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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop
Are all lives equal?
- Live performance: Soot-o-Mat by Špela Petric16jul 2016Do you value some lives above others? Špela Petric's Miserables Machine: Soot-o-Mat is an artistic installation which questions the notion of equality between living organisms. Coming Saturday you...
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Wouter Hassing
Mushroom Expert
Wouter is an expert mycologist and owner of the Mycophilia. He also currently leads the Growing Mushrooms workshops at Mediamatic.
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Sjef Brok
Sjef Brok is director at Ediks. Ediks is a company that makes vinegar that may not be called vinegar.
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Zuursalon: Let's talk Vinegar
- On Speed-Vinegar, Balsamic, Mothers and Conservation.8jul 2016Ever wondered what that strange layer of growth on top of your vinegar was? 'Mother of Vinegar' is a cellulose and acetic acid bacteria substance which ferments alcohol into vinegar. At this edition...
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Manfred Meeuwig
Manfred Meeuwig knows everything about vinegar, oils and mustards. Each year they import tens of thousands of litres of top quality extra virgin olive oil from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, France...
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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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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Tune in to the Non-Human
- Biotalk 20 - with Patrizia Ruthensteiner, Dewi de Vree, Paul Seidler, Cateringa & Kompanen16jun 2016How can we interact with the Non-Human? Humans depend on their senses to perceive their environment. But what happens if an additional factor is added to our perception? Tonight we will explore the...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Public Intimacy: the Masterclass
- Pissing in the Park, 2nd Edition with Agi Haines and Bettina Möllring1jul 2016The body has an amazingly intricate system for eliminating waste. In the animal kingdom some creatures use urination as a powerful form of communication, but we humans have become increasingly...
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Linde van Beers
Myco Insulation Brewery Team
My name is Linde van Beers and I am a student of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology, currently doing an internship 'designing with living organisms' at MediaMatic.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Grow Your Own Materials
- Learn to grow oyster mushrooms1jun 2016It 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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Brew Your Own Beer!
Clean Lab Brew Team Workshop: Saturday May 21
The Mediamatic staff teamed up to brew a delicious selection of beers: Wheat Saison, American Amber Ale, and Chocolate Milk Stout.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Material Metamorphosis
- Biotalk 19 - with Emilie van Spronsen, Sarah-Linda Forrer and Tetsuro Oike26mei 2016The speakers of this Biotalk will make us revalue certain materials in life we take for granted. How come all over the world there are chicken materials in consumer products that we don't know of?
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Biotalk: Material Metamorphosis
Thursday May 26. Public Lecture 20:30 - 22:00
How can we transform the meaning of so called 'waste' into useful objects? At this edition of the Biotalk, two designers and a scientist will tell us how they are re-using materials which otherwise...
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Fungal Futures
Exhibition at Utrecht University
Oude Hortus, Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht | March 24 - May 16 2016 A collaborative project between Utrecht University, Officina Corpuscoli and Mediamatic.
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Sarah-Linda Forrer
Sarah-Linda is a material, textile and product designer based in Amsterdam.
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Emilie van Spronsen
Emilie graduated in 2015 as an Industrial Design Engineer at TU Delft. She explores the existing interactions between people, products and materials.
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Bio Clean Lab Inrichting
plattegrond van het laboratorium
Het Bio Clean lab is een strak georganiseerde ruimte waar gelijktijdig verschillende projecten word gewerkt. Dit betekent dat passende opslag en plaatsing van objecten van het grootste belang is voor...
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Bio Clean Lab Inventaris
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 of kopen in de nieuwe Bio Art Supply Store.
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Bio Lab Training
- Verwerf essentiële skills voor je eigen microbiologische experimenten18mei 2016Het laboratorium is natuurlijk geen standaard werkplaats, en heeft zijn eigen regels en veiligheidsvoorschriften. Deze training is een leuke en leerzame manier om bekend te raken met die bijzondere...
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Follow your beak
Natural nasal navigation in nautical natives
Imagine being a gull in your natural habitat: hovering over a great sea. Waves that constantly change shape, no points of recognition whatsoever, just a blue world above as well as below. How would...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Masterclass: Prototyping Bodies
- Design the future 'you' with Agi Haines28mei 2016How will environmental pressures impact our malleable body? And what can we do to guide human evolution? Join in the masterclass with Bio-artist Agi Haines (winner 2015 BAD award) and prototype the...
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Meet the Myco Insulation Brewery Team
Part 1: The Brew Team
Find out more about Hugo and Isa, the current team responsible for the beer brewing activities of the the Mediamatic Myco Insulation Brewery.
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Transnatural Art & Design
The Soil Movement
25apr 2016- exhibition - talks26aug 2016The Soil Movement exhibition investigates new ways of revitalizing severe damaged ecosystems focusing on soil in the first chapter. The exhibited projects explore how to restore these damaged...
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Copy: Biotalk: Eat-a-ble
Thursday April 21. Public Lecture 20:30 - 22:00
Psychological disorder, or genius diet? Geophagy is the practice of eating soil, while contatto is a new culinary culture that proposes a new approach to the materiality of food. Artist Masha Ru...