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  • On Diagnosis and Labels

    Should you want to be labeled? Why?

    Every being has special qualities. Especially regarding the invisible traits, such as an extraordinary mind. It can be helpful to name them explicitly.  It can be helpful to identify these traits, to...
  • Neurodivergence
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  • Autism
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  • Message from the Supervisory Board

    A new era for Mediamatic

    Dear visitors, artists, friends, colleagues, stakeholders, critical observers, fans, sponsors, supporters and all others involved.
  • book: Annelies Wina Doom, Willem Velthoven, Jam van der Aa, Marcel Sturing

    Zelftest

    Cahier voor Museumnacht 2023

  • 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...

  • Artikel A/artist meeting in autisme magazine #04…

    "Met een inclusieve houding hoef je niet eens te weten of iemand autist is"

    Autisme Magazine van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Autisme, NVA Interview met Gerard van Wolferen en Willem Velthoven, verschijningsdatum 20 december 2023. 

  • a/Artist Project

    Neurodivergence in the Arts

    Platform for neurodivergent artists and designers. Primarily those who identify as/with the ASD (Autism) and ADHD spectrum. How can we better value the contributions of makers on "the spectrum" and...

  • The Links between Tattoo Culture and Autism

    Beautiful stimming; the experience of getting a tattoo and giving a tattoo as an autistic person

    Our latest interest within the A/artist Project is researching the link between the tattoo culture and autism. The idea came up when I mentioned in my interview at Mediamatic that I am enthusiastic...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Recto and Verso on a Single Page*

    How to save, time, work and trouble when making 2-sided flyers

    Printing A5 flyers in house? This is a trick to save time and avoid paper jam, typos and other trouble. On an A4 printer, DO NOT two fronts on page 1 and two backs on page 2 of an A4 doc. In stead
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Linh Nguyen

    "But you don't look autistic at all" Book Review

    I finished Bianca Toeps’ “but you don’t look autistic at all” book on a sunny, but cold afternoon. 

  • 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...
  • 2022 Elise Chalcraft, Willem Velthoven

    Sweaters against Putin

    Mediamatic turns down the gas heaters for Ukraine whilst learning how to knit.

    We are dialing down our heating because we don't want to fund the Russian government with our gas money. We will all be wearing sweaters for Ukraine in an attempt to stop our dependency on natural...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Meet-a-Maker: Vera Lelie

    Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water!  Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Vera Lelie is open...

  • 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.

  • Is ChatGPT autistic?

    A Diagnostic Interview with an AI

    My autistic friends love using ChatGPT ; an AI that generates text. Is it possible that ChatGPT is autistic? In this blog post, I aimed to diagnose ChatGPT with autism spectrum “disorder”.

  • Mediamatic genomineerd voor Amsterdamprijs

    Uitreiking 26 augustus 2010

    Filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam, kamerkoor Cappella Amsterdam, choreografe Krisztina de Châtel, reclamemaker/fotograaf Erik Kessels, schrijfster Yasmine Allas, grafisch ontwerper/illustrator Piet Parra...
  • Stage

    Stage: Haeckel Erfgoed

    Wil jij ons helpen om voor het digitaal en analoge erfgoed van Ernst Haeckel te zorgen en zijn missie voort zetten? Ernst Haeckel is een inspiratiebron voor ons. Meer dan een eeuw geleden scoorde hij...

  • Uitreiking oeuvreprijs voor Willem Velthoven

    “De spiderman van de nieuwe media”

    Vrijdagavond 4 december reikte het Fonds BKVB de Oeuvreprijs Vormgeving uit aan ontwerper/initiator Willem Velthoven.

  • Book Club: Visual Thinking

    A/artist roundtable about Temple Grandin's newest book

    Temple Grandin is a famous American academic, animal behaviourist, and autism spokesperson. Her new book, 'Visual Thinking', published in October 2022, is the latest in her series of books exploring...

  • The Ins and Outs of Stimming

    Sensing Self through Movement roundtable

    Before the public event Sensing Self through Movement , we invited our three speakers for a roundtable dinner with the A/Artist team and artists from our network. We talked about a number of topics...

  • Words, randomness and rules

    A/artist roundtable with Arjan van Amsterdam

    Arjan van Amsterdam is an artist and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. During this round table discussion, he introduced us to his work, from his application to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy up...

  • We grew a new project nursery: Penny for your…

    Project Nursery

    There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended.  Penny for your Thoughts  is our project nursery
  • 2019 Willem Velthoven

    Better 36,000 cyclists with AirPods than 1 deaf…

    Update: Ok, 22 cyclists on e-bikes if you're more strict about it.

    I was worried about my recent purchase of a set of wireless earbuds. The news tells me it was a bad idea to buy Apple's new gadget. Airpods are evil because they are hard to recycle and even harder...

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