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(ir)Relevant Matter
Thursday, 15 December 20:00
What can artists, designers and scientists do to cope with issues of extreme drought, rising water levels, pollution, and waste? An evening with swarming robots by Ivan Henriques , plant-root...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop
We Are Public - Art of Deception
6jan 2017- Inner Beauty, Bio-Art and Nature8jan 2017Mediamatic invites members of We Are Public to take a closer look at the exhibition Art Of Deception and join us on a walk through the wondrous world of living art and bio-design. What happens if...
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Let's Eat & Meet
Festive Dinners at X-mass and NYE
In the last two weeks of 2016 we invite you to join us for a festive (almost) vegan dinner special. Come and eat and drink amidst the beautiful artworks of Zeger Reyers and Ernst Haeckel , warm...
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Tonight: Regeneration-Biotalk
Thursday, 15 December 20:00
What can artists, designers and scientists do to cope with issues of extreme drought, rising water levels, pollution, and waste? An evening with swarming robots by Ivan Henriques , plant-root...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Regeneration - Biotalk
- Biotalk 24 - with Gionata Gatto, Olaf Schuiling, Diana Scherer and Ivan Henriques15dec 2016With the Co2 particles in the air reaching the magical 400 ppm , and the fact that we have only 60 years of crop harvesting left, it is time for another way of dealing with our polluted environment.
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Regeneration - Biotalk
Thursday, December 15th. 20:00
With the Co2 particles in the air reaching the magical 400 ppm , and the fact that we have only 60 years of crop harvesting left, it is time for another way of dealing with our polluted environment.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Caravel with Ivan Henriques
- Using autonomous robots to clean our poluted waters15dec 2016Caravels are autonomous waterrobots that feed on the micro-organisms living in local waters. By harvesting electricity from anaerobic bacteria and organic components (via Microbial Fuel Cell...
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Take care of your Waste
Zuursalon: Friday 9 December 20:00 - 22:30
The estimated global food wastage is at 1.6 billion tonnes per year. 1.3 billion tonnes of that wastage was still edible when thrown away.... Let's change this discours, reduce our footprint and...
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Eat Future no. 5 Review
What is a superfood?
“He who controls the spice controls the universe” - We used David Lynch's Dune as a starting point for a discussion about superfoods, drugs and supplements
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Xandra van der Eijk
Van der Eijk investigates natural processes and elements, where the concept of time is a recurring theme. Through many experiments and thorough theoretical research these processes develop in...
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Zuursalon: Koji Edition
Friday 11 november, 20:00 - 22:30
In Mediamatic’s Bio Clean Lab we use fungus to grow new bio-materials, but in many food production systems molds are used to re-design ingredients and alter flavours. The Koji, or Aspergillus oryzae
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Mediamatic Biotoop Abel Jansma
Distillation 101
Using physics to extract smells
Throughout the fall and winter, I will be distilling some of the liquids that are produced in and around Mediamatic. Distillation is a technique, mostly used in chemistry, to separate components of a...
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Alice de Jong
Sinologist and Asian cuisine chef
Alice is a researcher and a professional in China studies. She teaches at the Humanities faculty at the Leiden University.
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Jasper Swierstra
Jasper is a microbiologist at the University of Utrecht. He studied biomedical sciences and is currently doing a PhD at the Erasmus Medical Centre.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Adorning the Internal
- Biotalk 22 - with Isaac Monté, Toby Kiers and Mandy den Elzen27okt 2016Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but we are all squishy and messy on the inside, aren't we? In this edition of Biotalk we will listen to two visual artists who challenge that perception. Whether...
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Tessa Bouzidi
Education team
Creating education programs at Mediamatic to let children explore the art in science.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Linde van Beers, Ashley Scarborough
Myco Brewery Growing Process
How we grow beautiful mycelium products
From early October we began to have consistent success with our mycelium growth on the spent grain from our myco brewery, so we thought the best way to celebrate this is to share our knowledge of the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
The Milk Salon
14okt 2016There’s milk. And then there’s milk! From cow to cow, farmer to farmer, milk is so much more than just one product. That’s why Foodcabinet, together with Sietske Klooster, creator of cooperative The...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Bacteria - our invisible guests
- Biotalk 21 - with Victoria Shennan, Debora Dax, Merle Bergers15sep 2016Invisible micro-organisms have always co-existed with us. Within the human body, the vast majority of cells are bacterial, fungal, or otherwise non-human. What does this mean for our perception of...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Astrobiological Horticulture with Joe Davis
- Artist talk + Screening25aug 2016Astrobiological Horticulture, by bio-art pioneer Joe Davis, explores the possibilities for creating organisms that can survive in the cold deposits below the Martian surface. This "garden" for...
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The Psychology of Smell: RESULTS
Findings of Prof. Dr. E.P. Köster
Results of the experiment on the memory of incidentally learned odours presented in two artistic vessels at the beginning of the Odorama talk May 12th, 2016.
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Mediamatic Biotoop
BIO·FICTION
- Exploring Synthetic Biology with Film Screenings.25jun 2016Far from limiting itself to the manipulation of existing genomes, synthetic biology aims to both redesign life and create the unnatural, in accordance with the principles of engineering. BIO-FICTION...
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It's Myco Beer o'Clock
Test batch beer is now available at Mediamatic ETEN - while stocks last!