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Ralf, Christian and Cordula are our favorite roboticians. With their funny and super creative ideas, participants of all levels can make amazing tiny robots, with very little material, within two...

In this workshop you will learn how to make a pixelated avatar of yourself or your grandmother. Pixel art is a form of digital art, created through the use of raster graphics software, where images...

openFrameworks is an open source toolkit used for creative coding. Join the workshop and learn how to use openFrameworks for your own project.

openFrameworks is an open source toolkit used for creative coding. Join the workshop and learn how to use openFrameworks for your own project.

The camp explores various recent technologies like RFID, physical computing and social networking, but also looks into aspects of interaction design and interactive processes.

A three day event parallel to Picnic 2010 at the Westergasfabriek terrain in Amsterdam. Lead by bamboo artist Antoon Versteegde and Dus Architects. Come and build a bamboo city with us. Please RSVP...

A three day event parallel to Picnic 2010 at the Westergasfabriek terrain in Amsterdam. Lead by bamboo artist Antoon Versteegde and Dus Architects. Come and build a bamboo city with us. Please RSVP...

A three day event parallel to Picnic 2010 at the Westergasfabriek terrain in Amsterdam. Lead by bamboo artist Antoon Versteegde and DUS Architects. Come and build a bamboo city with us. September 22

In deze workshop leer je hoe je op een fixed gear fiets kan rijden en hoe je een trackstand kan doen. Voor de waaghalzen onder ons is er ook nog een mogelijkheid wat skidding tricks te leren.

In deze workshop leer je hoe je op een fixed gear fiets kan rijden en hoe je een trackstand kan doen. Voor de waaghalzen onder ons is er ook nog een mogelijkheid wat skidding tricks te leren.

For a review and pictures of the workshop click here Riding fixed gear is not like riding your regular bike. During this workshop you'll learn how to not make an ass of yourself. Keng Pereira will...

In this 1-day workshop you will learn the basics of Processing. Processing is an open source "programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts and...

In this 1-day workshop you will learn the basics of Processing. Processing is an open source "programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts and...

Vijf dagen experimenteren met verschillende technologie en nieuwe media. Een paradijs van RFID, physical computing, sociale netwerken, interactieve processen en interactie-ontwerp. In Prototype Dev...

Soft-and hardware, workshops, art, the internet and communities. The future is created here, with you. Together with Tim Heineke (Twones) and Vincent Lindeboom we are organizing a fantastic music...

AR Dev Camp Amsterdam is een event van een dag voor Augmented Reality experts en beginners, gehouden in de Mediamatic Bank.

In this one-day workshop you will make a mask with electronics. The result is a robotic mask that can blink lights or make sounds.

See the fantastic results on Christian Faubels website . Ralf and Christian are our favorite roboticians. With their funny and super creative ideas, participants of all levels can make amazing tiny...

More and more people discover this little miracle board, but don't exactly know how to use it. That's where we come in! In this workshop you'll learn everything you need to know to get started.

As a part of the Jerry Springer Rodeo exhibition, organized by Sjocosjon, Lamelos gives a workshop on making cartoons. This really is an amazing opportunity to learn the tricks of the trade from the...

Driven by a shared passion for sneakers, three friends created Leyp.com in 2004. Creative in different aspects, Leyp has engaged in many different activities. Their focus came to lie on sneaker...

One time workshop with artist Gestift. He'll show you how he works and in a few hours you will produce your own t-shirt in the Gestift style. The shirt is all yours. This event is part of the Great...

Should artists' works pick a political side in the upcoming elections or do they stand above all sides? By hacking or commenting on messages of policital parties, do you generate attention for the...

More and more people discover this little miracle board, and they don't know exactly how to use it. That's where we come in! In this workshop you'll learn everything you need to know to get started.

Mediamatic brought a few seal fur skins from Copenhagen. These skins are a left-over product of the seal meat the Inuit eat.

More and more people discover this little miracle board, and they don't know exactly how to use it. That's where we come in! In this workshop you'll learn everything you need to know to get started.

