was just a public park and historic museum at first. Considering the eventful history of the Navy Terrain and what...

  • Oosterdok

    Het Oosterdok is een water in Amsterdam. Het ontstond in 1832 toen door aanleg van de Oosterdoksdam dit deel van het IJ werd afgescheiden en daardoor ook geen eb en vloed meer kende in het toen nog...

  • NBA Jam, Midway games, 1993

    NBA Jam changed the face of basketbal forever.

    Until NBA Jam was released, basketball games were really only for the true enthusiast. After all, everything you could do on screen, you could do in real life as well. However, after 1993 basketball...

  • Spinoza

    Superster uit de gouden eeuw

    Er bestaat slechts één substantie, met één en dezelfde natuur Wie vrij is schrijft zichzelf de wet voor Het doel van de staat is de vrijheid

  • Balanophagy

    Clean Lab team lives the Balanoculture

    “Balanophagy” comes from ancient Greek and stands for the practice of eating acorns. The Clean Lab Team is working on bringing the forgotten practice back to the table.

  • Medusae

    Jellyfish, one of the oldest living organism in the world, has existed in the world for at least 500 million years. However, we still know so little about them! This blog is a compilation of the...
  • Project:

    Verrijkt wandelen

    NS Wandeltochten met mobiel en sociaal internet

    Van een dubbelzijdig A4-tje naar interactieve, mobiele toepassingen met tekst, beeld, geluid en spelelementen voor dan 600.000 gebruikers.

  • Andere Achterhuizen

    Verhalen van Joodse onderduikers - Gastblogger Marcel Prins vertelt over zijn project

    Iedereen kent het verhaal van Anne Frank. Elk jaar staan er voor het Achterhuis bijna één miljoen mensen in de rij om te zien waar en hoe zij zat ondergedoken. Haar boek is een van de meest gelezen...

  • History

    The reason for creating the Clean Lab at our Dijksgracht location was primarily to create a lab space large enough and suitable for the growing tide of artists wanting to expand their work into...

  • Garri

    Yuca, Macaxeira, Mandioca, Aipim, Agbeli or Cassava 'Bread'

    “Cassava was a root vegetable indigenous to South America and the Caribbean, and it was directly available to the Indigenous people in the Caribbean. So they subsisted on the food of their land, and...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Alessandra Avanzi

    Ancient Egypt and the culture of perfume.

    The use of smelly components in Egyptian daily life: Kyphi, incense and other perfume.

    Incense was considered the “Fragrance of the Gods” in Ancient Egypt. Making incense meant in a mysterious way creating the body of the gods and communicating with them.   Do you know that the...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Oosterdok

    Open Call 2019 Olfactory History of Oosterdok

    This open call is closed

    Before Covid19, we were planning an ambitious event in Amsterdam about the Sensory History of Oosterdok, the eastern part of the old harbour of the city. Related to this project, Mediamatic issued an...
  • Project: Huibert Teekens

    177 X Amsterdam

    Ontdek de wereld in Amsterdam

    Volgens cijfers van de gemeente is Amsterdam de stad met de meeste nationaliteiten ter wereld (!). De stad telt 177 nationaliteiten en is daarmee de meest diverse stad ter wereld, gevolgd door...
  • Genomineerd voor de DOEN Pitch winand singh

    Indiaspora

    trace back the route of your roots

    De migratie van Indiase loonarbeiders (en hun nageslacht) multimediaal in kaart gebracht. Indiaspora zit op het snijpunt van genealogie, social media en het wiki-model

  • Badlands, Atari, 1989

    A post-apocalyptic racing game

    Badlands must be one of the most fun racing games out there. The two steering wheels offer such nice game play that it's hard for anyone not to get swept up in the race. Not only do you race each...
  • Project:

    ANP Historisch Platform 3.0

    verbindt foto's en verhalen

    Winnaar DOEN pitch Kom je ook? 1 Web 2.0 in 2008, kreeg subsidie van Stichting DOEN Het ANP Historisch Platform wordt een virtuele omgeving waar beeldverhalen ontstaan over het verleden. Het ANP...

  • We’re serious about mocking!

    On the theory of carnival

    Whether at the Rio Carnival in Brazil, the Mardi Gras in New Orleans or the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival - Carnival is celebrated all over the world. In fall 2021, Mediamatic will also join the...

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