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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
DRAFT: Design For Well-being
- Have you ever experienced anxiety in certain spaces? What if architecture could alleviate those feelings?17Jun 2024Join us for an evening about design for well-being with architect Kristin Maurer and green designer Mawee Pornpunyalert from Moss Lab (makers of sustainable spaces). We will look at how space can...
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5. Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Clemens Tomlow
Monsters Under the Bed
12Apr 2024- by Clemens Tomlow14Jul 2024Over de hele wereld worden monsters gebruikt om kinderen af te schrikken. Maar het zijn dezelfde sprookjes die aantonen dat wat we in onze maatschappij monsterlijk vinden vaak eerder onbegrepen is.
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“Anxiety is the Japanese knotweed of mental…
Presumably, anxiety is a challenge we all have dealt with at one point in our lives. Be it caused by the pandemic, wars, our fast paced lifestyles, our own personal challenges, or… THE JAPANESE...
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Wrijven helpt niet!
Verslag van de 59ste Biennale van Venetie
Midden april 2022. We zijn op de preopening van 59 ste Biënnale Venetië. Eigenlijk stond deze biënnale gepland in 2021, maar corona stak daar een stokje voor. In Italië was de...
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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...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Meme Therapy
with Lucie Chateau and Holly Foxton
How are you feeling about climate change? Are you a doomer or a bloomer? Whatever you feel, you are probably not alone. Countless memes are made and posted onto the internet that express emotions...
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Fear of the Unknown
What are you most afraid of?
Fear of the unknown is a common phenomenon. Throughout history we can find a lot of evidences of how much destruction this fear can create. However, we are not only afraid of each other. For...
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Joy in the Cemetery
Cemeteries are more about the living than the dead.
I like to attribute the whole “cemeteries are scary places” trope to romantic and gothic literature as well as horror movies. I don’t think cemeteries are inherently scary, or sad, or haunted - and...
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Aboard a passenger-liner-turned-hospital-ship
The Oranje
Smelly business did not remain in the pre-modern era. It is very much a modern phenomenon just as well. One point of interest for us scent-hunters is the MS Oranje. A 20,166-ton ship, in its hay-day...
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Alles over de Waterpijp
Wat is een waterpijp en wat kan ik er precies mee? U leest er hier alles over!
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Julia ter Maten
Taking care of preserving the knowledge of Mediamatic + Working as a photographer at Mediamatic events.
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Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen
Bouw je schuiltent
- Prepping doe je zelf!19Jun 2015Prepping workshops op het Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen in het thema van de tentoonstelling Gimme Shelter.
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De Balie
(On)gezonde angst
- Controle over de dood16Jun 2015Dankzij de moderne geneeskunde - het slikken van pillen en talloze medische ingrepen - kunnen we het moment van overlijden steeds langer uitstellen. Ook wanneer we ongeneeslijk ziek zijn is de...
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 6#1 Sonja Snoek 1 Jan 1991
Fantasma Goria
The slaughterer deposits the girl in the work table, amidst his arsenal of rusty tools.
He picks out the gigantic whale hook and sticks it deep into her vagina. Screaming. Blood soaks the nightgown. Close-up of the hook as t emerges, piercing her belly from within. After further torment
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Screening: Mediamatic Fabriek
Quantum transportation and vintage Fly
- Weird Science with Tim Taminiau23Oct 2014If you could teleport today, where would you go? It might seem far fetched, but in this day and age teleportation is a serious topic of research instead of speculation. In fact, researchers at the...
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 6 #1 Jules Marshall 1 Jan 1991
Panic Biology
In the days before fax, cable TV and personal computers, Marshall McLuhan noted that innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of technological and...
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Kunstfort Vijfhuizen
Lebensraum
12Oct 2014- Installatie van Schuld & Schaamte5Dec 2014Hangen schuld en schaamte samen met destructief gedrag?
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Mediamatic Magazine vol 6 # 1 Jorinde Seijdel 1 Jan 1991
Rembrandt's Paniek
Rembrandt van Rijn is troubled by nightmares containing the most troubling images. Just last night, he dreamed that he was forces to eat three of his most prized paintings… Ever since a specially...
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Kunstfort Vijfhuizen
Symposium Schuld en Schaamte
- Project Sweep12Oct 2014Project SWEEP onderzoekt hoe de noties van schuld, schaamte, goed en slecht met elkaar samenhangen en wat elk van het een in het ander doet omslaan.
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Haeckel-File #3: Haeckel the Nazi
Would evolution theory inescapably have to lead to fascist eugenics?
Haeckel has not only been badmouthed for things he actually did or believed during his life (see the two previous Haeckel-Files on racism and fraud), he has also been partially blamed for what...
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Haeckel-File #2: Haeckel the fraud
Haeckel was accused of committing fraud in order to give credibility to his theories. Is there any truth to the allegation?
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Opening:The Aftermath Dislocation Principle
- A disaster tour with Jimmy Cauty10Jul 2014Enter the bizarre, twisted world of musician, record producer, artist and cultural provocateur, Jimmy Cauty. Join him on Thursday July 10th for a disaster tour and post-apocalyptic spectacle. For the...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Fabriek
The Aftermath Dislocation Principle Part 7-8
11Jul 2014- by Jimmy Cauty31Aug 2014Enter the bizarre, twisted world of musician, record producer, artist and cultural provocateur, Jimmy Cauty. The Aftermath Dislocation Principle is a vast 1:87 scale model landscape, which is...
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Mediamatic Fabriek
Hope Step Japan!
- Three years after the disaster. What have we learned from it?8Mar 2014It is three years after the earthquake and the Fukushima meltdown. Hope Step Japan looks back and forward with workshops and performances throughout the day, lectures on nuclear power, radiation...