More and more people discover this little miracle board, and they don't know exactly how to use it. That's where we come in! In this workshop you'll learn everything you need to know to get started.

It's been a few years since our last Arduino workshop. But more and more people discover this little miracle board, and they don't know exactly how to use it. That's where we come in! In this...

It's been a few years since our last Arduino workshop. But more and more people discover this little miracle board, and they don't know exactly how to use it. That's where we come in! In this...

By using the very simple and cheap PIC Microchip micro-controller it's possible to generate signals. With these signals you can display all kinds of pixel patterns on any VGA monitor or beamer.

The Mediamatic Social RFID Hacker Camp explores various recent technologies like RFID, physical computing and social networking but also looks into aspects of interaction design and interactive...

Build your own little singing solar robot and seal it in molten schmelzolan plastic forms. You will create ornamental singing plastic discs for windows, windowsills or overheadprojectors. Electronic...

Build your own moving analog solar robot and seal it in molten schmelzolan plastic forms. You will create kitschy kinetic objects for windows, windowsills or overheadprojectors. Anyone can do it!

By using the very simple and cheap PIC Microchip micro-controller it's possible to generate signals. With these signals you can display all kinds of pixel patterns on any VGA monitor or beamer.

RFIDuino is an Arduino shield for reading and writing 13.56 MHz RFID tags.

Mediamatic organizes a bunch of RFID Sniffer workshops. In this workshop you can assemble your own RFID Sniffer circuit, guided by the Sniffer designer Marc Boon.

Click here for a full report of the Electro Clothing workshops. In a series of workshops Mediamatic explored electro-clothing. Clothing that lights up in the dark, clothing that sings when it is...

We were very happy and pleased that we had Nadya Peek in Amsterdam to guide the electro-clothing workshops. The first workshop kicked-off on Saturday June 13. In every workshop I've noticed it's...

Click here for a full report of the Electro Clothing workshops. In a series of workshops Mediamatic explored electro-clothing. Clothing that lights up in the dark, clothing that sings when it is...

Click here for a full report of the Electro Clothing workshops. In a series of workshops Mediamatic explored electro-clothing. Clothing that lights up in the dark, clothing that sings when it is...

Mediamatic organizes a bunch of RFID Sniffer workshops. In this workshop you can assemble your own RFID Sniffer circuit, guided by the Sniffer designer Marc Boon.

RFIDuino is an Arduino shield for reading and writing 13.56 MHz RFID tags.

Mediamatic organizes a bunch of RFID Sniffer workshops. During this workshops you can assemble your own RFID Sniffer circuit, guided by the Sniffer designer Marc Boon.

Mediamatic organizes a bunch of RFID Sniffer workshops. During this workshops you can assemble your own RFID Sniffer circuit, guided by the Sniffer designer Marc Boon.

No one else seemed to notice that smoke was pouring out of the soldering iron in front of me. Should I panic, or just ignore it? Maybe this was just our host’s way of setting the mood. Incense for...

Mediamatic and IDFA organized a 5-day workshop to augment your documentary practice. Participants researched which new media tools worked for their content ideas, and how to incorporate them. We also...

Mediamatic and B3 Media organized an action packed 5-day workshop about audiovisual projects for a mix of new media platforms and channels. The workshop participants came with their own project ideas...

Designing hybrid toys with Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino of Tinker.it This a summary of and some comments on the excellent lecture of Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino that she delivered in the context of...

In the days immediately preceding PICNIC 2008, Mediamatic set up another heavy duty Hacker Camp. If you didn't know yet, PICNIC is an outstanding high-profile conference at the intersection of media

'Reshaping dance film with interaction and installations'. Together with the Cinedans Festival, Mediamatic present a hands-on workshop on interactive dance film with a focus on interactive film...

Within the short time frame of three days participants conceptualize and construct a prototype of their own Augmented Reality Game. The focus of the workshop, the AR, is about playing with virtual...

