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  • De Balie

    Timothy Snyder over de gevaren van onze tijd

    22
    Oct 2015
    - Een geschiedenis en een waarschuwing

    “Hitler’s world may not be so far away” – Timothy Snyder Volgens de vooraanstaande historicus Timothy Snyder (Yale) vertoont de huidige situatie in Syrië en Oost-Europa gelijkenis met het Duitsland...
  • Politics
  • War
  • History
  • holocaust
  • historicus
  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Freestyle Carpenting

    with Niels Albers

    High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...

  • "Resilience, reality and surviving"

    Amir Qudaih about our upcoming exhibition Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip

    “You don't really have too many people from Gaza outside here because we don't really make it out. Gaza is a very small place, it's literally three miles wide, 17 miles long. You can run it and it's...

  • "Beter geen museum, dan een slecht museum"

    Erik Schilp over NHM op Kom je ook? #FAIL

    “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Try better.” Met deze quote van Samuel Becket sluit Erik Schilp zijn verhaal af. Vanaf oktober 2008 vormde hij, samen met Valentijn Byvanck

  • PICNIC '06 Welcome Reception

    As part of the welcome reception, the European Archive will celebrate its official launch.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball

    Food is both fuel and identity

    A blog for Code Noir

    In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...
  • Frascati

    Crisis in Frascati

    Strategieen van de kunstenaar

    Frascati roept in maart de crisis uit. We breken de theatermuren open en slepen de wereld naar binnen. Wat brengt de dag vandaag? We zien valutaduikvluchten, macht & paniek. We horen een roep om...

  • Terrorism gives power

    to the Government...

    On Wednesday the 9th of February, a benefit was held for Steve Kurtz, the artist from the Critical Art Ensemble who was arrested under suspicion of bioterrorism. He had a lab in his house where he...

  • A look at the history of Caribbean cuisine

    A blog for Code Noir

    Whether culture, tradition or simple sustenance, food is a central part of human life. It also carries great symbolic value. To share a meal goes beyond the food itself; it extends to an experience...
  • 2022 Elise Chalcraft, Willem Velthoven

    Sweaters against Putin

    Mediamatic turns down the gas heaters for Ukraine whilst learning how to knit.

    We are dialing down our heating because we don't want to fund the Russian government with our gas money. We will all be wearing sweaters for Ukraine in an attempt to stop our dependency on natural...

  • Joodse Huizen

    herdenking van Joods Amsterdam

    Het project ‘Joodse Huizen’ verbindt Amsterdammers van nu met de Amsterdammers van toen. Zij geven een gezicht aan de namen van alle in de oorlog omgekomen Joodse Nederlanders. Op 4 mei 2011 werden...
  • Mediamatic Off-Line Vol. 10#3 Mathilde ter Heijne 1 Jan 2001

    A collective Psychosis?

    Interview

    Mathilde ter Heijne interviews German psychoanalyst Gertrud Hardtmann, October 13, 2001

  • The Sewage System as Political Infrastructure

    What can sewers tell us about the functioning of our modern democracy? About the role of technology and infrastructure in politics? The sewage system isn’t ‘just there’ as a neutral entity; instead
  • De Balie

    DEBAT: MULTICULTUREEL THEATER IN NEDERLAND

    DE TOREN VAN BABEL

    TF-3 organiseert in samenwerking met Kunsten '92 het debat “Multicultureel theater in Nederland: de toren van Babel”. Er woedt een strijd om het verhaal. Wat kan of mag verteld, wie kan of mag het...

  • In defence of a remarkable exhibition

    The Spirit & Life exhibition

    It was rather surprising to find the Spirit & Life exhibition in London dismissed on the Khatt site as just "another Arabic cliché exhibition". In the first place it is not, and nowhere claims to be

  • The Hard Surrender of The Navy Terrain

    As someone who is not born or raised in the Netherlands, I thought the Navy Terrain was just a public park and historic museum at first. Considering the eventful history of the Navy Terrain and what...

  • Scentless Apprentice Radio Show

    Scentless Apprentice is the first aromatic radio show, anywhere, ever! Come to Mediamatic and listen to the live show  featuring a concoction of interviews, true stories, tall tales, and cultural...

  • Virtueel Verzet

    Wat te doen wanneer Nederland wordt bezet?

    Gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog was het woord een krachtig machtsmiddel dankzij nieuwe mediatechnologieen waarmee dit woord kon worden overgebracht. Het verzet had veel baat bij de radio, terwijl de...

  • Residency: Scent and Protest

    During a residency with Art Olfaction Amsterdam at Mediamatic, Cohene will explore formulas for neutralizers for scent-based crowd control methods such as 'The Skunk’. 
  • 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.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Jasper Altena 1 Jan 1998

    On a Secret Mission

    Lieutenant Coulon

    On January 21st, 1913, Lieutenant Coulon, secret agent with French military intelligence, reported to his commander in Hanoi. His assignment was to investigate the political and military situation in...

  • Spinoza

    Superster uit de gouden eeuw

    Er bestaat slechts één substantie, met één en dezelfde natuur Wie vrij is schrijft zichzelf de wet voor Het doel van de staat is de vrijheid

  • NBA Jam, Midway games, 1993

    NBA Jam changed the face of basketbal forever.

    Until NBA Jam was released, basketball games were really only for the true enthusiast. After all, everything you could do on screen, you could do in real life as well. However, after 1993 basketball...

  • Torch Gallery

    Simon Henwood

    TORCH Gallery is proud to present Gallant Company, the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands by British multi- disciplinary visual artist Simon Henwood. Gallant Company showcases a selection of...

  • Balanophagy

    Clean Lab team lives the Balanoculture

    “Balanophagy” comes from ancient Greek and stands for the practice of eating acorns. The Clean Lab Team is working on bringing the forgotten practice back to the table.

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