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Excerpts from 'Meeloper'
The following are excerpts from Sytske van Koeveringe's novel 'Meeloper', which she read during the a/Artist evening 'Tag-alongs and Drifters' on the 18th of March, 2024. They have been translated...
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Embroidering words
How Gro Dahle writes childrens' books differently
Gro Dahle (*1962) is an author well-known in her home country Norway for publishing over sixty books, most of them poetry collections and children's books. Her work has received several literary...
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Across the Multiverse
Chris Martin's poetic way to a neurodiverse future
Chris Martin is a poet and an educator. What's unique in his practice that resonates with our attention to autistic minds and neurodiversity?
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Words, randomness and rules
A/artist roundtable with Arjan van Amsterdam
Arjan van Amsterdam is an artist and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. During this round table discussion, he introduced us to his work, from his application to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy up...
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Book Club: Visual Thinking
A/artist roundtable about Temple Grandin's newest book
Temple Grandin is a famous American academic, animal behaviourist, and autism spokesperson. Her new book, 'Visual Thinking', published in October 2022, is the latest in her series of books exploring...
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Proposal by: Miku Sato
Book and Fire
Project Proposal: Reading cookbooks and the back side of recipes: food culture, politics and feminism
Based on the research of the old cookbooks of the Soviet Union and Japan, the project depicts food culture , politics , feminism , and how they are interrelated. Recipes can be considered stories.
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Proposal by: Lianca Van der Merwe
ASD: Alternative Sensorial Dimensions
Project Proposal: We don't know as much as we think we do
We all have blind spots due to our culture, upbringing and even the language we speak. In addition, our brains are unswervingly selective organs that de-emphasise certain stimulus, like the noise...
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The Idea Becomes the Machine that Makes the Book
A/artist roundtable with Annelies Wina Doom
During our latest A/Artist discussion round, artist Annelies Wina Doom took us on a journey through her art work "Please do not touch, even clean hands can cause damage", from its conception to its...
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Tip of the Nose
On Smell and Language
“Wow, it smells wonderful!” I exclaim as we enter the neighborhood bakery. “It smells, it smells so… nutty.” Hmm, that’s not quite the word that I wanted to say, I think to myself. Ever since...
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Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
The new Covid19 restrictions means it's time for those creative hobbies to come out of the woodwork again! Or, perhaps you are looking for something creative and different... have you considered...
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Queer Currents 2020: Inclusive Space
- Queering Intersectionality in The Critical Visitor20Jul 2020How to open up the institutions of museums and archives for outsider voices? The Critical Visitor research project looks into the hotly debated issues of diversity and inclusion in the fields of...
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Queer Currents 2020: Meet the Next Generation
- Vijf 'Pink Seniors' over roze ouder worden18Jul 2020Roze senioren, LHBTI-ouderen... Twintig jaar geleden bestonden deze termen nog niet. Maar de huidige generatie 65-plussers is trots op haar roze identiteit en is zeker niet van plan deze op hogere...
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Queer Currents 2020: Queer Manifesto Reading
- A collective reading of the Queer Nation Manifesto by Girls Like Us22Jul 2020Girls Like Us is currently working on their first non-magazine publication: a collection of Queer & Feminist manifestos, edited by Liz Allan. In preparation for this project, they invite you to join...
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Dan Asher
Een antropoloog op Mars
De Amerikaanse Dan Asher (1947 - 2010) was beeldend kunstenaar in tijdperk Warhol en Basquiat. Gedurende zijn leven maakte hij een ecclectische verzameling aan schilderijen, sculpturen, films en foto'...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
The Smell That Sells
- Odorama 35 - with Jorg Hempenius, Rick Schifferstein, and Niklaus Mettler22Nov 2019In the field of marketing, scents are a goldmine. With their ability to influence moods and choices, they can be very effective marketing tools. There is an increasingly professional level of...
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Bibliography
Olfactory History of Oosterdok
English bibliography Allen , Catherine. “To be Quechua: The Symbolism of Coca Chewing in Highland Peru”. American Ethnologist , 8, no. 1 (February 1981): 157-171. doi:10.1525/ae.1981.8.1.02a00100.
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Taco Dibbits
Director of the Rijksmuseum
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Wim Pijbes
Former art director of the Rijksmuseum
Willem Meint Jans "Wim" Pijbes is a Dutch art historian and emeritus General Director of the Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam . He is one of the minds behind the museum's complete refurbishment and...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Invisible Collection
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to not be able to look at art? With this auditory collection, we discover art with all our senses except sight. How do you experience art without looking at it?
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Paul Keller
Paul Keller is director of Kennisland, an Amsterdam-based think tank focussing on new forms of innovation for a more open and inclusive society. Paul works with governments, cultural heritage...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Kapitein Knut en het Stomme Gevaar
- Het nieuwe boek van Kapitein Knut17Feb 2018Genoeg van al die witte kool? Op zaterdagmiddag 17 februari presenteert Kapitein Knut zijn nieuwe boek. Kom langs voor een nieuwe dosis avonturen tussen Mediamatic's wintervoorraad witte kool. ...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Perfumed Words
- Odorama 19 - with Han van der Vegt, Bas Belleman, Sander Bink, Marcello Aspria and Anna de Waard19Oct 2017Poetry and literature have a lot in common with perfumes and scent compositions. Scents, like stories, evolve over time and trigger emotional states and memories. Like time-based narratives, they...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Das Magazin
Das Mag Festival x Marijke Schermer
- Leesclub over Marijke Schermer's Noodweer20May 2017Tijd om je leesbril op te zetten! Das Mag and Mediamatic nodigen je uit voor Das Mag Festival 2017, waar de pareltjes van de Nederlandse literaire wereld gevierd worden. Bij Mediamatic zal Marijke...
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Leonie Alpheus
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