Learn and play with new electric designer materials - a new 1-day workshop with Leah Buechley on the uses of new electric designer materials in e-Fashion and wearables. During the workshop Leah was...

Een twee-daagse cursus waarin het praktisch experimenteren met urban design door middel van Fablab centraal staat. Gebruik frames en sjablonen, eventueel in combinatie met lichten en spiegels, en...

Gebruik vingercamera's, spiegels, lenzen, en oppervlaktes om op te projecteren en ontdek hoe je met niet-digitale technieken verbluffende visuele projecties maakt.

Met trots presenteert Mediamatic een nieuwe workshop: Designing Hybrid Wearables. In deze workshop gebruiken we de revolutionaire LilyPad Arduino. De Lilypad is speciaal ontworpen voor electronische...

Onder begeleiding van de kundige en veelzijdige Marc Boon gaan de deelnemers door alle stappen om snel een simpel electronisch circuit te maken met de 3D frees machine.

In this concentrated hands-on course participants will develop prototypes for playful hybrid world applications. We will focus on designing physical toys with digital and/or networked components. We'...

Een twee-daagse cursus waarin het praktisch experimenteren met urban design doormiddel van Fablab centraal staat. Gebruik frames en sjablonen in combinatie met lichten en spiegels om ruimtelijke...

In deze cursus leerden deelnemers welke nieuwe media ze konden gebruiken in hun documentaire project. Ze kregen inzicht in de huidige digitale nieuwe media praktijken: van user generated content tot...

In deze workshop gebruikten deelnemers eigen materiaal om online audiovisuele projecten te ontwerpen en prototypes te bouwen. De combinatie van audiovisuele-, databased en interactieve media bood de...

Friedrich Kirschner en Daniel van Gils zijn twee zeer creatieve makers die op hun eigen manier spelen met game technologie. Zij gaven een overzicht van verschillende nieuwe manieren waarop game...

Televisie wordt langzaam maar zeker verdrongen door games en internet als favoriete media van kinderen. Hoe kunnen mediamakers games en gamecultuur meenemen in crossmediale producties? If you can'...

Henna is een vorm van lichaamsversiering die al duizenden jaren oud is. De henna tatoeage siert al jaren het straatbeeld maar deze vorm van lichaamsversiering kent ook andere toepassingen. In deze...

Een unieke kans om je physical computing en RFID ideeën werkelijkheid te maken - met een groep van ongeveer 2000 getagde conferentiegangers. Nu te ervaren op PICNIC: Speel met de nieuwe RFID...

This workshop is designed around the possibilities of the FabLab: while developing and testing your ideas on the use of letters outside the printed paper and the screen, you learn to use the FabLab...

Met PureData (PD) kan je interactieve projecten kan maken. Dit kan zijn voor audio, beeld, video en multimedia installaties. Deze workshop is een buitenkans voor iedereen die graag wil leren hoe je...

Leer de basis van Kufi, de oudste Arabische caligrafie-stijl. Ontwerp je eigen vierkante Kufi patroon met Arabische of Nederlandse woorden door twee avonden deel te nemen aan de workshop! Bewerk je...

DIY, draadloze en interactieve projecten maken, voor ontwerpers en kunstenaars Een Arduino is een klein 'open-source' computer platform gebaseerd op een simpel input / output board (microcontroller).

In this new workshop participants will develop prototypes for hybrid world media applications. While the internet is still thought of as a virtual space, it is quickly gaining foot in the physical...

Following a very exciting Arduino workshop last November, Mediamatic organizes a new Arduino workshop, this time focused on wireless Arduinos: Arduinos that connects to other hardware through a...

Machinima is een samentrekking van de woorden machine, animatie en cinema. Video wordt geproduceerd met behulp van de 3-dimensionale wereld van computer- en online games. Als machinima-maker gebruik...

Come and develop new ideas for radio experiences, using combinations of oldskool and newskool radio: broadcasting, online radio, microtransmitters, user generated content and more. In collaboration...

