Mediamatic Magazine Archive

Since Nam June Paik invented Video Art in the beginning of the sixties, more and more artists have made use of electronic media. Until about 1975 often as an extension of the conceptual and...

In the last few years, the video art infrastructure in The Netherlands has functioned reasonably well. Small institutions distribute video art, assist in its production, supply information, and give...

We again offer two video tapes; Karnak of the Dutch artist Frits Maats and Forever Young/Echoes of Death van Lydia Schouten.

Halfway through the Documenta , we feel we should make our contribution to the wave of publicity, which already seems to have lost momentum. Therefore we confined ourselves to interesting, specialist...

If there's one trend to be observed at the video festivals of the last few months (The Hague, Ljubljana, Linz) then it's independent video's ever-growing TV ambitions. And the festivals' as well.

Also included a special about Rabotnik TV

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At first sight, the worlds of Art and Technology seem irreconcilable. The artist has little use for the soulless, 9 fantasyless work of the technologist, who, for his part, is repulsed by the...

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Sign language is the oldest time-based visual medium. Only in recent decades have those with a normal sense of hearing begun to realize that deaf sign language is not simply a 'crutch'; it is a...

The eye dominates Western culture: we worship the image and we're scared to death of the dark. The eye is our instrument for dominating and fathoming the world: Our emergence from our unawareness...

The 1/O issue: Hardware Software Wetware According to Adilkno, the human being is no longer an individual in the digital era, but wetware, a 'wet bag' hanging on the machine. Coupled to hard and...

The World Issue: World Articles This issue of Mediamatic was supposed to be the World Issue. A Mediamatic about the whole world! This proved, to say the least, very ambitious... That's why we present...

End of Advertising Issue This issue of Mediamatic is based on the assumption that advertising was one of the great arts of the twentieth century.

Storage Mania Issue This issue of Mediamatic is dedicated to Storage Mania.

Home Issue: Home @ Last This issue contains a collection of strange pictures: visualisations of spaces in MediaMOO.

Religion Issue The word avatar does not occur in this issue of Mediamatic.

The Secret Agent Issue When a government no longer knows how to solve a problem within the borders of legislation and the tolerance of public opinion, it calls on the secret agent.

Context Issue The context of this issue is all of the issues which have come before it. Or perhaps everything that you're currently reading. Or perhaps everything that's currently on your mind. Or...

The Printed Issue This Book will disappear. Since the appearance of issue zero in 1985, Mediamatic has stubbornly resisted the disappearance of the book. We have made ever more beautiful, thick and...

In 1994 Mediamatic did a proposal for Verso in London, about a 'Best of' of articles from the Mediamatic Magazine. The following is a transcript of the proposal.