In 2017 we worked with these people

A Belgian social designer based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Isaac studied at art academies in Belgium, The Netherlands and Norway. But his interest in product design developed at the Willem de...

Professor in Microbiology at VU University in Amsterdam. Part of the BioRaad to advice the participants of the project: 'Mycelium design with Schizophyllum'

Arjanne Bode (1994, the Netherlands) is an investigative artist with an eye for environment and society.

Klara Ravat (Berlin, Germany)   is an olfactory artist an experimental filmmaker. 

Caro Verbeek (1980) is an art historian, author and researcher with a focus on the lower senses (smell, taste, touch). She did an MA in Olfactory art and an MA in Tactile art at the University of...

Scent nerd Tanja Deurloo (1966), MSc, is CEO and Founder of ‘Annindriya - scent experts’ and ‘Annindriya Perfume Lounge’ both based in Amsterdam. Deurloo is interested in the complexity of scent and...

Sri Lankan/British artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas creates installations that deal with alternative economic systems suitable for technological times.

Calliope Tsoupaki is a Greek-Dutch composer living in Amsterdam. Her compositions combine East and West into a contemplative and spiritual whole. Her works contain elements that refer to her Greek...

Margherita has a strong interest in tactility and tactile perception at the intersection of art and healthcare, supported by material research with a focus on the creation of patterns and textures.  ...

The multidisciplinary work by Caroline Jacob (1993, Fr) comes about through an intent of questioning and reinterpreting material and process. From an observation of reality to daily life activity

Peter Roessingh is an evolutionary Biologist and Sensory Physiologist working at the University of Amsterdam. His main interests are chemical communication and the evolution of sensory receptors, in...

I started studying art and technology at the HKU, but switched to Physics and Astronomy at the UvA. Now doing a master's degree in Theoretical Physics, but taking half a year off to see if I can...

Samira Ben Laloua is the initiator and editor in chief of extra extra nouveau magazine erotique.

Architect, Senior lecturer at The Hague University, PhD Candidate TU Delft & Leiden University and a Biomimicry student herself at Arizona State University

Wouter is an expert mycologist and owner of the Mycophilia. He also currently leads the Growing Mushrooms workshops at Mediamatic.

I work with Mediamatic since February 2011. At the moment I'm self employed at zone5 . I’m nifty with media and I love to be the helping hand, whenever I'm needed. I love to explore interactivity in...

Sasker is the founder of Manenwolf's Foodlab and smokehouse. He knows all about food preparation processes.

Jasper is a microbiologist at the University of Utrecht. He studied biomedical sciences and is currently doing a PhD at the Erasmus Medical Centre.

Creating education programs at Mediamatic to let children explore the art in science.

Alix Bizet's  work is a mix of interests in the theory, philosophy and psychology of human sciences coupled with a real passion for human behaviors the environment we live in. She tries to combine...

Conny Groenewegen zooms in on the issues associated with industrial production and labor processes.

Esther Meijer is the creator and owner of Amsterdam-based fashion label Nieuw Jurk.

Environmental observation, research and the notion of repurposing lead her to consider the enormous growing quantity of dead jellyfish surrounding coastal areas. This lead her to contemplate...

Dr. Ben van den Broek is a scientist and project leader at Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, The Netherlands. He is working in the field of biobased economy. His interest is replacing materials...

Sabina Hyoju Ahn (b.1984) is a sound and media artist, working professionally with art and technology for the last six years in New York, Seoul, London and The Hague.

Martha F. Endika is currently doing her Master's Food Biotechnology and Biorefining at Wageningen University. Part of her research is focussing on making tempeh from lupine beans and studying its B12...

Lupinfood is the collaboration of Johanna Lundberg (SWE) and Lydeke Bosch (NL), two product designers with a passion for food and specifically lupin, a legume which grows high protein and fiber rich...

Claudia De Vos is an artist and scent psychologist. Her expertise is to be found in the psychodynamics and the symbolism of natural scents, its active compounds and the (traditional) use of essential...

Éva-Marie Lind is a scent designer and aroma therapist. She has been active in organic and natural product formulation, with a specialty in the field of sensory perception, scent and aromatic...

Sonja Tobé is a dancer, occupational therapist, massage therapist for people with cancer, aromaclown and aromatherapist.

Designer and researcher, her work focuses on the exploration of alternative ways of experiencing built and mediated environments, especially in relation with emerging technologies.

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...

In his work Makkas deals with a theme that to a large extent dominates modern life. Our ever-faster changing environments, the high rate of replacement among the buildings and in the urban setting...

Singing, Improvisation, Voice

Tilemachos is a greek musician that has performed as a solo artist, with other musician and in art performances. He also write music for films and he plays many classical and modern instruments, like...

Timo Dufner is a musician, visual artist and active in the field of media and information technology. As a VJ, he performs as an AudioVideo Live Act while being also being part of various production...

Developer of FLxER software, one of the first visual performing tool, now the founder and curator of LPM (Live Performers Meeting), Live Cinema Festival and president of the AVnode Network. Gianluca...

Federico Corradi, PhD, is a Researcher and Development Scientist at IniLabs GmbH, his research focuses on the interface between neuroscience and neuromorphic engineering.  

Originally founded as a Dutch literary quarterly,  Das Mag  has since then expanded its activities to include festivals (in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin and London), a summer camp for young writing...

Carlijn Stevens is the founder of  Weergaaf, a company focussing on helping elderly people and people suffering from dementia by creating sensory scapes.

Dr. Cretien van Campen is a Dutch author, editor and scientific researcher in social science and fine arts. He is the author of The Proust Effect, a book on sensory memories. He is also the founder...

Sandra Schouten is the artist behind  Het Huis van Proeven. Her work moves between Social Design, Community Art and Food Art. The food and smell is no end in itself, but a means of interaction. The...

Jos van Campen (1960) is a geriatrician working in the MC Slotervaart hospital in Amsterdam. He is head of the department and educator of medical specialists in geriatrics and psychiatry. His focus...

Psychological Scientist with a background in food-related perception and choice. 

European Youth Press (EYP) is a network of youth media organisations in Europe. It works to build a society where empowered young media makers are actively participating and contributing to the...

Diana Scherer is an Amsterdam-based German artist who explores the relationship man has with his natural environment and his desire to control nature. 

Agriton EM Natuurlijk Actief is a 25 year old organisation located in the south of Friesland that works with EM (Effective Microorganisms), creating natural products that fertilise the soil in a...

Simone is part of the 'Agriton EM Natuurlijk Actief'. She knows all about sustainable farming using foodwaste.

American food writer and DIY food activist

Meneer Wateetons is an experimental cook, making sausages, fermenting and smoking. He is the curator of Mediamatic Zuursalon and author of 'Over Rot', a book that is dedicated to the art of...

Mattias Terpstra is founder of Brewery Katjelam that is based in Nijmegen.

Patricia Pisters   works at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam and is director of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA). She is one of the founding editors of...

Femke Herregraven (NL) is a visual artist. 

Pieter Paul Pothoven’s artistic work comprises installation, sculpture and photography, and also includes different forms of writing. An interest in material cultures pervades all projects and...

Jussi Parikka is Professor in Technological Culture and Aesthetics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He is the author of several books on media archaeology, network culture...

Emma Charles is a London-based artist. Working with photography, sound and moving image, her practice explores the way contemporary value systems of time, productivity and labour are altered through...

Erin Espelie   is a filmmaker, writer, researcher, and editor, whose films have shown at the New York Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Natural History Museum in London

Adam Nocek is an assistant professor in the philosophy of technology and science and technology studies in the School of Arts, Media + Engineering at Arizona State University.

Jasmin Moeller’s (1982, Germany) artisthood is characterized by a hybrid practice. She works as autonomous artist, consultant, researcher, and engages in social art-projects on international level.

Masha Ru (1984, Russia) is an artist with background in natural science, living and working in Amsterdam.

Julian started out as a feature film runner and BBC documentary researcher before getting his directing break on music magazine and list shows featuring some of the world’s biggest names in Hip Hop

Wester van Gaal (1986) studied history and international development studies before starting his career as a journalist. He has published stories and articles for Vrij Nederland, Het Parool, Vice and...

Vice is one of the fastest growing young media companies in the world. The VICE brand divisions include: Vice magazine, BS.TV, Viceland.com, VICE Events, VICE Music and VIRTUE. “Each generation has a...

 In Joost' work, whilst playing with fiction and truth, he searches for ambiguity. Using reconstruction and deconstruction he transforms objects and situations. Shared experiences and the meeting of...

Margriet Craens works in Eindhoven as a multi-disciplinary artist and writer, experimenting with art, design, food, and culture. Craens is one of the founders of the 70% BAR and The Fat Pony, where...

Martin Butler is an interdisciplinary artist, and stage director. He was trained in Drama at Manchester University UK, and then later choreography and performance at the SNDO, in Amsterdam, in the...

