Ignite Amsterdam 25

Trash beer, dinner and 12 speedy talks

27 feb 2013

20:00
Mediamatic Fabriek
VOC–kade 10, 1018 LG Amsterdam
Stichting Mediamatic
+31206389901
http://www.mediamatic.net/

We're talking cats, birds and Mickey this month. Join us for the mystery of the grilled cheese sandwich and the beauty of bullfighting. There will be a trash beer tasting, and dinner comes courtesy of a number of home cooks. Expect a wide variety of dishes, from Marcy's hot pupasas (a traditional Salvadoran tortilla dish) to Makis' Greek veggie stew. Food market opens at 19:30 so be on time to secure your favorite meal. Speakers kick off at 20:30.

Marieke Hart, Marieke Berghuis, Elza Jo, Harald Ulriksen, Marieke Plasier, Gareth Wynne Fitzpatrick, Wouter Klein Velderman, Sayaka Abe, Michael Condon, Lex Wenneker, Thom van Hoek

Ignite

Ignite is run by locals, for locals. Fast-paced and merciless, speakers get five minutes to present, making use of twenty slides that auto-advance every fifteen seconds. All presentations are given in English.

Speakers

Wouter Klein Velderman

Wouter works as an artist (sculptures and installations), sculpture teachter (Gerrit Rietveld Academie) and curator (for instance the monumental 2010 Beeld Hal Werk show in Amsterdam Noord). Find out about his most recent projects.

Elza Jo

Since her graduation from the KABK, Elza Jo's photographs have featured in magazines such as Dazed & Confused, NYLON, Vice and I Love Fake. Her autonomous work has been exhibited in the Netherlands and abroad. Currently her latest stop motion film Matadora, alongside a number of photos and photo collages, is on display at Cokkie Snoei in Rotterdam.

Matadora

Thom de Jager

Reaching for natural form through the digital dimension. By working impulsively with new media, Thom tries to get expressive imagery out of the machine.

Marieke Berghuis

Marieke graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie last year. Tonight she'll talk about her research into the space between the world of signs/writing and the material world, and the relationship between image and text.

Tobias

In the hope of uncovering the mystery of the grilled cheese sandwich, Tobias and a group of food lovers are building a tosti factory... from scratch! On about 80m2 at Mediamatic Fabriek they'll be raising a pig (ham), keeping a cow (cheese), and harvesting wheat (bread). Read their project proposal here.

Ignite Amsterdam 25, 27 February 2013. 12 talks, 5 minutes each

In the hope of uncovering the mystery of the grilled cheese sandwich, Sascha and a group of food lovers are building a tosti factory... from scratch! On about 80m2 at Mediamatic Fabriek they'll be raising two pigs (ham), keeping some cows (cheese), and harvesting wheat (bread).

Visit their VoordeKunst page. Door: Max Peeperkorn

Lex Wenneker

Find out how a Citroen HY and an in-need-of-restauration LaMarzocco Linea (that's an espresso machine) lead to a pop-up coffee truck.

Harald Ulriksen

In 2012 Harald ran 3700km in 65 days through Chile, and 1000km through the UK to raise money and awareness for cancer. Who better to talk about perseverance and mindfulness than him?

Michael Condon

Michael runs Pop-up Connection, an online platform that connects makers and locations.

One of the speakers at Ignite Amsterdam 25 at Mediamatic Fabriek. Door: Max Peeperkorn

Marieke Hart

Marieke is co-owner of Thuisafgehaald, a virtual cooking platform for sharing meals. She believes in a sharing economy and social entrepreneurship, and will talk about the thoughts behind her organisation and the power of social marketing.

Marieke Hart is the co-owner of Thuisafgehaald.nl, an online platform for home cooks and food lovers to buy and sell meals. She is one of the speakers at Ignite Amsterdam 25. Door: Max Peeperkorn

Met: Marieke Hart

Marieke Plasier

Three years ago Marieke started photographing men and their cats. At the moment she's putting together the book Men & Pussy, a collection of the unique portraits she made and is still making. Find out more about how you can participate tonight.

Marieke Plasier performs at Ignite Amsterdam 25 - Anca

Met: Marieke Plasier

Sayaka Abe

After graduating from the Sandberg Instituut Sayaka has been working as a designer and illustrator. Tonight she'll talk about her work with Home-Work, in which she explores notions of (national) identity and culture.

Gareth Fitzpatrick

Taking on birdlike characteristics - above all, patience -, Gareth creates human-sized bird's nests, often suspended tens of meters up in the air. The week before this Ignite, he will start building one at Mediamatic Fabriek, and tonight he will present his work-so-far.

Garath with speak about the human-sized nest he's building at Mediamatic Fabriek during Ignite Amsterdam 25. Door: Max Peeperkorn

Met: Gareth Wynne Fitzpatrick

More information

Pre-sale tickets are €6,- until 14:00 on the day of the event. Then they go up to €8,-. Members pay €1 in the pre-sale and €3,- after. Location: Mediamatic Fabriek, VOC-Kade 10, Amsterdam. Doors open at 19:30. A handful of home cooks will be selling their food until 20.30, then the first speaker kicks off.

You can already become a Mediamatic member for €5,- a month. Kids half price. Members visit our exhibitions for free, and get unusually large discounts on our events. Just because we like seeing you around.

Subbacultcha members get in for free. Use the discount code "subb".

There's nothing fun about boring beer. So we decided we'll start selling a slightly pricier, local beer, and one really cheap beer. For drinkers and drowners. We'll be tasting the trash beer during Ignite Amsterdam 25 at Mediamatic Fabriek on February 27th. Which of the cheap beers stills your thirst best? Door: Max Peeperkorn

Met: Abel