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Willem666: welcome recognition
Dutch arts council (Raad voor Cultuur) recommends substantial raise in Mediamatics public funding for 2009—2012
We were very happy and proud to read the advice about our plans for the coming 4 years. The Arts council of the Netherlands praises…
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Theo van Gogh, Submission Part 1
Theo van Gogh was killed for hurting religious feelings. Some people believe that hurting feelings justifies simply butchering…
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ARTBOMB @ Mediamatic
Duintjer CS building cloaked in neon clouds
When the NY times warned for a cultural meltdown in the Netherlands they were right. All over the country (and outside) cultural…
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Katayoun
The Dutch Time/Bank Network
A network of cultural institutions in the Netherlands
Parallel micro economy based on trust and solidarity as a response to the current distrust of existing financial and economic…
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Love and hate, holiness and cruelty
Diana Marrone talks about Naples
Diana Marrone is of the curators in the Amsterdam Biennale and a guide for Naples (Italy) on the Mediamatic Travel website . She…
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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…
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Gallery:
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 .
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PaulSimon, Xiamen
Gerald van der Kaap
Gerald van der Kaap is indeed a photographer of his own free will, but also really rather in spite of himself.
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Review:
A digital palimpsest
Mathilde ter Heijne's CD-ROM For a better World, released so shortly after September 11, 2001, combines objective information,…
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Review:
MichèleThe Death and Life of Great American Cities
A brief review of Jane Jacobs' legendary book
Jane Jacobs takes a brash and insightful view of American cities and 20th century modernist urban planning.
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Background
Concept and themes
Mediamatic’s New Order exhibition series explores a world in which energy has become a fundamental principle of our society. The…
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Fitna the Movie
We’re tired of waiting. So, let’s do it ourselves! Sorry!
There is this not-so-intelligent Dutch politician that attracts attention by doing populist provocations. His name is Wilders. Geert…
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Je herkent de Battle Royale personages makkelijk aan hun bebloede schooluniformen
Cosplay in Nederland
Kattenoren zijn een beetje kinderachtig. Veel cosplayers kijken daar meewarig naar. Elfenoren ook trouwens. Te makkelijk, te simpel.…
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In 2011 we worked with these people
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Article:
Radical Dreamer
Jane Jacobs on the streets of Toronto
There are only a few true originals living among us at any given moment, and in 1997 Jane Jacobs is one of them. Observe her walking…
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Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale::
RobertKabul Pavilion
Coping with the Green Zone - from within and without
Since 2001, key areas in the center of Kabul have progressively been cordoned off from normal access by Afghans to form a kind of…
