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This Pussy Has Claws
Vagina Dentata Myths of Empowerment and Horror
Who would have thought that apart from lips, vaginas and mouths share even more? Vagina dentata, Latin for toothed vagina, bears the idea that a vagina with teeth or claws can devour a man. She can...
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Sam Nemeth
Artist and scientist
Sam Nemeth (Rotterdam, 1962) is a filmmaker, journalist, designer, and scientist who conducts research in the field of tangible interfaces: a tangible alternative to the mouse, keyboard, and computer...
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Julia Schmitz
Filmmaker
Julia Schmitz (1993) is a filmmaker with a great fascination for the process of imaging and the construction of stories. In her associative films, she often explores complex subjects, such as sexual...
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Lizette van Hecke
Storyteller
Een originele generalist uit de wereldstad Rotterdam met een diepe liefde voor woord en draad. Ze speelt graag met verwachtingen en houdt van sterke verhalen. Ervaren in multi-platformprojecten...
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Nelke Mast
Multidisciplinary Artist
'Nelke Mast (alias NELLY DANSEN) is a 23-year-old multidisciplinary artist currently studying for a Master of Artscience at KABK. Nelke’s practice is primarily characterised by researching erotic...
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Gian van Grunsven
Journalist and maker
Gian has been conducting artistic-journalistic research into sexuality in all its facets for seven years. This previously resulted in the successful show ' SEXIETY' in collaboration with Gehring&...
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Isabella Rossellini
Actress, Model, and Filmmaker
Isabella Rosselini is an Actress, Model, and Filmmaker. Rossellini's modeling career brought her to the covers of magazines such as Vogue , Elle , Harper's Bazaar , and Vanity Fair. With Jody...
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Jody Shapiro
Film Producer
Jody Shapiro is a filmmaker and photographer whose work has been displayed in a variety of publications, festivals, and galleries around the world.
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Daphne Gakes
Artist and Writer
Daphne Gakes is an artist and a writer with her own book and show of the same name “Ik Daphne Gakes”. Gakes is very influential in what she does and has her own podcast as well called “Between the...
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Sally Fenaux Barleycorn
Screenwriter, Creator, Consultant & Educator
Sally Fenaux Barleycorn is a multicultural and international screenwriter, director, educator and diversity consultant with more than a decade of professional experience in the film industry. Her...
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Amber Rahantoknam
Multidisciplinary Artist
Amber Rahantoknam, also known as AMBIGOU, is a multi-disciplinary maker mixing text and image through illustration and poetry.
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Pleun van Dijk
Speculative Designer
Pleun van Dijk is a speculative artist/designer in the middle of the moving and changing world. By observing and analysing moments of transition within society she tries to generate new thoughts and...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Frank Bloem, Lydia Schouten, Olga Middendorp, Nelke Mast, PISSWIFE
Feminism
18nov 2021Duik met je neus in de relatie tussen geur en feminisme. BEFtival curators Olga Middendorp en multi-disciplinair kunstenaar Nelke Mast vragen zich af waarom vagina geur nog steeds een taboe is. We...
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Eszter Jámbor
Photographer
My name is Eszter Jámbor, and I love to capture moments. It sounds cliché but let me explain! Have you ever looked at the stars or the moon? Have you ever tried to capture them? Have you ever been...
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Annika Hagen
Kunstenaar
Annika Hagen (1997) is een kunstenaar die overal en nergens is gevestigd en eigenlijk ook beter luistert naar de bijnaam Kaatje. Ze wilt dat haar kunst je streelt, shockeert, laat rillen of dat...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Alessandra Avanzi
Ancient Egypt and the culture of perfume.
The use of smelly components in Egyptian daily life: Kyphi, incense and other perfume.
Incense was considered the “Fragrance of the Gods” in Ancient Egypt. Making incense meant in a mysterious way creating the body of the gods and communicating with them. Do you know that the...
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Sept - Dec 2021
Jana Stockerer
Programme & event assistant
During my time at Mediamatic I worked mainly on the production of Inhuman Carnaval at Dutch Design Week, BEFtival and the exhibition Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip .
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Beftival
6nov 202113nov 2021Het werkwoord beffen is nog steeds omgeven met schaamte en rode oren, maar niet overal! Mede onder invloed van sociale media verpreutst de maatschappij maar tegelijkertijd wordt vrouwelijke...
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Jeanne Rousselot
Restaurant Manager / Neofuturist Dinner Assistant
My name is Jeanne and I am currently half of the duo of restaurant manager and am producing Neofuturist Dinner at Mediamatic. Initially trained as a designer at La Cambre in Brussels, I developed a...
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Kampen Alessandra Avanzi
The Aromalab Team meets Hekserij
An interview with Jan Meutgeert
Friday 2nd of July 2021, Niklaus, Frank, Nour and I got in the car to visit our biggest supplier of raw materials: Hekserij in Kampen. Jan Meutgeert, the owner of Hekserij, welcomed us warmly and...
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Museumnacht Amsterdam
Zingen tegen een interactieve blender, halal Hema rookworst eten, schimmelexpert worden, een date kiezen op basis van okselgeur, een doodsmasker schoonheidsbehandeling: ieder jaar veranderen wij onze...
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Daniël Smit
Handyperson
Born in Beirut but raised in Amsterdam. I started my work life as a handyman with my mother; afterwards, I attended engineering school and switched to a Rietveld and woodworking school. I like to...
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Filippo Iannone
Photographer
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July - Nov 2019
Renato Paolucci
Aquaponics Assistant