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Future scenarios for our beloved greenhouse
An honest review of 10+ years of aquaponics
We first started experimenting with aquaponics in 2012 at our previous location at the van Gendthallen . After more than 10 years of learning, growing and enjoying an abundance of fresh herbs, we...
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Updates from the aquaponics
Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse
The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Playing with Ethics and Rhythm
- A/artist Meeting with Gerard van Wolferen and Astrid Poot16okt 2023During this A / artist evening, we continued to explore the neurodivergent experience in the practice of the arts. Designer, freethinker, activist and blue collar philosopher Astrid Poot opened the...
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Long Live the Difference
Astrid Poot's perspective on autism and work
Activist, freethinker, designer, writer, maker and blue collar philosopher…Astrid Poot puts on a lot of hats, but what does she say about neurodivergence and being different?
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Authoring Autism
M. Remi Yergeau deconstructing the rhetoric of autism
As a rhetorician and as an autistic activist, M. Remi Yergeau dedicates their passion to the self-advocacy of autistic people by contesting the dominant rhetorics on autism as pathology and...
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Proposal by: Natascha Nanji
Welcome to Studio Swan
Project proposal: An interpersonal, speculative fiction proposition
Welcome to Studio Swan is a speculative proposition that asks what conditions would be appropriate for us to temporarily become with plant or animal? And why would this be something desirable or...
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Proposal by: Mario Mimoso
Floating Havens
Project Proposal: Regenerating city life
Floating Havens is a project aimed at regenerating life inside the urban landscape. Using Amsterdam’s canals as a way to gain land to the crowded and congested city streets, we want to dedicate these...
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Mediamatic Biotoop, Dijkspark Lisa Witte
Twijfels over Twijfel Zaaien
In hoeverre kun je een werk herstellen zonder zijn authenticiteit aan te tasten?
Twijfel Zaaien is een kunstproject ontwikkeld door Masha Ru en Jasmin Moeller. Het is in 2015 opgezet en ontwikkelt al enige tekenen van verwering. Bij het herstellen van een kunstproject zul je...
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Stories of Coca
Controversies in Usage from South-America to Western Europe
It is one of the most consumed drugs worldwide. Yet, when considering that it is forbidden in the Netherlands, it is difficult to picture how "cocaine is the most seized drug" here ( Sawbridge 2019...
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De Code Noir: Een korte, maar krachtige…
Winston Churchill verklaarde dat "degenen die niet van de geschiedenis leren, zijn gedoemd om het te herhalen." Ons aankomende Neo Futurist Diner toont aan hoe belangrijk het is om te leren van ons...
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Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball
Food is both fuel and identity
A blog for Code Noir
In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...
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MediaMasquerade
Pride workshops met Taka Taka en Niki Milioni
MediaMasquerade is een serie van verkleed- en rollenspel workshops, gemaakt in samenwerking met genderclown Taka Taka en ontwerper Niki Milioni . Open voor alle genders, sekses, geaardheden en...
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Queer Currents 2020
Mediamatic is het podium voor drie panels en een tentoonstelling van Queer Currents 2020, een golf aan queer uitingen in voorbereiding op de Gay Pride.
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Pride
18jul 2020- MediaMasquerade & Queer Currents2aug 2020There is no parade this year, but we still think it is important to celebrate identity in all its facets. That is why Mediamatic has a program during the pride week that gives an ode to the...
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Simone Weil
De filosofische marsman
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was activist en een politiek filosoof die religie, haar lichaam en de maatschappij probeerde te doorgronden. Haar werk wordt door verschillende auteurs 'autistisch...
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Maartje Terpstra
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Neo Futurist Dinner 8 Mediamatic Biotoop
Het Eten van Mensen
1mei 2019- Neo Futurist Dinner 8: met Gwen van der Zwan, Krisztina Czika en Bryce Steba4mei 2019Voor de ontwikkeling van dit vijfgangendiner vroegen we kunstenaars Gwen van der Zwan, Krisztina Czika en chef Bryce Steba om het eten van lichaamseigen stoffen als uitgangspunt te nemen. Er rijzen...
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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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Gwen van der Zwan
Gwen van der Zwan is een Nederlandse schrijver, onderzoeksjournalist, producent, fotograaf en performer. Als journalist werkt ze onder andere voor VICE, The Next Web, Human, Skateism en KRO-NCRV.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Bart Ellenbroek
Geodesic dome research
Testing different types of entrance tunnels
A second look into the research and testing process of the mycelium geodesic dome project. Test 9-13.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Bart Ellenbroek
Geodesic dome research
Testing sizes, entrance and connectors.
Here is a first look intro the research and testing process of the mycelium geodesic dome project.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Bart Ellenbroek
Building a geodesic dome
My experiences during my third week at Mediamatic
Exploring the possibilities of a geodesic dome built from mycelium.
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Healing, desire and breast milk
Curdle by Zoo
Breast milk is the "embodiment" of human nurture, of healing and nourishment of the newborn. It is well documented to contain vital immunological and medicinal replenishing qualities as well as...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop European Youth Press
Reporting Corruption and Tax Avoidance:…
- Panel discussion on tax evasion9jun 2017Learn more about corruption reporting and ways to detangle the complexity of this timeless phenomenon on the expert panel discussion taking place on June 9th. The European Youth Press – Network of...