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A community of the dead
A conversation with Elizabeth Heyert
Mary Caparitia Bush is ready to go to the party. She is wearing a stunning black sequin dress with a pattern of white leaves. Lace gloves and a pink hat with a flower complement the look. Mary’s hair...
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Space Expo center, Keplerlaan 3, Noordwijk
Mission to the Moon
20Jul 2009- Re-enacting the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon.21Jul 2009To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 visit to the Moon, two brave astronauts will attempt to land on the surface of the Moon. As a special treat they may even perform a reconnaissance...
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ikCoffin
An Ik R.I.P. project
Mediamatic transformed the ikCam into an ikCoffin for the Ik R.I.P. exhibition . Visitors were invited to be photographed as corpses. It was very simple: you stepped into the coffin, closed the lid...
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Elena Kravtchenko
IsidoraD - make your dream at D(ream)-lab
IsidoraD is a creative organizer & motivator, multimedia artist, photograph and promoter of special events and showcase for the arts on Earth. The main motivation is to initiate other artists to move...
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cyril perrin
I'm French ! I'm smart ! I'm an artist ! I'm looking for a muse, investors for a new picture exhibition about "Fallen Angels", a place to exhibit those 21 pictures....
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Ashes To Ashes
Rubys Investigation of Transforming/ Trance Singapore
De Serial Kemangieteelt, die mijn vader op poten zette midden jaren zestig, waren voor de Limburgers ’n exotische bezienswaardigheid, een gangzetter midden in hun sensuele heuvelland. Ook al werden...
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De Uitkijk
Death on the web
4أيار / مايو 2009- Upload Cinema #94أيار / مايو 2009Upload Cinema is a cozy get-together offering an inspiring and entertaining one-hour program of Internet shorts. The May 6 show is all about death.
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Webby Official Honoree for Mediamatic.net
15 April 2009 — Today Mediamatic has won a 'Webby Honoree' in the category Cultural Institutions. www.mediamatic.net is the website of the Mediamatic foundation, a social network and a dating site...
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yvette gumbs
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Mensch und Fisch
Late one night I was walking on Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris. I passed a restaurant. It was closed and dark inside. In the windowsill was a fishbowl, with one lonely fish swimming in it. I talked...
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Sexappeal
door Beppe Costa, Hanneke Groenteman en Marcel Musters
Sexappeal is een coproductie met Productiehuis Bellevue.
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Dead links
Despite what the title of this article suggests, these links do go somewhere!
Here you find a collection of links to websites that somehow are related to the topic of death. Leave a comment if you have other good suggestions.
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Galerie Fons Welters
Daniel Roth
21Mar 2009- Portmeirion, Gwyllt Woods25Apr 2009Portmeirion, Gwyllt Woods, a peninsula in the north of Wales, is famous for its atypical climate and beautiful scenery. Its history boasts a number of remarkable individuals.
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Miguel Herrera
A thankful and proud ex-mediamatician!
During the last 4 years I have had to answer more than 500 times why I came to the Netherlands? Therefore, here's another try: Because is in my culture (Latino) to be superstitious and without any...
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PRESS HARDER
Exhibition with books and artists and artistbooks
An exhibition of artistbooks, books made by artists at the peripherique or as maincomponent of their work. Besides showing the books of the 8 participants we will also show more of their work on a...
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Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS
Passed Away Salon
25Mar 2009- Pathology and poetry25Mar 2009The Passed Away Salon of Wednesday 25 March 2009 was a special evening about death, with presentations in which death was approached from many different perspectives. Pathologist Frank van de Goot...
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Bending the Cosmos
28Feb 2009- Terry Rodgers, new work - paintings28Mar 2009TORCH Gallery is pleased to present Bending the Cosmos, the third solo exhibition of US painter Terry Rodgers in the Netherlands. Bending the Cosmos will open in the presence of the artist on...
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Die Dutch catalog
A project by Lucyeileen Hernandez
For her graduation project at the Hogeschool van de Kunsten in Utrecht in 2005, Lucyeileen Hernandez designed a funeral catalog. As a Mexican native living in the Netherlands, Lucyeileen was struck...
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spectres?
Mediated mourning rituals and the cultural acceptance of death
The following is an excerpt from my MA thesis entitled 'Praise the media!' in which I look at examples of mourning rituals, namely the LCD embedded gravestone, through the looking glass of media...
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workshop: Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS
Digital Stowaway Workshop
13Mar 2009- With Etoy for the Mission Eternity project13Mar 2009Following the Etoy lecture on Thursday night, participants of the Digital Stowaway workshop got together with Agent Zai on Friday morning. The aim was to work on compiling a mini-Arcanum Capsule for...
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Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS Isabella Cota
Mission Eternity lecture by Etoy
12Mar 2009- Crossing the Dead-line12Mar 2009Death. Memory. Data. Loss. Body. Information. Remains. Technology. Pilot. Angels. In an attempt to deal with human remains as information in cyberspace, the digital art group and corporation Etoy...
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Roland Willems