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Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin received his MFA from the Department of Design|Media Arts at UCLA and his BA in Electronic Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Utilizing a background in the computer game...
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Abdelkader Benali
Abdelkader Benali (MA/NL) (1975) was born in Ighazzazen, Morocco, and has lived in The Netherlands since 1979.
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Abrar Al-Musallam
Im a student at the American University in Dubai, and I will be doing my internship at Mediamatic this summer, working on El Hema project.
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Alex Shoukas
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Alexa Tang
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Alexander Galloway
Alexander R. Galloway is an author and programmer. He is a founding member of the software collective RSG and creator of the data surveillance engine Carnivore.
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Alexandra Bachzetsis
Performance Artist
For her previous performance Musical, she played with the codes within classical music and researched the musicals of the 1930's.
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Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Industrial and interaction designer
Alexandra is an industrial and interaction designer. She attended the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea where she met the other founders of Tinker. She has been involved in projects for clients such...
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Anastasia Makropoulou
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André Avelãs
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Andy J. Farnell
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Andy Smith
Andy Smith is a Jaiku developer who has an interesting hobby.
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Anne Helmond
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Anne Schreiber
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Annelies de Bruine
www.lookaround.be/elhema
My drive is fuelled by progress and innovation. I enjoy being part of a creative team developing new technologies. I am a global citizen and I care about the world around me.
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Annouk Post
Projectleader Bint El Dunya / Developing new projects
At Mediamatic I will be working on the Bint el Dunya project and developing new projects.
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Anny Sheikh
I feel very much involved when it comes to social and actively engages in several projects! Last year several Fashion projects has come to my attention, so the fashionline of el Hema is another...
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Organisatie:
Arduino
Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a development environment for writing Arduino software. The Arduino programming language is an implementation of...
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Arie Altena
???^%–––!!!
"What do you do?" "Euh... I live, I read, I write..." "..." "I write about, well, art and new media and technology and how technology and culture are affecting each other – that's an interest that...
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Arjan El Fassed
co-founder The Electronic Intifada
Arjan El Fassed (PS/NL) is co-founder of the online publication The Electronic Intifada (EI), the leading Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction...
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Arnoud Holleman
schrijver/kunstenaar
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Auriea Harvey
Auriea Harvey is a digital media designer based at www.entropy8.com. Entropy8 was founded by Harvey in 1995 as an experiment with image and interactivity. Since then, it has grown into an award
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Ava Fatah gen. Schieck
Senior Research Fellow the Bartlett school of Graduate Studies
Ava is primarily interested in exploring the relation between new technology and architecture in particular within the historic context. She is a registered Architect (Germany) with years of...
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Ayelet Levin
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Ayumi Higuchi
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Azmi Latif
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Bernardo Gaeiras
designer, ex-FabLab Project Assistant
Designer, products industrial objects interiors systems stuff From Oct till March 2008 was the FabLab@Mediamatic Project Technician. Graduated from Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam in 2006 at the...
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Bianca Manzana de Augustin
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Blaine Cook
Opening myself to the gentle indifference of the world
A craftsman of fine softwares by trade, currently living in San Francisco, California. He currently works on Odeo and Twitter. And on Jabber::Simple, FakeWeb and other projects.
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Bogomir Doringer
Artist
Bogomir Doringer was born in Belgrade. At the moment living in Amsterdam.
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Bong-Ra
Bong-Ra is the performing name of Dutch breakcore musician Jason Kohnen from Utrecht. He has been active under this name since 1997, before that he played bass-guitar in a stoner-metal-band Celestial...
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Casey Reas
Processing...
Casey Reas and Ben Fry initiated Processing.org in 2001. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and interaction. In September 2007, they...
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Cecile Landman
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Cecile Tafanelli
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Christa Sommerer
Sommerer is an International Co-editor for the LEONARDO Journal, MIT Press and in 1998, together with Laurent Mignonneau, she edited a book on the collaboration of art and science called "Art@Science
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Christiaan Koch
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Christian Faubel
Christian Faubel is a researcher and artist interested in autonomous behavior and how it may emerge out of the interaction of very simple systems. In his artistic work he experiments with minimal low
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Christopher Helt
a.k.a. DJ Pis
Mijn naam is Christopher Helt. Ik werk een dag per week bij Mediamatic. Verder schrijf ik voor het muziektijdschrift Gonzo en zet ik me in voor kunst- en djcollectief 'Kapel voor de Moderne' .
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Claudia Doms
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Cyrus Frisch
Cyrus Frisch makes movies and imitates prescious real life situations on stage.
