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Schommelclub-sluiting feestweekend
Laatste kans om te schommelen! We vieren de sluiting van de Schommelclub met een feestje voor romantische schommelaars, eenzame swingers en grijpgrage duwers. Met optredens van Cotopaxi en Vakantie, deejay Groener Gras en analoge veejay Margarita Osipian. Haal je oesters aan de bar en ontmoet elkaar bij de schommels. Reserveren kan op deze pagina.
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Schommelclub Mediamatic.
Programma
Onder het mom 'samen is alles leuker' hebben we twee duo's uitgenodigd om op te treden. Cotopaxi, bestaand uit Johann (aka Fyoelk) en Hannah (aka Moemlien), improviseren met gevonden objecten en akoestische instrumenten. Rik Möhlmann en Gijs Deddens vormen samen Vakantie, en maken elektronische synthesizer muziek. Veejay Margarita Osipian zorgt met analoge middelen voor een visueel spektakel, en deejay Groener Gras zal de avond muzikaal omlijsten.
Allang geen duo meer? Op zondag 19 feburari vieren we Schommelcarnaval met de hele familie. Kijk hier ...
JolienQR Code in Ministeck
Handcrafted QR codes
Mixing the old with the new, mixing business with pleasure. Making QR Codes in Ministeck is only the first attempt to make these pesky codes physically more attractive.
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The QR-team busy with making QR-codes with ministecks at Mediamatic.
Always trying to make better connections between the (social) network and the physical, we immediately started our new project. See here the results of our Ministeck meeting. Try the QR Codes with the scanner on your mobile phone, and see for yourself if they work.
Ministeck was invented by Helmut Gottwald in 1965. In the late 1990s it became an independent firm in Germany. If you read German, check out the German wikipedia page about Ministeck
What other pixel techniques would be suitable for making QR–codes more attractive and du...
margaritaMargarita and the Mycelium Factory
My visit to the Ecovative Design headquarters
Finding myself on the other side of the ocean, I went to visit Ecovative Design, a sustainable materials company in upstate New York. Ecovative is the birth place of the myco-material that sparked the beginning of the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition and the Mycelium Rising project.
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These bio-degradable boxes were grown out of mycelium roots and agricultural waste, with a cute mushroom molded into the side.
In the words of Paul Stamets, 'mushrooms can save the world', and there's no better place to see these world saving powers than in a tucked away industrial area in Green Island, New York. With the goal of replacing everything from petroleum based plastics (like Styrofoam) to particle board (which is made using carcinogenic formaldehyde) with a renewable mycelium based material, Ecovative is harnessing all the world saving possibilities of the mushroom. Eben Bayer, the CEO of Ecovative, took us on a little tour of this rapidly expanding facility.
The Process
Having only seen the finished mycelium based materials, and som...
The Secret Art of Growing Mushrooms
Learn how to make your own wood-based substrate on which to grow Shiitake mushrooms
There are several ways of making substrate (substrate is the growing environment for mushrooms). The three most common methods are with a compost-base, with a sawdust-or wood-chip based mixtures, and using straw. In this workshop we will make a sawdust substrate. You will take your substrate bag home after the workshop, where you can wait to see the mushrooms grow in the comfort of your own home.
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Shiitake in the third stage of the growing process. Photographed in Mediamatic's urban mushroom farm. Part of the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition.
What?
30 years ago the white button mushroom was the only mushroom you could find in the supermarket. A lot of things have changed in the meantime, but most people still only eat the white button mushrooms. Getting people to grow and consume all the varieties of mushrooms has been a slow process. This workshop is innovative and exciting because growing your own mushrooms is a new form of agricultural technology.
We begin the workshop by sterilising the sawdust in a pressure cooker to get rid of the existing mold and fungus spores that are often naturally present on the wood. After we cool down the wood chips we add agra-...
Dutch Premiere of Of Amsterdam
Documentary: Being a foreign artist in the Netherlands
Six foreign artists tell their stories about living and pursuing their dreams in Amsterdam. After the official premiere in Lisbon, Of Amsterdam will premiere in the Netherlands. The night will start with a performance by Natalia Domínguez Rangel and Mariangela Tinelli. Please RSVP on this page.
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Movie still from Of Amsterdam-
Of Amsterdam is a documentary by Catarina Neves Ricci.
Of Amsterdam
Of Amsterdam touches on questions of politics, education, and immigration. Director Catarina Neves Ricci (born in Portugal, but Amsterdam-based) worked together with artists such as Hugo Morango (Portugal), and Natalia Domínguez Rangel (Colombia).
"We don't make art to earn money. We make art because we have to make it." - German jewelry designer Jeannette Jansen in Of Amsterdam
More information
Doors open at 19:00. Program starts at 20:00. Tickets are 5,-. Location: Mediamatic Bank, Vijzelstraat 68 Amsterdam. Please RSVP at the top of this page.
Ignite Amsterdam 14
12 presentations x 5 minutes
With our eye on the Global Game Jam happening at the end of the month, we invited a few young, experimental game designers to share their latest projects. Furthermore, we're diving into (Dutch) design and, of course, fungi. Drop by for your monthly dose of bite-sized enlightenment. Please RSVP on this page.
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Bonno's moeder kijkt uit het raam van Zoete Broodjes. Tijdens het project The most important things are not things.
Ignite
Ignite is run by locals, for locals. Fast-paced and merciless, Ignite evenings are fun, thought-provoking nights, full of fresh ideas and clever insights. Speakers get five minutes to present their idea. They make use of twenty slides that auto-advance every fifteen seconds. Ignite serves as a platform for locals to connect offline and have a drink together. All presentations will be given in English.