Best of 2007

Night Garden, sub-technical indoor garden, links new technology, next nature, contemporary art and its consumption. And you can have a really great dinner as well! Open Thurs / Frid / Sat from 6 - 11...

Programmering januari tot en met 1 maart 2007 Maker ---------- Titel Werk 310 K ---------- You Will Never Find Me Ben Schouten ---------- M*A*T*C*H Brita Lindvall ---------- Water Behavior Chen...

Martin Butler presented four human avatars to play with. You could log in at home with your character of choice. You could direct the avatar, explore the space and challenge him or her. The avatars...

On this wonderful evening we gave the opportunity to make your own sock puppet and discover more about your non-verbal flirting skills. After making a sock for ourselves, we met other socks and...

On this beautiful, yet quite chilly night Mediamatic organized a Freestyle ikebana competition for absolute beginners! The Flower and Plant music was selected by dj Andre and it was the last chance...

This night's programme was: Explaining Wifio, bSites and the Girlfriend Experience, the presentation of the Radio-to-Go workshop results and a live avatar/callers mix by Nathalie Bruijs en Sasker...

Matt Biddulph was contracted by the renown scientific journal Nature.com to build gigantic bacteria in Second Life. He held a lecture on his results on this evening at Mediamatic.

Two things were on the programme this night: You could sing along with harpists Maximilian Ehrhardt and Anastasia Makropoulou. There were 30 songs to choose from and everyone was welcome to present...

Making Machinima is making movies in 3D games. Machinima makers use games as tools to film their own scenarios. Machinima keeps evolving, the practice is spreading widely beyond the gaming...

Deze vrijdag avond bestond uit Bong-Ra, David Linton (NY), Andre's Absinth bar, the Avatar sound mix, DIY sushi, DJ Christopher en de Open DI Night.

Following a very exciting Arduino workshop last November, Mediamatic organizes a new Arduino workshop, this time focused on wireless Arduinos: Arduinos that connects to other hardware through a...

Germans think that showing the national flag is sinister. World Cup football in 2006 brought about a notable change. Germans overcame — temporarily — their fear of the association with right-wing...

This evening's salon was on the subject of cultural identity. Two presentations were held. The first was on McDeutsch, a book on the role of German language on the national identity, and the second...

It's Happening Now! was an unpredictable evening with more than 20 artists who still believe a Happening does stand a chance. With performances and contributions of Alexandra Bachzetsis, Marc Bijl

In this new workshop participants will develop prototypes for hybrid world media applications. While the internet is still thought of as a virtual space, it is quickly gaining foot in the physical...

Timo Arnall (N) , Nicolas Nova (CH) , Giles Lane (UK) , and Sascha Pohflepp (D) presented their projects and inquiries into the most fascinating and relevant engagements between the internet

During this salon the following took place: Fresh Rietveld-student interaction design, honest clothing by Annouk Post, Edo Paulus' second life and a performance by The Philosopher and Invisible Iva.

Een avond met onderzoek naar alternatieve interfaces ontwikkeld door Rietveldstudenten Unstable Media/Interaction Design.

Graphic Design students went all second life with Conversations falling from the sky - confessions of a submissive avatar - 'Der Lauf der Prims' - the evolution of a fashionable newbie - and much...

DNK and Mediamatic invited you to CELEBRATE the closing of the DNK season and the start of summer.

Mediamatic organiseerde 10 'Koopavonden' met presentaties en ideeën van ontwerpers, kunstenaars en andere specialisten over de inrichting van de denkbeeldige El HEMA .

De opdracht voor deze avond was: Hoe zou een een project over een denkbeeldige Arabische Hema eruit zien? Met presentaties van onder anderen Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares en Tarek Atrissi.

De derde brainstormavond over hoe een denkbeeldige Arabische Hema eruit zou kunnen zien.

Ook deze keer kon iedereen langs komen om nieuwe ideeën te delen voor een project over een (op dat moment) denkbeeldige Arabische Hema. Deze werd later ook daadwerkelijk gerealiseerd.

