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Book: 1 1 1995
Refiguring Life
Metaphors of Twentieth Century Biology
The focus of these three essays is the role of language and technology in the progress of genetic science. Drawing on a broad…
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Book: 14 4 1995
Out of Control
The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.
An accessible and entertaining explanation of why the coming years will probably be the Age of Biology -- particularly evolution and…
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1995
Homes: Meshwork or Hierarchy?
How do homes happen? Are they planned, as we have intuitively tended to believe, or is the process a more messy one? Drawing on…
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ArjenDon't answer too quickly
With reference to John Lilly's Simulations of God
Theory only flourishes when a central concept is found into which everything ultimately seems to fit. To cite just a few examples:…
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MaurizioThe Ephemeral Icon
Infusing life to trigger a process of final dissolution
A design-research project looking at the study and the application of a fungus, Phanerochaete chrysosporium, to synthetic, toxic…
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Review:
Virtual Reality
by Howard Rheingold
Virtual Reality is catapulting us far into the 21st century.
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LeandraDe wereld redden op klaslokaalschaal
Miniponics: het ultieme wapen voor een lokale klimaatridder
Altijd al een aquarium en een moestuin in je klaslokaal willen hebben? Of iets goeds willen doen voor het klimaat? Mediamatic biedt…
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Book: 1 1 2003
The New Media Reader
This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs--many of them now almost impossible to find--that chronicle the…
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1 1 1998
Tierra
Artificial Evolution in an Artificial World
Until recently, one of the most frustrating problems for evolutional biologists was the fact that the process of evolution could not…
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VitoWeb Aesthetic
How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society
Design: Studio Léon & Loes, Paperback, 276 pages, 14 x 21 cm English edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-770-6, € 23.50 October 2010…
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Book: 1 3 1998
Imagenation
Popular Images of Genetics
Historian of science Jose Van Dijck examines the role of images and imagination in popular representations of the new genetics since…
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WillemVol.9 #2/3 The Context Issue
Editorial: You have to see this issue of Mediamatic in context
The context of this issue is all of the issues which have come before it. Or perhaps everything that you're currently reading. Or…
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Eindhoven, Schellens Fabriek
BIOTRICITY and BACTERIA BATTERY No. 5
31 May 2013 – 7 Jun 2013
As part of Techno Ecologies, Baltan Laboratories presents the workshop “BIOTRICITY” and the installation “BACTERIA BATTERY…
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Review:
DEAF 04: Affective Systems seminar featuring LF:TK
Dutch Eletronic Art Festival * Affective Systems (seminar) featuring LiveForm: Telekinetics
At DEAF 04 the LiveForm:Telekinetics project co-founded by Jeff Mann and Michelle Teran was launched. By animating inanimate…
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Book:
Moorehead,Darwin en de Beagle
een scheepsreis naar de oertijd
De reis van Charles Darwin en zijn onderzoek die uiteindelijk leidde tot zijn theorie over natuurlijke selectie.
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Mediamatic Magazine vol.7#1: 1992
Virtual Voices (1)
Mimesis
The new digital media technologies, which are now being developed, are often imitative technologies. Future generations may end up…
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Inflatable Clean Lab
Portable mycelium research area
The Inflatable Clean Lab is a portable structure consisting of HEPA filters, a blower, and plastic material. When the Clean Lab…
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Mediamatic Magazine vol.7#1: 1992
Virtual Voices (2)
Mimesis
Soft Machines
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Organisation:Cambridge
MIT FabLab
Bits and atoms
An exploration of how the content of information relates to its physical representation.
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PaulTeilhard and the Technognosis
the avenging JHWH in Silicon Hollywood
With the advent of Dreamworks, the entertainment company founded by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Bill…