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Danal
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Daniël van Gils
is an independent game designer & developer
DANIEL VAN GILS (NL) is an independent gamedesigner & developer. Since 1997 he has been working in the field of interactive media, thus accomplishing a vast experience in the field of game...
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David Kousemaker
David Kousemaker is a founding member of Blendid ( www.blendid.nl ) and enjoys playing with technology as much as the next geek.
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David Linton
David Linton produced the music for Protocol of Desire by Martin Butler and Renée Copraij (2006).
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David Recordon
Hacker. Scuba Diver. Entrepreneur.
David works for Six Apart (Live Journal, Type pad, Movable Type) as Open Platform Tech lead.
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David Schocken
An energetic creative thinker, a producer, and an international story teller
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dawn hourigan
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Dawn Hourigon
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Debra Solomon
Artist
In 2004 Debra Solomon (US/NL) began publishing her independent research on culiblog.org on food, food culture, and the culture that grows our food. Her recent work includes a series of temporary...
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Denny Backhaus
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Dirk van Oosterbosch
Interaction designer who likes complex systems a little too much. Madness is just a level of complexity beyond your current grasp.
Dirk does the interface and interaction design for Fritzing , a software to help designers make their electronic circuits. When in Berlin, Dirk works from the office of IxDS , Interaction Design...
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dj safri
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Organisatie:
DNK-Amsterdam
DNK-Amsterdam is a concert series for modern music, in all it's different forms. They are are located in Smart Project Space in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Concerts from September to June; every...
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Donat Caduff
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Dorinde de Tempe
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Edo Paulus
sound-artist
www.eude.nl
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Edwin van den Dungen
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Einar Sneve Martinussen
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Eline Mul
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Emily Gobeille
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Erik Borra
Erik Borra is New Media developer at the University of Amsterdam's New Media program, freelance programmer and web researcher. He is the lead programmer, as well as researcher, for the Digital...
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Erik Haberfeld
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Etty Elbaz Griffioen
Artist, live & work in Amsterdam.
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Farida Nouna
27 years old, currently owns an independent fashion label, MORECULT, together with Thomas van Gelder
EVOLUTION OF A NEW BRAND Starting at the end of 2006 MORECULT was first known as CollectionArab. Known for their outspoken Arabic designs, they started of with tee's and hooded sweaters. The new...
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Federico Bonelli
Philosopher
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Federico Villa
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Felix Hess
Felix Hess builds small audio machines, like the "Moving Sound Creatures" and "How light is changed into music". His work is exemplary for the development of semi-autonomous sound machines. Felix...
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Felix Peterson
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Florian Thalhofer
Motorbike test rider since 2004. www.thalhofer.com
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Fred Smeijers
Type designer & professor
Works as a type designer, researcher and writer.
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Friedrich Kirschner
drinks your milkshake
Friedrich Kirschner (D) is an animator and software developer working with realtime 3D environments and funny interfaces.
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Gerard Unger
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Giles Lane
Proboscis is an artist-led studio which combines artistic practice with commissioning, curatorial projects, design and consultancy. Collaboration is at the core of our creative practice and ethic:...
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Ginta Tinte
www.gintatinte.info
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Goda Budvytyte
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Guy Debord
1931-1994
Franse situationist, filosoof, filmmaker, schrijver en cultfiguur
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Hicham Khalidi
Hicham Khalidi is an artistic entrepreneur and curator of contemporary art and music.
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Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares
Typographer, graphic designer, researcher and writer.
Working with whatever means and talent I have to make design a meaningful and positive part of people's lives (specially in the Arab world).
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Ibrahim Öztas
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Idan Hayosh
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Inci Arici
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Irene Nooren
Former Fablab manager
Ik hou van interdisciplinaire projecten, de brug tussen technologie en maatschappij, kunst en wetenschap.
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Iva S.
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Jakob Schillinger
Jakob Schillinger, artist and curator, has been working for the Vera List Center for Art an Politics and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is currently a fellow at the Independent Study...
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Jamie King
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Jans Possel
Founder / Hoofd erfgoed
Ben een van de oprichters van Stichting Mediamatic en startte in 1985 samen met Willem Velthoven Mediamatic Magazine. Ik houd me sinds 2023 vooral bezig met het samenstellen van een programma voor...
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Jim Wood
thinking, finding, making :: researching, designing, crafting
Pursuing practice-led research into methods and tools for networked digital artefacts at Goldsmiths, University of London, Design department.
