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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...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet Klara Ravat
- Discuss your work, ideas and obstacles with the artist24Aug 2017Meet Klara Ravat, olfactory artist and distiller of scents. Klara is artist in residence here at our Biotoop where she is hosting a series of scented workshops, talks and other related fragranced...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Smell Transplant Workshop
- Find out what it's like to smell like someone else25Jun 2017Olfactory artist Klara Ravat investigates with you how human interaction changes after you have swapped body odours with another person. By doing this, she hopes to get an insight in how big of a...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Irene de Gelder
Secretopia: Catching Pheromones
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, movie discussion15May 2017The movie Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, directed by Tom Tywker (2006), is set in 18th Century France and tells the story of Jean-Baptise Grenouille , an olfactory genius, on his homicidal quest...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Michalis Skourtaniotis
Monologue Dialogue
- A multisensory performance14May 2017Imagine a dialogue of live video art, contemporary music instruments, scent and performance art. A group of Greek artists from different disciplines come together for one single and unique...
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A must-smell exhibition at VU
Aromatic Art (Re-)constructed: In Search of Lost Scents
Co-curated by the mind behind our Odorama series, Caro Verbeek, the exhibition entitled Aromatic Art (Re-)constructed: In Search of Lost Scents on view in the main building of VU is an extensive...
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Gayil Nalls
Gayil Nalls, Ph.D. (born 1953, Washington, DC) is an artist, philosopher, and theorist. Her work explores the individual’s internal wilderness within greater ecological and social systems. Nalls’...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet Klara Ravat
- Discuss your work, ideas and obstacles with the artist29Jun 2017Meet Klara Ravat, olfactory artist and distiller of scents. Klara will be artist in residence here at our Biotoop where she will be hosting a series of scented workshops, talks and other related...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meet Klara Ravat
- Discuss your work, ideas and obstacles with the artist20Apr 2017Meet Klara Ravat, olfactory artist and distiller of scents. Klara will be artist in residence here at our Biotoop where she will be hosting a series of scented workshops, talks and other related...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Smell, Memory and Dementia
- Odorama 17 - with Dr. Cretien van Campen, Dr. Jos van Campen, Carlijn Stevens, Sandra Schouten8Jun 2017Scents are excellent keys to open doors and hatches in our memory. Even for people with dementia, scents can trigger youth memories. How do you bring back the memories of people that suffer...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Scent and well-being
- Odorama 16 - with Claudia de Vos, Éva-Marie Lind, Susana Cámara Leret and Sonja Tobé4May 2017Hippocrates taught his students to be ‘men with open noses’ in order to recognise and cure diseases. There is a reason that the plants we find most fragrant turn out to be strong antibacterial and...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Klara Ravat
The Aroma Lab
23Jun 2017- Version one of the Mediamatic Aromalab was a workspace for Klara Ravat.1Oct 2017We’re presenting the latest addition to Mediamatic’s Biotoop: The Aroma Lab. This a work station in which scent distillation is put into practice. The DIY olfactory lab has originally been set up by...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Scent as Storyteller
- Odorama 13 - with Tanja Deurloo, Martina Florians and Calliope Tsoupaki2Feb 2017Calliope Tsoupaki, Martina Florians and Tanja Deurloo, three scent geeks, gather on the crossroad of the different ways that scents connect to memories, connotations and emotions. They started their...
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Lauryn Mannigel
Lauryn Mannigel, based in Berlin, works as an artist, curator, and researcher at the intersection of art informed by the humanities and the sciences. She received her M.A. in Contemporary Art and...
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Spyros Drosopoulos
Spyros Drosopoulos is a fragrance engineer and is the creator of niche perfume line Baruti . Starting with a PhD in neuropsychology with specifications in sleep and memory, he was intrigued by how...
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Niklaus Mettler
Perfumer, Art director and Aroma Lab Team
Niklaus Mettler is a perfumer and art director who works with scent in a variety of contexts. He has worked with artists from different fields and established his own line of perfumes. His brand ...
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Odorama
Olfactory art, Research and Design
Whether derived from nature or chemically constructed, odourant molecules have the ability to profoundly affect our behavior, emotions, and associations. At Odorama we will actively engage with our...
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Pavèl van Houten
Pavèl van Houten is a visual artist with a great interest in the mystique of scientific research. In his projects, he studies methods with which people make the world logical or meaningful. According...
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Marjolijn Boterenbrood
Marjolijn Boterenbrood is a multidisciplinary artist whose works primarily revolve around the concepts of space and places through sensory impressions. Boterenbrood works through these subjects to...
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Lotte Geeven
Lotte Geeven is a multimedia artist whose works revolve around human connections to the sublime and intangible aspects of our natural surroundings, such as that of the sea and the earth. Therefore
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Martine Albitrouw-Segijn
Artist, Open Aroma Lab for Kids
Martine has a great interest, great love for odours, smells form nature, anything smelly that appeals to her. She is helping run Open Aroma Lab for Kids.