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  • Claiming the Stage

    Hannah Gadsby defies stereotypes through humour

    Hannah Gadsby (*1978) is a successful Australian comedian and actor, known for her shows Nanette and Douglas , both featured on Netflix, in which she addresses topics such as trauma and abuse, as...
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  • Can an Artwork be Autistic?

    Using keywords to identify autistic characteristics in artworks

    Repetition, extreme consistency, radical truth, cataloging, systematising,   questioning, over- and understimulation. All of these words are part of a list the A/artist team brainstormed last year...

  • Inspiring confusion with photographs

    A/artist discussion round with Marna Slappendel

    Marna Slappendel is an Amsterdam-based visual artist. Since she received her autism diagnosis five years ago, she has evolved from knowing nearly nothing about it to researching and learning about...

  • Tools for Flourishing in Art Education (and Life)

    Public A/artist symposium with Jenny Konrad

    During this second public symposium on neurodivergence in art education, The Hague-based German artist and designer  Jenny Konrad talked about the tools they have created to manage time, energy and...

  • The Idea Becomes the Machine that Makes the Book

    A/artist roundtable with Annelies Wina Doom

    During our latest A/Artist discussion round, artist Annelies Wina Doom took us on a journey through her art work "Please do not touch, even clean hands can cause damage", from its conception to its...

  • Take a seat and lean in: The poetry of Code Noir

    Reflecting on representation and language with Rachel Rumai Diaz

    Following the end of the Code Noir dinner series, I had a chat with Rachel Rumai Diaz-- the spoken word artist behind the poetry that breathed life into the culinary journey of our latest Neo

  • Using autism to imagine alternative worlds

    A/artist discussion round with research duo Liminal Vision

    Liminal Vision is a creative research duo consisting of artistic maker Victor Evink and film maker Emilia Tapprest. Victor is open about his autism diagnosis, while Emilia is not on the spectrum.

  • How do you identify?

    Finding the right words to communicate your identity to the world can be useful for anybody. You get to identify yourself and name your identity in a way that fits. You also get to share that...

  • Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno

    Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno exhibited in Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention .  Nature's Toolbox  is an exhibition exploring the wonders of biodiversity. The exhibition perceives...

  • Feeling in Colour

    Patrick Samuel as a Role Model

    Patrick Samuel is a visual artist, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and autism advocate based in the UK. But what makes him a role model for neurodivergent creatives? 

  • Kalu's dans met materie

    Nnena Kalu (1966) is een maker die vanwege haar bijzondere manier van omgaan met de wereld, over een unieke, bijzondere en hypnotiserende kunstpraktijk beschikt. 

  • Excerpts from 'Meeloper'

    The following are excerpts from Sytske van Koeveringe's novel 'Meeloper', which she read during the a/Artist evening 'Tag-alongs and Drifters' on the 18th of March, 2024.  They have been translated...

  • African Period

    Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz

    I come from far far away I come from conquered soil and enchanted tongues I want to tell you where I’m from But I’m not sure my body remembers I am all the lost girls searching for their bodies to...

  • In gesprek met de zee

    Beeldend kunstenaar Peter Matthews toont hoe je kunt praten met de oceaan

    Ondergedompeld in de zee ontwerpt Matthews majestueuze zeegezichten. Door zijn werkt geeft de 'Mystical Waterman' een glimps van het bewustzijn van de oceaan.

  • Shields and Shelter

    A/artist roundtable with Kristin Maurer

    During this roundtable, long-time Mediamatic collaborator Kristin Maurer presented her design research about making a public swimming pool into a more accessible and comfortable space for people...

  • The Code Noir: A brief, yet powerful history

    Winston Churchill famously said that “those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Our upcoming NeoFuturist Dinner touches on the importance of learning from our collective...

  • Spinning as Stimming

    Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Johnson as a Role Model

    Ahmir Johnson (*1971), known professionally as Questlove, is an American musician, record producer, disc jockey, filmmaker, music journalist, and actor. But what makes him a role model for...

  • 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...

  • Zelf (what would you say?)

    Museumnight Amsterdam 2023

    Are you ever bothered by yourself? A lot or just a little? Come to Mediamatic and evaluate yourself through the works of a diverse team of artists. Hand yourself over to our experts, let them help...
  • Proposal by: Stephanie Pau

    Time Givers, by Tomato Plants et al

    Project Proposal: Practicing more-than-human care

    Humans are not the only entity in the world, machines and the rest of nature, too, share the same world.  In the next tomato planting season (2023), I, with local tomato plants - wherever I may be

  • The Visual Thinker

    Temple Grandin explores different kinds of minds

    Temple Grandin is an academic and animal behaviorist from America famous for redesigning the slaughterhouses so that cattle can be treated in a more humane way. She is also an autism spokesperson.

  • European Period

    Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz

    Here lies the fruit of my invaded womb. This is what is left of me. There are pieces of my body scattered around looking for its way back to a home that no longer exists. Home is now wherever you...

  • For the Love of The Object: Design in the…

    A/artist roundtable with Marjanne van Helvert

    Marjanne van Helvert is a designer, researcher and writer based in Amsterdam. Her focus is on the injustices that permeate the fashion and design world, and the possibilities of creating more just...

  • A look at the history of Caribbean cuisine

    A blog for Code Noir

    Whether culture, tradition or simple sustenance, food is a central part of human life. It also carries great symbolic value. To share a meal goes beyond the food itself; it extends to an experience...

  • Authoring Autism

    M. Remi Yergeau deconstructing the rhetoric of autism

    As a rhetorician and as an autistic activist, M. Remi Yergeau dedicates their passion to the self-advocacy of autistic people by contesting the dominant rhetorics on autism as pathology and...

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