Pure Data (or PD) is a graphical programming language for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works. This workshop is an opportunity for anyone to learn how to process and...

Presentation of final results of the Mediamatic Any Media Documentary workshop. The past 5 days a bunch of international documentary makers developed prototypes of new media documentaries.

New Media; (how) do filmmakers and artists make use of the broad range of possibilities it offers them? Examples of locative media projects, user-generated content and cross-over between game culture...

Makers of creative documentaries need to come to terms with an explosion of existing new media channels and practices, in terms of conceiving, producing as well as publishing documentary projects.

RFID & The Internet of Things is a workshop for a maximum of 16 designers and artists who want to learn more about RFID and its possible effects and uses.

Screenings, lectures and discussions about new machinima, political machinima, the state of affairs in the Demo scene, creative machinima production methods, the prizes in the Machinima Competition...

Cinekid, the International Film, Television and New Media Festival for Children and Mediamatic organise a workshop for professionals on interactive television for children during the Cinekidfestival.

Machinima is about making films in the realtime 3D environments of computer games. In this dense 4 day workshop, the participants learn skills from 3D animation, filmmaking and game design to become...

Op de laatste avond van de Cross Media Week is er een salon over filmen in computergames, de Machinima salon. Met de beste filmpjes, de beste makers, nieuwe tools en de kick off van de Machinima...

Before and during the upcoming Synch Festival, Athens will be swarming with audiovisual thrill seekers. The perfect event for progressive media makers to get involved with their audience in exciting...

Together with the Cinedans Festival, Mediamatic organises a workshop on interactive dance film. In this workshop, 16 international dance filmers, editors and choreographers make interactive online...

RFID will play a pivotal role in fusing the physical world with the digital. RFID allows for the unique identification of objects, and any kind of online data can be linked to these unique ID's.

With the Machinima workshop, Mediamatic traverses the intersection of filmmaking, animation and game development. Machinima was at this point a new form of filmmaking based on computer games...

Mediamatic presents a 2-day workshop on social tagging, or Mobtagging. Mobtagging is what happens when groups of users freely apply and exchange labels (metadata) to online information. It allows...

Final presentations and screenings of databased films made during the workshop Interactive Film Lab at the Impakt Festival in Utrecht.

Certain parts of the Interactive Film Lab are open for non-participants. Besides the opening symposium where several speakers will discuss the linkage between interactive film and local truth, there...

From 7 to 11 December Mediamatic organizes a workshop on online databased film in co-operation with the Impakt festival and the Utrecht Academy of Arts.

Looking for local truth through interactive film. The Interactive Film Lab starts with an opening symposium where three speakers will share their thoughts on interactive film in relation to the theme...

An open session in which the prototypes made during the Mediamatic Interactive Political Film Workshop was presented. Participants used the Korsakow System to create straightforward interactive...

An evening of lectures, screenings and debate. Games are becoming more and more involved with every day issues. After having incorporated cinematic aspects, now recent history and contemporary news...

Make your own interactive political film in a 6-day workshop at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam! Do you want to represent a complex issue in your film, but feel that the linear...

Besides a violent political practice, terrorism is an enormous media phenomenon that looms over and sucks in all current issues that relate to it. It warps the debate about immigration, it bends...

Triggered by RFID CrashCourse is designed as a Think-and-do Tank which explores RFID from an artist's/ designer's point of view. Large logistical companies see RFID as the ultimate application for...

The Intermedia Department , and the Video Department of two different art academies in Budapest, are going present a Mediamatic Interactive Film Lab. Here media makers from all over Europe share...

In three and a half days, fifteen young journalists from European quality newspapers will discuss and analyse possible angles for journalists to treat Europe as a cultural and political theme in the...

Mobtagging (ook bekend als folksonomies of social tagging) is de praktijk waarmee mensen zelf aangebrachte metadata over online informatie uitwisselen. Dit verandert de manier waarop informatie...

