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4. Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Siobhán McGibbon
Xenophon: Making Odd: a Goat, a Bee, a Psyllid
19Apr 20241Aug 2024Irish artist and researcher Dr. Siobhan McGibbon builds a fictional world to discover an alternative kinship with non-humans. In this fictive world, ‘ Xenophon ’, the beings (Xenothorpians) have the...
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Janneke de Lange
Designer
Janneke de Lange is a designer who graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven. Her work " FRUITURE NURSERY" will be displayed at Mediamatic during Japanese Knotweed Festival 2024.
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a/Artist event on Neurodivergence in the Arts Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Monsters under the Bed and Cocoon
15Apr 2024All over the world stories of scary monsters are used as precautionary tales for children. And yet many fairytales teach us that what society deems monstrous is often more misunderstood than evil.
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DIY Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Textile Repair Café
1May 2024Do you need help repairing your clothes or other textile items? At our Textile Repair Cafe, you can give your favourite garments a new lease on life! We bring together people like you who want to fix...
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DIY Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Textile Repair Café
17Apr 2024Do you need help repairing your clothes or other textile items? At our Textile Repair Cafe, you can give your favourite garments a new lease on life! We bring together people like you who want to fix...
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DIY Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Textile Repair Café
10Apr 2024Do you need help repairing your clothes or other textile items? At our Textile Repair Cafe, you can give your favourite garments a new lease on life! We bring together people like you who want to fix...
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Xenophon: a Multi-species Romance Through Smell
Research Residency Siobhán McGibbon
During her time on residency at Mediamatic, McGibbon researched, experimented and developed new skills in storytelling and means of expression through scent. As a world-builder, the artist was...
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DIY Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Textile Repair Café
3Apr 2024Do you need help repairing your clothes or other textile items? At our Textile Repair Cafe, you can give your favourite garments a new lease on life! We bring together people like you who want to fix...
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DIY Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Textile Repair Café
27Mar 2024Do you need help repairing your clothes or other textile items? At our Textile Repair Cafe, you can give your favourite garments a new lease on life! We bring together people like you who want to fix...
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
21Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
20Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
19Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
14Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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DIY Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Textile Repair Café
20Mar 2024Do you need help repairing your clothes or other textile items? Tired of throwing away clothes with minor tears or snags? At our Textile Repair Cafe, you can give your favorite garments a new lease...
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Private workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Co-design with Microbes: Kombucha
with Eva van Dée
Hidden within your digestive system lies a microcosmos of immense influence: your gut microbiome. Recent research sheds light on the profound impact these microscopic allies have on not just your...
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Program April & May
Japanese Knotweed Season 2024
Every spring, Mediamatic organizes a festival around Japanese knotweed. Knotweed is a fast-growing plant known in Europe for its intrusive properties. What many do not know, however, is that this...
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Japanese Knotweed Season: Collaborative sculptural installation Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Sculpting worlds from other perspectives
13Apr 2024On the stem and leaves of the Japanese Knotweed lives a flea that sees the world not as we do, but in strong UV colors. What does the world look like through the eyes of this flea? Together with...
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Co-design with Microbes: Kombucha
7Apr 2024Hidden within your digestive system lies a microcosmos of immense influence: your gut microbiome. Recent research sheds light on the profound impact these microscopic allies have on not just your...
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Blog Leyang Fu
(Re)naming a Plant – the Magic in a Name
To many, calling a name equals casting a spell, as names are often assigned with magic or spiritual power. Such belief spreads widely geographically among different tribes. In modern days, we know...
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Piss or get off the pot!
New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system
It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...
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Living Tower Talk #5 Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
De Stad als Dierentuin (The City as a Zoo)
23Feb 2024How can humans, animals and plants live together in the city and what role do art and design play in this? This time we will talk with Thijs de Zeeuw, known for designing the new lion enclosure in...
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Future scenarios for our beloved greenhouse
An honest review of 10+ years of aquaponics
We first started experimenting with aquaponics in 2012 at our previous location at the van Gendthallen . After more than 10 years of learning, growing and enjoying an abundance of fresh herbs, we...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Gentle Dance
9Feb 2024With a new monthly batch of mycelium we are ready to rock the house again! This edition we do this with live music by musician Giuseppe Doronzo in collaboration with other musicians and pigeon tower...
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Updates from the aquaponics
Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse
The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice