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Hier vind je een selectie van onze projecten van de afgelopen 4 jaar. En een kleine impressie van belangrijke en grote projecten van de afgelopen 40 jaar.

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Mediamatic is opgericht uit nieuwsgierigheid naar nieuwe mogelijkheden voor de kunsten en uit noodzaak voor onderlinge ondersteuning bij het verkennen daarvan. We werken op het snijvlak tussen kunst, ontwerp en wetenschap en we bieden ruimte voor innovatief, belichaamd en artistiek onderzoek.

We leren van en met kunstenaars, ontwerpers, wetenschappers, elkaar en publiek. Iedereen mag mee doen en mee leren tijdens workshops, ontmoetingen, evenementen of in een van onze laboratoria.

25-11-2019 Yeast in a cell-culture dish - In Yeast Hunting, you will learn how to catch wild yeast from nature, how to manage a pure yeast culture and how to grow your favorite yeast strain. One of the most important tastemakers in beer happens to be a living organism: yeast. Filippo Iannone

De jaren 2020 - 2024

In de periode 2020-2024 onderzoeken we samen met kunstenaars, ontwerpers en wetenschappers de overbelasting van de mens en de aarde. We zijn geïnteresseerd in hoe we moeten omgaan met de fors toenemende prikkels in de samenleving, en leren daarover van en met neurodivergentie makers. We onderzoeken de aarde en hoe we beter met haar kunnen samenleven. En we onderzoeken waarom we sommige soorten wél waarderen, maar andere soorten massaal uitroeien.

Duiventorens

Kunnen we verval leren omarmen? Sinds 2020 bouwt Arne Hendriks duiventorens van mycelium. Er is een diverse reeks torens opgeschoten rondom de Biotoop van Mediamatic. De mycelium-waste-pigeon-towers zijn het resultaat van een voortdurend proces: waarbij het bederven van het bouwmateriaal is een essentieel onderdeel van dit ontwerpproces.

22-04-2022 - Arne Hendriks kijkt in zijn duiventoren - Duiventorens - Arne Hendriks De duiventorens zijn een doorlopend experiment om te bouwen met levend myceliumafval van oesterzwammenkwekerijen. Het project onderzoekt vragen als: Kunnen we structuren bouwen om wilde duiven te huisvesten? Wat is het beste ontwerp om een toren met mycelium te bouwen? En hoe lang duurt het voordat de stenen aan elkaar groeien? Door te experimenteren met verschillende vormen en bouwstructuren zien we hoe het materiaal reageert en of we een comfortabele leefruimte voor onze Amsterdamse duiven…

With: Arne Hendriks

Susanne and Arne discussing life cycles - Sadhbh O'Donnell

With: Susanne Duijvestein

Lief je Gast: Japanse Duizendknoop

Welke planten mag je zomaar doden? En welke planten niet? De Japanse Duizendknoop wordt gezien als vijand, mag overal in Europa op agressieve wijze worden uitgeroeid en we noemen hem een ‘invasieve exoot’. Door globalisering en de versnelde klimaatverandering, is de biodiversiteit erg veranderd. We moeten als mens kritisch nadenken over de manier waarop we omgaan met deze verandering en onze rol hierin. Moeten we de lokale biodiversiteit koste wat het kost beschermen en zo ja, op welke manier? Of kunnen we manieren vinden om de veranderingen te ondersteunen, en te helpen met het vinden van een nieuwe balans?

We zijn in 2023 begonnen met een jaarlijks Japanse Duizendknoop Festival, waar we deze vragen stellen. Samen met kunstenaars en ontwerpers zoeken we naar alternatieven voor de harde confrontatie die veel groenbeheerders nu kiezen. Kunnen we deze ‘plaag’ weg-eten? Kunnen we hem in toom houden door hem te foerageren en te gebruiken als basis voor nieuwe, duurzame, materialen? En kunnen we andere manieren ontdekken die kunnen helpen bij het in evenwicht brengen van de huidige Nederlandse biodiversiteit waar de Japanse Duizendknoop een deel van is?

14-04-2023 Sus Willems geeft een presentatie tijdens het Japanse Duizendknoop Symposium - Lief je Gast - Japanse Duizendknoop Symposium Het Japanse duizendknoop symposium, dat plaatsvond op 14 April 2023, is een bijeenkomst met onderzoekers, ontwerpers en kunstenaars, waarin de Japanse duizendknoop en onze omgang met deze plant werd onderzocht. De Japanse Duizendknoop is een 'invasieve exoot' die mag worden uitgeroeid. We zoeken juist naar manieren om met deze plant samen te leven. Zijn er ook andere mogelijkheden dan een buitenstaander uitroeien?

14-04-2023 Publiek tijdens het Japanse Duizendknoop symposium - Het Japanse duizendknoop symposium , dat plaatsvond op 14 April 2023, is een bijeenkomst met onderzoekers, ontwerpers en kunstenaars, waarin de Japanse duizendknoop en onze omgang met deze plant werd onderzocht. De Japanse Duizendknoop is een 'invasieve exoot' die mag worden uitgeroeid. We zoeken juist naar manieren om met deze plant samen te leven. Zijn er ook andere mogelijkheden dan een buitenstaander uitroeien? Justin Knelange

With: Jip Santen

14-04-2023 Geurkunstenaar Frank Bloem presenteert Japanse Duizendknoop geuren - Lief je Gast - Symposium Japanse Duizendknoop Het Japanse duizendknoop symposium , dat plaatsvond op 14 April 2023, is een bijeenkomst met onderzoekers, ontwerpers en kunstenaars, waarin de Japanse duizendknoop en onze omgang met deze plant is onderzocht.

05-05-2023 De kunstenaars van het vrijheidsmaal - Vrijheidsmaaltijd 5 mei Kunstenaars Aslı Hatipoğlu (Thailand/Turkije) , Alaa Abu Asad (Palestina/Nederland) en Uno Fujisawa (Japan/Nederland) hebben een bijzonder Vrijheidsmaal samengesteld. Mediamatic nodigt je uit voor een viergangen maaltijd in het kader van bevrijdingsdag en het Japanse Duizendknoop Festival . We gaan met elkaar in gesprek en onderzoeken samen wat vrijheid voor mens é n plant betekent. Justin Knelange

With: Alaa Abu Asad, Uno Fujisawa, Aslı Hatipoğlu

05-05-2023 Vrijheidsmaaltijd over de japanse duizendknoop - Vrijheidsmaaltijd ism het 4/5 mei committee. Kunstenaars Aslı Hatipoğlu (Thailand/Turkije), Alaa Abu Asad (Palestina/Nederland) en Uno Fujisawa (Japan/Nederland) hebben een bijzonder Vrijheidsmaal samengesteld in het kader van bevrijdingsdag en het Japanse Duizendknoop Festival . Tijdens het 5-gangen diner gingen we met elkaar in gesprek over wat vrijheid voor mens én plant betekent. Jiyoung Lee

With: Alaa Abu Asad, Aslı Hatipoğlu, Uno Fujisawa

14-04-2023 The Dog Chased its Tail To Bite it Off - by Alaa Abu Asad Op onze aarde, waar 'inheems' een zeldzame status is, vraagt Palestijnse kunstenaar Alaa Abu Asad zich af welke botanische soorten kunnen worden erkend als rechtmatige inwoners van natiestaten. Terwijl anderen soorten juist voor altijd worden neergezet als vreemdeling. Hoe toon je het belang van taal aan in deze tegenstelling en hoe de invloed die het heeft op onze relatie met andere soorten? Lees hier meer. Romy Kerkman

With: Alaa Abu Asad

22-04-2023 Deelnemers gebruiken de japanse duizendknoop als biomateriaal - Remaking Knotweed - Virgile Durando Workshop Tijdens deze workshop leerden deelnemers hands-on technieken die je kunt toepassen op de Japanse duizendknoop. Ze gingen aan de slag met zelfgemaakte gereedschappen van Virgile Durando. Samen met de kunstenaar konden deelnemers onderzoeken hoe je met deze veelzijdige plant iets moois kunt creëren door te weven en bouwen. Justin Knelange

14-04-2023 Handboek Japanse Duizendknoop van Virgile Durando - Deze publicatie is onderdeel van het Japanse Duizendknoop Festival Het Handboek van ontwerper Virgile Durando is een uitgebreide en visuele handleiding voor alle makers die geïnteresseerd zijn in het leren van bouwtechnieken en het bewerken van de Japanse duizendknoop als materiaal. Virgile Durando

With: Virgile Durando

Eerste oefeningen tot ecocentrisme

We zijn niet de enige op de aarde en we voelen de toenemende noodzaak om niet de mens als middelpunt van de Aarde te zien, maar het hele ecosysteem - waar de mens een onderdeel van is. Samen met kunstenaars, wetenschappers en ontwerpers oefenden we om ecocentrischer te worden. Tijdens de Dutch Design Week presenteerden we het grote project Inhuman Carnaval, waar we kunstenaars, ontwerpers, makers en publiek uitnodigen om zichzelf en elkaar te verkleden als de mooie soorten die ons ecosysteem rijk is. Op die manier probeerden we samen om het menselijk perspectief te verwisselen voor een ecocentrisch perspectief. Het project vierde het ecosysteem via lezingen, performances, workshops en tentoonstellingen.

We ontwikkelden daarnaast een diner dat zowel voor honden als voor mensen was, dat we samen met filosofe en schrijfster Eva Meijer ontwikkelden. Kunstenaar Anne Hofstra presenteerde hier haar voorstelling voor kippen en resident Mari Bastashevski maakte het virtual reality werk Pending Xenophora waarin je samen kon leven met slakken. Madeline Swartzchman experimenteert met hybride plant-mensen in Face Nature.

En we organiseerden een museumnacht over onze meest ondergewaardeerde stadsgenoot: De Duif.

Georgia & Fred in the costume lab - Andrea Valdivia

With: Georgia Dalloro, Fredrik Link

Inhuman Carnaval Partying - Josie dressed up as a non-human dancing at the Inhuman Carnaval Party during Dutch Design Week. Anisa Xhomaqi

With: Josie Dibnah, Elise Chalcraft

Drinks at Dusk with Studio Nepco - In this Drinks at Dusk edition Lennart Vader talks about how dressing up can playfully bring us closer to other species. Caroline Aravicius

With: Lennart Vader, Studio Nepco , Anne Hofstra

9-08-2023 A dog and their companion enjoying the dinner - Dog Dinner - Eva Meijer Honden spelen een belangrijke rol binnen het familieverband, maar toch worden ze zelden bij het eten betrokken. Mediamatic en Eva Meijer nodigen hond en mens uit om gezamenlijk te genieten van een uniek vier-gangen menu. Jiyoung Lee, Justin Knelange

Dog Dinner - Dogs and their companions enjoying their dinner - This dinner was organized in collaboration with artist Eva Meijer - Jiyoung Lee, Justin Knelange

With: Tom Verco, Spinoza, Otto

Voorstelling KIP - door Anne Hofstra Willem Wits in pak zoekt interactie met de kippen Romy Kerkman

Snail artist. Still from Mari Bastashevski's visualisation for Pending Xenophora, 2022. -

27-05-2023 Face Nature Exhibition opening with visitors - Madeline Schwartzman In Face Nature experimenteerde Madeline Schwartzman met de ontmoeting tussen menselijke morfologie en niet-menselijke natuur. Huid en plantaardig materiaal botsen en integreren met elkaar. De expositie is onderdeel van een reeks projecten die onze relatie met de natuur onderzoeken. Jiyoung Lee

With: Madeline Schwartzman

28-05-2023 Deelnemers van de workshop Face Nature - Madeline Schwartzman In Face Nature experimenteerde Madeline Schwartzman met de ontmoeting tussen menselijke morfologie en niet-menselijke natuur. Huid en plantaardig materiaal botsen en integreren met elkaar. De expositie is onderdeel van een reeks projecten die onze relatie met de natuur onderzoeken. Via een tentoonstelling en meerdere workshops neemt ze het publiek mee in haar zoektocht naar onze relatie met de natuur. Jiyoung Lee

Duif Photobooth - als Duif tijdens Museumnacht '22 Museumnacht op 5 november 2022 was bij Mediamatic gewijd aan de duif in al haar heerlijkheid en pracht. Samen met Arne Hendriks, Pauline Wiersma, Circus Andersom en vele anderen maakte ons team een wervelende avond waar een aantal van onze doorlopende thema's extra aandacht kregen op feestelijke wijze.

Duiven ramen - Sandra Ruiz Castroviejo

With: Arne Hendriks

Neo Futurist Dinners

In de serie Neo Futurist Dinner nodigt Mediamatic verschillende kunstenaars en koks uit om hun visie op het eten van de toekomst te onderzoeken. In deze diners bevragen kunstenaars, ontwerpers en koks de manier waarop voedsel, kunst, wetenschap en politiek met elkaar verweven zijn.

Zo presenteerden Alice Herón en Margherita Soldati tijdens de corona tijd Skin Hunger, over het belang van aanraking. We onderzochten samen met Lelani Lewis de geschiedenis van Carabische keuken en het effect van (koloniale) handelsroutes op eten in Code Noir. We onderzochten middeleeuwse medische, magische en culinaire manuscripten in the Sin Eaters en onderzochten met Philipp Kollman en Suzanne Bernhardt hoe met de tijd onze relatie tot de grond is veranderd in Ears of Earth. Martin Butler en Alice Herón daagden ons uit om onze melancholie op te eten in Dinner of The Damned.

Skin Hunger 3 - Serving and massaging Picture made on 07-23-2020 at the Skin Hunger Photoshoot. Willem Velthoven

With: Jocelin Tjandra, Alice Héron, Margherita Soldati, Nehis Osagie

Rachel Rumai Diaz taking a seat at the table - The premiére of Neo Futurist Dinner 13: Code Noir Anisa Xhomaqi

With: Lelani Lewis

Performance of Gluttony during The Sin Eaters. -

The Sin Eaters - Promotie beeld voor het 14e Neo Futurist Dinner: The Sin Eaters, met Alice Héron en Martin Butler. Foto credits: Nolwenn Leflanchec

18-10-2023 Deelnemers eten het 5-gangen diner over melancholie - Dinner of The Damned - Martin Butler, Alice Héron, I-Chen Zuffellato Regisseur Martin Butler, kunstenaar/kok Alice Héron, performer I-Chen onderzochten via een 5-gangen diner hoe we onze melancholie kunnen omarmen, de duisternis in kunnen duiken en innerlijke rust te ontdekken. Dit veganistische 5-gangendiner combineert traditionele en onconventionele kennis, kruidenwijsheden en remedies van over de hele wereld. The Dinner of the Damned' bevat ingrediënten die bekend staan om hun stemmingsverbeterende eigenschappen en helende rouwrituelen. Martin en Alice nemen… Justin Knelange

a/Artist

We zijn geïnteresseerd in menselijke eigenaardigheden en obsessieve aandacht, omdat anders-zijn en anders-denken een belangrijke factor is van vernieuwing en noodzakelijk in de kunsten. We zijn daarom begonnen met onderzoek naar het artistiek potentieel van neurodivergenten.

Via residenties, onderzoek, samenwerkingen, workshops, twee-maandelijks lezingen, een Museumnacht en verschillende exposities leren we steeds meer over hoe we kunnen leren van neurodiversiteit en hoe we neurodivergente makers beter kunnen ondersteunen.

Foraging for Mental Health - With Lynn Shore Eszter Jámbor

4-11-2023: Publiek beslist: Hoarder of Curator? - '11 collecties' Pet van de Luijtgaarden tijdens Museumnacht Wat Denk Je Zelf? Pet verzamelt verzamelingen, op het dwangmatige af. Al deze verzamelingen worden nauwkeurig gesorteerd en gegroepeerd. Pet toont elf van deze verzamelingen in onze kleine kassen aan het water, zo onthult elke kas weer een nieuwe wereld. Van telefoonkaarten tot ‘traditioneel’ meisjes- en jongensspeelgoed. Hiermee toont hij ook onze intieme relatie met dingen en hoe deze onze identiteit kunnen vormgeven. Romy Kerkman

With: Pet vd Luijtgaarden

4-11-2023 Klei performance tijdens de museumnacht - My Shadow is Part of my Body - Minjoo Choi Minjoo gooit met klei, ze gooit klei tegen de muren, ze gooit klei tegen de ramen, en de klei valt, de klei droogt, de klei wordt weer opgepakt en gekneed tot zij weer geworpen wordt. Met deze eenvoudige repetitieve handeling opent en ontsluit zij zichzelf. Ze lijkt te denken en te voelen door te gooien. Is ze ontstemd? Of is de herhaling van het gooien een meditatieve oefening? Romy Kerkman

With: Minjoo Choi

4-11-2023 Het publiek lacht voor geld - Smile Like You Really Mean It - Ignacy Radtke /Museumnacht 2023 "Smile Like You Really Mean It!" is een onderzoek naar emotionele arbeid. Die is het meest voor de hand liggend in de dienstensector, maar niet alleen daar! In deze replica wordt de glimlach in een emotieloze realiteit geplaatst waar het een handelswaar wordt, niet anders dan aluminium, tarwe of goud - ontmenselijkt en deel van een groter systeem. De basisprijs voor een minuut glimlachen is €1,00, maar de waarde ervan fluctueert op de aandelenmarkt.

With: Ignacy Radtke

04-11-2023 Deelnemers maken lappenpoppen - Transformatieve Lappenpop workshop - Jam van der Aa / Museumnacht 2023 In deze workshop creëerden deelnemers kleine transformatieve lappenpoppen, die bekendstaan als 'poppets', met de bedoeling positieve verandering en genezing teweeg te brengen. Deze creatieve en introspectieve activiteit is ontworpen om persoonlijke relaties, emoties en verlangens naar verandering te verkennen via de kunst van het poppen maken. De nadruk ligt op het gebruik van imitatieve magie voor het goede en persoonlijke groei, eerder dan het uitspreken van spreuken of vervloekingen. Romy Kerkman

With: Jam van der Aa

Weimin Zhu: playful jewelry for the inner mind - Weimin Zhu

Talking Plants - Animation by Simone Hooymans during Museumnacht 4 & 11 November 2023 Romy Kerkman

With: Simone Hooymans

Museumnacht 2023 - Genevieve Murphy Video installation Your Feeling during Museumnight 2023 Zelf / Self

Astrid Poot talking about her DIY ethiek handboek - Romy Kerkman

With: Astrid Poot

Silke Riis during A/artist event - Photography: Romy Kerkman Romy Kerkman

With: Silke Riis

01-10-2019 Handsieraad dat neurodivergente prikkels imiteert - Precious Burden - Asefeh Tayebani Een mentale handicap is niet zichtbaar. Dat maakt het moeilijk om uit te leggen hoe het is om een zo'n handicap te hebben. En dat terwijl het juist voor mensen met een neurologische aandoening ontzettend belangrijk is dat ze hun – soms net wat afwijkende – behoeften kunnen communiceren. Asefeh Tayebani, zelf gediagnostiseerd met autisme, creëerde Precious Burden : drie voorwerpen die het publiek in staat stellen om te ervaren hoe het is om autistisch te zijn. Een kijkje door een speciale… Anne Lakeman

With: Asefeh Tayebani

Kunst in tijden van crisis en oorlog

Corona veranderde onze plannen. We hebben veel omgedacht. Mooie voorbeelden zijn de Serres Separées, waar mensen zonder besmettingsgevaar toch konden dineren en Penny for Your Thoughts: een programma waar we makers beloonden voor het delen van hun plannen. Hierdoor bleven we kunstenaars stimuleren en ondersteunen. Maar de mondiale crisis stopte niet met corona. We presenteerden, voor de oorlog tussen Palestina en Israël formeel uitbrak, Border Ecologies, een project van Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory en de Qudaih family over een kleine boerderij in de Gazastrook die keer op keer wordt aangevallen en vernietigd door Isralische luchtaanvallen, maar blijft verzetten. Toen de oorlog in Oekraïne uitbrak starten we het project Knitting for Survival, waar iedereen welkom was om verhalen uit te wisselen over het conflict tijdens gezamenlijk protest-breien en we presenteerden we Growing Gunya: een onderzoek naar traditionele oekraïense jassen van Oekraïense kunstenaars Dasha Tsapenko, Ruslana Goncharuk en Amsterdamse kunstenaar Marjo van Schaik. Samen met Desiree Hammen onderzochten we hoe borduren een manier kan zijn van verzet in de workshop Radical Embroidery.