Grote logistieke bedrijven zien in RFID de ultieme stroomlijning van voorraadbeheer en transport. Activisten verwachten dat RFID zal zorgen voor de definitieve opheffing van de notie van privacy.

16 makers, producers editors and educators of film, radio, television and video use their own material to make an interactive film that can be published on or offline. The workshop is an intense...

Iedereen heeft verhalen. Verhalen zijn behalve dragers van informatie ook dragers van identiteit, sfeer en cultuur.

In interactieve omgevingen komen verhalen op een andere manier tot stand dan in lineaire situaties: de gebruiker speelt een actieve rol.

Het web kent geen lezers, luisteraars of kijkers, maar gebruikers. Gedrag van de gebruiker moet dus aandacht krijgen, ook in de teksten die wij willen die hij leest. Je kunt niet zomaar een boek...

Workshop informatiestructuren ontwerpen. De volgorde waarin mensen teksten lezen met oude media is al min of meer vastgelegd door wat inhoudelijke regels, zoals hoofdstukken, alinea's en paginering.

In cooperation with the upcoming World Wide Video Festival, Mediamatic is organizing a special workshop about interactive narration for video artists.

Workshop website improvement. Een workshop voor mensen die een website ontworpen hebben of beheren en niet helemaal tevreden zijn met het resultaat. Tijdens de workshop kijk je kritisch naar je...

After the masterclass, 16 documentary filmmakers will develop and build pilot projects for new media documentaries in 5 intensive workshop days. Through building their projects, participants find...

Interactive story structures change the way how to tell and to experience stories.But how? In interactive storytelling, filmmakers can no longer only regard themselves as the creator of a story, but...

Interactive story structures open a whole new chapter of possibilities to tell and experience stories in a different way.

Controle over jezelf, controle over je computer en ook nog wat controle over de mensen die je computer gebruiken. Waar kan je het best grenzen leggen als je computerspelletjes ontwikkelt?

Er zijn vele verschillende instrumenten om interactieve online verhalen mee te maken. Het is moeilijk om een overzicht te krijgen van alle engines die beschikbaar zijn om interactieve vertellingen...

Workshop over het gebruik van interactieve media bij lesgeven. Interactieve media worden steeds verder geïntegreerd in de educatieve praktijk. Ze zijn een belangrijk instrument geworden bij lesgeven...

AnyStory is een Content Management System dat speciaal bedoeld is voor het maken van verhalensites. Het legt inhoudelijke verbanden tussen verschillende verhalen, waardoor een gebruiker makkelijk...

In cooperation with Documentary in Europe, Mediamatic is organizing the first Advanced Interactive Film Workshop on the 11 to the 15 of July 2004 in Bardonecchia, Italy.

Join these public sessions to witness the development of interactive films!

You can still register for the Mediamatic workshop Interactive Film @ Berlinale from 5 to 9 February 2004. Public presentations will be on February 10th.

Een workshop over het vertellen van verhalen met interactieve media.

In co-operation with Documentary in Europe, Mediamatic organizes a special workshop for documentary filmmakers about new ways of storytelling that are possible with the use of new media.

In cooperation with the Grenzeloos Geluid festival, Mediamatic is organising a workshop for Dutch media makers. In this 5 day workshop the participants will explore the possibilities interactive...

The final presentation for the festival audience will be on Saturday May 1 at the Passenger Terminal.

What if you could change Facebook's laws? You can! In this workshop participants will learn how browser extensions (e.g. Firefox Add-Ons) enable us to locally modify Facebook.com and distribute it to...

In 2000 en 2001 organiseerde Mediamatic wederom een serie van workshops in het teken van 'Gedrag Ontwerpen'.

Volgend op de serie 'Auteur in Nieuwe Media' workshops, organiseerde Mediamatic in '99/'00 een serie workshops over 'Gedrag Ontwerpen'.

In 1998 en 1999 organiseerde Mediamatic een serie workshops waarbij schrijvers, kunstenaars, theoretici en vormgevers samenwerkten om artistieke, redactionele en inhoudelijke mogelijkheden van het...