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Ignite Amsterdam 18
12 presentations x 5 minutes
The twelve speakers strutting their stuff this month range from architects to beer brewers, and from researchers to cooks. Join us for presentations of films, visual art, urban design concepts and food, and for a crash course into the notorious hackers group Anonymous. Please RSVP on this page to let us know you're coming.
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De Buitenbrouwerij is een mobiele bierbrouwerij van Henriette Waal, hier in Tilburg in 2009. Meer over de brouwerij vind je hier.
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.
Speakers
Maarten Koek
Maarten is a furniture designer and visual artist. He graduated from the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) in 2011 and has since been working on a series of c...
Paddestoelen Paradijs Second Opening Party
Two concerts, radioactive mushrooms, and mold fights
Come see the new artworks and installations that have been growing in the exhibition since our last opening party. Join us for an epic mold battle, and listen to mushroom- and mold inspired concerts by the DNK Ensemble and David de Buyser. Other organic tunes will be provided by DJ Kristy Foom. Did you leave your bacteria with us during Museum Night? Pick up your petri dish and have a little souvenir of yourself! Please RSVP on this page.
Program
Mushroom spores concert by the DNK Ensemble
The Secret Sound of Spores installation has been making itself heard throughout Mediamatic Bank for a few months now. For our second opening party, Koen Nutters wrote an arrangement for the DNK Ensemble to accompany the sound of the spores. The DNK Ensemble is Seamus Cater on harmonica, Viljam Nybacka on cymbals, and Oguz Buyukberber on bass clarinet.
What do you think God is doing right now?
WatSpinoza? in Turkey
What do you think God is doing right now? In 2009 Mediamatic spread this question among many others around Amsterdam. In 2012 we'll be asking questions in Kocaeli, Amsterdam's Turkish sister municipality. Sixteen questions, based on the thoughts of the philosopher Spinoza, will be posted around the campus of Kocaeli University. From May 19 Spinoza keeps you thinking in Amsterdam.
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Onderdeel van het WatSpinoza? project in Turkije. Foto genomen op de Weteringschans in Amsterdam.
This year Spinoza is the theme of Kocaeli University's annual international philosophy conference. Amsterdam major Van der Laan will speak during the conference (May 21 - 23) on Spinoza's contribution to the development of Amsterdam. The project is a gift from Amsterdam to Kocaeli.
Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Jewish descent who lived in Amsterdam in the 17th century. He was banished from the Jewish community as a result of his radical philosophy and moved away from Amsterdam. His famous work Ethica, published post-mortem, contains some of his most controversial ideas about God and the nature ...
Donna Summer memorial dance party
Love 2 love Donna forever NOW!
The Queen of Disco died and we'll be celebrating her with a small and modest memorial dance party. Join us for music and drinks at Mediamatic Fabriek. Feel the love!
Play the Energy Battlefield
A Life-sized Board Game
Graphic designers Femke Herregraven and Chris Lee developed a life-sized board game in which teams battle each other to secure energy resources in a future world order. Team up with your friends or join a team on the spot. The game starts at 15:00 and will be lead by the designers themselves. Please RSVP if you want to join.
The game
In Hyper-butter, Mana-batteries four teams explore the politics and economics of the New Order energy abundance by taking on the role of either The Democratic Federation, New Iceland, Mercenary Corporation, or P2P Mob. Each team represents a modus operandi and approach to energy abundance. Through the game Herregraven and Lee aim to catalyze reflection on conflicts that could emerge when the global competition for limited energy resources becomes a non-issue.
More information
This is your last chance to play the game! We start playing at 15:00. One game takes approximately 1,5 hours. If you a...
Het Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur (SfA) presenteerde donderdag 10 mei de uitslag van de meerjarige subsidievoorzieningen, met goed nieuws voor Mediamatic. We kunnen hierdoor een belangrijk deel van onze activiteiten de komende twee jaar doorzetten.
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Colored walls at the Schommelclub-
Projecting colors and figures on the wall at Schommelclub Feest: Push me tender.