Serres Separees - Experimenting with the redesign of togetherness. Anisa Xhomaqi

Serres Séparees nominated for Dutch Design Awards - Category Habitat "Good timing, fast acting: the ingenuity of Mediamatic shines out with this project. With Serres Séparées they have responded in an accessible way to a complex topicality, with a focus on what is possible, not what isn’t. The transparent cell placed within a public space is a solid concept, with a highly symbolic value for this covid-era. The design itself could have been stronger, but the implementation and knowledge sharing have served as a guide that led to a great deal of international…

Pepper, Plate, Magic - Penny for your Thoughts Presentation Night During the first Penny for your Thoughts presentation night, artists, designers and makers share with us their in-development project plans and ideas. This edition explores different perspectives on food. Photo taken by Daniell Tahor Daniell Tahor

Anna Lina observing details in table clothe - Border Ecologies Our programme and events intern Ana is getting a closer look at our exhibition Border Ecologies! This installation collects testimonies of the Qudaih family, who have had to adapt and transform their farming practices due to the restrictions and violences they faced from the Israeli military. It presents photos and videos from the agricultural community of Khuza’a, as well as a tablecloth that narrates chronologically the stories of its farms and its people. Photo taken in March 2nd, 2022. Andrea Valdivia

With: Anna Lina Litz

17-12-2022 Growing Gunya - Gunya is een traditionele wollen jas uit Oekraïne die oorspronkelijk gedragen werd door Hutsul herders in de Karpaten. Door de jaren heen heeft de jas een diepe symbolische betekenis gekregen, waarbij de jas als amulet dient voor de eigenaren. Met de klassieke herdersjas als sjabloon, vertelt 'Growing Gunya' verhalen over lokale materialen, natuurlijke componenten en levende organismen. Het gebruik van verschillende materialen op basis van cellulose en proteïne in combinatie met natuurlijke…

Participants during Knitting for Survival - In our Knitting for Survival sessions, we learn how to make our own warm items as an alternative way to stay warm without giving any gas money to Putin. We stand in solidarity with Ukraine and have decided to turn our gas heaters down, so we are learning how to knit guided by volunteer textile artists and designers in this series of free workshops. Ilya Rabinovich

With: Elise Chalcraft

Mens, genot & identiteit

We vierden de mens in al haar facetten. Tijdens Museumnacht organiseerden Ine Poppe en Olga Middendorp een ode aan vrouwelijk genot tijdens het Beftival. We onderzochten samen met drag clown Taka Taka en mode ontwerpster Nikki Millioni hoe kleding en make-up gebruikt kunnen worden om je uit te drukken. En Isaac Monte ontwierp de protheses van de toekomst: welke extra organen kunnen bedenken voor mensen?

Anna Gimbrere quizzing the audience during Beftival - At Beftival during Museumnacht 2021 science journalist Anna Gimbrere puts the audience's sex knowledge to the test by hosting the Bef Quiz. Anisa Xhomaqi

With: Anna Gimbrere

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Beftival participants on a (sex) toy playground - At Beftival during Museumnacht 2021 artist Jin Lee asks: "Can a sex toy be a toy?" and transforms sex toys into slides, seesaws and swings that participants can ride and play with. Caroline Aravicius, Jin Lee

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Niki and Takka preparing for MediaMasquerade -

With: Niki Milioni, Taka Taka

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Air Flutter - PX IV – Showing the surrounding air quality Showing the surrounding air quality This prosthetic is worn on the nose and communicates the air quality of the wearer's environment. It is inspired by gills that purify air and mimics how butterflies protect their wings - closing to camouflage and hide themselves in poor environments, while opening up in all its beauty when surrounded by clean air. This prosthetic is intended to benefit the community at large: it alerts of air pollution and empowers the desire and behavior to be surrounded… Monica Monté, Isaac Monté

Intieme Zintuigen

De intieme zintuigen zoals geur, tast en proprioceptie worden vaak over het hoofd gezien en als veel minder belangrijk ervaren in onze steeds audiovisueler wordende wereld. Maar onze intieme zintuigen zijn juist heel belangrijk in onze relatie tot onszelf en de natuur. Samen met kunstenaars en wetenschappers zoeken we juist naar manieren om de intieme zintuigen bij ons gezamenlijk onderzoek te betrekken. We organiseerden verschillende Odorama's: lezingen waar we kunst, ontwerp en de intieme zintuigen centraal zetten en hebben een groot laboratorium waar kunstenaars en publiek kan werken met geur. Onze keuken dient als smaak-laboratorium.

Carefully counting the amount of drops - Iines Råmark

With: Julia van der Veen

- Public is smelling different scents during Tanja Deurloo presentation at Odorama. Margherita Soldati

Kids doing the Open Aroma Lab: Kids workshop - The Aroma Lab is coordinated by Olfactory artist Flank Bloem and offers room for exploring a work library of over 400 raw scent materials and various equipment to extract flavor and aroma's from almost anything. Open every week for guided exploration and workshops as well. This a less comm view of a dedicated workshop with children.

Kimchi tasting! - Photo 2021 by Nadine Schütz for Mediamatic Nadine Schütz

With: Ben Hopley

20-02-2020 Meta_Bolus - At the Opening of Meta_Bolus - We present the installation ‘Meta_bolus’ by Saša Spačal and Mirjan Švagelj. Meta_bolus embodies the planetary metabolic process as a fragile dynamic of substances in a continuous balancing flow. The installation is a l oving exploration of the smell of rain which is partly caused by the Streptomyces Bacteria that emits the seducing aroma geosmin; a single sniff of which can evoke the memory of a forest after rain. The Streptomyces bacteria also produces antibiotics, therefore the aroma of wet…

Zorgen voor en spelen met de omgeving

We dragen zorg voor onze plek aan het dijkspark, en onderzoeken hoe we het best kunnen omgaan en samenleven met de planten die om onze locatie groeien.

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Suzana at reopening of Casting Doubt - In April 2021 was the reopening of the exhibition Twijfel Zaaien/Casting Doubt.

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Participant at Cut/Paste Cacti - Participant peeking through a hole in a cactus grafted by Martijn Baas Photo 2021 by Anisa Xhomaqi for Mediamatic Anisa Xhomaqi

With: Martijn Baas

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Foraging for mental health participants exploring yarrow - Yarrow, or Achillea millefolium, is an edible plant with medicinal properties. In the Middle Ages it was thought to have subtle powers for wounds and help with mitigating fevers. Yarrow Tea is a good remedy for severe colds, being most useful in the commencement of fevers. Some of i ts old names such as Soldier's Wound Wort and Knight's Milfoil testify to its reputation as a vulnerary. Another popular name for it is Nosebleed, as i t is also quite well known for helping with nose bleeding. Iines Råmark

With: Lynn Shore, Yarrow

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Suzanne and Ruchama during the different stages of firing - Anne Lakeman

With: Ruchama Noorda

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Pauline Rip guiding the participants of the Elficological Know How Morning Dew harvesting performance. - Pauline Rip during the Morning Dew harvesting. She is holding the jar filled with morning dew that was freshly harvested that morning. Picture of Pauline Rip Picture taken by Jiyoung Lee

With: Pauline Rip

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Haeckel in Augmented Reality - With the Haeckel Hunt app you can scan the biological illustrations on your phone to discover the organisms and collect them all! Amber van de Ven

With: Gabrielle de Haseth

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Abhay preparing soil in the Aquaponics - Spring gardening preparations 2021 In Spring 2021 the growth of new outdoorplants was supported by the warm temperatures of the Aquaponics. Our Aquaponics team worked on the preparation and care of the seedlings.

With: Abhay Villa

De jaren '10

In deze periode hebben we ons in onze projecten gericht op de zintuigen. We hebben op nieuwe manieren leren proeven, ruiken, horen, aanraken. Grote thema's zoal de dood en de liefde werden in samenwerking met zowel jonge opkomende als gevestigde namen onderzocht en verkend. In samenwerking met verschillende chefs hebben we de mogelijkheden van hoe we voedsel tot ons nemen geëxploreerd en we gingen slimmer om met tekorten en overschotten.

21-11-2019 Visitors receiving a facial treatment in our Death Beauty Salon - During Museumnacht we looked at death. All our rooms were dedicated to death. With a soundscape sounding through every room, guests could have a 15 minute one-on-one with artist Irina Birger, take a selfie in a coffin or design a death shroud. Guests could also win a relaxing facial treatment with a death mask as the result.

