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  • Opening OBA

    7
    Jul 2007
    - Amsterdams library of the future is now

    Official public opening party of the new Amsterdam public library building by architect Jo Coenen. In the morning princess Laurentien of the Netherlands will perform the official Deed. Later we'll...
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  • Thank you

    Everyone who helped put Noord on the map

    Our project team, the artists and designers, sponsors, friends, Noorderlingen and other informers.

  • Noord is exceptionally normal

    Introduction to Noord

    This is the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands. It is about Amsterdam-Noord. We made this guide during the summer of 2010 with a group of editors and a team of 22 artists from Egypt, the...
  • Travel guide

    Noord

    A subjective travel guide to The Netherlands

    This is the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands. It is about Amsterdam-Noord. We made this guide during the summer of 2010 with a group of editors and a team of 22 artists from Egypt, the...

  • 10 Reasons why I love you.

    How the public is involved in creating our activities and is slowly becoming our colleague.

    A talk at the "Kom je ook?" symposium on web2.0 for culture and heritage. 14 november 2008, Mediamatic at OBA Amsterdam. This is presentation is listing 10+ examples of successful public involvement...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1996

    vol. 8#4 The Religion Issue

    Editorial: Are People the Gods of the Algorithms?

    The word avatar does not occur in this issue of Mediamatic.
  • InterAccess

    AXON Blog

    News from Interaccess

  • Project proposals

    Participating artists and the design team

    Mapping for Tourists resulted in Noord. These pages are snapshots of the artists' progress, as documented in July of 2010. Visit the Noord web space for the final results.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1995

    DoorMat FAT

    The DoorMat family

    For Mediamatic’s Home Issue, Dutch type designers Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland designed a special typeface. The DoorMat family

  • Noord

    Pars pro toto for The Netherlands

    During the summer of 2010, 22 artists made work in and about Amsterdam-Noord. This resulted in an exhibition, and in the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands.

  • The Typographic Matchmaking Project: Developing…

    Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger, Tarek Atrissi, Peter Bilak, Pascal Zoghbi, Lucas de Groot, and Lara Assouad Khoury.
  • Richard Rogers 1 Jan 1998

    Playing with Search Engines

    and making lowly web information into knowledge

    Climate change is global: it occurs nowhere in particular and everywhere at once. The same could be said of the information supply about this ecological crisis: on the World Wide Web, scientific...
  • Press release June 19th, 2008

    We are liquidating our library

    in protest of the cultural funding stalemate

    Mediamatic will give away all its books. Our library will cease to exist in protest of the impasse between the Raad van Cultuur and Minister Plasterk on cultural subsidies. We call on the public to...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1998

    Mari Soppela's Family Files

    Up until the 80s, home movies were made on celluloid.
  • Book: Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 1996

    Het Twintigste-Eeuwse Lichaam

  • A web native with a sense for the audience

    Frankie Roberto opens ‘Kom je ook?’ 2

    We are proud to present our first keynote speaker at the second edition of Kom je ook? on the 8th of September 2009! Frankie Roberto will present his insights on how museums can interact with their...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Volker Grassmuck 1 Jan 1991

    Otaku

    Japanese Kids colonize the Realm of information and Media

    The rise of the Otaku generation is one of the most striking phenomena of contemporary Japan. In the last Mediamatic Issue (volume 5#3), Gabin Itoh, editor of the Japanese magazine Log In, already...

  • Taking contemporary classical music out of the…

    Gillian Moore shares her longtime experience at ‘Kom je ook?’ 2

    The program for the second edition of Kom je ook? on September 8th 2009 is complete! Gillian Moore, Head of Contemporary Culture at Southbank Centre London will be our second keynote speaker next to...

  • El HEMA in Den Haag

    Nieuwe tijdelijke winkel in het centrum van de stad

    El HEMA, een concept ontwikkeld door Mediamatic Amsterdam in 2007, werd een instant-hit. De El HEMA werd daarna geadopteerd door Kosmopolis. Na Rotterdam bezocht te hebben, is de El HEMA nu te vinden...

  • Report: Map Fest evening 2

    July 8, 2010. Mapping for Clarity at Mediamatic Bank

    The second evening of Map Fest was Mapping for Clarity. Speakers were Richard Rogers, Catalogtree and De Geuzen. The host of the evening was urban sociologist and researcher Merijn Oudenampsen.

  • Typographic Matchmaking in the City Public…

    Symposium – Film screening – Book launch Location: De Balie, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam Language: English Free Entrance. Reservation is required. RSVP: khatt.foundation@gmail.com The event will consist of...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 4#3 Jorinde Seijdel 1 Jan 1990

    Face to Face with Fame

    Is it memorex, or is it live?

    from The Making of a Wax Statue: Phase 5: Implanting the hair. After the glass eyes are placed in the hollow wax head, real hair is implanted piece by piece. After this it is cut and styled.

  • Mediamatic Off-Line Vol. 10#3

    For a Better World - winter 2001

    Following on from Cesare Davolio's Annunciation (on the Red Brigade's kidnapping and eventual execution of the Italian politician Aldo Moro), this is the newest contribution to our irregular series...
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Hugo Herrera Tobón, Natalia Domínguez Rangel

    Bogotá Pavilion

    The Bogota pavilion by curators Hugo Herrera Tobon and Natalia Domínguez Rangel opens 5 December 2009 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic and on view until January 3, 2010. With artists...

  • Mapping for Tourists

    MFT resulted in Noord, an exhibition and travel guide

    Noord is the result of a project initiated by Nat Muller and Mediamatic: Mapping for Tourists. 22 artists were invited to map Amsterdam-Noord, pars pro toto for The Netherlands. The artists lived and...

created Willem Velthoven modified Ino Paap

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