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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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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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About Solarpunk: a radical inclusive vision for…
What is Solarpunk? A new imaginary for a green and ecological future: the concretization of Posthumanism
Solarpunk is a movement transcending speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism, that endeavors to answer the question: "What does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?
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Camilla Pang
Biochemist, writer and autism advocate
Camilla Pang is a biochemist, a writer, and an autism advocate. Her book "Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships", in which she shares how science has helped...
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Explaining Humans
Camilla Pang's Manual for the Outliers
“My mother is an artist, and my father is a scientist, and being honest I am somewhere caught in between,” says Camilla Pang. As a biochemist, a writer, and an autism advocate, what does Pang catch...
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Hortus Project
Knowledge about the Hortus Project Signs
The Hortus Project was implemented some time ago to teach people about the different properties of our city's flora. You can find little oval signs in the grow beds of Mediamatic, but also spread...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Looking back at the Japanese Knotweed Symposium
Knotweed on a pedestal
We look back at a two-day gathering with researchers, designers, and artists, which aimed to explore Japanese knotweed and our relationship with this contested plant. Japanese knotweed was put on a...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Japanese Knotweed Symposium
14Nis 2023- Lets talk Japanese knotweed!15Nis 2023Mediamatic invited experts and creatives from various disciplines to discuss all things Japanese knotweed. We will unpack the plant that is so often described as invasive. The symposium focussed on...
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Salt tolerant plants in aquaponics
Exploring new plants as an adaptation strategy
As a part of our project ' Grain of Salt ' we are researching plant species that are more tolerant towards salty conditions. These plants have special mechanisms to withstand higher concentrations of...
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The green gold
Celebrating our Wasabi's 2nd birthday
After some cold and rainy months in aquaponics, we were overjoyed to see the first aquaponics plant in bloom. This early bloomer has got to be a bit of a diva, as most plants are not showing any...
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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...
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Proposal by: Naomi Jansen
Karkínos
Project Proposal: Visual Artistic Research on Cancer
Karkínos is a visual artistic research in which cancer encounters different facets of the earth. In Karkínos, cancer is interconnected with, for example, the astrological world, the animal kingdom...
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Proposal by: Lena Kuzmich
Expanding Kin
Project Proposal: video installation on multi-species world-building
"Expanding Kin" is a video installation on multi-species world-building and consists of a short film and a physical installation organized as seating islands. The work examines the potential of...
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Proposal by: Sujata Majumdar, Roland van Dierendonck, Irene Nooren
Nanoplay
Project Proposal: The Society Within Us
'The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think' - Gregory Bateson Our current way of thinking does not enable us to deal with...
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Fungi Trail Collaborators
Ontdek de schoonheid van schimmels in Natuur, Kunst, Wetenschap en Gastronomie bij Mediamatic, ARTIS-Micropia en de Hortus
Alhoewel we schimmels misschien vooral associeren met afbraak en bederf, zijn schimmels een heel belangrijk deel van ons ecosysteem en ons eten. Vier met ons de schoonheid van schimmels! Van 22...
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Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Artis Micropia Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, ARTIS-Micropia, Mediamatic Foundation
Fungi Trail
21Eyl 2022- Ontdek de schoonheid van schimmels in Natuur, Kunst, Wetenschap en Gastronomie bij Mediamatic, ARTIS-Micropia en de Hortus2Eki 2022Alhoewel we schimmels misschien vooral associeren met afbraak en bederf, zijn schimmels een heel belangrijk deel van ons ecosysteem en ons eten. Vier met ons de schoonheid van schimmels! Van 22...
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2022 Elise Chalcraft
How do you imitate scents from nature?
Frank speaking on NPO Radio 1 about Smelling Like Another Being
Listen to our resident parfumier Frank Bloem as he talks about his recent workshop Smelling Like Another Being , developed here at Mediamatic, on NPO Radio 1.
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Was Hildegard von Bingen Autistic?
A summary of 'Ruminations on Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) and autism' by Patricia Ranft
Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th century German nun, and one of the most influential women of her time. She wrote several scientific treatises, composed music, and invented her own language, all of...
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Collaboration Mediamatic & UvA Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Radical Imagining of 'Just & Green' futures
- Making Utopias Real with Laura Burgers, Ivana Isailović, Usha Natarajan, Pippi van Ommen, Anouk Beckers, Margarita Nieves & Kyra Sacks20Tem 2022A limit on your energy consumption? A ban on cars? Or hamburgers for 100 euros? We like to promise each other a "just and green transition" of the economy, addressing global warming in a "fair
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Georgia Dalloro
The Squabs are Here!
Welcoming our feathered friends to Mediamatic
After weeks of preparation the squabs (young pigeons) are finally here! Arne put the last changes in the pigeon tower loft last week, changing the roof from a flat one to one that can be opened (cut...
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Becoming magnesium Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link
Becoming magnesium
Through scrunching & draping tinfoil: can I transform into magnesium?
Through researching costume ideas for the Inhuman Carnaval, I came across the mineral magnesium. The rock and metal like texture reminded me of the scrunched up tin foil around the sandwiches my mum...
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Proposal by: Arthur Guilleminot
Piss Soap
Project proposal: Ecodeviant Research
My project of Piss Soap is an ecodeviant product aiming to regenerate our local urban environments, while questioning our social conditioning about disgust. Piss soap is made entirely out of human...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link
How is smell used as a disguise in beings?
Exploring smell as a disguise. And how your nose is one of your most powerful faculties.
This article explores how your nose is one of your most powerful senses and how in our new workshop "Smelling like a species" you can investigate smell in other beings and compose your own disguise...