With: Sofia Donaque, Margherita Soldati

26-06-2019 Susanne Duijvestein resomating a muskrat - During our Resomation, Saponification and Taxidermy presentations and Designing Death workshops we observed the meaning of death in our society and looked at sustainable scenarios for the future. With talks from Sabrina Franken, Amber Veel, Liza Witte and Susanne Duijvestein. Anisa Xhomaqi

With: Susanne Duijvestein

13-05-2019 Beauty Kit - In this Focus Group, the artist presents the beauty bio-products that she conceptualised, invented and manufactured using the sexual juices harvested from her farms in Portugal and Amsterdam. Combining medical and ancestral perspectives, she exposes how the nutritious properties in these fluids can replace components of beauty products that we find in the market today and points out the empty gaps that science currently has regarding the female body’s full agency. Tia Torok

With: Isabel Burr Raty, Kristin Maurer

09-07-2019 'The Children of O' were blessed with precious water from the cloud catcher - The Children of O organised a dinner to find playful solutions and spread awareness for water shortage due to climate change. The Children of O grow their crops in sea water, use the braque water of the Oosterdok for food production and source their water from clouds. O. Elizabeth Vasilyeva

17-01-2019 A visitor listening to one of the podcasts - The Invisible Collection holds the most beautiful compilation of auditory artwork. Art connoisseurs described the experience of a piece of their own choosing. People like Dirk van Weelden , Valentijn Byvanck , Wim Pijbes and Charles Esche are among the narrators. Mediamatic had opened an exhibit where you can enjoy art without needing to see. Tia Torok, Maxim Damper

With: Dirk Van Weelden

08-11-2019 Asparagus and some optional blood - Course 6 - During the The Eating of Humans, guests could experience how tasty humans can be. Chef Bryce Steba created a dinner experience where guests were invited to add their own blood to their meal. With this dinner we asked ourselves, why is it ok to massively slaughter animals but we can't fathom the idea of eating a little bit of human?

10-04-2019 Students of the Alan Turing School look at Haeckel's micro-organisms - We offer an education program for youngsters of the Orion College and the Alan Turing School. To enlarge the knowledge of themes in the field of biology and micro-organisms.

With: Alan Turingschool

03-11-2018 Blindfolded couple eating one of our dishes from the menu - At the Amsterdam museum night 2018 people could witness BLIND, an exhibition were you could experience all the senses except with your eyes. During the Museum Night we focused on people able to see but afterwards we organised the same program for the visually impaired. This way to could experience an art exhibition tailored to them. Maxim Damper

With: Aslı Hatipoğlu

22-10-2018 Corpus Mobile by Federica Dauri and Kiril Bikov - Body in Revolt, a one day program curated by Bogomir Doringer and Arad Inbar during ADE. 50 razor-sharp knives hanging above a laying body: how do you move? How do you breathe? The oppressed body finds alternatives to its limitations. Maxim Damper

With: Bogomir Doringer, Arad Inbar

26-09-2018 'A La Mano' Tommaso Buresti is serving the pasta - 'A La Mano' , Giulia Soldati and chef Tommaso Buresti present a culinary experience that extends taste to touch. No cutlery and plates are involved, instead our hands are used to enjoy food and to explore new food interactions. Anisa Xhomaqi

With: Giulia Soldati, Tommaso Buresti

25-08-2018 child smells at a parfum bottle - Mediamatic , in collaboration with The Institute for Art and Olfaction , Play the City and five perfumers, develop a sensuous game around city planning. Five tailor-made fragrances give expression to various prospective visions of the city. Het Parfum is a game that stimulates people to think together about the use of the Navy Terrain. People are brought in contact by the use of scent and encouraged to discuss future possibilities. Anisa Xhomaqi, Niklaus Mettler

25-08-2018 Gotta Catch 'em All - Haeckel Biology game for Oosterdok In the spring of 2018 we start marking the area around Oosterdok with Ernst Haeckel's oevre. This 19th century explorer, scientist, artist and educator has been a hero of Mediamatic's for a while. From now on, Expedition Oosterdok embraces him as a neighborhood icon, and his work as exemplary of the area's shared values. One of the projects is road signage throughout the neighborhood that feature details from Haeckel's scientific illustrations. For children, there is an educational scavenger… Giulia Menicucci

With: Helena Patelisova

14-02-2018 Audience with fragrance paper during Odorama: The Game Edition - For centuries, ' kodo ' has been played in Japan, the game and art of appreciating incense. For a more intense and realistic experience of games, game-makers in the West nowadays also use scent. In this Odorama edition on 14 February, olfactory artists and designers take scent to a different level. From traditional games to digital olfactory play and virtual reality, this edition plays with scent beyond the everyday experience. Giulia Menicucci

With: Katia Yatsenko, Natali Blugerman

21-04-2018 Haeckel-tattoo - On Saturday the 21st of April we held an open day at MediaMatic, in collaboration with eleven participating institutions a long Oosterdok. With lot of activities. You could also set a free tattoo based of your favorite micro-organism. Giulia Menicucci

With: Katia Yatsenko, Gentle Ink

21-07-2018 Digital Smell during the Olfactory Wiki-thon - This Olfactory wiki-thon is part of the Open Sourcing Smell Culture weekend. It i s a year-long collaborative program between the Institute for Art and Olfaction , Pochpac and Mediamatic that explores alternative attribution and sharing strategies for the perfume industry. The program will take the shape of workshops and working groups, and will culminate in 2019 with the publication of a set of recommendations for open source methodologies in scent creation, perfumery, and related… Saskia Wilson-Brown

With: Saskia Wilson-Brown, The Institute for Art and Olfaction, Maxwell Williams, Kendra Gaeta, Julianne Lee

14-03-2018 Light Therapy during Endor-Fine Dining - For this Neo-Futurist Dinner, Philipp Schueller and Rens de Waal put their light -hearted tongue-in-cheek attitude towards the oversaturated fashion business into play. The urgent need for new structures and values are an aspiration that both the food- and fashion industry share. Endor-Fine Dining humorously suggests alternative ways of consuming conscious recipes; with the main focus on evoking happiness alongside a healthy nutrition. For this dinner, together with Haagse Hapjes , they… Giulia Menicucci

14-03-2018 Neo Futurist Dinner 04 - Endor-Fine Dining - Fashion designer Schueller de Waal and food designers Rosa Hagen and Lotte Holtappels play with endorphin triggers that bring happy feelings into these dark and cold winter days. During this delicious six-course dinner, you will go from an energetic appetizer to a main course of laughter to an arousing dessert.

With: Schueller De Waal , Haagse Hapjes

22-04-2018 Neo Futurist Dinner #3 - Abundance Dinner with Thorwald Voss and Arne Hendriks - Neo Futurist Dinner #3: Celebrate Abundance with Thorwald Voss and Arne Hendriks. Embracing the challenge of agricultural over-abundance. When it comes to food, we often crave for more. However, when you reach a state of affluence, it is not always easy to truly celebrate abundance. How can you still be happy with something that you have plenty of? Anisa Xhomaqi

With: Thorwald Voss

16-12-2017 Cabbage stacks in the Sluisdeurenloods - 2017 turned out to be a good cabbage-year. In fact, the cabbage harvest turned out so good, there was more cabbage than farmer Krispijn van den Dries can process for a fair price. What to do with a food-surplus of 60,000 kilos of cabbage? Mediamatic takes them on to survive the winter on cabbage and to question the value of our food. From December 2017 to March 2018 with a variety of workshops, performances and our edible cabbage installation. Mies Raadgever

With: Krispijn van den Dries

04-11-2017 Consultatiebureau Femmes Fontaines Museumnight 2017 - Durin Museumnight 2017, Femmes Fontaines giving guidance by answering questions and sharing their experiences with visitors in an intimate space inside the booths. Anisa Xhomaqi

11-10-2017 Tears Donation - During this free crying session Mediamatic provided guest with the space to shed some tears in whatever way you feel comfortable. The donated tears where then crystalised by photographer Maurice Mikkers . Maurice has crystalised the tears to then photograph them using a microscope. He visualizes the stories of individual tears through photography. See the beautiful crystalline formation of tears and how they differ from others. Chiara Barraco

08-09-2017 wASH bottles - Designer Caroline Jacob tackles common preconceptions of food, waste and hygiene in her latest work wASH. Using waste materials left over from Mediamatic’s food production, she creates a site-specific laundry detergent through heirloom recipes for soaps. Caroline Jacob

With: Caroline Jacob

25-06-2017 Smell Transplant Workshop with Klara Ravat - During this workshop the particpants and olfactory artist Klara Ravat investigated how human interaction changes after you have swapped body odours with another person. Hoping to get an insight in how big of a part your unique smell is of your identity. If you were to suddenly smell like someone else, would you still really be you? Would people still behave the same way towards you? The workshop took place in Mediamatic's Aroma Lab. Anisa Xhomaqi, Klara Ravat

With: Klara Ravat

26-09-2017 Uitmarkt 2017 - FAMA model showing one of the #CutFAMA SS17 - A weekend with (bio)cultural activities and projects as 'Interwoven' curated by Diana Scherer, a spectacular runway show 'Artsy Onesie Tango Rave' and presentations from Wouter Hassing and Corinne Mulder. This look was created by Myriam Debbagh. She also made the picture. Model is Tania Zagaria. The full collection shown at Artsy Onesie Tango Rave during Uitmarkt 2017 in Amsterdam. Part of Conny Groenewegen's Fashion Machine Project. Diana Scherer

01-06-2017 Fashion Machine - FAMA colors on Mediamatic Biotoop - The installation Fashion Machine is presented at Mediamatic in spring/summer 2017, a space invading installation of knitted flags made from fleece strips. Conny Groenewegen

18-05-2018 Tempeh Ware - plate of tempeh - Save the World by Eating Your Plate! With tempeh’s symbiotic base of fungus and European legume, the Clean Lab team of Mediamatic has developed a new kind of crockery. No more washing the dishes after dinner, or even worse, throwing plastic tableware away. Now you can eat what you serve. Anisa Xhomaqi, Mediamatic Foundation, Iris van Hulst, Corinne Mulder, Willem Velthoven

