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    zaterdag-is-voor-de-doden

    Filmstill 'Zaterdag is voor de doden', gevonden op www.cafepakhuiswilhelmina.nl
  • Cinema
  • afrika
  • Death
  • 1 Jan 2005

    What are the Issues Covered

    @ the Interactive Narration Workshops?

    In each Workshop we view the Possibilities and Difficulties surrounding Interactive Narration from the Perspective of the Participants' Discipline.
  • Kompromat blog

    Secret agent Sokolova

    is temporary out of service

    The spy who came in from the cold is going back there. Her government is calling her. She may return soon. Or never. Kompromat is closed for the time being. Tomorrow never dies.
  • Workshop: Tanja Baudoin, Michel Langendijk

    Workshop Coffin for your Beloved

    Work together with a contemporary artist

    A coffin with poetic ribbons, graffiti or textile? A robe or something more conceptual? As part of the Ik RIP exhibition on death and self-representation Mediamatic organized workshops for surviving...

  • TODAYSART 2011

    Festival beyond art

    TODAYSART is a festival in The Hague organized by The Generator, which profiles itself in Art, Music and Technology.

  • New Cultural networks

    publication Stifo @Sandberg Masterclass

    INTRODUCTION STIFO@SANDBERG BOOK By Mieke Gerritzen and Ingrid van Tol The Stifo@Sandberg master class is an annually recurring workshop that tracks, fosters and deploys digital developments in the...

  • Spinoza te gast bij Ik R.I.P.

    Filosoferen over de dood

    De Ik R.I.P. expositie laat zien hoe verschillende kunstenaars zich hebben laten inspireren door de dood. Focus van de tentoonstelling is de relatie tussen de dood, identiteit en zelfexpressie.

  • Van Moskou tot Magadan

    Met Jelle Brandt Corstius door Rusland

    Wie zijn de Russen zijn en wat drijft ze? Journalist en schrijver Jelle Brandt Corstius maakt een ontdekkigstocht door het hele land op zoek naar een antwoord. Een docuserie van 7 afleveringen, v/a...

  • spectres?

    Mediated mourning rituals and the cultural acceptance of death

    The following is an excerpt from my MA thesis entitled 'Praise the media!' in which I look at examples of mourning rituals, namely the LCD embedded gravestone, through the looking glass of media...

  • Eko coffin photo report

    How to fold your coffin step by step

    Discover how easy it is to put together a cardboard coffin. The Eko-Ben company from Poland demonstrates their environmentally friendly products. Mediamatic ordered a stack of cardboard coffins with...

  • Together Forever

    When I was an apprentice, the directors told me a story that has shaped the way I view funerals and family requests to this day. Sometimes it happens that two people who are very close die at nearly...

  • Participation is Powerful

    Participation is powerful. Often, children lack an opportunity to truly participate in the funeral services for their loved ones. When I was 8 and my brother 9, our father died after a few months of...

  • Dead links

    Despite what the title of this article suggests, these links do go somewhere!

    Here you find a collection of links to websites that somehow are related to the topic of death. Leave a comment if you have other good suggestions.

  • Death of the Author, Survival of the Avatar

    Can the dead still be involved in social networking?

    There are a lot of websites that revolve around remembering the dead. For instance, Tributes is a site where you can search obituaries and make a tribute to your lost loved one; they say '60-seconds...

  • That's a wrap in Prague

    Prague is the right place for movie-buffs and theatre-junkies. With all of the underground performing arts and indie films running constantly in the city, my experience has been that boredom is not...

  • Funeral Rites in Chinatown

    "The clear, melodic notes of a brass band marching along Chinatown's Stockton Avenue catch the attention of an Asian woman picking over produce at a sidewalk vegetable stand. As the band turns the...

  • ...and beyond workshop

    The workshop of fashion designers ...and beyond is aimed at working together on a shroud for the deceased. On this shroud drawings will be applied with stitches, as a final farewell and in memory of...

  • Die Dutch catalog

    A project by Lucyeileen Hernandez

    For her graduation project at the Hogeschool van de Kunsten in Utrecht in 2005, Lucyeileen Hernandez designed a funeral catalog. As a Mexican native living in the Netherlands, Lucyeileen was struck...
  • 1 Jan 2003

    Supporters

    We would like to thank our supporters

  • Report What's Up? #39

    DJ Woes tipt toffe projecten uit de creatieve industrie

  • Memento mori profiel

    Van online profiel naar herdenkingsplek

    Met het maken van een online profiel op Mediamatic.net, Hyves of Facebook proberen veel mensen expressie te geven aan hun individuele identiteit. Er kan allerlei persoonlijke informatie worden...

  • Bodies of Change Growth

    Week 1 of growth

    In the second installment of this series, we watch the strange growth that has shown up on the mycelium shroud and it's not exactly what we were expecting!

  • Etalagemoorden

    Over gladde koppen en het feit dat de guillotine nog in werking lijkt te zijn.

    Mistroostig word ik van de talloze onthoofde paspoppen in mijn blikveld. Ik begrijp het niet, waarom al die doden in etalages? Is DEATH SELLS de nieuwste leus? Sigaretten verkopen beter sinds erop...

  • Zedz workshop

    Coffin for your beloved

    Together with the relatives Zedz designs a coffin that expresses the individuality of the loved one.

  • The Cremains of the Day

    A look at Words in Funeral Service

    Euphemisms abound in funeral service. As Hugh Rawson explains in one of my most favorite books, Euphemisms & Other Double Talk (Crown Publishers NY, 1981), words that are used to describe unpleasant...

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