Vegan chef, Alexander Gershberg was born in Russia, raised in Israel, and is currently based in Amsterdam. He founded Vegan Sundays , with which he organises pop-up events and cooking workshops. As a...

Zeger Reyers believes that humans have become secondary to their own manipulated environments and as such, there is now not a single cell left traversing its ‘natural' course. As such, Reyers has...

Wouter Halfwerk (1980) is an evolutionary biologist and assistant professor at the VU. He is interested animal communication in particular when this involves the processing of information through...

A producer and curator for visual art and film based in Los Angeles, Saskia Wilson-Brown co-directed the seminal Silver Lake Film Festival and ran international filmmaker outreach and development Al...

Philipp Kolmann is an Austrian designer based in the Netherlands. His work entwines numerous disciplines, including anthropology, microbiology, perfumery and botany. It  is his goal to extend the...

Maurice Mikkers was born in Apeldoorn on 3 May 1986. After finishing high school in 2003, it seemed natural for Maurice to abide by his nurturing ways and pursue a career in which he could help...

There is no static 'over there' we used to call Nature. We, together with our technologies and tools, are its inseparable part. This interconnectedness is fascinating - Nature is not the Other to...

Ad Vingerhoets  is affiliated with the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology of Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. After his PhD thesis ( Psychosocial stress: An experimental...

Fei is a Taiwanese concept designer who is currently located in The Netherlands as a cultural hacker, alternative explorer and creative strategist. This she achieved through her MA Social Design...

Nederland heeft geen bergen. Sterker nog, er zijn nauwelijks heuvels. De Nederlanders hebben door de eeuwen heen hun eigen land droog gelegd en recent zelfs 'bergen' gecreëerd waarop we kunnen...

"Hannekes Boom is hét nieuwe culturele restaurant van Amsterdam met groot terras en haven aan het water. Tot snel, liefs, Hanneke" Een restaurant met groot terras aan onze eigen haven; Hanneke is de...

ir. Peter van Assche M.Arch is architect. Hij begon als informatietheoreticus en startte een promotie aan het Institute for Experimental Mathematics in Essen. Daar ontdekte hij dat zijn creativiteit...

Elin is an artist and textile- designer based in Amsterdam.

Pei-Ying Lin (TW), born in 1986, is an artist and designer with an MA in Design Interactions, Royal College of Art, and a BSc in Life Science, minor in Computer Science and Cultural Studies from...

Sander Bink was born in Baarn in 1976. He studied literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and completed this study with the thesis: ‘Ik word van het nieuwe bewogen.’ Herman Gorters ‘Een dag in...

Han van der Vegt (1961) is a poet and a translator. He specialises in long narrative poems.

Bas Belleman (1978) is a poet, translator and storyteller. His debut was   Nu nog volop ventilatoren   (2003) which was nominated for the  C. Buddingh’-Prize. Belleman studied Culture and Science...

Anna de Waard is a Spoken Word Artist.  She is part of the Poetry Circle and performs Spoken Word regularly.

Marcello Aspria studied Sociology and Gender, Sexuality and Society at the University of Amsterdam. For the best part of a decade he researched gender in perfumery, and wrote on smell culture for...

May-Britt Boekel is a video artist, photographer and graphic designer, recently graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. 

Isabelle Griffioen werkt als advertising creative. Voor Mediamatic leidt zij het Consultatiebureau Femmes Fontaines tijdens Museumnacht 2017. 

Passionate about Visual Anthropology, Olivier Jourdain studied Filmmaking in London as well as Anthropology in Leuven (KUL), after receiving a Masters in Communication in Brussels, IHECS. His love...

Jasmijn continually seeks to develop her creative methods, looking for ways to include her passion for movement and theater as forms of expression and reflection. 

Als Tomatencurator werkt journalist Annemieke Hendriks bij Mediamatic aan een kleine serie over het kunstwerk tomaat. Jarenlang volgde ze de tomaat door Europa. Van zaad tot supermarkt onderzocht ze...

Maarten van der Leeden is manager bij het multinationale familiebedrijf Rijk Zwaan .

Jos Looije is een eigenzinnige tomatenteler met een groen hart. 

Maurizio is a designer concerned with a thorough, trans-disciplinary, research-based practice, whose work addresses social and environmental challenges. Using design and art as tools to investigate...

Veerle Weustink is journalist en politicoloog. 

Lonneke Jonker is an artist and Kompaan at Cateringa & Kompanen.

Alexander is an artist, designer, builder and kompaan at Cateringa & Kompanen. He is w orking with food related themes and materials, mixed the primary and the intellectual needs of life.