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JoAnn DeLuna
Journalist
I'm a freelance journalist from the U.S. I'm writing articles regarding the process of getting the El Hema exhibition completed in Amsterdam.
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Jochem Ruijgrok
Graphic Designer, Photographer,... but mostly more.
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Joey Kops
New: www.joeydavidkops.com Old: www.like.nl
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Johannes Taelman
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Jonas Hansen
(*Hielscher)
Jonas Hansen works as a researcher and teacher at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in the field of 3D Animation and Games.
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Julian Oliver
Julian Oliver is a New Zealand born artist, free software developer, teacher and occasional writer based in Madrid, Spain.
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Juliane Henrich
Writer, Photographer, Filmmaker
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Junko Murakawa
Tame jutsu by Junko Murakawa
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Just van den Broecke
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Jørn Knutsen
Researcher at Oslo Schoold of Architecture and Design
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Kai-Ting Lin
Made in Taiwan.
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Karsten Schmidt
Karsten Schmidt is a software developer, computational designer and artist, he also works as a researcher at MovingBrands. He develops custom tools for exploring new ways of design in it's various...
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Katrine Menne
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Katrine Nihn
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Klaas Kuitenbrouwer
probability wave
In 2019 I initiated the Zoöp project and since April 2021 I am director of the Zoönomic Institute.
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Koen Nutters
Musician
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Konstantin Leonenko
loud sounds and tiny things
studied electromechanics and sonology did internship at Mediamatic works as a freelance technician for various art projects makes cute little gizmos and angry loud noises
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Koray Tahiroglu
Koray Tahiroglu is an artist-researcher who is experimenting on generative musical improvisation and human musical interaction at Mlab /UIAH.
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Kristin Maurer
Wat doe ik?
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Krystian Woznicki
Born 1972 in Kłodzko, Polen. He has worked as a journalist in the field of culture, society and the Internet at Japan Times and Wired Japan, as a correspondant of Spex and Telepolis in Japan, and as...
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Kumi Hiroi
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L.A. Raeven
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Lara Assouad
Arab type and graphic designer
Lara Assouad Khoury is an independent graphic and type designer with a particular interest in the relation between Arabic and Latin writing systems and multicultural identities. She has researched...
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Laurent Mignonneau
Internationally renowned media artist working in the field of interactive computer installation.
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Lies Vanborm
Vlaams Theater Instituut
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Lily van der Stokker
"I am a beauty specialist. I have commissioned myself to research happiness and friendliness in my artwork, and with that I take a stand against irony and cynicism"
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Lotte Meijer
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Louwrien Wijers
"Throughout the years I have talked to great minds and have brought them together, for instance in Art meets Science and Spirituality in a changing Economy"
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Lu Liang
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Luc(as) de Groot
Dutch type designer living in Berlin
Lucas de Groot. Born in The Netherlands and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague under Gerrit Noordzij.
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Luisa Heinrich
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Maaike Gottschal
Hello, I'm an independent art and design producer and the coördinator of Rotterdam Artist in Residence. As cultural producer I was involved in Mediamatic's EL HEMA and the sneaker workshops for kids...
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Maartje Nevejan
regisseur van Couscous&Cola en Couscous Global!
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Mads Ludvigsen
Rietveld graduate 2008
Stone skipper
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Magdalena Taube
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Marc Bijl
Art-Activist who has a tattoo on his belly that says: "Deze buik is mede mogelijk gemaakt door het Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst"
''The nation had been flirting with forms of Götterdämmerung, with extremes of vocabulary and behavior and an appetite for violent resolutions.''
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Marc Boon (马克 )
Back in Amsterdam!
Mediator between art and technology.
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Margaret Warzecha
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Maria Hakim
graphic designer
I am in Amsterdam to work on the El Hema project. I am a student Graphic Design in Beirut, Lebanon
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Marieke Bijster
photography/film
Independent creative adviser and producer in photography and visual communication. Always looking for new projects!
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Marjolijn Ruyg
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Mark Hoekstra
1974—2008
"Most of the times I get described as a hobbyist, maker or hardware hacker. I guess it’s all quite accurate. I have a strong idealism about tech and everything connected to that. I truly believe all...
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Mark Wubben
web hacker european dutchman copenhagen london javascript python ubicomp
Humanist ∪ Technologist. <3 working with the web. Occasional Dutch speaker.
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Marta Krechlova
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Martijn de Waal
I am a writer, researcher, curator and consultant based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. My main area of interest is the role of digital media in society.
