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  • Image: Willem Velthoven

    Average weight of a book in Europe

    approaching zero at the and of the 2oth century

    The first Gutenberg Bible weighted around 22 KGs. Hardly usable. Given the fact that the typface used was very hard to read by current standards, it amazing that it was the start of a revolution.
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  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1994

    Editorial

    The Eighth Art

    This issue of Mediamatic is based on the assumption that advertising was one of the great arts of the twentieth century.

  • شمال عاديٌّ جدًّا

    تمهيد للشّمال

    أول دليل سياحي لهولندا باللغة العربية، يُعنى بشمال أمستردام. أُنجز في صيف 2010 مع مجموعة من المحررين و22 فنانًا من مصر والشرق الأوسط وهولندا. لماذا الفنانون بالتحديد؟ هذا أمر منطقي: لأن من دون فنانين...

  • 666: 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 our current practice and recommends that the ministry of culture...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 2#2 Jans Possel, Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1987

    Editorial

    If there's one trend to be observed at the video festivals of the last few months (The Hague, Ljubljana, Linz) then it's independent video's ever-growing TV ambitions. And the festivals' as well.
  • Mediamatic Magzine vol 5#1+2 Peter Zegveld 1 Jan 1990

    Venus née/ Praecox

    The Artists

    The Premature Annunciation
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Wim Nijenhuis 1 Jan 1991

    L'Inertie Polaire - Paul Virilio

    Christian Bourgeois (pub) Paris 1990 ISBN 2-267-00887-4, French text, pp. 167, F 80

    The final development stage of mankind will turn the resident into a sitter and the final vehicle of transport technology will be his seat.
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 # 1+2 Alfred Birnbaum 1 Jan 1989

    Reng Ga Ga

    Footnote to a Cadavre

    The cadavre exquis finds an interesting parallel in the ancient Japanese poetical genre of renga or ‘linked verse’. An exactingly disciplined aesthetic exercise that was the height of aristocratic...

  • Gonzo (circus) community empowering

    A proposal for the creation of a community enhanced events finder

    Creating the first platform where professionals and enthousiast can find information about everything that's going on in new music and culture using web2.0 concepts.
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 4#3 Errki Huhtamo 1 Jan 1990

    Gulliver in Figurine Land (en)

    In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first few decades of this century, a radical change in the anthropomorphic, human-sized based world of perception of Western man took place: the...
  • Press release

    Hema threatens with legal action

    because of the El Hema exhibition

    EXTRA: Mediamatic will meet with the Hema B.V.'s Director of Marketing on Friday the 27th of July. In a letter postdated the 23rd of July 2007, the Hema has changed their tone of voice ('The Hema...
  • 1 Jan 2004

    Butterfly Works

    big changes, small starts

    The butterfly effect: ‘One flap of a butterfly wing here can cause a hurricane on the other side of the world.’

  • Mediamatic Magazine 9#4 & 10#1

    fall 1999

    The Printed Issue This Book will disappear. Since the appearance of issue zero in 1985, Mediamatic has stubbornly resisted the disappearance of the book. We have made ever more beautiful, thick and...

  • Visual Identity

    Georgia

    Here you'll find the Mediamatic Huisstijlhandboek (styleguide) with some good examples, and insightful remarks. Based the works of Abel van Gijlswijk, Mediamatic's star designer. Few key points to...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 3#3 Preikschat, Wolfgang 1 Jan 1989

    Everything that moves...

    3 New York Museums

    The media are about to disappear, or that’s what ADILKNO argued so convincingly in our last issue. Film is on its last legs and with one foot in the museum. Television and video still seem alive and...

  • In Memoriam Videokunst

    An Instructive Exhibition

    Video Art has passed on. It will be laid to rest in the next few months by the Cardinal of the West German faithful, DR. WULF HERZOGENRATH, assisted by that relative novice DR. EDITH DECKER. The...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1995

    DoorMat FAT

    The DoorMat family

    For Mediamatic’s Home Issue, Dutch type designers Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland designed a special typeface. The DoorMat family
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#3 Auguste de Villiers de L'isle Adam 1 Jan 1990

    l'Affichage Céleste

    Eritis sicut dii

    Strange as it may seem, and tend as it may to make financiers smile, my story concerns: Heaven!
  • Mediamatic Magazine 3#4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1989

    In Memoriam Videokunst

    An Instructive Exhibition

    Video Art has passed on. It will be laid to rest in the next few months by the Cardinal of the West German faithful, DR. WULF HERZOGENRATH, assisted by that relative novice DR. EDITH DECKER. The...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 4#3 Jorinde Seijdel 1 Jan 1990

    Face to Face with Fame

    Is it memorex, or is it live?

    from The Making of a Wax Statue: Phase 5: Implanting the hair. After the glass eyes are placed in the hollow wax head, real hair is implanted piece by piece. After this it is cut and styled.
  • Jodi Dean 1 Jan 2001

    Multiple Reality 1

    Part 1

    Jodi Dean's remarks are about the idea of the public sphere and the relation of this idea to computer-mediated interaction. It consists of three sections: 1. What is the public sphere? What kind of...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1992

    van Blokland, van Rossum

    Erik van Bokland, Just van Rossum, BittPull Postscript bit-font system, Den Haag 1992

    Mediamatic is usually typeset in Albertan, a typeface designed by Jim Rimmer for his own company (Giampa Textware) in Vancouver. But for this number we had a testversion of Bitpull at our disposal.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 6#2/3 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1991

    Fine Art Makes New Media Old

    The Art of the Livin' Dead

    The sex of Fine Art, the mother of that art, is the financial object, an attractive thing. The object carries the content-value. in the nineteenth century, through the notion of l'Art pour l'Art

  • Mediamatic Magazine 7#3/4

    winter 1994

    End of Advertising Issue This issue of Mediamatic is based on the assumption that advertising was one of the great arts of the twentieth century.
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Hugo Herrera Tobón, Natalia Domínguez Rangel

    Bogotá Pavilion

    The Bogota pavilion by curators Hugo Herrera Tobon and Natalia Domínguez Rangel opens 5 December 2009 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic and on view until January 3, 2010. With artists...

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