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Waag Society
The Beauty Kit Focus Group at the Waag Society
- With Isabel Burr Raty15nov 2018For the past years Isabel Burr Raty, performance artist and independent filmmaker, has been exploring the cavities that make up the human female sexual organs, concluding that they have a hybrid...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Blind
3nov 2018- Museumnacht Amsterdam 20184nov 2018Op 3 november ontdekken we de museumnacht met alle zintuigen behalve onze ogen. Kom naar Mediamatic, word geblinddoekt rondgeleidt en ervaar de beroemdste kunstwerken in het donker. Proef...
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Aug '18 – Oct '21
Sjoerd Houben
Office / Venue Manager
After graduating from art school (MA Photography), I went looking for a new interesting environment. I found it at Mediamatic, where there's always something interesting happing. With a background in...
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Wash Your Guilt Away
SELF Human Soap, Schuldfabriek by Julian Hetzel
Schuldfabriek is a performative installation that takes place as a luxury cosmetic store. Their best-selling product? Guilt.
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'This mug is made from recycled materials'
The Set Of Matter Varies and This is not a "VÄRDERA" by Krisztina Czika
Krisztina Czika is a Hungarian designer who has been exploring the capabilities of human hair. Currently, she’s exploring the recycling of cosmetic wax and hair through her installation ‘ The Set of...
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Capturing human scent through enfleurage
In reference to Patrick Süskind’s Das Parfum
Patrick S ü skind’s Das Parfum (or Perfume: Story of a Murderer) is considered our cult classic. It tells us a story of a man with a superhuman sense of smell who we know as Jean-Baptise Grenouille.
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When can we start to objectify our hair?
Human Hair Transformation by Zsofia Kollar
Zsofia Kollar is a designer who uses hair as the primary medium. The human hair has many capabilities due to their nutrients. For this collection, Zsofia experiments with the hair as an absorbent...
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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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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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The Dirt We Carry
Self Portrait by Amanda Cotton
For three months, Amanda Cotton documented her life using her face wipes for her ‘Self Portrait’ . These face wipes not only show the removed makeup, but also the dirt and oil that is inevitably...
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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...
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Could In-Vitro Leather be the new Pleather?
Pure Human by Tina Gorjanc
Tina Gorjanc proposes a whole fashion collection using biotechnical engineering. Similar to in-vitro meat, she would produce leather for her collection from a DNA hair sample from Alexander McQueen...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
De Smaak van Vlier: Judasoor
- Het jaar rond met Vlier: Zeger Reyers en Sander Nederveen7mrt 2019Bloesem, takken, bessen en judasoor. Al deze ingrediënten zijn te vinden aan of op de gewone vlier, oftewel Sambucus Nigra. Samen met Brouwerij Oedipus en kunstenaar Zeger Reyers gaan we het jaar...
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Meet IFF
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
One of our partners during ArtOlfaction Amsterdam is IFF . IFF is an innovator of sensorial experiences that move the world. For over 129 years they've been practicing the art of discovery, creating...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Playhouse: How Not to Hurt Yourself and Others
- met Kendra Gaeta, Julianne Lee, Maxwell Williams, and Saskia Wilson-Brown16jul 2018A ltijd al je eigen parfumlab willen beginnen? Super! Wij laten je zien hoe. Deze avond draait om de lol van lab-veiligheid, we leren je hoe je jezelf en anderen heel laat. Je leert over de...
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Modern Day Vampires
Consumption of blood whether it is human blood or animal blood in our modern culture has been associated to vampirism. In the past decade, our pop culture was fascinated by the fantastical stories of...
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The Ethical Way of Eating Blood
Blood Sausages by Gwen van der Zwan and John O'Shea
When tackling the ethics of food production and consumption, the notions of blood as food has always been a somewhat bloody and grim topic. Blood can be considered as the same level as meat, in a way...
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How to Cook with Semen
Semenology and The Natural Harvest Cookbooks by Paul Photenhauer
At what point does the taboo of consuming human secretions start and end? Taboos such as these perhaps become normalized as sexual fetishes. From there on we would think ‘ah right, just one of those...
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In the End, We Only Have Ourselves
Body as a Restaurant by Zane Cerpina
Time is of the essence. Human progression and technological advancements have led us to turn our world to the new age- the Age of Man; the Anthropocene. When we can no longer rely on mother nature’s...
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Humanarian-ism: The New Diet?
Imagine that you are constantly confronted with the impacts from your daily choices- the clothes you wear, or the food you eat. And maybe you may want to reconsider your choices now, perhaps opting...
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2018
Rosalie Nooter
Office & Event Manager
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Grow Your Own Fungi!
- Basic mushroom and biomaterials introduction12mei 2018It is said that the mushroom, and especially Mycelium has the potential to replace all sorts of (harmful) materials like plastics and batteries. Here at Mediamatic we are interested in the cultural...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Kool Abundance
- Keukenpraat met Arne Hendriks en Thorwald Voss20feb 2018Tijdens deze reeks dinsdagavonden gaat kunstenaar Arne Hendriks in gesprek met verschillende koks, boeren, filosofen, dichters en theoretici over de waarde van ons voedsel. Vanavond reflecteren ze...