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Matilda Mulder
Exhibition assistant (she/her)
Hey there, I’m Matilda! As an exhibition assistant I worked on the production of exhibitions and events between February 6 and August 18, 2023. What I tried to investigate during my time at...
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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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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Grieving, Healing, Laughing
- Project Presentation with Qiaochu Guo, Sophia Schullan, Ginevra Petrozzi and Cecilia Casabona23Feb 2023As our lives are eminently filled with times of grief, pain and loss, three artists suggest ways to navigate our pain. How do we heal after a loss? Can other people help? Is it fair to still have fun?
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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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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Anna Lina Litz
Neurodiversity support in art education
- A/artist roundtable with Claudia van den Hoeven17Oct 2022For this roundtable, we were joined by Claudia van den Hoeven, who shared her perspective on support for neurodiverse students in art education. Claudia works at the HKU University for the Arts in...
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Making 'Penny for your Thoughts' more accessible
A/artist roundtable about funding applications
During this roundtable, we talked about Mediamatic's open call for project proposals, 'Penny for your Thoughts' . What thoughts do the neurodiverse artists around the table have about the application...
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Proposal by: Lucia Babina
Nodes
Project Proposal: An international mutual aid hospitality network and practice for mid-career artists: menopausal women, queer and more-than-strange humans
The NODES PROJECT is an artistic output focused network of inhabited homes/live-work spaces providing hosting for artists who, due to the precarious conditions we experience in our careers, require...
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Proposal by: Natascha Nanji
Welcome to Studio Swan
Project proposal: An interpersonal, speculative fiction proposition
Welcome to Studio Swan is a speculative proposition that asks what conditions would be appropriate for us to temporarily become with plant or animal? And why would this be something desirable or...
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Proposal by: Leo Kay
The Acid House Of Ideas
Project Proposal: Bread, microbial and plant agency, fermentation, human evolution and collective ritual.
A month-long participatory exhibition centered around the building of a model house of ergot-inoculated rye bread; exploring the recent history of human alienation from the land; the creative...
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Proposal by: Sophia Schullan
Form Follows Fun
Project Proposal: Form Follows Fun – Finding Fun In Everyday Life
‘Form Follows Fun’ would be a talk hosted in the Mediamatic facilities. Its goal is not only to spread fun and entertainment but more importantly to give others the tools to create fun and...
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Proposal by: Debra Solomon
Repair Camp
Project Proposal: Material Ecofeminism Edition (ME2)
Part summer camp, re-education camp, and rehab, REPAIR CAMP - MATERIAL ECOFEMINIST EDITION is a 7-day live-in programme for ≤12 participants designed to repair and prepare lives and institutions...
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Robin Waart is an artist who makes books who…
A/artist roundtable with Robin Waart
Robin Waart is an Amsterdam–based artist. During our discussion round he let us browse through six of his printed projects. They are collections of movie stills and book pages that deal with themes...
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The Ins and Outs of Stimming
Sensing Self through Movement roundtable
Before the public event Sensing Self through Movement , we invited our three speakers for a roundtable dinner with the A/Artist team and artists from our network. We talked about a number of topics...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Mind my Mind with Peter Wassink
- A/artist Roundtable19Sep 2022Animator Peter Wassink joined us at the A/Artist roundtable to talk about his work on the film Mind my Mind (2019) by director Floor Adams. Mind my Mind delves into the mind of Chris, a man...
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Kees Boele
De Fungi Trail is een programmasamenwerking tussen de Hortus, Mediamatic en Micropia. Van half september tot oktober worden er podcasts, rondleidingen, workshops, diners, kinderactiviteiten en...
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Pascal Leboucq
De Fungi Trail is een programmasamenwerking tussen de Hortus, Mediamatic en Micropia. Van half september tot oktober worden er podcasts, rondleidingen, workshops, diners, kinderactiviteiten en...
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Bob Hendrikx
Loop of Life
Foto van Loop of Life website: https://www.loop-of-life.com/
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Shields and Shelter
A/artist roundtable with Kristin Maurer
During this roundtable, long-time Mediamatic collaborator Kristin Maurer presented her design research about making a public swimming pool into a more accessible and comfortable space for people...
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Artis Micropia
The Plastic Picknicker
24Sep 2022- Fungi Trail at Micropia2Oct 2022During the Fungi Trail, a new microbe will become part of Micropia’s exhibiton. Micropia has started cultivating a special fungus called Cladosporium cladosporioides which eats plastic, and might...
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Lecture: Artis Micropia
The Lab Talk at Micropia
24Sep 2022- The recycling power of fungi!2Oct 2022Daily talks by the lab analysts at Micropia. It is the fall when the mushrooms start appearing, and fungi will start to break down all the leaf-litter, but fungi can recycle so much more, such as...
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Artis Micropia
Follow the Fungi Trail at Micropia
24Sep 2022- Fungi Trail at Micropia2Oct 2022A route throughout the museum about the diverse world of fungi and all their important roles in the environment and our daily lives. From helping plants grow and keeping us healthy, to producing...
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Jenny Konrad
Artist and Designer
Jenny Konrad is a visual translator of information who researches and appropriates methods, medias, tools and materials to transform raw content into experiences that are digestible to constantly...
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A/artist presentation and discussion Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sensing Self through Movement
- With Weimin Zhu, Ludmila Rodrigues and Jenny Konrad5Sep 2022Three artists share their perspective on work that involves motion and the mind. With the A/artist program, we're exploring neurodiverse experience in the practice of the arts. We discover the power...
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VR Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Visit Pending Xenophora
20Aug 2022- with Mari Bastashevski and non/human partners4Sep 2022Pending Xenophora is created by Mari Bastahsevski together with non/human partners. Through creating, setting up and exhibiting Pending Xenophora , Mari offers a curious insight into the...