With: Mediamatic Foundation, Corinne Mulder, Iris van Hulst, Willem Velthoven

23-06-2017 Spectrum Crops - results plants in different sizes - Artist Diana Scherer researches the impact of coloured light on plant development in her new Spectrum Crops project initiated at Mediamatic. How would different wavelengths of light impact the growth of herbs, vegetables and weeds? Here you see some of the first results. Diana Scherer

23-06-2017 Spectrum Crops - installation - Artist Diana Scherer researches the impact of coloured light on plant development in her new Spectrum Crops project initiated at Mediamatic. P hotosynthesis: the process in plants that turns sunlight into chemical energy. It influences the shape, structure and colour of plants and explains why fauna in the tropics is often green and plentiful and turns yellow and sparse when placed in the dark. But what would happen if they are cultivated in the light of a specific colour? Do blue-grown herb… Chiara Barraco

With: Diana Scherer

15-12-2016 Regeneration biotalk - Interwoven test - Plant roots are intelligent; they are able to detect gravity, moisture, and chemicals. Diana Scherer uses this plant root intelligence for growing fabric-like textures below ground. Diana will bring some of her experiments to Mediamatic's Sluisdeurenloods. Diana Scherer

15-12-2016 Regeneration Biotalk - Caraval - Caravel uses Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology to harvest electricity from anaerobic bacteria and organic components in the water. The hexagonal form has the function to exactly match and join other Caravels to create a bigger surface and operate as a swarm. Ivan Henriques

5-11-2016 Museumnacht 2016 - Smell dating bureau - Our smell dating service desk worked really hard for the people to reach their match during Museumnacht 2016 Don't wash your self! Anisa Xhomaqi

27-10-2016 The Art of Deception - Isaac Monte - photograper Hanneke Wetzer By decellularizing the hearts and re-populating them with various techniques they aesthetically improved the hearts for humans. This procedure marks a new era of synthetic biology - where organs are stripped of their cellular contents, leaving behind a sterile scaffold that can be repopulated with stemcells. While the medical utilisation of this resource is being realised, the artistic and creative value of these ghost organs represents unexplored territory.

01-12-2016 Al-Rihla - Bahia Shehab (LB/EG) - Mediamatic and Framer Framed invited Lebanese—Egyptian street artist Bahia Shehab to create a brand new calligraphic graffiti wall at Mediamatic Biotoop. Bahia Shehab became a political activist during the Arabic Spring when she decided to transform her earlier research and exhibited art project about Arabic calligraphy into graffiti in the streets of Cairo. ‘Al—Rihla’ means ‘The Journey’, and depicts a poem by Mahmoud Darwish Bahia Shehab, Anisa Xhomaqi

With: Bahia Shehab

03-09-2016 The Scent of Amsterdam - Car smell - The Scent of Amsterdam: Distilling Odors of an Urban Landscape. Over the course of 6 hours you will collectively explore the neighbourhood of Mediamatic Biotoop, visit aromatic urban spaces and learn how to distill a scented memory of Amsterdam. Margherita Soldati

08-09-10 Art + Distillation Odorama 09 - Klara Ravat (ES) - Klara Ravat creates media and odour artworks, installations and experimental films. For the past years she has been developing works that relate to the sense of smell as a research on how we perceive through this sense. Ravat joined Mediamatic for a 10- day artist in recidency in which she investigated the olfactory characteristics of our city. The resulting performance: SmellSCAPES will be an interactive and intimate trip through the scent of Amsterdam, where the audience will be guided to… Anisa Xhomaqi, Klara Ravat

With: Klara Ravat

26-08-2016 The Alchemy of Silk - Joe Davis (US) - Joe Davis gave a workshop about: how to bio-mineralize your own silk fibers with metallic gold. By doing so you can generate materials with unprecedented properties for both art and fashion, as well as for novel scientific applications. This program is partly curated by Baltan Laboratories. Anisa Xhomaqi, Joe Davis

With: Joe Davis

19-03-2016 Melksalon - Sietske Klooster and her farmers - Local farmers of Amsterdam. During 'de Melksalon' an event presented Sietske Klooster, guest could taste the raw unprocessed milk. It was a monthly serie where Sietske presents Amsterdam's dairy culture. The project was made by working together with farmers, dairy-experts, restaurateurs, artists and synestheet. We explored the new relation Amsterdam has with dairy. Lisanne Groenewoud

With: Sietske Klooster, Henk den Hartog, Mart Kea, Suzanne Kat-Disseldorp, Boy Griffioen, Sjaak Hoogendoorn

11-09-2015 Rederij Lampedusa - arriving at Mediamatic - In the harbour next to the terrace of Mediamatic ETEN, the two ships from Shipping Company Lampedusa are docked. The respective boats are former refugees ships used by people to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Although the Municipality of Amsterdam allows no more than fifteen people on the largest ship according to its safely regulations, 282 refugees fled on it from North Africa to Lampedusa. Not only has the boat a refugee history, the crew itself largely made up of refugees, and along with… Teun Castelein

With: Teun Castelein

11-02-2016 Odorama 4 Amy Toner's choreography, - Amy Toner is a choreographer that teaches children to dance according scents, so to say smell-movement synesthesia. She will tell us about her practice but she will also invite us to try for ourselves. We will get a sneak preview of her upcoming performance. Prepare to learning to dance with your nose. Willem Velthoven

With: Amy Toner

06-02-2016 Masterclass Prototyping Bodies - Agi Haines - Agi Haines (UK) uses the human body as everyday material in order to question our morbid curiosity for the viscera of life. By focusing on the design of this body she aims to push the boundaries on what is accepted within our society. Agi finished her Master degree at the Royal College of Arts and is currently studying for her PhD within interdisciplinary research group CogNovo. Last year she won the 2015 BAD award with her project ‘Drones with Desires’ (together with Marcel de Jeu and Jos van…

29-11-2015 Workshop: How to make Kimchi June Park holding kimchi - There is so much we don't know about Kimchi. Did you know Koreans have a special Kimchi refrigerator in their house? June is currently doing an internship at Mediamatic and comes from Korea. She will give a workshop how to make her grandmothers traditional kimchi recipe. June all ready made 3 batches of Kimchi in advance so you will be able to taste 3 different kinds of kimchi. Afterwards you can go home with your own batch of Kimchi with Chinese Cabbage. And if you stay a little bit longer she…

With: June Park (KR)

17-09-2015 Form Follows Organism - Art, design and science, what happens when these fascinating fields merge and crossover? At Biotalk we question the social, cultural and technical implications of such developments and invite professionals of all kinds to talk about their practice in these fields. What opportunities could they offer to artists, designers, architects, scientists, farmers or chefs? This monthly lecture series started in back April 2013, with key speakers from the world of bio-art, science and design. In the… Margherita Soldati

25-06-2016 MediaMatic ETEN launch - Mediamatic is now the proud owner of a waterside restaurant and bar: Mediamatic ETEN. We try to use as little animal products as possible and bake our vegan pizza's in the homebuilt Wood-Fired Clay Oven. The herbs come from our own Aquaponics System (a durable food production system) and off course you will find a lot of fermented products on the menu. Including our own homebrewed myco beer. Lisanne Groenewoud

With: Thorwald Voss

18-09-2015 Hard Water by Zeger Reyers - In an ultimate combination of man and nature (or perhaps man versus nature), Zeger Reyers has created an enormous living art installation that climbs down from the exterior second floor level of the Mediamatic Biotoop building in Dijkspark into the Mediamatic Restaurant. Hard Water was constructed using over 1000 ceramic plates, soil and different species of grass, including Gaura and Crocosmia. These grasses are long and thin and produce bright-colored flowers at the tips in the Summer months. Zeger Reyers, Brigitte Hillenaar

With: Zeger Reyers

05-08-2015 Twijfel Zaaien - seedmap - Raising Doubts asks thirty questions during a walking tour through Dijkspark. Large flower pots have been set up in a grid and show the questions on their sides. As a visitor, you are supplied a punch card containing flower seeds. You answer by pushing the appropriate answer seed from the card into the flower pot, sowing your answer in the ground. Xiang Yu Yeung

18-06-2015 Pure Gold - Kamiel Rongen - Five urinals and five video screens are placed against the façade of the Mediamatic Biotoop. The screens display audio-visual artworks created by Kamiel Rongen and with the urinals, we collect the urine kindly donated by visitors. Whilst the films may appear digitally created, they are entirely natural and made with a most natural ingredient; the artists' own urine! Taking inspiration from the softer golden colours of urine, Rongen froze his urine before adding it to many different types of…

With: Kamiel Rongen

06-09-2014 Large scale prints of Kunstformen Der Natur - Ever since the release of Kunstformen Der Natur , in the beginning of the 20th century, the beautiful illustrations by Ernst Haeckel have proven to be a continuous source of inspiration for designers, artists, architects, illustrators and biologists. What make these images so special that, to this day, they have stayed relevant and influential in both the artistic and scientific community? With larger than life illustrations by Ernst Haeckel , watercolors from Dutch architect H.P.Berlage Malcolm Kratz

With: Ernst Haeckel

11-07-2014 The Aftermath Dislocation Principle - disaster tour - The Aftermath Dislocation Principle is a vast 1:87 scale model landscape, which is desolated, deserted, destroyed, burnt and devoid of life apart from 5000 or so model police that attend this apocalyptic aftermath. With this dark, humoristic and at the same time unnerving dystopian world, Cauty expresses his fascination with subversion, consumerism and entertainment. Irati

With: James Cauty

18-04-2014 Masterclass by Phil Ross at Mediamatic - Phil Ross (US) is one of the leading bio-artists of this moment. Especially for Bio-me , Phil is coming over to share his extensive knowledge and experience on working, designing and making art with mushrooms and mycelium. In this masterclass you will learn not only about reishi cultivation and mycotecture but also about open mycotectural research, design and collaboration. Irati

With: Philip Ross, Maurizio Montalti

19-06-2014 Drone Camping - Inflatable sculptures by Rob Sweere. Exhibited at Mediamatic during his week of Whiteness as part of the Lightness exhibitions. The Inflatable sculptures by Rob Sweere are the landscape for our flying exercises. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are becoming very common in many areas. From hobby toy to deadly drone stikes, they are popping up everywhere. Revolutionising the areal photography practice and enabling DIY mapping projects, drones are also used for… Rob Sweere

09-04-2014 Entering cleanroom - Myco Design Lab - The Myco Design Lab started off in 2012 with an extensive workshop providing the first instructions to the open call participants to start working with mycelium. The workshop took place in the Mediamatic cleanroom with the University of Utrecht team and Maurizio Montalti.

