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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Rhythm of life
- Biotalk 07 - with Thought Collider, Martijn Engelbregt and Teresa van Dongen12Feb 2015Listen to your body. Literally. Did you know that our bodies transmit electro-chemical messages that form a different rhythm for every individual? Or that your pee is not just waste but a great...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Digestopians
- Biotalk 06 - with Bart Vandeput and Katharina Unger15Jan 2015What if we could eat from our own waste? Would you dare to eat plastic eating fungi, or would you rather try a digestible solar cell? At Biotalk: Digestopians, we look into the future of food and...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Big Beers, small Brewers
- Bierberaad 04: Willem van Waesberghe, Herman Beeke, Teun Castelein & Henriëtte Waal, Andreas Giel, Eric Nordin9Jan 2015Bierberaad talks beer, yeasts, flavors and fermentation. From big beers and fancy processes to fanatical hobby brewers and their concoctions. This edition we invite you for a beer questionnaire with...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Hard Hat New Years reception
- 2015: First steps in the Biotoop!9Jan 2015On December 1 2014, Mediamatic moved to their new location at Dijksgracht 6. Here, on this great terrain near the waterside (within walking distance from Central Station!), we will start with the...
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Mediamatic has moved to DijksPark in 2014!
to Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam
As of December 1st, Mediamatic moved to their new location on Dijksgracht 6. On this beautiful spot near the waterside (within walking distance from Central Station!) we will continue and intensify...
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Psilocybe cubensis
The magic mushroom
Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin . Commonly called shrooms, magic mushrooms, golden tops, cubes, or gold caps, it...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Biotoop Viewing
- Do you want to rent a desk in our broedplaats?19Dec 2014On Friday November 19 (3 - 5 p.m.), we open up the Biotoop for all Bio-Designers, Artists and Life-scientists who are interested in co-creating the new Biotoop Dijksgracht with us. Do you plan to...
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Jimena Mendizabal
I am originally from Mexico and currently living in Amsterdam. I graduated in Contemporary Art Theory and have worked organising exhibitions, workshops and as staff in art fairs. I am interested in...
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1 Jan 1958
The Fly (1958)
Directed by Kurt Neumann, The Fly is a 1958 Science-Fiction-Horror movie about a botched attempt to teleport a successful scientist When his DNA is accidentally spliced with that of a housefly
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Presentation: Mediamatic Fabriek
Sexy plants & illuminating nano particles
- Biotalk 05 - with Špela Petrič, Matthew Whiteside and Simeon Henry Goodwin17Oct 2014How to visualize what is not visible for the human eye? And how to design for the non-human? For the monthly Biotalks we invite Bio-Artists and Scientists to clarify their research and practice. This...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
Kunstformen der Natur
6Sep 201423Nov 2014More than a century ago, biologist Ernst Haeckel scored a hit with his amazing illustrations of unseen organisms. We collected all 100 lithographs and blew them up to 5 times life size for our...
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Malcolm Kratz
post-growth transition, climate justice.
I’m Malcolm Kratz, my occupation is unknown. Not that it is a secret, merely because I don’t really know what I am. What I do know is that our society is fucked in the way its organised now. We're...
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Why are we exhibiting Haeckel?
The reasons we had for making a whole exhibition around the work of this XIX century biologist
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Haeckel-File #3: Haeckel the Nazi
Would evolution theory inescapably have to lead to fascist eugenics?
Haeckel has not only been badmouthed for things he actually did or believed during his life (see the two previous Haeckel-Files on racism and fraud), he has also been partially blamed for what...
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Haeckel-File #2: Haeckel the fraud
Haeckel was accused of committing fraud in order to give credibility to his theories. Is there any truth to the allegation?
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Opening Kunstformen der Natur
- een cultureel smaakexperiment18Sep 2014Op 18 September, tijdens Bio-me , proeven we de smaakontwikkeling van onze stad tijdens de officiële opening van Kunstformen der Natur . In aanwezigheid van publiek, deskundigen en de pers geven we...
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Haeckel in glass
Mediamatic is not the only one paying homage to Ernst Haeckel's Kunsformen der Natur - The Dutch National Glass Museum have turned his work into "A Sea of Glass"
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Book: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch 1 Jan 1900
Kunstformen der Natur, Lieferung 10
Issue 10 of Kunstformen der Natur, consisting of 10 lithographs by German biologist Ernst Haeckel and lithographer Adolf Giltsch. Ten of these loose-leaf issues were published between 1899 and 1904.
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Book: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch 1 Jan 1900
Kunstformen der Natur, Lieferung 9
Issue 9 of Kunstformen der Natur, consisting of 10 lithographs by German biologist Ernst Haeckel and lithographer Adolf Giltsch. Ten of these loose-leaf issues were published between 1899 and 1904.
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Book: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch 1 Jan 1900
Kunstformen der Natur, Lieferung 7
Issue 7 of Kunstformen der Natur, consisting of 10 lithographs by German biologist Ernst Haeckel and lithographer Adolf Giltsch. Ten of these loose-leaf issues were published between 1899 and 1904.
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Book: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch 1 Jan 1900
Kunstformen der Natur, Lieferung 5
Issue 5 of Kunstformen der Natur, consisting of 10 lithographs by German biologist Ernst Haeckel and lithographer Adolf Giltsch. Ten of these loose-leaf issues were published between 1899 and 1904.
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Kunstformen der Natur
Exhibition of Ernst Haeckel’s biology art
From 1899 till 1904 Ernst Haeckel published 100 amazingly beautiful biological lithographs