Lukas Taks (1988) is a Kompaan at Cateringa & Kompanen. 

EAT ART collective,  formerly known as Cateringa & Kompanen  is an openhearted collective of makers with a specific interest in food. We find food to be an artistic material like copper, clay or pain.

Femmes Fontaines united to break the taboo on Squirt. During Squirt DING , at Museumnight 2017, this team of Squirt Experts led Isabelle Griffioen's Consultancy Firm, to assist people and answer...

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...

At the University of Amsterdam, Astrid Groot researches how sexual attraction is involved in the initial divergence of populations. 

Ibo Bakker is an illustrator, painter, and writer of (children’s) books. In addition, Ibo is active as a musician, actor and composer. He is part of the Gurdjieff Quartet.

For three years, Mark has been brewing his own beer at home to the pleasure of his friends, family and colleagues. After more than 100 brews, he has mastered the tricks of homebrewing and likes...

Artist and musician, he is known for his dreamlike and colorful videos, shot entirely in a fish bowl.

Krispijn van den Dries is a biodynamic farmer, activist and entrepreneur.

Marieke Hendriksen is wetenschapshistoricus en gespecialiseerd in de materiële cultuur van de geneeskunde in de achttiende eeuw. 

Mariëlla Beukers is h istorian, freelance editor and vinologist. She runs the Wijnkronieken , where she publishes on the unknown Dutch wine history, weird grapes and wine-related walks. 

Scent enthusiast Sanne Groeneveld (1977), joined the Odorama curatorial team as co-curator, next to Frank Bloem and Caro Verbeek. He is a fundraiser and musician with a background in art and a nose...

Door hun passie voor geuren zijn Boye en Noëlle zelf parfums gaan maken. Ze ontdekten al snel dat parfums bomvol chemische en synthetische geurstoffen zitten. Zo willen we toch niet ruiken!

Camiel van Winkel writes on contemporary art and occasionally curates exhibitions. Based in Amsterdam, he teaches art theory and art philosophy at LUCA School of Arts / Sint-Lukas Brussels. He is...

De nieuwe tuin is een kleinschalige en eigenzinnige kwekerij waar we op intensieve wijze werken aan de selectie en de vermeerdering van buitengewone planten voor een nieuwe eetbare tuin. Ze spelen...

Zaadhof Cartonnage is bezig sinds bijna 100 jaar in verpakkingen. In 1910 startte J. Zaadhof in Nieuwe Pekela "Zaadhof Cartonnagefabrieken", fabrikant van verpakkingen uit massief- en minigolfkarton.

Stokroos is a foundation that supports artists, designers and cultural initiatives.

123 zaden is een tuinzadenspecialist.

Self-made herbs products and seeds.

Kwekerij De Bolderik is gespecialiseerd is in de productie en verwerking van bloemzaden van inheemse kruidachtige gewassen t.b.v. natuurontwikkeling.

Velt is a group of 90 gardener. They promote the seeds, attend events, organise events and inform the people about hybride or organic seeds.

SeedCare BV is specialized in the production of seeds. Because of the huge amounts of crops with which they have experience, SeedCare BV is able to offer a customized solution to almost every demand...

Edible landscape, flower and seeds.

SILENE is a small nursery for exceptional annuals and biennials. accentuating a wayward and unusual range. From April until June, plants can be bought at the nursery. Seeds are available at the...

Het Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie is op 1 januari 2013 van start gegaan. Het opereert binnen de context van het cultuurbeleid en richt zich op alle ontwerpende disciplines en op e-cultuur in...

Student of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and participant in the Kunstformen der Nature exhibition along with Martin Huger, Olya Troitskaya and Sophie Rogg with their 'Hacking Haeckel' artwork

Student of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and participant in the Kunstformen der Nature exhibition along with Rudy Guedj, Olya Troitskaya and Sophie Rogg with their 'Hacking Haeckel' artwork

Graduate from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and participant in the Kunstformen der Nature exhibition along with Rudy Guedj, Martin Huger and Sophie Rogg with their 'Hacking Haeckel' artwork

Student of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and participant in the Kunstformen der Nature exhibition along with Rudy Guedj, Martin Huger and Olya Troitskaya with their 'Hacking Haeckel' artwork

The Radboud university medical center (Dutch: Radboudumc), is the teaching hospital affiliated with the Radboud University Nijmegen, in the city of Nijmegen in the eastern-central part of The...

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Graduated from the American University of Beirut with a degree in Graphic Design in 1999, Bahia worked as a Creative Director with several multinational advertising agencies in Beirut, Dubai and...

