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  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)

    Official opening of the Intertain Home Lab

    16
    Apr 2010
    16
    Apr 2010
    - at the VU University Amsterdam

    The doors of the new Intertain Experimental Research HomeLab at the VU University Amsterdam will officially open on Friday the 16th of April 2010. The VU would like to invite you to come and explore...
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  • 12 Aug 2001

    ikCam

    Interactive tool to visualise social networks

    Make a portrait or take a snapshot with your — new — friend. The ikCam directly publishes the picture on your profile.

  • Pachinko, i.a. Nishijin & Sankyo, from 1980…

    Extremely addictive

    The first Pachinko machines appeared in Japan around 1920 and were initially intended as children's toys. A decade later Pachinko became very popular among grown-ups as well. It's highly addictive...

  • Joint Venture dag 3: Check the Technique

    Joint Venture Dag 3: Gamelab, Beamlab, Musiclab en Bright Night presenteren op donderdag 1 juli 'Check the Technique!' Benieuwd naar de laatste ontwikkelingen op het gebied van gaming, muziek en...

  • Social RFID Hacker Camp '09

    All info about the Hacker Camp 2009

    The Mediamatic Social RFID Hacker Camp explores various recent technologies like RFID, physical computing and social networking but also looks into aspects of interaction design and interactive...

  • Best of Mediamatic

    Here you can find an overview of our favorite projects made in 2020. Click here for a  summary of all our projects per year  or  our upcoming events . 
  • Heel erg veel en nog lang niet genoeg!

    Mediamatic Show

    Hier vind je een selectie van onze projecten van de afgelopen 4 jaar. En een kleine impressie van belangrijke en grote projecten van de afgelopen 40 jaar. Kijk hier voor alle jaaroverzichten. 

  • Writing From The Margins

    Technological Narratives of Arabic Typography

    Narratives of Arabic typography shift between technological exclusion, historical resistance, and cultural rediscovery. From negotiations surrounding the display of Arabic script by Internet browsers

  • 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...

  • The Enchanted Canary*

    Contemporary Arabic Children's Books

    'If I do not mistake, you come from far. May I ask where you are going?' 'I will tell you,' answered Désiré, 'though most likely you will laugh at me. I dreamed that in the land of the sun there was...
  • 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...

  • 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.

  • RFID fantasies, experiences and creative…

    Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp

    During Picnic 07 ( Go play with your tag! ) you could experience the creative prototypes and experiments that were built around the unique opportunity of having a large crowd of tagged people present

  • The Typographic Landscapes of the Arab World

    Research on Aesthetic Trends and Legibility

    Tarek Atrissi’s will present a research on aesthetic trends and design conventions in the Arab world, through the analysis of selected current practices in Arabic type design, corporate identities

  • 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

  • TODAYSART 2011

    Festival beyond art

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

  • Arduino - the documentary

    Free online doc about the Arduino platform

  • Workshop Craftworld: the Art of Television and…

    (Dutch-language event) Third workshop in a series bringing Dutch media developers and TV makers together to develop concepts that combine the worlds of television and computer games.
  • Maurice Specht 1 Jan 2002

    What Happened in Reality

    As with all programmes, they never function the way they are written, and the programme of this symposium was no exception. Unfortunately some of the speakers were unable to attend. However enough...

  • Installations Hacker Camp '09

    Social RFID experiments

    An overview of all Hacker Camp installations made at PICNIC 2009. The will be presented during Play with your Tag at PICNIC (23 – 25 September 2009).

  • Arduino Forum

    Arduino forum and discussion platform

    This forum is created to see what happened after the Arduino Basic workshops. It's also intended to investigate if an intermediate or advanced Arduino workshop is wanted, and what you specifically...

  • Exhibition: the Dutch influence on Arabic type

    Dutch designers' involvement in the production of Arabic printing types from the 17thC to present day

    A timely and positive way to promote cultural exchange and tolerance between the West and the Arab world.

  • Day 4: Repent because we know everything!

    Biting Radios

    When J-B, Dana and Nadya explain me their installations they are talking about a dystopic future in which everything we do is recorded and used against you. I am frightened and so should you be.
  • Persbericht 22 augustus 2007

    Eerste FabLab van Nederland

    Mediamatic maakt tijdens EL HEMA FabLab publiek toegankelijk

    Amsterdam 22 augustus 2007 — Het eerste, publiek toegankelijke, FabLab van Nederland opent zaterdag 25 augustus bij Mediamatic. Het FabLab is een openbare werkplaats waar gewone mensen met digitaal...

  • The Current Market for Arabic Fonts

    Recent Developments and Consumer Needs

    The Arabic type market has changed dramatically in the last few years, and this has been mainly inspired by recent technology developments, globalization and the growth of the Arab graphic design...

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