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  • Image: Jans Possel

    Officieel historisch optreden van The Don't Touch…

    Nooit eerder vertoond, erg zeldzaam intiem akoestische luistersessie met Amsterdam's BESTE. BAND. OOIT.
  • Aesthetics
  • Drugs
  • Sex

  • SECRETOPIA movie discussion

    Wetlands (2013)

    Meet Helen, an unusual girl with unusual tastes. SECRETOPIA's first event!
  • Book: Burgess Anthony 1 Jan 1962

    A Clockwork Orange

    Dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess.

    A satire portraying a future and dystopian Western society with—based on contemporary trends—a culture of extreme youth rebellion and violence: it explores the violent nature of humans, human free...

  • “Ze hebben allemaal zo’n grote neus. Hoort dat er…

    Kijk naar ons, je kunt niet om ons heen!

    Vanaf de buitenzijde is een stapel zwarte kratten zichtbaar. Aan de binnenkant vormen ze een doolhof, zonder licht. Bij de ingang van het doolhof staat een krat met hoofdlampjes. Ik zet een lampje op...

  • Visual Identity

    Georgia

    Here you'll find the Mediamatic Huisstijlhandboek (styleguide) with some good examples, and insightful remarks. Based the works of Abel van Gijlswijk, Mediamatic's star designer. Few key points to...
  • Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina

    Rietveld Party

    School's out (for a week)

    Another Wilhelmina extravaganza.

  • Gimmick!

    Succesfull or useless

    Gimmick! is a book by famous dutch autor Joost Zwagerman which he wrote in 1989. This book represents the world of a small group of succesfull artists living in Amsterdam in the glamorous 80s.

  • Progressiveness in Traditional Chinese Medicine

    The age old debate around Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is that its a form of alternative medicine that has been practiced since ancient times. There is little to no scientific evidence of the...
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Kai-Ting Lin, XAN

    Taipei Pavilion

    Beauties behind the glass box, selling Bīnláng 檳榔 (Betel nuts)

    Together with four other cities, Taipei opened its pavilion on Saturday 14 November 2009 with the presentation of a Taiwanese tradition: the betel nut beauties. Until 3 January 2010 in the Amsterdam...

  • Credits

    Thank you!

    Mediamatic would like to thank the following people, organizations, sponsors and participants for their contributions to the "Kunstformen der Natur" project.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 1#2 Mart Grisel, Murk Hoestra 1 Jan 1986

    Either/Or in Chinatown

    In 1984 GáBOR BòDY was artist in residence at WESTERN FRONT in Vancouver. He made Either/Or in Chinatown, a 37- minute video with a narrative structure, about the esthetic's of decay, erotic desire

  • Love and Happiness

    a short film

  • Lil B en het nieuwe tijdperk.

    Over #swag, rebellie en sociale netwerken.

    Niemand zou je kunnen vertellen wat opkomend Hip-Hop artiest 'Lil B' precies aan het doen is. Hij maakt de scheidingslijn tussen geniale artiest, cult icoon en 'domme rapper die wel eens homosexueel...

  • Interview Kael T Block

    On XX Boys and more

    Mediamatic's exhibition Kiki on Steroids! presents Kael T Block's project XX Boys, a collection of photographs of transboys. Rooted in his own experience as a transboy or 'FtM' (Female to Male), the...

  • Writing From The Margins

    Technological Narratives of Arabic Typography

    Narratives of Arabic typography shift between technological exclusion, historical resistance, and cultural rediscovery. From negotiations surrounding the display of Arabic script by Internet browsers

  • Happy beginning

    “I found the gastarbeider of my life! Thank you Mediamatic”

    Without drawing too much attention to it, Mediamatic started beta testing its on line dating service as a companion project to the Gastarbeider Dating series of social sculptures. In a few days

  • Call for fashion designers for 'Intimacy part II'

    Artist Daan Roosegaarde and V2_Lab are looking for two fashion designers (M/F) to contribute to the 'Intimacy' series. We will develop 'Intimacy Lotus' and 'Intimacy Black'.
  • Workshop: Tanja Baudoin, Michel Langendijk

    Workshop Coffin for your Beloved

    Work together with a contemporary artist

    A coffin with poetic ribbons, graffiti or textile? A robe or something more conceptual? As part of the Ik RIP exhibition on death and self-representation Mediamatic organized workshops for surviving...

  • Beauty Parlour

    In the Spring of 2008 almost every Thursday evening was dedicated to public research meetings called Beauty Parlours...
  • 1 Jan 2002

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    director, writer, actor (1946-1982)

    Fassbinder is renowned for politically controversial plays and motion pictures that often criticize social institutions.
  • Mediamatic Off-Line Vol. 11#2 Paul Groot 1 Jan 2004

    I am Mai

    Selfportrait of an artist as a young woman

    Mai Ueda kept a diary, updated daily, for Mediamatic Outside Projections from 10 to 23 November 2003. A series of fourteen meetings over two weeks. A new instalment every day, within ever-changing...

  • Worskhops: grow your own psychedelic and culinary…

    Friday 24 and Wednesday 29 January

    In these two workshops you can learn how to grow you own magic or oyster mushrooms. On the 24th of January, we will discover how to cultivate the psycedelic psilocybe cubensis mushroom. On the 29th

  • Hermann Nitsch @ Incubate Tilburg

    De Day After

    De geur van het bloed dringt zich nog steeds aan me op. Gisteren was ik bij de performance van Hermann Nitsch op het Incubate Festival in Tilburg. Het was een ervaring die me nog lang bij zal blijven.

  • Gilbert & George's bodily pictures

    Spunk, blood, piss, shit, spit

    A piece about two artists who challenged taboos and social “diktats” by magnifying the sometimes disgusting materiality of the body

  • Pee lust

    Speaking of water sports – but not the summery ones

    On this blog we want to go beyond social taboos and question fixed categories, besides, of course, discussing any possible aspects regarding pee. Thus, little by little, we got there too: sexual...

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