19-03-2015 Agar Petri Dish - Close-up of Mycelium - How to grow mycelium in a petridish with agar? The first phase of mushroom cultivation is the isolation of a pure culture of mycelium, for growing this you need a medium that usually goes in petri dishes. Here the medium will be based on jelly agar, a seaweed derived compound which gelatinises water. The medium is basically food that feeds the mycelium while it is growing. It is possible to make different types of medium with agar with very simple and quick preparation, in this article I will… Antoni Gandia

With: Antoni Gandia

06-09-2014 Kunstformen Der Natur - t-shirts Remixed Version - During Kunstformen Der Natur, people were able to shop the t-shirts Ernst Haeckel designed. More than a century ago, biologist Ernst Haeckel scored a hit with his amazing illustrations of unseen organisms. We collected all 100 lithographs and blew them up to 5 times life size for our exhibition. Until 23rd of November you had a chance to see the originals next to their hallucinating blow-ups and the works of Dutch architect H.P. Berlage, design studio Bernotat &Co and graphic designers Rudy…

24-01-2014 Bio Industry Cleanlab - Working in the Bio Clean Lab - Kasia from University of Utrecht gives instructions. The Lamina Flow air hood allows for a sterile work environment. This makes up half of the Clean Lab space. The fruiting bodies of magic mushrooms have been illegal in Holland since 2007, however, the spores are not. During this workshop we will make a substrate for the mushrooms to grow on. In our mobile Clean Room we will infect the substrate with spores of the psilocybe cubensis. You take the substrate home, where it will turn into mycelium

19-05-2014 Starvation Experiment with Asia Komarova - Portrait of Asia Komarova, participant of the Starvation Experiment, a project by Arne Hendriks. As part of the Lightness exhibitions. People starve themselves for different reasons: political activism, religion, weight loss, eating disorders, long life, research or just curiosity. This week Arne Hendriks invites you to fast together with him, whatever your reasons may be. Personally he's looking to overcome his fear of hunger, as well as initiate a desire for less. Join us for a few hours, or…

With: Asia Komarova

26-01-2014 Faceless exhibition overview - This exhibition shows the trend to hide, alter or mask the face. A trend visible in art, fashion and the media since the turn of the century. The works on show ranges from avant-garde masks to pieces that force open a dialogue with facial recognition software, surveillance cameras, and drones. Themes include seduction, surveillance and privacy. Picture by: Marc Faase | www.marcfaasse.com

With: Nienke Klunder

08-01-2014 Jonas Edvard & Willem Velthoven at Biotalk - This event is part of Mediamatic Bio Industry , a broad techno-cultural lab exploring the possibilities of fungal material and other bio-based materials for design, science and art. Scientist, artists, designers, architects, and the public, will together investigate how to make use of the promising characteristics of mycelium – the plastic of the 21st century. Mediamatic Bio Industry is made possible by the DOEN foundation and the Mondriaan Fund.

01-12-2013 Straw and loam office - new office - Made of straw and loam, heated by an Aquaponics installation. Mediamatic established its office in the Van Gendthallen in 2013. The elliptical wall is made of straw and loam and surrounds a 250m2 office space. The space will be heated by the aquariums of the three aquaponics installations. Rosanne Schenk

01-06-2013 Pretty Nice Stuff explaining there project - Freezing Favela - Freezing Favela is a temporary city in the Mediamatic Factory. Designers, cooks, and other makers have taken up a part of this space. In the Favela you can make sandwiches from scratch, make furniture out of cardboard, make artworks out of garbage and cook with ingredients from the aquaponics farm. The citizens of Freezing Favela give workshops and organize events and meals. One of the workshops was Pretty Nice Stuff, where you learned how to print t-shirts, make jewelry and furniture. Erik Diekstra

With: Laurens Hebly,

20-10-2012 participants during exchanges - Exchange square - Social shopping without having to draw your wallet. The pants you don't get on alone, the game you always lose and the books that make you cry could all be exchanged for something new. From October to January, Mediamatic Fabriek was the place to be with your unwanted Saint Nicholas gifts and misbuys. Aleksandra Kalashnikova

01-06-2013 Aquaponics farm - Freezing Favela - With the Freezing Favela projects in 2013 we built a temporary city in the Mediamatic Fabriek, Oostenburg. Everyone was given the opportunity to claim part of the Mediamatics space in the Van Gendthallen. These projects are the result of an open call and public meetings every Tuesday evening at Mediamatic Fabriek. An example of this is the Aquaponics farm. In the Freezing Favela should also be eaten. Aquaponics is the best way to grow sustainable food in the city. Plants and fish are grown… Erik Diekstra

25-04-2013 Visitors of Loeien in de stad - What are the pros and cons of producing food in the city? Cow Els from the Tosti Factory is separated from her calf. Something that happens to every dairy cow in the Netherlands. Els doesn't like this, and she lets it be heard. This caused a lot of reactions from the neighborhood. Do we want city dwellers to see more of the food process, or should that be done behind closed doors? During Loeien de stad, led by Pieter Hulst, science reporter at AT5, we enter into discussion with the Dutch… Cleo Thomas

30-03-2012 visitors collecting unions - Uien Feest - Free onions at the Onion Festival. 30 March - 1 April 2011 30 March - 1 April 2012. The Netherlands has a large surplus of onions. To prevent them from rotting or being thrown away, Mediamatic saves a quarter of a million onions from Texel farmer Jo Flens. In the weekend from 30 March to 1 April you could pick up unlimited free onions at the VOC quay at the Onion Festival. Simone Schoutens

29-06-2012 De Diesel Kantine - At the opening of De Etende Mens (2012) in the Designhuis in Eindhoven, João Negro processes old deep-frying fat (local fat) into soap and biodiesel. The soap is perfumed with herbs from the aquaponics culture. You wash your hands with it before eating and cooking and after defecating. The biodiesel is used to heat the kitchen where we make snacks from home-grown aquaponics fish and home-grown aquaponics vegetables. It is an eatery that runs in cycle with the neighborhood. The energy comes from… Simone Schoutens

24-06-2012 High Density 4-storey Aquaponics Edifice at Food & Architecture Fair - The Food & Architecture Fair, organized by Arcam, took place at the Food Center in Amsterdam on June 24th, the Day of the Architecture. Mediamatics Aquaponics High Density Edifice was exhibited at the Food & Architecture Fair. Vertical urban fish and veggie farm.

10-03-2012 Electroluminescent blue whale - New Order - New Order, organized by Mediamatic, is a series of exhibitions investigating a world where energy has become a fundamental principle of our society. We once had a very direct relationship with our energy consumption, as with most animals today it was directly related to our metabolism. While sleeping we need about 90 watts of energy to 'run', to survive in the Amazon, because a hunter-gatherer needs about 250 watts. With the rise of civilization and technology, the modern middle-class man in… Simone Schoutens

25-02-2012 Radiant Beach, through thermo-camera - New Order - New Order, organized by Mediamatic, is a series of exhibitions investigating a world where energy has become a fundamental principle of our society. Five solo shows show new work by Dutch and international artists, designers and architects. Their work is a response to different facets of our society: politics, economics, health, food and experience. Together they form a sketch of a future world. One of the projects of New Order is based on the fact that Finland wants to build underground…

26-12-2011 swinging in the Van Gendthallen - Schommelclub - In a large factory hall, six swings hang from an eighteen-metre high roof construction. Mediamatic reopens the monumental Van Gendthallen, which have been empty for years, to the public and opens the Mediamatic Swing Club. Due to great success, the swing club has been extended. For the die-hards and the late-deciders we will leave our long swings hanging for a while. Govert de Jong

With: Anna Meijer, Hugo van de Poel

05-12-2011 Installation - Bodies of Change by Maurizio Montalti - The Bodies of Change installation after 6 weeks of growth. In 2011 you can visit the nursery of Mediamatic: a small Mushroom Paradise in the heart of Amsterdam. Here you will learn how to grow and prepare mushrooms, and you can join the fungi quests. Experience the psychedelic world of mushrooms through art and lectures. Imagine what it means when plastic can be replaced by a biodegradable fungus. The photo shows Bodies of Change by Maurizio Montalti. This work poses the question of how we can… Govert de Jong

5-11-2011 Bio-sample Wall - Nacht van de Paddestoel - Each museumnacht (2011) visitor had to place his or her finger in an RFID-tagged petri dish. They included information such as their name, and the location they visited before coming to Mediamatic. The visitors then linked their petri dish to their Facebook or Mediamatic profile using an ikCam. These petri dishes together made up the Bio-sample Wall. Photo made during Nacht van de Paddestoel, Museumnight 2011. Govert de Jong

22-04-2011 Is this Your House? - Parool - As part of Pièce de Résistance, an exhibition on forms and stories of resistance, we made a special 4th and 5th May supplement for the Parool. Release date 22 April 2011. In the appendix, residents of Amsterdam could visit a list of houses from which Jewish families were deported during the Second World War. If the house was found, the current residents could take a picture of the house, upload it on the website of the Jewish Monument and hang it at Mediamatic.

