Best of 2009

Women who want to be men, men who want to be women and everything in between. Mediamatic's exhibition Kiki on Steroids! was an intimate exploration of the world of transgenderism and self

What happens to your online profile after you die? Do you want it to remain online, so friends can leave a message in your memory? Or do you prefer having it deleted, so no confusion can arise about...

Nieuw Jurk wholeheartedly invited everyone to join the festive presentation of Kubus, the wondrous new collection mens- and womenswear 2009. A fashion performance by Esther Meijer, Martin Butler

Ghostly evening with a spooky piano performance, a medium responding to forgotten home movies, spiritual images, haunted DJs and ghost photography for all guests. This event was organised by the...

In a room filled with art junkies and artists, death was the life of the party. A very “A-typical” kind of death. The cryptic Ik R.I.P. exhibition (previously inaugurated) still being displayed in...

Following the Etoy lecture on Thursday night, participants of the Digital Stowaway workshop got together with Agent Zai on Friday morning. The aim was to work on compiling a mini-Arcanum Capsule for...

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...

No one else seemed to notice that smoke was pouring out of the soldering iron in front of me. Should I panic, or just ignore it? Maybe this was just our host’s way of setting the mood. Incense for...

Under the guise of a workers' weekend tea dance (without the dancing or tea), visitors were invited to join us for a book launch and concerts. Book Launch: James Beckett , "Monograph 1998-2008"...

The final breath of Ik R.I.P. Theater-artist Alix Adams was the Petrus of this evening, guiding people towards the white light. Everyone was asked to wear an outfit you want to be found in when you'...

As the four actors moved around the stage, never noticing one another but never once bumping into each other, I kept holding my nape from curling up. I was looking for two girls that, in my mind’s...

RFIDuino is an Arduino shield for reading and writing 13.56 MHz RFID tags.

During WatSpinoza? Mediamatic spread questions around Amsterdam in unexpected ways. The questions were formulated together with philosopher/writer Dirk van Weelden and can be traced back to the body...

An evening of urban dislocation that plunged us in Cairo, De Bijlmer and Amsterdam Noord.

Click here for a full report of the Electro Clothing workshops. In a series of workshops Mediamatic explored electro-clothing. Clothing that lights up in the dark, clothing that sings when it is...

"Or how to survive midnight without becoming a pumpkin in 10 easy steps" During the early hours of Saturday evening, João Evangelista organized a collective choreography in the city, called ‘Sphynx...

Wednesdaynight Mediamatic held an Out of Place salon with presentations by artists Donna Akrey and Osama Dawod.

By using the very simple and cheap PIC Microchip micro-controller it's possible to generate signals. With these signals you can display all kinds of pixel patterns on any VGA monitor or beamer.

Golden Nights was an evening of celebrating the marriage between fashion, music and food. A night to say ‘I DO’...

Friday 26th of June 2009 Mediamatic hosted a Farewell party for the King of Pop. From all over Amsterdam and other cities in the country people came to the Mediamatic BANK to pay their respects and...

Build your own moving analog solar robot and seal it in molten schmelzolan plastic forms. You will create kitschy kinetic objects for windows, windowsills or overheadprojectors. Anyone can do it!

Op dinsdagmiddag 8 september stromen vanaf 12:00 uur bezoekers van Kom je Ook? 2 de Hermitage binnen. Om 13:00 uur is de zaal volledig gevuld en klinken er enthousiaste geluiden. Bezoekers kunnen via...

Build your own little singing solar robot and seal it in molten schmelzolan plastic forms. You will create ornamental singing plastic discs for windows, windowsills or overheadprojectors. Electronic...

These are no ordinary times, and this is not your ordinary PICNIC. This year as always, PICNIC is full of surprises and unexpected twists. We're delighted to be able to share the first surprise of...

The Mediamatic Social RFID Hacker Camp explores various recent technologies like RFID, physical computing and social networking but also looks into aspects of interaction design and interactive...

Last Saturday three brand new pavilions opened their doors at the Amsterdam Biennale: Beirut, Portland and Damascus. Curated by Rani al Rajji, Matthew Stadler and Abir Boukhari. As a special opening...

3 designers are graduating and will show their collection at Mediamatic: Erin Campbell, Eberechi Nwosu and Tjitske Storm Musical host: DJ Ferry Seksie Live performance: Carlijn Aryana & Jell

The Amsterdam Biennale 2009 presented the contemporary art scene from all over the world. More than thirty international curators from the Mediamatic network provided their view of art in their city.

On Friday the 6th of November at 20:00 hrs the Cairo pavilion 'Manuals for Failure' opened, curated by Nat Muller. The pavilion introduces four instances defying definition by Dina Danish. To...

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...

For the opening of the third Amsterdam pavilion in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009, Aynouk Tan, fashion editor for magazines L'officiel, Glamcult, ZOO and the NRC Handelsblad, it girl, party queen, most...

From the far East to the far West and everything in between: this Saturday at Mediamatic the pavilions of Kobe (curated by Paul Lefevre-Venet), Porto Alegre (by Daniele Marx), Casablanca (by Aicha el...

Welcome to the Jungle. We got Fun 'n' and Games. Play the Pop Quiz. Your hosts for tonight are Roos and Alex.

This Saturday evening, the Amsterdam Biennale together with Mediamatic presented the launch of Aynouk Tan's second perfume, "Skin".

This saturday night was another great and eclectic night of openings at Mediamatic. Taiwenese sexy girls behind glass, A bombardment of Milanese art mafiosi, Robots from Rome, Danish talk shows, DJ's...

Op vrijdag 4 december reikte het Fonds BKVB Oeuvreprijzen uit aan beeldend kunstenaar Willem Oorebeek, ontwerper/initiator Willem Velthoven en architect Herman Zeinstra. Tegelijkertijd ontving...

The ‘public as programmer’ was the focus of the third edition of Kom je ook?, that took place on the 26th of November 2009. We offered an energising programme with foreign speakers, Dutch case...

Some nights are big, some night are bigger than others, and tonight's our biggest night so far at the Amsterdam Biennale.. This saturday night we have SIX openings, yes, six openings.... Canadian...

After several months of many evenings of diverse openings, of many trips to the far corners of the world's new and not yet discovered cultural capitals, this Saturday 12th december with the...

Over 40 people had lunch with Jorge Villacorta and heard him speak on the subject of the particularities of cultural spaces in the Andes. Jorge Villacorta discussed the following (in his words): “The...