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Aromathèque Calendar
Every month olfactory artist Frank Bloem curates a program where experts, artists, designers and scientists shift our perspectives on what we eat, drink, touch, inhale, secrete and smell. Starting...
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Interview Melinda Pîrv
Exploring Food, Texture, and Sensory Art
An interview with Margherita Soldati
Margherita Soldati is a visual artist based in Amsterdam and co-founder of Absurd Beings Collective . She graduated from Industrial Design in Italy in 2014 and from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2018.
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13. Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Erica Monde, Mila Benjamins
There’s Not Much We Can Do
12Apr 2024- Film by Erica Monde5May 2024When filmmaker Erica Monde was diagnosed with endometriosis, the growth of tissue similar to th e uterine lining outside the uterus , she was told by doctors that there was not much they could...
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Determining the optimal nitrogen level for the…
Nitrogen is a key component in chlorophyll, so it plays a crucial role inside the plant: but what happens when it's too much?
Various researches have shown the correlation between pests infestation and nitrogen leaf content - which depends on the amount of fertilizer you add. What is, then, the fertilizer amount we can...
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Piss or get off the pot!
New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system
It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
- Stick and Poke Tattoo Yourself7Jun 2023Have you always been curious about giving yourself a tattoo, but are intimidated to take the first step? Fear not, because we've got you covered! Join our workshop and learn how to give yourself a...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
- Stick and Poke Tattoo Yourself3Jun 2023Have you always been curious about giving yourself a tattoo, but are intimidated to take the first step? Fear not, because we've got you covered! Join our workshop and learn how to give yourself a...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
- Stick and Poke Tattoo Yourself17May 2023Have you always been curious about giving yourself a tattoo, but are intimidated to take the first step? Fear not, because we've got you covered! Join our workshop and learn how to give yourself a...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
- Stick and Poke Tattoo Yourself20May 2023Have you always wanted to tattoo yourself, but are intimidated to take the first step? This workshop will provide all tools and knowledge you need to leave Mediamatic with a tattoo given to yourself...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
- Stick and Poke Tattoo Yourself28May 2023Have you always wanted to tattoo yourself, but are intimidated to take the first step? This workshop will provide all tools and knowledge you need to leave Mediamatic with a tattoo given to yourself...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
- Stick and Poke Tattoo Yourself3May 2023Have you always wanted to tattoo yourself, but are intimidated to take the first step? This workshop will provide all tools and knowledge you need to leave Mediamatic with a tattoo given to yourself...
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@delirious.tats
Stick and Poke Tattoo Enthusiast
@delirious.tats is a stick and poke tattoo enthusiast.
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Tattoo your Skin ~ Soothe your Mind
- Stick and Poke Tattoo Yourself29Apr 2023Have you always wanted to tattoo yourself, but are intimidated to take the first step? This workshop will provide all tools and knowledge you need to leave Mediamatic with a tattoo given to yourself...
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The Links between Tattoo Culture and Autism
Beautiful stimming; the experience of getting a tattoo and giving a tattoo as an autistic person
Our latest interest within the A/artist Project is researching the link between the tattoo culture and autism. The idea came up when I mentioned in my interview at Mediamatic that I am enthusiastic...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lynn (she/they) Clemens
Linking Tattooing with Autism
- A/artist Round Table13Feb 2023We've found a positive correlation between tattooing and autism and want to deepen our knowledge about it. I'll share my research on the experience of giving and getting a tattoo as an autistic...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Grieving, Healing, Laughing
- Project Presentation with Qiaochu Guo, Sophia Schullan, Ginevra Petrozzi and Cecilia Casabona23Feb 2023As our lives are eminently filled with times of grief, pain and loss, three artists suggest ways to navigate our pain. How do we heal after a loss? Can other people help? Is it fair to still have fun?
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Dying, Caring, Encore!
- Project Presentation with Angela Kerr, Emily Bates and Yi-Jing Chen26Jan 2023Our identity is defined by so many elements. Hair. DNA. Body. The way we think or dress. Yet, most of these are perishable. Our body becomes ashes, our hair is cut, our clothes are replaced. Those...
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Proposal by: Rosalie Bak
Until death makes us parts
Exploring the phenomena from-life-to-death ~ through haptonomy
This artistic public-research proposal brings together experts and 'the dying' in an intimate setting - where they can co-research, -experience and -imagine the phenomena from-life-to-death and...
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Proposal by: Qiaochu Guo
Twining The Underneath
Project proposal: Reading the body through Moxibustion
This project is Inspired by moxibustion which heats up the body by burning the wormwood above the skin's surface, thereby achieving a means of curing diseases. This traditional therapy means to...
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Proposal by: Emily Bates
Human Hair Tapestry
Project Proposal: A collective document, and trauma portrait
Hair has played a complex and diverse role within humankind’s cultural history, both symbolically and materially, being utilised within rituals and as memorial or portrait across many communities...
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Jenny Konrad
Artist and Designer
Jenny Konrad is a visual translator of information who researches and appropriates methods, medias, tools and materials to transform raw content into experiences that are digestible to constantly...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Weimin Zhu
Playful Jewelry for the Inner World
26Aug 2022- Exhibition by Weimin Zhu31Dec 2024'Playful Jewelry for the Inner World' is a collection of silver jewelry that invites the wearer to move meditatively. The rhythmic movements bring you closer to your inner world, make you more aware...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Piss, Death, Stress
- Penny for your Thoughts Project Presentations with Arthur Guilleminot, Jennifer Kumer and Irina Birger28Jul 2022Piss, waste, sex and the pondering of one’s mortality: these can all be quite uncomfortable and difficult topics. But, what if we could turn the uncomfortable into something nourishing and productive?
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Aya Koné
Making Myco-clay
Turning rotting mycelium into moldable material
RECIPE 2 parts rotting mycelium 1 part hay/pink oyster mushroom mycelium A giant bucket A large tarp to lay out material 2+ feet/hands to stomp, turn, squish and mix