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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture
- with Niels Albers25Sep 2021High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture
- with Niels Albers28Aug 2021High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture
- with Niels Albers12Jun 2021High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
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Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary
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The Rat With Wings: A History
The pigeon has sunk deep - in the eyes of humans, at least. If the bird once stood for peace, knowledge and devotion, now it is mostly thought of in terms of fear and disgust. The animal itself...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
T - Communist Carpenting
- with Niels Albers1Jan 4300High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
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Palestine Heirloom Seed Library
The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library was founded in 2014 and works to find and preserve ancient seed varieties and traditional farming practices. It works to preserve the area’s rare and precious seed...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Essential Eau de Cologne
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The Sewage System as Political Infrastructure
What can sewers tell us about the functioning of our modern democracy? About the role of technology and infrastructure in politics? The sewage system isn’t ‘just there’ as a neutral entity; instead
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Shitty Business
Fertilizing the land with human excrements: now that ideas about the ‘circular economy’ are gaining momentum, ‘human fertili s er’ is in the picture again. Indeed, again : up until the beginning of...
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Tip of the Nose
On Smell and Language
“Wow, it smells wonderful!” I exclaim as we enter the neighborhood bakery. “It smells, it smells so… nutty.” Hmm, that’s not quite the word that I wanted to say, I think to myself. Ever since...
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Stories of Coca
Controversies in Usage from South-America to Western Europe
It is one of the most consumed drugs worldwide. Yet, when considering that it is forbidden in the Netherlands, it is difficult to picture how "cocaine is the most seized drug" here ( Sawbridge 2019...
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Lisa Witte
Exhibition Assistant
Restorator, (online) curator and copywriter for Mediamatic, with an interest for publicparticipation and multisensory applications.
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Kunstformen der Natur
Calendar
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Niels van Poecke
Niels van Poecke (1983) studied art and culture sciences and philosophy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He finished his studies in philosophy with research into Greek tragedy and the...
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History
The reason for creating the Clean Lab at our Dijksgracht location was primarily to create a lab space large enough and suitable for the growing tide of artists wanting to expand their work into...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Geschiedenis
Aroma Lab
In 2017 is het Aroma Lab opgezet voor ontwerpers die willen experimenteren met geur. Klara Ravat was de eerste gebruiker van het lab. Zij was in 2017 de artist-in-residence.
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exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Haeckel Hunt
- Augmented Reality Game1Mar 2021Available in the App Store and Google Play store ! This Augmented Reality app adds an extra dimension to the Haeckel scavenger hunt we have set out in the Oosterdok area. Search for the eye-catching...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
La Cocina Presents: Staging a Banquet
- Lecture by Tina Harris31Oct 2020Like plants and people, recipes travel all over the world. They adapt to, but also influence, the context and ingredients available. This event alludes to the importance of reflecting on the effects...
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Take a seat and lean in: The poetry of Code Noir
Reflecting on representation and language with Rachel Rumai Diaz
Following the end of the Code Noir dinner series, I had a chat with Rachel Rumai Diaz-- the spoken word artist behind the poetry that breathed life into the culinary journey of our latest Neo
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Garri
Yuca, Macaxeira, Mandioca, Aipim, Agbeli or Cassava 'Bread'
“Cassava was a root vegetable indigenous to South America and the Caribbean, and it was directly available to the Indigenous people in the Caribbean. So they subsisted on the food of their land, and...
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Asian Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
Double the dough to hold the door to travel from India to Trinidad and Tobago. I can take a trip anytime because home is wherever Curry Channa and Tamarind Sauce coat my fingers. I know I have...
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African Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
I come from far far away I come from conquered soil and enchanted tongues I want to tell you where I’m from But I’m not sure my body remembers I am all the lost girls searching for their bodies to...
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European Period
Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz
Here lies the fruit of my invaded womb. This is what is left of me. There are pieces of my body scattered around looking for its way back to a home that no longer exists. Home is now wherever you...