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  • Archief'23
  • Afbeelding: Justin Knelange

    Krater Börek from Japanese Knotweed

    Made by Krater during the Japanese Knotweed Festival at Mediamatic -

  • Japanese knotweed
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  • Eten

  • 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
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Branko Kleynen

    Not just a Weed

    Fermented Knotweed Pickles recipe

    On March 25, 2020, after a scavenger hunt for Japanese Knotweed, Branko, Elise and Tommaso joined forces to pickle some shoots.

  • Understanding Japanese knotweed

    In conversation with Virgile Durando

    Virgile Durando is a product/material designer and researcher from France. He is our current artist in residency, presently working on collecting and developing knowledge regarding the re
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23

    Programma - lief je gast

    Alle  exposities ,  workshops en events die gedurende het festival plaatsvinden.
  • Mediamatic Eten Luna Thissen

    The Dog Dinner v0.8

    17
    jan 2023
    - Canine & Homo Sapiens

    Mediamatic has joined forces with academic and artist Eva Meijer to organise a dinner experience for dogs and their human companions. This is a report about our first internal beta test edition that...

  • If you can't beat it, eat it!

    What we can learn from the fate of the passenger pigeon

    Flocks clouded the sky and cast a dark shadow over the land, stealing hours of daylight and sometimes days on end. This is not an exaggerated Hitchcock scene from ‘The Birds’ but rather a common...
  • Proposal by: Leo Kay

    The Acid House Of Ideas

    Project Proposal: Bread, microbial and plant agency, fermentation, human evolution and collective ritual.

    A month-long participatory exhibition centered around the building of a model house of ergot-inoculated rye bread; exploring the recent history of human alienation from the land; the creative...

  • 373 words to insult a plant

    In conversation with Alaa Abu Asad

    Killing without thought. Just one of the phrases that is used to discuss the Japanese Knotweed. A plant that does not even deserve to be thought about. It only deserves to be killed. Artist...
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23

    Exposities

  • mediamatic eten Justin Knelange

    From Grandma's Kitchen to new Culinary Horizons

    In conversation with our new head chef Panos Fakos

    As a small boy, Panos was introduced to the world of spices and cooking by his loving grandmother. Food has always played a big role in his upbringing where his mother and her sister paved the path...
  • Blog Leyang Fu

    (Re)naming a Plant – the Magic in a Name

    To many, calling a name equals casting a spell, as names are often assigned with magic or spiritual power. Such belief spreads widely geographically among different tribes. In modern days, we know...
  • Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Japanese Knotweed Festival

    Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.

  • Closing the Tap

    Turning to the canal to reduce our tapwater consumption

    The goal is simple. We want to stop using clean tapwater to irrigate the plants at Dijkspark and instead use a watersource that may be considered unconventional: the canal. The common perception of...
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23

    Oogst de plant voorzichtig!

    Zo voorkom je onbedoelde verspreiding

    Ontdek hoe je de Japanse duizendknoop kunt gebruiken, of bestrijden. Leer hier hoe je deze eetbare en medicinale plant, die boordevol kwaliteiten en voordelen zit kunt oogsten zonder dat ie wortel...

  • Witness the rapidly growing Japanese Knotweed in…

    The Japanese Knotweed Festival is coming up, and what better way to kick it off than by celebrating our own Japanese knotweed at Mediamatic? In merely 4 weeks, this plant can grow up to 1.5 meters
  • Interview Leyang Fu

    Human as Food, in a Material World

    An interview with Noa Jansma

    Noa Jansma is a Dutch multimedia designer. She completed her training at the Design Academy Eindhoven and has exhibited her work at renowned locations such as C/O Berlin, Les Rencontres de la...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jiwei Zhou

    Tempeh Ware with Flavour

    Research continues to make tempeh ware more interesting

    A food design research, aiming to optimise tempeh bowl tastes, texture, shapes, thickness and appearance, in order to create an interesting meet with tempeh bowls in our restaurant Mediamatic Eten. 

  • Body as Atomiser

    Swallowable Parfum by Lucy McRae

    If we were able to biologically enhance the fragrance emitted from our bodies, what could be the consequences for our everyday existence? Our skin sweating cosmetics, turning into a perfume atomiser.

  • Dealing with pests

    The pineapple sage infestation

    With the changing of the seasons and the drop in temperature, some plants in the unheated greenhouse become more susceptible to pests and infestations as they are perennial, such as the Pineapple...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten Kamilė Vaitkutė, Jiwei Zhou

    It smells like fresh bread!

    As the taste of lupin tempeh was only pleasant to Willem, we all together decided to test the mycelium growth on different materials. We collected different grains (the ones that we have a personal...

  • 'Myco-brewing'?

    Two Processes become one!

    Combining the beer brewing process with our Myco Insulation process for smart production of new materials.

  • Not Just Blood

    Take This, For It Is My Body, Unsettling Suite, by Sarah Jane Norman

    For Australian-Aboriginal artist Sarah Jane Norman, blood has been used to represent the Aboriginals’ dark colonial history. ‘Take This, For It Is My Body’ is an interactive performance piece where 6...

  • Cuban Blood Sausages

    Blood Sausage Performance by ENEMA Art Collective

    Although we live in a world filled with different cultures, cuisines, and languages, there is one dish that is shared among cultures and one that has lasted through different traditions. That dish is...

  • Eating the Future

    Exploring food beyond the plate

    Food-4-Evah explores how the human body might adapt to a world of post-processed meals. Could you get used to food from the future?   In exploring this question, photographer/teacher Ursula van de...

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