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Jesse Asselman
Visual artist, painter and performer
Jesse Asselman is a visual artist, painter and performer. With an inter-disciplinary background in theatre, art and medicine, they have a long held fascination for creative practices and processes.
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Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno
Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno exhibited in Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention . Nature's Toolbox is an exhibition exploring the wonders of biodiversity. The exhibition perceives...
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Presentation: Natlab, Ketelhuisplein
Inhuman Carnaval
17okt 202122okt 2021Hoe voelt het om een aardworm, bij, plant, of schimmel te zijn? Tijdens Dutch Design Week organiseren Mediamatic en Baltan Labaratories een grote verkleedpartij waar kunstenaars, ontwerpers, make-up...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Observational Plant Drawing
27nov 2021Zien is kennen is zien is kennen... Een biologie-, foerageer- en tekenworkshop in een! Samen met bioloog en kunstenares Annemarie Verschoor, zul je door de verschillende dimensies van planten en hun...
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Knowledge Page Sadhbh O'Donnell
Bokashi: How to
Bokashi introduction
At the back of our kitchen you will see we have our big green bokashi bins which we use for the kitchen and communal lunches. Here you will find a more detailed introduction to the process and use...
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Biodiversity Meets Fashion
Amsterdam Fashion Academy x Mediamatic
The city of Amsterdam, a metropolitan with the largest city population in the Netherlands, has always been a center for fashion, music festivals, and diversity. The city is characterized as “slightly...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Elise Chalcraft
Duckweed taste testing 2.0
Using duckweed as an alternative food source to feed our fish
Let me tell you about an aquatic plant I have come to love... Duckweed is a floating aquatic plant commonly found in ponds, lakes, and other still-moving bodies of water. Duckweed is commonly seen as...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Elise Chalcraft
Elderflower Champagne 2.0
Popping champagne straight from the garden!
The first fermentation step for making Elderflower champagne started last week with a trial test of 20L! Here you can find the process, recipe, and some great action shots of the flowery business!
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Mediamatic Biotoop Elise Chalcraft
Tasting before wasting
Optimizing our African Catfish feed
My project for the past 8 weeks has been to look at how we could use waste streams from both the aquaponics greenhouse and the kitchen to feed our catfish to make the system as circular as possible.
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Exhibition:
Kunstformen der Natur in MoCA Busan
4mei 202122sep 2021The Kunstformen der Natur exhibition is back. This time in Korea, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, as part of the Sustainable Museum: Art and Environment exhibition. In this era of growing...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Elise Chalcraft
7 kilos of Happiness
The ins and outs of weighing our fish
Every 6 months, we weigh our 128 African catfish. This is done to get a snapshot into the growth rate of the catfish and check on their general wellbeing. The Aquaponics Greenhouse currently has five...
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Elmer Kesseler
Guest Chef Mediamatic ETEN
Elmer Kesseler is joining Mediamatic ETEN as a guest chef in summer 2021.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Observational Plant Drawing
1aug 2021Zien is kennen is zien is kennen... Een biologie-, foerageer- en tekenworkshop in een! Samen met bioloog en kunstenares Annemarie Verschoor, zul je door de verschillende dimensies van planten en hun...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Observational Plant Drawing
3jul 2021Zien is kennen is zien is kennen... Een biologie-, foerageer- en tekenworkshop in een! Samen met bioloog en kunstenares Annemarie Verschoor, zul je door de verschillende dimensies van planten en hun...
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Apr 21' - Nov 22'
Elise Chalcraft
Workshop Producer and Manager / Aquaponics Assistant
I have worked as an Aquaponics Assistant in Mediamatic's Greenhouse from April - September 2021 and moved from the greenhouse upstairs into the office to work as the workshop manager and producer...
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Plaat 10 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Ophiothrix Ophiodea. / Schlangensterne.
Litho van Ernst Haeckel en Adolf Giltsch
Plaat 10 uit Kunstformen der Natur. Op deze plaat verschillende Stekelhuidigen, daarbij horen de zeesterren, de slangsterren, de zee-egels en de zeekomkommers. Ze hebben een vijf-zijdig symmetrisch...
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Plaat 9 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Maeandrina. / Hexacoralla. Sechsstrahlige…
Litho van Ernst Haeckel en Adolf Giltsch
Een aantal skeletjes van individuele koraaldiertjes (links en rechts boven op de plaat) en een paar kolonies. Eén individueel diertje is 6-zijdig symmetrisch. Het is een poliep met een centrale...
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Plate 8 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Desmonema. / Discomedusae. Scheibenquallen.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 8 from Kunstformen der Natur. Discomedusae: Subclass of Scyphozoa (jellyfish)
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Plate 7 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Epibulia. / Siphonophorae. Staatsquallen.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 7 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...
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Plate 6 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Tubuletta. / Tubulariae. Röhrenpolypen.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 6 from Kunstformen der Natur. Tubulariae: Genus of Hydroids, animals related to jellyfish and have strong visual similarities to them such as a compact, mostly round body with long strings...
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Plate 5 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Ascandra. / Calcispongiae. Kalkschwämme.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 5 from Kunstformen der Natur. Calcispongiae: Marine sponges with c alcareous skeletons
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Plate 4 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Triceratium. / Diatomea. Schachtellinge.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 4 from Kunstformen der Natur. Diatomea: Single-celled organisms also know als algae
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Plate 3 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Stentor. / Ciliata. Wimperlinge.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 3 from Kunstformen der Natur. Ciliata: Complex single-celled organisms with a short hairlike surface. Hence the name that comes from the Latin word Cilia which means eyelash.
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Plate 2 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Globigerina. / Thalamophora. Kammerlinge. (test)
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 2 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...