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  • Bas van Rijen

    Will do!

    Using websites should be fun and fast. At Mediamatic we combine these and make complex sites easy to use.
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  • Cultural Dating

    on the future of museums, archiving and cultural institutions

    TIME magazine choose YOU, the internet user, as person of the year 2006. Meanwhile however, the cultural sector is not making many moves to harness the potential of the enormous amounts of active...

  • Yay! El HEMA nominated for Dutch Design Prizes!

    Vote for us if you like El HEMA

    We're very proud that we have been nominated for the Dutch Design Prizes. We're also on the shortlist for the Audi(ence) prize. And that's where you, dear reader, come in... You can vote for El HEMA...

  • ATTENTION!

    ON THE NEAR FUTURE OF MARKETING

    Marko Ahtisaari, Head of Brand & Design at Blyk, will discuss the economics of attention and the future of open marketing

  • Picnic with…Each Other

    During this afternoon picnic, you are invited to introduce yourself to groups of people and share food and thoughts with them.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Didi Hirokawa 1 Oca 1998

    Finnegans Wake (retranslation)

    page 109

    There is a brilliant Japanese translation of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake . We wondered what will happen when the Japanese text is re-translated back into English. We gave Didi Hirokawa page 109. She...

  • 10 Reasons why I love you.

    How the public is involved in creating our activities and is slowly becoming our colleague.

    A talk at the "Kom je ook?" symposium on web2.0 for culture and heritage. 14 november 2008, Mediamatic at OBA Amsterdam. This is presentation is listing 10+ examples of successful public involvement...

  • Open-CI: opening up social networks

    Use a single account in a network of websites

    Good news for those who cope with social network fatigue! No need to register again and again, pick a username, password, write a new profile, and reconnect to your friends for the 2nd, 3rd or 4th...

  • transmediale.07

    unfinish!

    Festival for art and digital culture Berlin 2007: Jan 31 - Feb 4 The 20th transmediale festival again explores how art and society are changing under the influence of media and technologies which...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Willem Velthoven 1 Oca 1994

    Editorial

    The Eighth Art

    This issue of Mediamatic is based on the assumption that advertising was one of the great arts of the twentieth century.

  • Social experiences with RFID

    Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07

    This workshop is technical. It should include RFID. However, the aim of the projects is to make something for people. After some great technical and sometimes geeky first ideas for the projects, in...
  • Gallery Willem Velthoven

    The Cosplay Show Portrait Gallery

    A few of the participants

    15 portraits of dutch cosplayers. For the full set of 50 cosplayers that I portrayed at Animecon 2006, see: this Flickr set .
  • Willem Velthoven 7 Eki 2006

    Je herkent de Battle Royale personages makkelijk…

    Cosplay in Nederland

    Kattenoren zijn een beetje kinderachtig. Veel cosplayers kijken daar meewarig naar. Elfenoren ook trouwens. Te makkelijk, te simpel. Een echte cosplayer maakt zelf een compleet kostuum en fabriceert...
  • conference program

    Khatt Kufi Kaffiya, the printable symposium…

    Lectures are described in detail with timings and links to the speakers' biographies.

    The symposium program has been evolving and includes topics of every aspect of contemporary Arabic visual culture and identity, going beyond the stereotypes of what is associated with Arabic culture...

  • Symposium Program

    Khatt Kufi Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture

    We'll have the whole day to ourselves in the theatre of the brand new public library of Amsterdam (OBA) Admission and registration is from 9 on and the programme starts at 10:00 sharp. We'll have...
  • project:

    FabLab @ Mediamatic

    Make your own stuff - do it yourself

    Artists, designers, entrepreneurs, anyone can come and explore the Fablab machines to create your own prototype. We have a sublimation transfer system, laser cutter, vinyl cutter and 3D milling...

  • Het Arabische alfabet

    Alif Baa Taa

    Het Arabische schrift speelt een belangrijke rol in El HEMA, oorspronkelijk bedacht als begeleiding bij "Typographical Matchmaking" een project van de Khatt (spreek uit Gatt) Foundation . De...
  • Persbericht 22 augustus 2007

    Eerste FabLab van Nederland

    Mediamatic maakt tijdens EL HEMA FabLab publiek toegankelijk

    Amsterdam 22 augustus 2007 — Het eerste, publiek toegankelijke, FabLab van Nederland opent zaterdag 25 augustus bij Mediamatic. Het FabLab is een openbare werkplaats waar gewone mensen met digitaal...

  • The Current Market for Arabic Fonts

    Recent Developments and Consumer Needs

    The Arabic type market has changed dramatically in the last few years, and this has been mainly inspired by recent technology developments, globalization and the growth of the Arab graphic design...

  • Writing From The Margins

    Technological Narratives of Arabic Typography

    Narratives of Arabic typography shift between technological exclusion, historical resistance, and cultural rediscovery. From negotiations surrounding the display of Arabic script by Internet browsers

  • So what did you SMS?

    transcript from Playing FLICKR

    So far during the playing FLICKR installation at club11, the following tags have been SMSed. Leidseplein, Botel, Notcool!, Testing, Telefoonnummer, Water, Damn, Telefoonnummer, Working!

  • Happy beginning

    “I found the gastarbeider of my life! Thank you Mediamatic”

    Without drawing too much attention to it, Mediamatic started beta testing its on line dating service as a companion project to the Gastarbeider Dating series of social sculptures. In a few days

  • Mediamatic dating

    Mooi en innovatief?

    Tussen alle dating drukte in de media en op internet, kan er op de site van Mediamatic ook gedate worden. Maar wat is de meerwaarde van Mediamatic dating? Hoe speels, mooi en innovatief Mediamatic...

  • Vaat–i–Maatjes publiekslieveling

    Hollands en Arabisch op z'n huiselijkst

    Tijdens de Museumnacht konden de bezoekers van El HEMA stemmen op de inzendingen van de Ontwerpwedstijd die Mediamatic organiseerde. De vaatwashandschoenen met handbeschildering in Arabiserende stijl...

  • Converting classic strada hub to fixed gear with…

    The elegant, durable and safe way to keep your back wheel when converting a road bike to fixed

    “Who wants to take Erwin’s old bicycle out of the hall before we put with the garbage?” was the message of my neighbor Maria. It turned out to be a really nice Colnago Mexico road racer from the 1980'...

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