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  • Ernst Haeckel
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  • Image: Malcolm Kratz

    Hacking Haeckel collage

    Enlightened installation reacting on Haeckel's Kunstformen Der Natur lithographies. Made by Rudy Guedj, Martin Huger, Olya Troitskaya and Sophie Rogg.
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  • The Haeckel Project

    As some of you might have already noticed, reaching our location became a bit of an adventure due to construction works near Oosterdok. Yet, we are not isolated on our island, but there are still...

  • Haeckel-Files

    Enchanted by Haeckel’s art? So enchanted that you want to know more about this intriguing nineteenth century German scientist?

  • Haeckel-File #2: Haeckel the fraud

    Haeckel was accused of committing fraud in order to give credibility to his theories. Is there any truth to the allegation?

  • Proteus

    Documentary film by David LeBrun

    This animated documentary charts the life of painter and biologist Ernst Haeckel, who, in the 19th century, makes a number of fascinating discoveries about what lurks below the sea. Haeckel uncovers...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Christina Panholzer

    Catch’ Em all around Oosterdok!

    Step into the footsteps of Ernst Haeckel und explore your inner scientist

    Ernst Haeckel, as an biologist and artist in the 19th century, discovered many new species during his exploration tours around the world. You can now step into Ernst Haeckel's footsteps as a curious...

  • Haeckel-File #1: Haeckel the racist

    Maybe you have lately visited the Amsterdam library and its exhibition on slavery. If so, you probably came across this drawing from Haeckel. To our twenty-first century eyes, this is quite a...

  • Haeckel in glass

    Mediamatic is not the only one paying homage to Ernst Haeckel's Kunsformen der Natur - The Dutch National Glass Museum have turned his work into "A Sea of Glass"
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Gökçe Baykan

    Haeckel Hunt

    "Catch’em all around Oosterdok!" Remastered Blog

    "Institutions and enterprises have joined forces as Expeditie Oosterdok, to form an internatio­nal, innovative city quarter in which discovery plays a central role. The future of the city is being...

  • Haeckel Bits and Pieces

    Ernst Haeckel is an inspiration to us. In the past, Mediamatic already expressed the admiration with programs around Haeckel as an evolutionary biologist as well as gifted draughtsman and painter.

  • I am a radical phenomenologist, a subjective…

    No, the truth is that I am just an animal, a human, an individual, a dissident.

    Subjective Terrorism by EDWIN STOLK at kunstvlaai A.P.I 2008 presented by PLANETART
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Pure Gold

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    Sep 2015
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    Sep 2025
    - by Kamiel Rongen

    It's an artwork, but you can use it. Pee in our urinals while enjoying the hypnotizing videos by Kamiel Rongen. We are happy to collect your fluid contribution and create a powerful fertilizer for...

  • Biomodd

    Symbiosis between biological and electronic systems

    Nature and technology are not juxtaposed but rather fused into imaginative hybrid installations.

  • Haeckel’s Alalus: on the decolonization of the…

    Haeckel’s imagined Pithecanthropus Alalus is a conception of an “ape-man without speech”. In other words, Haeckel’s Alalus is a conception of a proto-human or a being-not-yet-men, and its lack of...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 2#2 1 Jan 1987

    La Femme Absente

    Interview

    Can we imagine a slow fragmentation of faces and gestures, something like the movements of swimmers in heavy water? How should you look someone in the eye, seduce him if you don't know for certain...
  • Disclaimer: I’m nor a doctor or a nutritionist Laura Sanz Rosal

    The 5 Holy Ingredients of The Dinner of the Damned

    Explore the flavors of our inverted pentagram - Neo Futurist Dinner 16

    The inverted pentagram, a symbol of the dark, the macabre, the unexpected, perhaps also a symbol of the Dinner of the Damned ? In this article I introduce you to the 5 Holy duos of this experience in...

  • Cynical "Magical Turkey"Posters

    Posters that will make you think twice and publicize Gezi Initiative at Mediamatic.

    Images from the Gezi park resistance will be used to create wry posters that will make people think twice and work as a publicity for Gezi initiative at Mediamatic. We see many billboards with lovely...

  • Doe het zelf pakket

    Downloaden!

    Zet wat vrienden aan de keukentafel en je hebt al snel een Over Datum Eetclub. Dit pakket helpt je verder op weg. Het bevat voorbeeld uitnodigingen, posters, flyers en een stappenplan. Neem gerust...

  • Haeckel-File #3: Haeckel the Nazi

    Would evolution theory inescapably have to lead to fascist eugenics?

    Haeckel has not only been badmouthed for things he actually did or believed during his life (see the two previous Haeckel-Files on racism and fraud), he has also been partially blamed for what...

  • Gezocht poster

    Haal hem op of print hem zelf uit en help Mediamatic de inbrekers te vinden.

    In de Mediamatic BANK aan de Vijzelstraat 68 ligt een stapel posters klaar om door sympathisanten opgehaald en opgeplakt te worden.
  • Hsien Yu Cheng 1 Jan 2011

    <Collector---Afterlife>

    Game installation

    “Collector” deals with an artificial afterlife by means of attracting insects with a lamp and then killing them with a high voltage circuitry in order to transfer that essence into a virtual...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 2#2 Lidewijde de Smet 1 Jan 1987

    AVé 87

    The AVé Festival will take place in Arnhem for the third time from 19 to 25 November. The visitor to this event can count on a very high number of art works in film, video, installation, computer

  • Construction and Installation

    People to call for supplementary construction and art installation

    This is a list of people we've worked with in previous exhibitions (supplementary to the Mediamatic staff) for construction, painting, and general art installation.

  • Marijke and her Protest Poster

    What have people been bringing to our resistance archive?

    In this ongoing series, Objects and their People, we'll be writing about our favourite resistance objects, anecdotes and people. Keep up with what is happening in our Pièce de Résistance exhibition...

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