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Michael Jackson Farewell party
Dancing and crying all the way to the bank
June 27th, 2009, posted by: Esther Slotema
Friday 26th of June 2009 Mediamatic hosted a Farewell party for the King of Pop. From all over Amsterdam and other cities in the country people came to the Mediamatic BANK to pay their respects and do what MJ loved to do, dance. We remembered the time with videos and over 40 years of music by this legend. Visitors could sign the Goodbye Michael Jackson condolence register with their ikTag. These sympathies were streamed live to the Mediamatic website and to Twitter. It was a night to remember!
Oil on canvas portrait of Michael Jackson dressed as king -
Signed and dated 1995 by Norman Oak, undated photo released by Julien's Auction
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Expecting the unexpected
A conversation with Osama Dawod
June 26th, 2009, posted by: Tanja Baudoin
Prior to Osama's artist talk at the Out of Place salon, I spoke with him about his work.
Osama Dawod is a photographer from Egypt. He spent the past two years in the United States to obtain his Master of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute in California. This summer he is returning to Cairo. Next year he is coming back to Mediamatic, together with ten other Cairene artists, who will all be making new work on site in Amsterdam-Noord for the Bint El Dunya project.
Rosetta
We sit down and I ask Osama to tell me a bit about Rosetta (2006- ), one of his long term projects. It is a photo series about a town on the coast of Egypt. As a result of climate changes it has become increasingly difficult for the citizens of Rosetta to continue their fishing and farming industries. Many of the men have tried to reach Europe by boat in search of a better life, but most of them were sent back. Osama’s pictures show desolate views of the town. Som...
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“I don’t think the world is waiting for t–shirts fitted with LEDs”
Interview with Nadya Peek
June 5th, 2009, posted by: Tanja Baudoin
This month at Mediamatic Nadya Peek is heading a series of workshops about wearable technology; technology applied to clothing. Participants will be working on their own garments, to make it beep when you talk, or light up when somebody touches you. Nadya is a former employee of Mediamatic and currently a researcher at MIT, the Massachussets Institute of Technology in Boston. All workshops are fully booked, but Nadya is also giving a lecture on the 17th, together with colleague Jeffrey Warren. She will now share some information on wearables with us, as well as her thoughts on how this technology might develop in the future.
One of Nadya's most recent projects is Caché. Caché consists of a website and a dress. On the Caché website visitors can click on pictures of a number of body parts; a knee, an arm or a shoulder. This sends out a Bluetooth signal to the area of the dress that covers the body part in question, and it then produces a clicking sound. So whenever Nadya wears her dress, she knows exactly when somebody is checking out her website and her photographs. ...
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Festival , Performance
The End must go on
A performance by João Evangelista and Felix Kubin
May 25th, 2009, posted by: Tanja Baudoin
"Or how to survive midnight without becoming a pumpkin in 10 easy steps"
During the early hours of Saturday evening, João Evangelista organized a collective choreography in the city, called ‘Sphynx says: Follow the white rabbit’. All participants received cryptic mobile phone text messages that guided them through the streets of Amsterdam.
"Safety helmets must be worn at all times on this site. Last words of Mary Celeste: 23 november 11 hours morning Latitude 36, Longitude 27 good weather".
The End must go on, performance at Mediamatic Bank.
Those who hadn’t lost their sense of direction ended up at Mediamatic around 21:00 hrs for The End must go on. The End must go on was the conclusion of Density +-0, a series of dance performances carried out at indoor and outdoor locations throughout Amsterdam. Density +-0 is the contribution of Violet Bureau to the art manifestation My Name is Spinoza. It takes as a starting point Gilles Deleuze’...
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Festival , Performance
Parallax
Performance by Zhana Ivanova
May 15th, 2009, posted by: Tanja Baudoin
As the four actors moved around the stage, never noticing one another but never once bumping into each other, I kept holding my nape from curling up. I was looking for two girls that, in my mind’s eye, were controlling these actors from above the stage, like dolls, being played with in the same dollhouse, but refusing to do so with one other.
Parallax by Zhana Ivanova, at Mediamatic Bank on May 13 2009.
But Parallax was no child’s play. The time-based art piece, directed by Bulgarian artist Zhana Ivanova and presented Wednesday at the Mediamatic Bank, offered a meticulously written script, a complex - yet perfectly executed - choreography and wide open spaces for the audience to let go their imagination.
The characters, paired into two opposite-sex couples, give the audience bits of their stories through simple lines and short dialogues that would overlap, flow and occasionally mak...
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WatSpinoza? op het Damrak
Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf voor het gooien van kauwgom op straat?
May 7th, 2009, posted by: Tanja Baudoin
Spinoza Straf / Banner op Damrak -
"Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf voor het gooien van kauwgom op straat?".
sms 'straf' en je antwoord naar 06 - 15317109, surf naar www.watspinoza.nl/straf of bezoek de WatSpinoza? tentoonstelling, Vijzelstraat 68.
Op 7 mei 2009 werd de eerste WatSpinoza? vraag aan het Amsterdamse publiek gesteld. Aan het Damrak, vlak voor het Centraal Station, worden voorbijgangers gevraagd: 'Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf voor het gooien van kauwgom op straat?'
Vanaf 8 mei start de WatSpinoza? campagne echt. Door de hele stad komen vragen te hangen die geïnspireerd zijn op het gedachtegoed van de Amsterdamse filosoof Spinoza. Via sms, de WatSpinoza? website en in de Mediamatic tentoonstellingsruimte kan iedereen zijn antwoord doorgeven.
WatSpinoza? is onderdeel van de manifestatie My name is Spinoza, een initiatief van de Amsterdamse Spinoza Kring, conceptontwikkeling en organisatie door SKOR (Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte), in samenwerking met Stichting Spinoza Centrum Amsterdam.
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