Teun Castelein (1980) is an artist known for a wide range of entrepreneurial adventures. He calls himself a 'one-man conglomerate' operating from the city of Amsterdam with the ambition of overtaking...

Medewerker van de rederij Lampedusa en vluchteling uit Ethiopië

Theater uit Denemarken die samenwerkt met Rederij Lampedusa. FIX & FOXY is alias for Tue Biering and Jeppe Kristensen and the large group of creative participants in our projects. We've made theatre

Het Uitvindersgilde is een collectief van acht creatieve ondernemers die hun vaardigheden en middelen hebben gebundeld. Wij doorbreken de grenzen van de disciplines en combineren kunst met techniek

Rederij Lampedusa is mede mogelijk gemaakt door The Art of Impact. Op initiatief van het ministerie van OCW is eind 2014 The Art of Impact van start gegaan. Dit programma onderzoekt en stimuleert...

Danish Art Foundation supported the Rederij Lampedusa The prime aim of the new Danish Arts Foundation is to promote the arts in Denmark and Danish art abroad. The new Danish Arts Foundation consists...

Design Studio. Anke Bernotat & Jan Jacob Borstlap create products and their context

Mycophilia is a research and development company based in Amsterdam-Noord with a passion for mushroom cultivation and supplier of the mushrooms we eat at Mediamatic ETEN.

For over five years, Blake Allen has been experimenting with homebrewing and growing hops organically. After brewing over 100 batches of beer, he now enjoys teaching people about the brewing process

He has been called a multi-instrumentalist, and until his death in 2006, Ali Farka Touré was one of the most influential Malinese Musicians of all time. Ten years after his passing, the former band...

Hi! I worked for the mediamatic foundation, coordinating and building exhibitions. I was working on the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition. I moved to Toronto, from Belarus, when I was six, and now I'm...

Bongani is an engineer, inventor, and product designer from Harare, Zimbabwe who is passionate about disrupting the agriculture industry through developing smart farming technologies aimed at...

Gottfried Haider works as an artist, educator and software tool-maker. He received a degree in Digital Arts at University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2009. After receiving a Fulbright Scholarship...

Oliver Barstow is an artist and publisher from Johannesburg, South Africa, who completed a Masters degree in Materialisation in Art & Design at Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. His current...

The Center for Genomic Gastronomy is an artist-led think tank that examines the biotechnologies and biodiversity of human food systems. Their work  is often site-specic and takes new forms that are...

Mary ‘Maggic’ Tsang is an artist working at the intersection of biotechnology, cultural discourse, and civil disobedience. Her investigations challenge the role of creator and creation, the...

Sjef van Gaalen [NZ/NL] is founder of Structure & Narrative, a nomadic research lab focusing on the exploration of new domains and horizons, and the reshaping of the emerging narratives. His...

Sarah Garcin is a graphic designer and programmer. She works with g-u-i, a design studio that develops publishing projects, websites, and interactive installations as a way to re ect on new...

Hackers & Designers (H&D) has been experimenting, researching and developing new and controversial technology and learning processes with artists, designers, (software) developers and hackers in...

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The Things Network is a global community of 15,983 people over 86 countries building a global Internet of Things data network. Their network uses a long range and low power radio frequency...

Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design is a non-profit educational institution in Moscow, Russia, founded in 2009. The Institute promotes positive changes and creates new ideas and...

A garden in the city centre created by volunteers in the Dijksgracht. It's situated between Mediamatic, Hannekes Boom and the Klimmuur. The Dijksgracht is totally renovated and this temporary...

Bureau Broedplaatsen is set up by the City of Amsterdam. Its role is to find and develop more affordable studios and living/working spaces for artists and alternative cultural entrepreneurs. Bureau...

Food is my passion. I especially like to cook for nice people and with nice people. The tastes from my kitchen never intimidate, they seduce in an adventurous manner.

Frank Bloem is an artist who uses scent as his primary medium. He studied Fine Arts at the Rietveld academy. In the summer of 2016, Frank changed his focus from visual art to olfactory-based works.

Arne Hendriks is an artist and researcher on human ecology. He believes we should be more generous towards ourselves in allowing radical new ideas and practices to re-define our relationship with the...

The Mondriaan Foundation was created to stimulate visual arts and the cultural heritage from the Netherlands.

Aynouk Tan is a (fashion) journalist, curator, lecturer and advisor specialized in the relationship between appearance, gender and identity. By observing appearance from an anthropological point of...