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  • Image: Peter de Cupere (BE), Bert Brouwenstijn

    Peter De Cupere: Soft Memory (2016)

    Peter De Cupere: Soft Memory (2016) brush from human hair and perfume bottle displayed in the exhibition  Aromatic Art (Re-)constructed: In Search of Lost Scents  at VU  

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  • A must-smell exhibition at VU

    Aromatic Art (Re-)constructed: In Search of Lost Scents

    Co-curated by the mind behind our Odorama series, Caro Verbeek, the exhibition entitled Aromatic Art (Re-)constructed: In Search of Lost Scents on view in the main building of VU is an extensive...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Oosterdok

    Open Call 2019 Olfactory History of Oosterdok

    This open call is closed

    Before Covid19, we were planning an ambitious event in Amsterdam about the Sensory History of Oosterdok, the eastern part of the old harbour of the city. Related to this project, Mediamatic issued an...

  • The Code Noir: A brief, yet powerful history

    Winston Churchill famously said that “those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Our upcoming NeoFuturist Dinner touches on the importance of learning from our collective...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball

    Food is both fuel and identity

    A blog for Code Noir

    In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...

  • Club 11, PostCS

    Breedband voor cultuur

    in Amsterdam

    Op 6 december 2005 organiseert Virtueel Platform in Club 11 (PostCS) een middag rondom breedband en cultuur, waar wordt getoond wat publieke hoge bandbreedte kan betekenen voor allerlei soorten...

  • Pachinko, i.a. Nishijin & Sankyo, from 1980…

    Extremely addictive

    The first Pachinko machines appeared in Japan around 1920 and were initially intended as children's toys. A decade later Pachinko became very popular among grown-ups as well. It's highly addictive...

  • Jet Rocket, Sega, 1970

    Arcade flight simulator and the gem of our collection

    Jet Rocket, released by SEGA in 1970, is a flight simulator that makes use of visual techniques which were also used for military flight simulators. By playing with a real controller stick in a...

  • project: Maarten Brinkerink

    Monumentenjacht!

    Een sociale campagne voor locatie-gebaseerde mobiele erfgoedapplicaties

    Monumentenjacht! is een webplatform dat een online sociaal netwerk rond om de Oorlogsmonumenten in Beeld applicatie vormgeeft.

  • 2009 Guy Königstein

    Family Stories

    A literal representation of the thread of life.

    Family Stories is comprised of two stop motion films focused on the shifting dynamics of family history and family relationships.

  • project: Berit Soolsma, Marije van Veen

    Archief Paradiso

    Van onzichtbare versplintering naar interactieve roman

    Winnaar juryprijs DOEN Pitch, tijdens Kom je Ook? 5. Zij volgden hun DOEN Clinic bij Mediamatic Een interactief archief maakt het muzikaal erfgoed van Paradiso van een onzichtbare versplinterde...

  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Kaspar Wimberley, Susanne Kudielka

    Stuttgart Pavilion

    Hiding the meat from God

    Maultaschen mutations from Stuttgart Scheduled to open 5 December 2009 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic.

  • Pleutin, Patrick, Schaer, Roland 1 Jan 1996

    Tous les Savoirs du Monde

    L’aventure des encyclopédies de Sumer au xxIe siècle

  • TINKEBELL. leftover-shop

    (the one and only)

    the TINKEBELL. leftover-shop a shop initiated by TINKEBELL. that contains original and unique leftovers, try outs or inspirational objects used to conceptualize and create the projects that can be...

  • DOEN Pitch van ANP Historisch Archief

    Voorstel voor een community als plek waar jong en oud samen een stuk geschiedenis van Nederland in beeld brengen!

  • PICNIC '06 Welcome Reception

    As part of the welcome reception, the European Archive will celebrate its official launch.

  • Residency: Scent and Protest

    During a residency with Art Olfaction Amsterdam at Mediamatic, Cohene will explore formulas for neutralizers for scent-based crowd control methods such as 'The Skunk’. 

  • Death of the Author, Survival of the Avatar

    Can the dead still be involved in social networking?

    There are a lot of websites that revolve around remembering the dead. For instance, Tributes is a site where you can search obituaries and make a tribute to your lost loved one; they say '60-seconds...

  • Aanjagen van verandering

    Aletta's Back-in-a-Bite

    Afgelopen vrijdag was het zover. Evelyn de Roos ging samen met haar collega's van het instituut voor vrouwengeschiedenis (Aletta) aan de slag tijdens hun DOEN Clinic, de prijs die ze won met haar...

  • book: William Calvin, George Ojemann 25 Apr 1995

    Conversations with Neil’s Brain

    The Neural Nature of Thought and Language

    Neurophysiologist Calvin and neurosurgeon Ojemann succeed admirably in describing the anatomy and physiology of the brain-undoubtedly the most complex organ in the human body-in very understandable...

  • Joodse Huizen

    herdenking van Joods Amsterdam

    Het project ‘Joodse Huizen’ verbindt Amsterdammers van nu met de Amsterdammers van toen. Zij geven een gezicht aan de namen van alle in de oorlog omgekomen Joodse Nederlanders. Op 4 mei 2011 werden...

  • Scentless Apprentice Radio Show

    Scentless Apprentice is the first aromatic radio show, anywhere, ever! Come to Mediamatic and listen to the live show  featuring a concoction of interviews, true stories, tall tales, and cultural...

  • book: Janet Murray 1 Jan 1997

    Hamlet on the Holodeck

    The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace

    Technology changes storytelling because movies don't tell stories in the same manner as wandering bards.

  • The Hard Surrender of The Navy Terrain

    As someone who is not born or raised in the Netherlands, I thought the Navy Terrain was just a public park and historic museum at first. Considering the eventful history of the Navy Terrain and what...

  • Dementia...its a bit of a bugger!

    Dementia will be an inevitable part of old age for many of us.

    Expressions of angst surrounding old age dementia seem to be based on the premise that to lose some bodily functions will never be so bad, so devastating as to lose one's mind. Watching my fathers...

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