Mediamatic
  •  
  • Program
    • Living Labs
    • Events
    • Projects
    • Recent
  • To see
  • Restaurant
  • Mediamatic
    • About
    • Venue / for Rent
    • People
    • Jobs & Internships
    • Houserules
    • FAQ
    • Contact & Route
  • Shop
Search Menu
Log in
en
  •  Ruilen
  • Events
  • What you can swap
  • How we swap
  • Artworks
  • Blog
  • Swapped Stuff
  • Image: Aleksandra Kalashnikova

    WWII cigarettes barter

    A selection from the Barter Archive of Caroline Woolard
  • Photography
  • Politics
  • War
  • History
  • ruilen
  • Economy
  • Community
  • Activism
  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Swap Up Shop

    A platform to exchange objects and question the notion of value in relation to design

    The Swap-Up shop started sometime ago as a collective of Kali Nikitas, Florian Pfeffer and Rick Vermeulen

  • Pirate Cinema

    The true world currency now seems to be energy and not the Dollar, Pound or Euro

    Energy is based on actual assets whereas currencies appear to be have become virtual money and inspire little long term confidence. Let's swap our energy.
  • Mediamatic Fabriek

    Hairdresser

    Swap a haircut

    At the swapping-hairdresser you could get your hair cut once in a while, in exchange for whatever the hairdresser sees fit. Make a deal and get a new coupe. Are you a hairdresser? You were able to...

  • The Swap Box Project

    Take Somethin', Leave Somethin'

    A project where street art meets swapping and creates fun for the community.

  • Time/Bank

    Paying with 'hour notes'

    An interesting alternative economic system, which is used in Dutch art scene.

  • Swop:art

    Achieving zero waste and non-consumption featuring art swop.

  • The New Economy Manifesto

    "Fortunately for us, we live in the right place at the right time to explore new possibilities and implement strange outlets, which is exactly what I intend to do"

    An article by Lauren Schaeffer
  • Project: Caroline Woolard

    Cigarette Barter in WWII Berlin to America

    A selection from the Barter Archive of Caroline Woolard

    Is mutual determination a threat? Barter Archive is an archive of barter imagery, exchanged stories, comic books, economic textbooks, barter manuals, and reciprocity agreements.

  • Cincinnati Time Store

    History of swapping

    Offcorse, swapping is a very old habit. But the first (conceptual) swap shop operated from May 18, 1827 until May 1830 and was very successful.
  • 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

  • Work Dress

    For barter only

    Between an apron and a tool belt, this dress is made for work and can only be obtained by bartering. The Work Dress has been bartered with people in exchange for a website, photo sessions, research...

  • The Note Swap

    A project by The Art House Co-op

    An organization that knows art, community and swapping.

  • Swap Shoppe

    A lively exchange of goods and services by Lauren Schaefer

    "Never took that box to goodwill? Have homemade crafts for trade? Require help with gardening? Unsure how to fix that bike? Addicted to Craigslist’s Free section? Visit the Swap Shoppe , a lively way...
  • 1 Jan 1997

    Community with an Object

    Developing Business in Developing countries

    Mediamatic Lab built a cool web 2.0 community network for Dutch Development Aid organisation NCDO. BiD Network uses semantic web, FOAF and tagging to help entrepreneurs in developing countries build...
  • Project: Antonio Vega Macotela

    Time Divisa

    Fulfilling wishes of prisoners for their artworks

    Time Divisa (2006-2010) is a project by Mexican artist Antonio Vega Macotela, that explores the possibility of replacing money with a time-sharing system. It consists of 365 individual exchanges with...

  • 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...
  • Project: Carolina Caycedo

    Day to Day

    Personalized exchanges

    Artist Carolina Caycedo trades personal possessions and services. She creates art that discusses concepts of boundaries such as those between producers and consumers, professionals and amateurs

  • STRO

    Social Trade Organisation

    Social TRade Organisation STRO is één van de weinige organisaties ter wereld die alternatieven voor het geldsysteem ontwikkelt.

  • SAVE THE WORLD

    Door TINKEBELL. i.s.m. Mediamatic

    TINKEBELL. geeft met twaalf wereldverspreide interventies inzicht in situaties die kunnen ontstaan wanneer ons wereldbeeld in andere culturen wordt geplaatst. Hiermee stelt zij onze (hulp)norm ter...

  • Beautiful Money (Art as Currency, Art as…

    An article on Money, Art and Value by Sal Randolph

  • Swap till you drop

    Physical, Interactive and Online Swapping

    Swap Shops and more

  • Pebbles

    Pebbles hier, pebbles daar

    Verhuizen, boeken, kleding, schilderen, speelgoed, postzegels, laminaat leggen, massagecursus, alles samen ruilen.

created Aleksandra Kalashnikova

  •  Contact & Route
  • Colofon
Design by Mediamatic - Powered by Ginger