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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
We Make The City 2019
17jun 201923jun 2019This year Mediamatic is participating in We Make The City, the festival that aims to make cities more liveable, more sustainable, more accessible and safe. Join one of our Open Tours, learn about...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Resomation, Saponification and Taxidermy
- Still Life 02 - with Sabrina Franken, Amber Veel, Liza Witte and Susanne Duijvestein26jun 2019Looking for a more eco friendly alternative for burying or cremating a dead body? How about dissolving it? Alkaline hydrolysis – also known as water cremation, aquamation or resomation - was...
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"I steal DNA from strangers"
Heather Dewey-Hagborg creates portraits from discarded DNA.
Picasso once said that “ bad artists copy, good artists steal ”. It appears that New York artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg has taken this literally. Her project "Stranger Visions," fashions portraits...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet Mandy den Elzen
- Brainstorming, conceptualising and idea sharing with the artist4mrt 2020Mandy den Elzen is an artist represented by Mediamatic. She will be a regular attendee of the Mediamatic Biotoop with scheduled consults for you to attend. Exchange your ideas and sign up for a one
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Black Market Pudding by John O'Shea
Artist John O’Shea is responsible for the “Black Market Pudding” project. This piece documents the process and final result of a sausage he made by harvesting the blood from a living pig, bypassing...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Composing Fragrance
- with Frank Bloem10nov 2019In this workshop, you will learn the basics of scent composing. Artist and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. At the end of the workshop you will have theoretical...
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Water Kefir
De dingen die je hier mag verwachten aan te treffen
Kom er achter wat de standaard uitrusting is, wat je mag gebruiken als je komt werken, en wat je zelf mee zult moeten nemen.
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Mediamatic Eten Marie-Claire Springham
Making Scents
Let's change the way we look at body odour.
Love poet Pablo Neruda described how “better than any word, is the pulse of your scent.” When polishing and perfuming ourselves for a first date, are we missing a trick?
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Gob in the Machine
Spit and Posthumanism
I’ve spoken about spit and discovered art in which it is the primary material. It has been used as a motif and even as a cleaning fluid to restore historical works ( check out how Moma uses it to...
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Organisatie: Marie-Claire Springham
Burton Nitta
The London-based Anglo Japanese duo comprising o Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta describe themselves as “an interdisciplinary art and design studio collaborating with science and technology to...
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Lea Pauzner
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Celebrating Spit
dribble, slobber, sputum, drool...
A weapon, a balm and a data bank, when used respectfully saliva brings us passion and healing.
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De Smaak van Vlier
2018 - 2019
Samen met Brouwerij Oedipus en kunstenaar Zeger Reyers zijn we het jaar rond gegaan met vlier, en hebben we vier verschillende seizoensbiertjes met plaatselijke ingrediënten van deze...
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The Urine Brick
Building the future
What is the link between pissing and building? The connection expands past port-a-loos. It's bricks. The answer is bricks.
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Organisatie:
Saxion Hogeschool
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Mediamatic Eten Kamilė Vaitkutė
Are you prepared for the Halloween?
This post is about our FIRST impressions of raw tempeh, organic shapes and a crumb of Halloween spirit. After this silent break, we have decided to separate our update into two different posts. We...
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Workshop: Experimental Perfumery
Always wanted to learn how to make perfume, but didn't know where to start? In this 3 hour intensive, you are guided in the important first steps of perfume blending.
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DNA Portraits
DNA by Marc Quinn
When the National Portrait Gallery commissioned British contemporary artist Marc Quinn to create a portrait of Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Laureate for sequencing the human genome, Quinn gave them a...
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Intimate Currency
Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim
With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...
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Open Source Smell Culture
Open Source Smell Culture is een eenjarige samenwerkingsprogramma tussen IAO en Mediamatic, dat alternatieve strategieën voor ‘attribution’ en ‘sharing’ binnen de parfumindustrie onderzoekt. Het...
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Residency: Scent and Protest
Tijdens een residency bij Art Olfaction Amsterdam in Mediamatic, bestudeert Cohene recepten die op geur gebaseerde methodes voor crowd control, zoals ‘The Skunk’, kunnen neutraliseren.
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Bezoekuren
Elke woensdag, donderdag en zaterdag, ben je tussen 14 en 16 uur, van harte welkom om ons Aroma Lab binnen te stappen. Kom en ruik onze collectie van geurmoleculen, leer over het werken met geur als...
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Playhouse
Tijdens Art Olfactory Amsterdam cureert het IOA team elke maandagavond ontdekkingsreizen naar de buitenste regionen van de geurcultuur. Van social games tot technische workshops, alles is mogelijk in...
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The Chair That Bleeds
The Red Series 001 Breath Chair by Hyun-Gi Kim
We consider chairs to be one of those everyday inanimate furnitures that fills the room. And like many inanimate objects, they’re often taken for granted because chairs are always being made. But...