Door een driemaal overvraagd budget heeft het SfA scherpe keuzes moeten maken, maar Mediamatic is een van de negen geselecteerde instellingen die jaarlijks een bedrag van
€ 2.700.000 mogen verdelen.
Samen met Mediamatic ontvingen de volgende instellingen een positief advies: Submarine Channel, V2, Waag Society en Steim op het gebied van e-cultuur. Archip...
Aquaponics Workshop
Learn how to build an aquaponics system yourself!
At Mediamatic we've been experimenting with aquaponics: a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. We want to share our knowledge with you and enable you to build your own aquaponics system at home. Want to join us for this workshop? You can buy your ticket(s) online.
What is Aquaponics?
The Aquaponic Gardening Community describes aquaponics as "the cultivation of fish and plants together in a constructed, recirculating ecosystem utilizing natural bacterial cycles to convert fish waste to plant nutrients. This is an environmentally, friendly, natural food-growing method that harnesses the best attributes of aquaculture and hydroponics, without the need to discard any water or filtrate or add chemical fertilizer."
The Mediamatic Aquaponics team is currently building an urban oasis based on this ecofriendly system.
What will you learn?
We'll start t...
May 5 Tablecloth at Mediamatic Fabriek
Are you on it?
780,559 names of Amsterdam residents have been woven into Maarten Baas' May 5 tablecloth. People came to Mediamatic Fabriek this weekend to find their names on the 60-meter-long piece. Saturday we rounded off with free expired wine and an acoustic Mind Igloo-concert by The Don't Touch My Croque-Monsieurs.
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Een lange tafel met het vrijheidskleed van Maarten Baas in de Mediamatic FABRIEK in Amsterdam.
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Officieel historisch optreden van The Don't Touch My Croque_Monsieurs eenmalig live in de ballon.-
Nooit eerder vertoond, erg zeldzaam intiem akoestische luistersessie met Amsterdam's BESTE. BAND. OOIT.
The May 5 tablecloth was designed specially for the Vrijheidsmaaltijd (Liberty Meal). This new tradition encourages everyone in Amsterdam to sit down for a meal together with family, friends and neighbors. After this weekend it will be included in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum.
Digital Camera Modification Workshop
Modify your old digital cameras to make visual dream machines
In this workshop Brooklyn artist Phillip Stearns will guide you through the process of modifying the electronics of old digital cameras to create unique works of glitch art. No knowledge of electronics is required. You can buy your tickets online.
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Music Hack Day on the first floor-
Picture taken during the STEIM Crackle Box / Arduino workshop in the Mediamatic workshop space in the Duintjer CS building.
What we'll be doing
During this workshop we will dissect various specimens of digital cameras, learn to identify the different parts of the circuits and understand how to rewire them to induce dream states within the minds of the machines. The primary technique we will use is circuit bending, which requires only a bit of courage, and dexterity enough to handle small screwdrivers, manipulate bits of wire, and operate a soldering iron.
Once we have covered basic techniques we will go into more advanced topics such as circuit modification/augmentation, the construction of basic oscillators, and how to use transistors to inte...
New Order Weekend Special
Grab a tour, watch a film, start a game and enjoy the party
In the weekend of april 28 and 3o, Oostenburg was Amsterdam’s unofficial party island. Roest, our neighbors, opened their doors for a new season and Mediamatic Fabriek joined the party. People were able to discover their Energy Avatar, they could play the Energy Battlefield or listen to the stories told in the hot air balloons. Rory and Ula took everybody on a tour to see all the New Order installations. When the sun set, the blue whale lit up again. At the end, people enjoyed the bubble screening and danced to the tunes of deejay Aletro.
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- 14.00 - 17.00: Watch the Aquaponics team in action while they build their own sustainable urban farm.
- 14.00 - 20.00: Listen to the Bill Bryson’s audio book At Home inside the Mind Igloo.
- 14.00 - 22.00: Take the avatar quiz to see which energy animal you are.
- 16.00 - 20.00: Ula Lewicka and Rory Hyde will give tours through the exhibition space. F...