The thursday brainstorming sessions for the El HEMA exhibition double as a community cultural forum, bringing together individuals from all realms of art. Good Arabs, “Bad Arabs,” nostalgic Arabs

Mediamatic unveiled the first Arabic chocolate letter—possibly ever made—at the 7th weekly meeting for the upcoming El HEMA exhibition. The letter, created by Bernardo Gaeiras, signified only one of...

The 8th El HEMA weekly meeting proved to be a melodious blend of music, dance and literature. As the white entrance hall to the Mediamatic exhibition room gradually became a vivacious red, inside the...

A full day of lectures, presentations and celebration of new Arabic cultural expression. The days events included: a one-day symposium, the launch of 5 new Arabic typefaces, a book, an international...

The last El HEMA meeting brought finalizations as well as new collaborations. A rouse of applause filled Mediamatic’s exhibition hall as El HEMA graphic designers presented the latest and final...

Tijdens deze middag was de gehele EL HEMA mode collectie te zien, met onder andere de doe-het-zelf Djellaba's, poëtisch ondergoed, T-shirts met Arabische 'pick up lines', Arabisch I Amsterdam, EL...

What would an Arabic Hema look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high quality headscarves? 3 Arabic scarfs (kaffia) for the price of 2? Tunics or djellabas? School...

Learn the basics of Kufi, the oldest Arabic calligraphic style. Create your own square Kufi pattern from Arabic or Dutch words by coming to two evening workshops! Write your own name or favorite word...

During this evening there were several screenings of new experimental films from the Middle East and North Africa: In collaboration with the independent DVD label Lowave , which promotes experimental...

This workshop is designed around the possibilities of the FabLab: while developing and testing your ideas on the use of letters outside the printed paper and the screen, you learn to use the FabLab...

On this evening everyone could enjoy choc-a-bloc with video art, images, audio and performance, strung together by 3 distinguished guests: Mounira Al Solh, Paul Keller and Tarek Atoui. The evening...

Artist C.E.B. Reas (USA / Los Angeles) has co-developed a cultural tool called Processing . It's a open source software package that enables people to program interactive and visual things on their...

Mediamatic and the Liminal Institute presented a reprise of Martin Butler's project 'The Girlfriend Experience' at the cross media conference Picnic 07 in Amsterdam. On September 26, 27 & 28 Butler...

This workshop was all about the following question: Which objects in public or private space can become richer social objects by adding the specific possibilities of RFID?

Creation, communication and entertainment are at the heart of PICNIC, a yearly event for professionals in the area of creativity, cross media and innovation. Urban streetgame festival ‘Come Out...

A poetic title for evening about that which our TV screens fail to show us: the streets of Baghdad where apart from carnage and destruction there is life, love, culture, history, memory and present.

Artist and game designer Julian Oliver (NZ) demonstrated his own recent mixed-reality project, 'LevelHead'. He also talked about Mixed Reality games that seek to incorporate the material and/or...

Games and Internet are gradually replacing television als children's favorite media. How can media makers use games and game culture in crossmedia productions? If you can't beat them, join them.

From the back alleys of Cairo to Manhattan delis, humus is perhaps the most celebrated dip from the Middle East and Arab world. Both staple and beloved snack, the origin of this chickpea delicacy is...

What do Intifada and Dabke, the popular folkdance of the Levant, have in common? Very little, at a first glance. However, manifestations of political and national identity are very much intertwined...

In 1978 the French Situationist Guy Debord designed and fabricated a board game called “The Game of War.” Thirty years later Alexander Galloway (USA) is resurrecting this largely forgotten game. He...

Mediamatic and B3 organized a 5-day workshop about audiovisual projects for current digital media. The workshop participants used their own footage and ideas to design and prototype a project for...

Tijdens de museumn8 stond El HEMA in het teken van de prijsuitreiking van onze eigen design wedstrijd. Na de officiële uitreiking (die werd beloond met een talencursus van vier weken in Damascus, de...

Musicians from the Middle-East performed in the El HEMA on sunday afternoon. By playing their traditional instruments they gave an introduction to sounds from another world. Joël Bons, from the Nieuw...

We celebrated the final day of the El HEMA with presentations by Sietske Tjallingii's Burka Big Band, Partizan Publik, the poet Baban and musician Monir from Iraq, Elena Simons (known for her book on...