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Martin Butler
Interdisciplinary artist, and stage director
Martin Butler is a British born interdisciplinary artist, and stage director based in Berlin. He was trained in Drama at Manchester University, and then later Choreography and Performance at the SNDO
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Martin Majoor
Type and graphic designer
Martin Majoor (1960) has been designing type since the mid-1980s. After a student placement at URW in Hamburg, he started in 1986 as a typographic designer in the Research & Development Department at...
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Marukh Bibi Ahmad Sadiq
KiranArt.nl
That's me!
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Massimo Banzi
Massimo Banzi has fifteen years of experience in designing and developing enterprise applications. As one of the pioneers in commercial web development in Italy, he became webmaster for Italia Online.
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Mateusz Herczka
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Matt Biddulph
I'm based in London. I'm a software designer and creative technologist.
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Matthew Karau
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max kisman
Word and Image
Max Kisman (NL, 1953) is a graphic designer, illustrator, type designer and animator and a pioneer in digital technology in the 80s, with an internationally acclaimed practice.
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Melanie Rieback
RFID Security/Privacy Researcher
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Merel van den Berg
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Micha Klein
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Michael Samyn
Michaël Samyn is een grafisch designer die zich sinds 1995 met digitaal werk is gaan bezighouden. Hij ontwierp een aantal websites voor bedrijven en instellingen - tot zijn vroeg werk behoort onder...
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Michel Langendijk
communiceert, maar niet alleen virtueel
Switchte in mei 2010 van Mediamatic -> Virtueel Platform
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Michel Yammine
Michel Yammine (LB/NL) was born in Beirut and came to the Netherlands in 2004.
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Mika Raento
Symbian hacker, recent PhD, Jaiku Mobile creator.
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Mikk Heinsoo
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Minke Kampman
korte inleiding,
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Mirthe Blussé
Art | Design
Multidisciplinary artist Mirthe Blussé lead the Urban Typography Workshops and the Fablab Workshop on Spacial Typography at Mediamatic.
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Mounira Al Solh
Mounira's work, included in the New Museum Triennial 'The Ungovernables', deals with socio-political and cultural aspects of the lives of Lebanese immigrants. She works from Beirut and Amsterdam.
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Mr and Mrs Cameron
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Nadine Chahine
Arab type designer
Arab specialist at Linotype in Germany
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Nadya Peek
Ex-Editor
Girls are the new boys.
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Najah Aouaki
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Nat Muller
Between the idea/And the reality/Between the motion/And the Act/Falls the Shadow
Is an independent curator and critic based in Rotterdam. She has held positions as project curator at V2_, Institute for Unstable Media (Rotterdam) and De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics...
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Nathalie Bruijs
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Nayla Chebli
Nayla Chebli (LB/NL) was born and raised in Lebanon until she was 17 years old. In 1990 she immigrated with her family to Canada, where she completed her university degree at McGill University in...
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Nedim Kufi
new media, 3d projects, movie maker, graphic designer and painter
Pain from painting From Need to the Painting
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Neil Sieling
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Nezaket Ekici
artist
Nezaket Ekici uses social and cultural quotidian experiences in her work. That context is absorbed to create a performance that uses the body as symbol, in interaction with technology and the...
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Nicolas Nova
Nicolas is a researcher at Media and Design Lab (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) working on interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of gaming platforms and spatial environments...
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Nienke Brokke
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Organisatie:
Nieuw Ensemble
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No More Mondays
..creative mind..chaotic nerd..animator..designer..loves fun..iPad iPhone apps
So many ideas and so little time to actually make them all come true. Don has founded No More Mondays in '11 . A creative, innovative interactive approach on the mobile market for playful people and...
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Ozkan Kipici
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Pablos
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Organisatie:
pal west
Modemerk door en voor jongeren
zie ook www.paulwest.nl/
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Pascal Zoghbi
Type Designer and Typographer
Pascal Zoghbi Biography: When setting up to establish 29Letters type foundry in 2013, Lebanese designer and educator Pascal Zoghbi aspired to explore the diversity and potential of the Arabic script.
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Paul Keller
Paul Keller is director of Kennisland, an Amsterdam-based think tank focussing on new forms of innovation for a more open and inclusive society. Paul works with governments, cultural heritage...
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Per Tornberg
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Peter Bilak
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Petra Blaisse
designer of interiors and exteriors
Het werk van de Nederlandse ontwerper Petra Blaisse heeft een interdisciplinair karakter. Zij werkt in uiteenlopende disciplines zoals textiel-, landschap- en tentoonstellingsontwerpen.