22-04-2011 Cooking at Over Datum Eetclub 1 - It's fresh before, fresh after. Loads of food find an early end in the bin because we anxiously cling to best-before dates. Nonsense! It's time for solid pot this summer at Mediamatic. During the Over Datum Eetclub evenings in July and August we cook artful dishes with marginal, discarded food. See this page for all the attention the project got in the media. Interesting detail is that Albert Heijn sent us a letter and asked us to stop collecting food that was no longer allowed to be sold. Not… Mar-Ina Uhrig

24-09-2011 Fomes Fomentarius material - Paddestoelen Paradijs - A display of the material research for the Fomes Fomentarius project. This project is part of the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition. Govert de Jong

18-12-2010 Bezoekers spelen bij Arcade - Mediamatic served as Arcade arcade for almost 4 months. The collection of old and new games consisted of interactive installations, arcade video games, computer games and handhelds. Arcade is a growing collection of old and new games, consisting of 5 levels. The collection included two brand new games, which could be played at Mediamatic for the first time. There were vintage game consoles from Atari, Commodore and Sega, but also new consoles like the Xbox Kinect and Playstation 3, 3D. Mar-Ina Uhrig

With: Arjan Scherpenisse, Theus Zwakhals, Minke Havelaar

08-05-2010 Cycling during the opening - Sur Place - During the opening of Sur Place, there was plenty of cycling on the courtyard designed by DUS Architects. May 8th - August 22nd 2010. During the opening of Sur Place a lot of cycling was done on the inner court designed by DUS Architects. During the exhibitions, visitors were able to discover the rich culture that grows around a simple bike: the pedal-assisted bike. Athletes, couriers, collectors, artists and other cycling enthusiasts contributed to some unique collections, many events and… Michal Dudzinski

10-09-2010 the first Arabic travel guide of the Netherlands - In the summer of 2010 22 artists worked with Mediamatic on mapping Amsterdam Noord. This resulted in the first Arabic travel guide of the Netherlands and an exhibition. The travel guide was sent along with Het Parool on 10 September. Copies are also available from the Mediamatic Bank.

16-01-2010 Uitspraken van Inuit - Bardot Proviant Klub - Photographer Anya van Lit and author Joost Bottema traveled through Greenland and documented their journey. Through photography, video, interviews and more, they tell us about the changing environment and traditions they discovered in Greenland. The Bardot exhibition will also present sewing workshops, cooking experiments, lectures about hypocrisy and performances symbolising the Greenlandic seal. The exhibition is not only about Greenland. It's also about how Europe deals with habits and… Raphael Rehbach

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09-04-2010 Robot - Disco Robot Workshop - Ralf Schreiber and Christian Faubel are Mediamatic's favourite robot radicals. Every year they come with a new, innovative and stimulating workshop. This year they teach participants how to make their own walking or dancing robot in a day and a half. During the first day the emphasis is on the technical part of the construction. On the second day the participants can customize their robot. April 2010. Ralf Schreiber and Christian Faubel are Mediamatic's favorite robot radicals. Every year… Arden de Raaij

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26-11-2009 Who will win the pitch? - Kom je ook? - Since 2008, the symposium Kom je ook? offers four times a year a day programme with a theme that is in line with the latest developments and trends in the cultural sector, in which speakers from the Netherlands and abroad give examples from practice. And that's what it's all about at Kom je ook? Exactly about the practice. We do not offer theoretical lectures, but immediately give concrete examples of innovation and the implementation of new techniques in existing situations. During the… Raphael Rehbach

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16-10-2009 The pink interior toilet- de Amsterdam Biennale - The Rio de Janeiro Pavilion by curator Pedro Meyer. Pedro made a painting installation in Mediamatic's toilet with a naked transvestite on the door and pink images on the walls inside. The Amsterdam Biennale 2009 presented the art scene from all over the world. More than thirty international curators from the Mediamatic network gave their view on the contemporary art of their city. The Biennale was an exhibition that grew every week. On 16 October 2009 the first pavilions opened and on 12… Raphael Rehbach

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24-10-2009 Peeping into Beirut - Beirut Pavilion - The Beirut Pavilion, curator: Rani al Rajji. More than thirty international guides from the Mediamatic network were invited to curate and design a city pavilion. The Biennale will open its first pavilion in October 2009, followed by more every week until December. Visitors travelled from St. Petersburg to Bogota, across the sea to Seoul in less than an hour. The Amsterdam Biennale is part of Mediamatic Travel: an exhibition, a DIY Travel website and a printed travel catalogue. On the photo you… Raphael Rehbach

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1-10-2009 Cut out of the travel guide - Travel Guide - Mediamatic Travel is a network of culture-crazy, art-minded kindred spirits from around the world. Opening up local scenes and bearing the underbelly of cities such as Tehran and Tbilisi, Mediamatic Travel serves as a platform where information can be exchanged about the seen and the unseen. This isn't your regular travel agency; this is serious exploration and spot-on personal consultation. New guides join Mediamatic Travel every day, rendering ever more cities and their local art and culture…

08-05-2009 banner op het Rokin -WatSpinoza? - "What's wrong with jail for throwing gum on the street?" During WatSpinoza? Mediamatic spread stimulating questions through unexpected channels throughout Amsterdam. These questions were drawn up in collaboration with writer Dirk van Weelden and can be traced back to the ideas of the philosopher Spinoza. Mediamatic collected feedback, recycled interesting statements, and conducted a dialogue with and between Amsterdammers. Everyone could respond by text message, via the website www.watspinoza.

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30-01-2009 vitrine - Ik R.I.P. - Mediamatic encourages you to think about death. Besides arranging your funeral, obtaining life insurance and drafting your will, you will have to think about what you leave behind in the online world. What happens to your online profile after you die? Ik R.I.P. was the third in a series about self-representation on the internet. The exhibition included coffins from Ghana, a website, and computer game The Graveyard. Visitors could participate in workshops (Coffin for your Beloved) and have a go… Alice Bodanzky

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30-01-2009 Ghanese coffin - Ik R.I.P. - The teddy bear coffin is placed with the other Ghanaian coffins. To be seen in the Ik R.I.P. exhibition at Mediamatic. January 2009 - April 2009. Mediamatic encourages you to think about death. Besides organizing your funeral, applying for life insurance and drawing up a will, it is necessary to think about what you leave behind in the online world. What happens to your online profile after you die? I R.I.P. is the third exhibition in a series on self-representation on the Internet. The… Alice Bodanzky

With: Jans Possel, Marco Wessel, Inge Willems, Paul Groot, Arne Hendriks

17-10-2008 XX Boys - Kiki on Steroids - Women who want to be men, men who want to be women and everything in between. Kiki on Steroids! was an intimate exploration of the world of transgenders and self-representation on the internet. Among others with the photo series XXBoys by Kael T Block and the work Lupe by Bogomir Doringer. There were workshops and activities to experience for yourself what it was like to change from a man into a woman or vice versa. Alice Bodanzky

With: Kael T Block

19-09-2008 Seth Shapiro vs. Josephine Dorado - Mediamatic RFID Hackerscamp 08 - Challenge someone with your web popularity, and show other people how high up you are. The iKWiN project was developed by Simon Claessen, Axel Roest and Mathias Forbach, in one week at Mediamatic RFID Hackerscamp 08, prior to the PICNIC08 conference. There's a table where you put the ikTag on and your challenger does the same. You both go on the elevator, press the red buttons and then the elevators go up. The higher you are on Google, the higher you go. At the end, if the result is not clear uɐɯʞuǝɯ ɐsoɹ

18-07-2008 Pile of clothes - Ikikik! - Ikikik! concerned DIY fashion and online publishing. It was a continuing exhibition, sewing studio, and story sharing party. All with the aim of looking ravishing on- and offline, while keeping the ecological footprint as small as possible. Activist- and fashion collective Andrea Crews came over from Paris to help us out. With their help, visitors turned 430.000 kilo's of recycled clothing into designer pieces. This was a reference to the 430.000 euros of funding Mediamatic might lose. Photo:… Katja Novitskova

With: Andrea crews, Leger des Heils ReShare

28-10-2007 - Moving Image Lab @ B3 Media London - 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 the media blend of their choice. The workshop was very hands -on- all participants were assisted personally in realizing their projects by smart technical assistants and far-sighted coaches.

13-08-2010 The winner of the MeBike dream bike - MeBike & After Midnight - THE WINNING BIKE made during MeBike 2010 at Mediamatic Bank. MeBike was part of the final Sur Place party. Picture by Attilio Brancaccio. 14 August 2010. We celebrated the final week of Sur Place with the MeBike world championship of dream bicycles, fashion performances by Milena Heussler and Girls on Bikes, and the Subbacultcha! After Midnight party and book launch.

25-09-2007 The iTea at Picnic 07 - Picnic ’07 - 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 & Play’ after huge success in New York now in Amsterdam. Mediamatic surprises visitors to PICNIC08 with interactive installations and wearables (electronic clothing). Every visitor gets a special 'I' tag with an RFID chip, the technology that is also used in the OV chip card and with contactless payment. Anne Helmond

25-08-2007 the first Arabic chocoladeletter - El HEMA - The first, publicly accessible FabLab of the Netherlands will open on Saturday 25 August at Mediamatic. The FabLab is a public workshop where ordinary people with digitally controlled machines can turn ideas into tangible products. The first Dutch FabLab will be used for the EL HEMA design competition. The Fablab is an intensive collaboration between the Fablab.nl foundation, the Waag Society and Mediamatic. The NRC wrote an article about this special day. In other media it was written that the…

With: Bernardo Gaeiras

07-05-2008 Mystic Melanie & Karmic Kinga - Mediummatic - Mediummatic, 5 days of alternative communication was een voor iedereen toegankelijk programma met performances en workshops met een spiritueel tintje tijdens de Sleep-Inn . Melanie Bonajo en Kinga Kielczynska plaatsten een 'material spiritual'-installatie in de tentoonstellingsruimte, maar boden ook specifieke activiteiten aan op iedere dag. De thema's The Art of Permanent Laughter , Experitism , Trance Travelling en Ritualism gaven de bezoekers de gelegenheid om o.a. een lach-workshop te…

With: Kinga Kielczynska, Melanie Bonajo, Allan Watts, Dhyan Sutorius

28-05-2008 Say Yes to No - Say Yes to No was the first in a series of evenings about the power of negative thinking, based on a concept by Melanie Bonajo and Kinga Kielczynska. This evening Timothy Moore was the guest to talk about the Development of Self in the 21st century. During his performance, the audience was divided into a 'yes' and a 'no' group and challenged to take a critical stance. Photo by Zapdelight, found on Flickr.

