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  • Image: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Tia Török

    Breastfeeding kit by Marie Claire Springham

    Alongside taking the appropriate hormones, this kit allow men to breastfeed. 
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  • Intimate Currency

    Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim

    With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...

  • Forever, Ink.

    A new, everlasting memorial.

    Morticians Mike and Kyle Sherwood launched Save My Ink Forever in 2016 when they realised that thousands of dollars of body art was literally going up in smoke.

  • The Urine Brick

    Building the future

    What is the link between pissing and building? The connection expands past port-a-loos. It's bricks. The answer is bricks.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Willem Velthoven

    Keep Out!

    march 2020 Corona Closure | Help to Flatten the Curve!

    We are ok but our exhibits and our bar/restaurant are closed until further notice. This started on Sunday march 16, 2020. We'll stay closed for public at least till April 6 whilst following the Dutch...

  • Mediamatic 2020

    Here you will find an overview of our highlights, go here to see the full overview of our 2020 program or who we worked with this year . 2020 was an interesting year. The sudden, and first ever

  • Visiting Hours

    Every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday between 14.00 and 16.00, you are very welcome to step by our Open Aroma Lab. Smell our selection of aroma-molecules, learn about working with scent as a...

  • "I steal DNA from strangers"

    Heather Dewey-Hagborg creates portraits from discarded DNA.

    Picasso once said that “ bad artists copy, good artists steal ”. It appears that New York artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg has taken this literally. Her project "Stranger Visions," fashions portraits...

  • Heaven Scent

    You can now resurrect the unique smell of your deceased loved one, for $600.

    So we’ve seen  smell dating . But it turns out that is just the first whiff of what’s to come in terms of   personal odour and relationships. French company Kalain now offers a service that promises...

  • Gob in the Machine

    Spit and Posthumanism

    I’ve spoken about spit and discovered art in which it is the primary material. It has been used as a motif and even as a cleaning fluid to restore historical works ( check out how Moma uses it to...

  • Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…

    #2.1 Thuisopdracht: Klimaatfictie (Cli-Fi) voor striptekenaars

    Mediamatic mist alle enthousiaste, nieuwsgierige en leergierige bezoekers ontzettend! Ook kunnen we ons goed voorstellen dat het thuis doorleren en samenwerken best uitdagend kan zijn... De...
  • Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Japanese Knotweed Festival

    Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.

  • Mediamatic 2008

    In this year we moved from the Post CS to Mediamatic Bank . In 2008 openings of Exhibitions , Workshops and Presentations .
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Aya Koné

    Meeting Mycelium

    Altijd al willen ruiken naar een ander wezen? Dit artikel onderzoekt geur als vermomming. En hoe je neus een van je krachtigste zintuigen is.

    Frank Bloem is parfummaker en geurontwerper. Vanaf 2014 stapte hij over van beeldende kunst naar geur. In 2016 resulteerde dit in de financiering van The Snifferoo. “Wist je dat een jonge...

  • How can our Experience of Intimacy be changed by…

    Throughout the Covid19 lockdown, there has been a 47% increase in the use of the internet as the world has turned to technology to connect with loved ones. This has made the research of Lancel/Maat...
  • Proposal by: Margherita Soldati

    A human microplastography

    Project proposal: Finding microplastics in the human body

    How do microplastic particles alter the human landscape by travelling through it? An abstract raised-relief 3dimensional map showing the traces and impact microplastic has on the human scape

  • Eating the Future

    Exploring food beyond the plate

    Food-4-Evah explores how the human body might adapt to a world of post-processed meals. Could you get used to food from the future?   In exploring this question, photographer/teacher Ursula van de...

  • When can we start to objectify our hair?

    Human Hair Transformation by Zsofia Kollar

    Zsofia Kollar is a designer who uses hair as the primary medium. The human hair has many capabilities due to their nutrients. For this collection, Zsofia experiments with the hair as an absorbent...

  • Capturing human scent through enfleurage

    In reference to Patrick Süskind’s Das Parfum

    Patrick S ü skind’s Das Parfum (or Perfume: Story of a Murderer) is considered our cult classic. It tells us a story of a man with a superhuman sense of smell who we know as Jean-Baptise Grenouille.

  • Celebrating Spit

    dribble, slobber, sputum, drool...

    A weapon, a balm and a data bank, when used respectfully saliva brings us passion and healing. 
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Conny Groenewegen

    Fashion Machine Factoids

    Why we have to Cut the Crap

    A million microplastics per washing, 6000 sweaters, and 570 square meters of knitting. The fashion industry is a beautiful but polluting business. Designer Conny Groenewegen sets out to visualize...
  • Perfume Niklaus Mettler 20 Aug 2018

    Filtered Beans

    The Scent of Fancy Condos

    The qualities of cafés can tell us about the make-up of a community, a neighborhood’s ethnic composition and about the urban development of a city. Niklaus Mettler extracted the flavors of three...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Bart Ellenbroek

    Today was a good week

    My experiences during my first week at Mediamatic

    I became very fascinated by bio-design and -materials, so i decided i wanted to do an internship where i could learn more about it. I am especially interested in mycelium based materials. After doing...

  • Summer 2018

    Overview of our all our Art Olfaction Amsterdam events

  • What makes the essence of a city?

    Diffusion: Essence de Rabot by Yeb Wiersma and Lotte Geeven

    Diffusion: Essence de Rabot is a project by Dutch multidisciplinary artists Yeb Wiersma and Lotte Geeven . It is about capturing the scent of a certain day, of emotions, and of a city through the...

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