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Ralf Schreiber
Ralf Schreiber works with electronics, with solar panels, with motors and smallest loudspeakers. His playful and experimental works produce small sounds, smallest movements and deal with weak energy...
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Raouf Mousad Basta
I was born in the Sudan . My father was an Egyptian protestant priest. part of my high education was in Egypt. I studied Journalism in Cairo , and Theater In Poland and worked in Baghdad and Beirut.
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Raya Tueny
Storytelling for brands: graphic design and narrative environment. Founder of Made for Beirut
I am in Amsterdam to work on the El Hema project. I am a student graphic design in Beirut, Lebanon
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Rein Jansma
1959—2023 Friend, Architect and Inventor
Rein was a dear friend that played an important role in the development of Mediamatic. He served as a board member from 2003 till 2010 and was an avid supporter of our work. Mediamatic and his...
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Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch painter of light and people
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Ricard Gras
i was born in Spain, but I'm ok, really
After graduating in Spain in 1996 Ricard relocated to the UK to continue his studies, did a Masters in DTV Production & Interactive media and became Development Director of Arts and Technology...
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Rob Malasch
Founder of Indomania and Serieuze Zaken Studioos.
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Saba Habta
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Saleh Hassan Faris
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Sam de Groot
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Sana el G
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Sander Leemans
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Sanne van den Goor
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Sarah Charalambides
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Sascha Pohflepp
Sascha Pohflepp is an artist, designer and writer, born in Cologne, Germany.
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Sasker Scheerder
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Selby Gildenmacher
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Semuel Souhuwat
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Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Videos and video-installations about social, individual and interactive aspects of architecture.
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Style Free
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Susanne Lederle
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Takuro Mizuta Lippit/ dj sniff
I am a turntablist, curator and researcher.
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tal amitai
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Tarek Atoui
Electro-acoustic musician and artist
Tarek Atoui was born in Lebanon in 1980 and moved to Paris in 1998 where he studied contemporary and electronic music at the French National Conservatory of Reims. He worked in the Netherlands as co
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Tarek Atrissi
www.atrissi.com
Founder and principal of Tarek Atrissi Design (www.atrissi.com)- Multidisciplinary design studio based in Hilversum, The Netherlands.
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Tarik Sadouma
"Whatever you get to work with, you add layers of meaning to it. You modify and manipulate the message."
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Organisatie:
The Khatt Foundation
Network for Arabic Typography
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The Philosopher
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Theodore Watson
Mr. Fablab in 2007
I am an Interactive Designer and Researcher, the co-developer of openFrameworks and a Graffiti Research Lab member. For Mediamatic I will be setting up the MIT styled FabLab and developing the...
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Thijs Gadiot
Graphic Engineer / Physical Computing
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Thomas Van Gelder
Graphic Designer / Creative Director
32 years of age, born and raised in The Netherlands, currently owns a small fashion label MORECULT together with his compagnon Farida Nouna
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Tim Olden
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Timo Dan Arnall
Designer, researcher
Timo Arnall is a designer working with interactive products and media. Timo leads an international research project on mobile technology, collaborates on interaction design work and lectures in...
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Tina Bleuler
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Ubi de Feo
Creative Technologist
His talented obsession for how reality unfolds makes him compulsively collect, dismantle and reassemble any device into a gimmick, changing its destiny to an even more useless one.
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Ulay
www.ulay.net
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Veronique de Koning
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Vlad Trifa
Researcher in robotics with perpetual art & media hunger
Vlad is a research associate with SAP Research in Zürich, and studies Wireless Sensor Networks in the context of Enterprise Service-Oriented Architectures.He is also a PhD student at the Institute...
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Willem van Weelden
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Willem Velthoven
(hij/hem) Founder, helper and learner
Ik ben een bekroond ontwerper en cultureel ondernemer. In 1983 richtte ik Mediamatic op samen met een groepje vrienden. Tot zomer 2024 heb ik de organisatie geleid samen met Jans Possel . Ik...
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Zelda Beauchampet
Product and jewelry design
Regenboerka, een praktische toepassing van de boerka voor het Hollandse klimaat.
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Luna Maurer
Bube ist immer Trumpf!
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Wael Morcos
Fresh graduate with a B.A. in Graphic Design from NDU (Notre Dame University), Lebanon. Emphasis in typography and motion graphics. MISTD
As a fresh graduate with a B.A. in Graphic Design from NDU (Notre Dame University), Lebanon, Wael was part of the 2007 El Hema design team. He graduated with emphasis in typography and motion...