11-04-2008 Kate Bush Film - Kate Bush Party - Prior to the TV screening of the documentary 'Come Back Kate', made by Quirine Racké and Helena Muskens, Mediamatic held a Kate Bush Party with them where the film was shown as a special pre-tv premiere on a big screen. But the documentary was not the only reason to come! Visitors could also make their own Kate portrait or 'Wuthering Heights' video clip in the photo- and videobooths, which were then published directly on the net. There was music by DJ 'All Out Kate', a Kate Bush YouTube VJ… Andrei Tchernikov

With: Nadya Peek, Saba van Hoften, Quirine Racke, Debra Solomon, Helena Muskens

28-06-2007 Presentation of het Arabische Alfabet - El Hema Koopavond - El Hema Koopavond 2. Starting point of the El HEMA are Arabic digital fonts and the book Typographic Matchmaking by Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares of the Khatt Foundation. On this second evening Huda and designer Tarek Attrisi will talk about Arabic writing and the possibilities for design in the Arab world. 28 June 2007: El HEMA Koopavond 2. During the Koopavonden (Buying Evenings), designers from the Middle East and the Netherlands talked to visitors. Together they thought about El HEMA products…

With: Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares, Tarek Atrissi

07-08-2007 El HEMA T-shirts - Aug 07 - Jan 08: Hema is the manifestation of Dutch culture. With an eye on Arabic-Dutch art, Mediamatic wondered what an Arabic Hema would look like. El HEMA was born. Five new Arabic fonts were launched, and a design competition was set up to track down the ultimate EL HEMA products. During a fashion show burka-clad girls strutted the catwalk, only to have their burkas playfully lifted by a gust of air, revealing models wearing t-shirts with Arabic pick-up lines. Throughout the opening… Willem Velthoven

With: Najah Aouaki, Dawn Hourigon

24-08-2007 EL HEMA modeshow at Mediamatic - EL Hema - El Hema fashion show at the UitMarkt, 24-08-07 During UitMarkt 2007 24 August 2007. The Hema is the manifestation of Dutch culture. With an eye on Arabic-Dutch art, Mediamatic wondered what an Arab Hema would look like. El HEMA was born. Five new Arabic fonts were launched, together with a design competition for the ultimate El HEMA products. Girls in Burka walked along the catwalk during the fashion show at the Uitmarkt. When the wind blew up their Burka, t-shirts with Arabic opening sentences… Marieke Bijster

08-06-2008 Taking books - Distributed Library - When the Distributed Library opened, hundreds of members of the Mediamatic community dropped by to pick up their favorite titles. The books were linked to their profiles. Hundreds of members of the Mediamatic community came the first day to meet and pick up their favorite titles. Jun 08: Protesting the impasse between the Raad van Cultuur and Minister Plasterk concerning cultural subsidies, Mediamatic decided to give away all her books. The public was invited to come and have their pick from… Willem Velthoven

With: Aida Asady

07-01-2007 The Girlfriend Experience - Jan 07 - Mar 07: Online social behavior is paradoxical. It's at the same time completely anonymous and unbelievable intimate. This fact led Martin Butler to conceive The Girlfriend Experience, an interactive installation consisting of four real-life avatars. Viewers could connect with them through Skype, get to know them, give them tasks and see how far they could and would go. This event took place at Mediamatic, Amsterdam. Photography and image manipulation Willem Velthoven Willem Velthoven, Martin Butler

10-12-2006 Arduino Workshop - Arduino is an open source computer platform. The Arduino project began in 2005 as a program for students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy, with the aim of providing an inexpensive and simple way for beginners and professionals to create devices that communicate with their environment using sensors and actuators. The first Arduino workshop in the Netherlands took place at Mediamatic and the Arduino has become an indispensable concept in the world of open-source prototype…

06-10-2006 Aux Raus Drive In at Mediamatic - Radios with CARS attached. A gabba punk band and their copycats. A car park full of boomcars and passenger vehicles. Cranked up, FULL VOLUME. This was the Audio Drive of Sasker Scheerder and Aux Raus.

06-12-2006 exhibition overview - Night Garden - Nov 06 2006 - Jan 07: Night Garden was a subtechnical indoor garden in which new technology, next nature, contemporary art and its consumption came together to form an interactive bio-technical habitat. Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau presented Interactive Plant Growing, one of the most innovative interactive works of the previous century. Ralf Schreiber and Christian Faubel developed tiny robots who lived autonomously in the garden. There were workshops, food, self-regenerating flowers…

15-02-2006 Mobtagging Workshop - Mass Controlled Metadata - Mediamatic presents a two-day workshop on social tagging or Mobtagging. Mobtagging is what happens when groups of users freely apply labels (metadata) to online information. This allows road users to specify, index, search and share information on their own terms and conditions. This practice has become popular on sites such as Flickr, Del.icio.us and Technorati and is developing into an important alternative to centrally organised information structures on the web. Nadya Peek

15-07-2006 The Cosplay Show - Cosplaying is a transformation into your favorite anime, manga or video game character. After creating these costumes, you will come together with other cosplayers during special events or on random sunny days. During The Cosplay Show Mediamatic organized an exhibition of forty of the best Dutch cosplay costumes on her ground floor gallery of the Post CS building. During the summers, cosplay inspired films, animations and animations were shown and workshops were organized. Willem Velthoven

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30-10-2005 Food Facility by Marti Guixé - Mediamatic Exhibition 2005 at Mediamatic Tentoonstelling, Mediamatic Post CS, 30 October - 11 December 2005 30 October - 11 December 2005. Food Facility was a prototype restaurant of Marti Guixé. Instead of a central kitchen, the restaurant was connected to existing take-out restaurants in the area. Visitors could visit the Food Advisor for tips. By negotiating a bit with other guests it was possible to eat Tom Ka Ka as a starter, then spareribs as main course and Tiramisu as dessert. Food… Martí Guixé

01-05-2005 Flickr Peep Show - Mediamatic Exhibition 2005, photo by Willem Velthoven at Mediamatic 1 May to 18 June 2005: Interactive exhibition Flickr Peep Show in which social networks by phone and internet were linked by visual communication with mobtags and keywords.... what?! This exhibition by Mediamatic on the ground floor of the Post CS building was about Flickr.com, the photo website developed by Ludicorp. Flickr is not only a free service for digital photos, but has made it possible to create a social network of…

12-12-2004 Eva Meyer Keller, "Death is Certain" - "Re-enact, Performance Night, December 12, 2004 photo by Mediamatic (Bea Correa) Re-enact at Mediamatic Re-enact at Mediamatic December 12, 2004. "Re-enact", Performance Night: an active, hopeless evening, where no less than 12 performance artists expressed their strong desire for authenticity. With performances by L.A. Raeven, Martin Butler and Auxraus, Lars Eijssen, Nezaket Ekici, Lawrence Weiner, Yingmei Duan, Eva Meyer Keller, Mai Ueda, Natascha Hagenbeek, Daisuke Nishimura, Gerald van der…

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07-06-1998 Uitnodiging Auteur in Nieuwe Media - 1998/1999 A series of workshops organised by Mediamatic on authorship in interactive media. In these workshops writers, artists, theorists and designers worked together to develop the artistic, editorial and content possibilities of the Net. 1998/1999 1998/1999

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01-06-1997 Screenshot Geheugen van Zeist - Mediamatic develops the Memory of Zeist: its first community website. It is a gathering place for stories and memories of residents of Zeist. This results in a community network in which family and friends from Zeist, young and old, can add stories and connect with the city and other residents. Geheugen van Zeist is a starting point, from which the other narrative sites of Mediamatic such as Geheugen van Oost and Geheugen van Almere originated.

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06-06-1998 Joachim Sauter - 'Auteur van de informatieruimte' workshop. - Part of the workshop series Author in New Media. How do you let new media do what you want? In 1998 and 1999 Mediamatic organised a series of workshops in which writers, artists, theorists and designers worked together to develop the artistic, editorial and content possibilities of the Net. At the end of the 1990s, the Internet was on the rise and a 'hot topic' for discussion. However, Mediamatic thought it was time for action and organised four workshops on the Author in New Media. These…

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13-10-1993 Cover of "Doors of Perception 1" cd-rom - Doors of Perception 1 Conference by the Netherlands Design Istitute. DoPRom produced by Mediamatic IP 30-31 October 1993. This interactive CD-ROM covers the events of the Doors of Perception conference. Together with the Netherlands Design Institute, Mediamatic organized DoP 1: a groundbreaking conference with leading thinkers from the world of graphic and industrial design, architecture, information technology, philosophy, computer science, business and media. They came together to research…

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Mediamatic Magazine Archief - Mediamatic published paper journals from 1985 to 1999. The magazine was a platform for discussions on media, art and television. With Mediamatic Off-line Mediamatic continued to irregularly publish CD-ROM collections and DVD projects after the last paper magazine. After 9 volumes of each (about) 4 issues it ended to make a restart as Mediamatic Off-Line in the 21st century. All issues can be found here.

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