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  • Image: Abel Minnee

    Interior of Club Church

    Designed by Jonathan Ho

    Artist Jonathan Kok Wai Ho designed the interiors of the darkrooms in Homoclub Church in Amsterdam. In Odorama 40 he comes to talk about the importance of smell when designing equipment for sexual...
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  • Mediamatic 2020

    Here you will find an overview of our highlights, go here to see the full overview of our 2020 program or who we worked with this year . 2020 was an interesting year. The sudden, and first ever
  • Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina

    Rietveld Party

    School's out (for a week)

    Another Wilhelmina extravaganza.

  • What makes urine a turn on?

    Talking about golden showers with Mistress Kalyss Mercury

    Water sports are still a taboo. You don't find many people who are willing to discuss the subject. Kalyss Mercury is an exception. Professional dominatrix for years and kink research pioneer, she has...

  • Space Seeds and Milk

    Milky Way by Maija Tammi

    What do you see when you picture outer space? Endless emptiness, dark and frozen, as far as the eye can see, but scary-exciting because you know there is infinitely more of it beyond your field of...
  • project 2006

    Turkije Nu

    ontsluimerende ontmoetingen

    Netwerk CS heeft in de periode 2002 - 2008 meer dan 50 projecten ondersteund middels het toekennen van een stimuleringsbudget. Deze projecten hebben diversiteitskennis opgeleverd op een of meerdere...
  • A Biennale Interview

    The idea of interaction

    Conversation with the curators of the Leeds pavilion

    Jon Wakeman, Karen Watson and Megan Smith explain what they are presenting in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009. The Leeds pavilion “I Am Leeds” opened Saturday 12 December together with Nicosia, Tehran
  • Book: Lori Gruen, George Panichas 10 Dec 1996

    Sex, Morality and the Law

    The book combines legal opinion and philosophical analysis to explore the controversial issues surrounding state control of sexual and reproductive behavior.

  • Progressiveness in Traditional Chinese Medicine

    The age old debate around Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is that its a form of alternative medicine that has been practiced since ancient times. There is little to no scientific evidence of the...
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Pedro Meyer

    Rio de Janeiro Pavilion

    Transvestite Bathroom (girl from Rio)

    Curator Pedro Meyer presents the Rio de Janeiro pavilion at the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic. His pavilion opened on the 12th of December during the Standing Room Only Party. On view until 3...

  • Mediamatic Post CS

    Office and exhibition space 2004 - 2008

    Mediamatic moved into Post CS in 2004. We moved out in July 2008.

  • Commentary Kiki on Steroids! exhibition

    Originally collected on post-its

    Below some comments left behind by the visitors of the Kiki on Steroids! exhibition.
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale:

    Amsterdam Pavilion 2

    By Aynouk Tan

    Dutch Fashion icon and journalist Aynouk Tan presents her personal signature perfume range in her own pavilion at the Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic. The pavilion opened on 31 October, 2009 and can...

  • Zorgies

    Not your typical Zoom meeting...

    Digital technology has never been so important to human intimate connection and sexuality. The virus has accelerated the validity of trends towards tech-enabled intimacy; including VR porn, sex with...
  • Proposal by: Sujata Majumdar, Roland van Dierendonck, Irene Nooren

    Nanoplay

    Project Proposal: The Society Within Us

    'The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think' - Gregory Bateson Our current way of thinking does not enable us to deal with...
  • Proposal by: Jonas Klinkenberg

    Next Door

    Project Proposal:

    NEXT DOOR is an installation by STUDIO URBANISTAN which is based on interviews with sex     workers – giving access to a parallel world that takes up the complex realities of sex workers: a freely...

  • Dating mockup

    Ideas written in HTML, CSS and Javascript

    Text is just text. Sometimes you just want to do more than write down ideas that indicate changes. Sometimes there is a need to make visible the invisible, to play with visual artefacts instead of...

  • 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

  • Day 4: Red, Red, Green

    ikStaar

    See who can look the longest at the other without blinking. Winning means eternal glory, losing everlasting humiliation.
  • 1 Jan 2004

    Camille Paglia

    Feminist Fatale

    Although a reincarnate maenad, Camille Paglia is a worshipper of definite Apollo as well as of disorganizing Dionysus. She celebrates great art, archetypes, porn, rock'n'roll, and Renaissance man. In...

  • Happy beginning

    “I found the gastarbeider of my life! Thank you Mediamatic”

    Without drawing too much attention to it, Mediamatic started beta testing its on line dating service as a companion project to the Gastarbeider Dating series of social sculptures. In a few days
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Katja Sokolova, Olga Jitlina

    St. Petersburg Pavilion

    Thank Adam

    Open from 5 December 2009 - 3 January 2010 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic. While visiting Ancient department of the Hermitage, we suddenly noticed that there was some strange energy...
  • Chiellerie Gallery Rachel Brennecke

    for love, money, and horses

    An installation/exhibition by Rachel Brennecke and Bagua Jody

    Rachel Brennecke and Bagua Jody will move into, live, and sleep in a gallery on 21 January 'as fashion' while making new works for their opening on Friday 25 January. The installation runs alongside...
  • Proposal by: Natascha Nanji

    Welcome to Studio Swan

    Project proposal: An interpersonal, speculative fiction proposition

    Welcome to Studio Swan is a speculative proposition that asks what conditions would be appropriate for us to temporarily become with plant or animal? And why would this be something desirable or...

  • Extra Kak #3

    The colorful bad boy of Dutch fashion takes on human waste

    In Bas Kosters' fanzine/magazine/anti-magazine Extra Kak you find content like that of no other publication. Between women pissing on Lionel Richie (hello, is it pee you're looking for?) and graphic...

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