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    Mixing up the emulsifiers

  • Science
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  • Mediamatic Magazine 6#2/3

    The Old Media Issue — winter 1991

    Sign language is the oldest time-based visual medium. Only in recent decades have those with a normal sense of hearing begun to realize that deaf sign language is not simply a 'crutch'; it is a...

  • Bio Clean Lab Layout (old)

    Floor and wallplan

    The Bio Clean lab is a tidily organised space where many projects are worked on simultaneously. That means that appropriate storage and object placement is paramount for all collaborations. The Clean...

  • Celebrating Spit

    dribble, slobber, sputum, drool...

    A weapon, a balm and a data bank, when used respectfully saliva brings us passion and healing. 
  • Oosterdok Gökçe Baykan, Gabrielle de Haseth

    Haeckel Hunt

    "Catch’em all around Oosterdok!" Remastered

    Maybe you have already come across the mysterious signs popping all around the Oosterdok region and wondered what they are.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Jules Marshall 1 Jan 1992

    AI !(2)

    Back to Networks
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol.7#1 Remko Scha 1 Jan 1992

    Virtual Voices (2)

    Mimesis

    Soft Machines
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1992

    The Archeology of Computer Assemblage

    The 'Ars Combinatoria' of Berlin philosopher-engineer Werner K

    The Berlin philosopher and programmer Werner Künzel has hatched an ambitious plan to develop a genealogy of computer theory, written in 'the spirit of philosophy'. In the five books he has published...

  • "I steal DNA from strangers"

    Heather Dewey-Hagborg creates portraits from discarded DNA.

    Picasso once said that “ bad artists copy, good artists steal ”. It appears that New York artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg has taken this literally. Her project "Stranger Visions," fashions portraits...

  • Bio-design vs. Bio-art

    What is the difference? Is there a difference?

    Art and Design are two separate areas of study and expertise with their own schools, histories, and rules. However, when it comes to the biological, the terms 'Art' and 'Design' seem to be used...
  • 2019 Willem Velthoven

    Better 36,000 cyclists with AirPods than 1 deaf…

    Update: Ok, 22 cyclists on e-bikes if you're more strict about it.

    I was worried about my recent purchase of a set of wireless earbuds. The news tells me it was a bad idea to buy Apple's new gadget. Airpods are evil because they are hard to recycle and even harder...
  • 1 Jan 2002

    Alex Adriaansens (1953 - 2018)

    visual artist

    Alex Adriaansens was  director of V2_ until June 2018, and afterwards was an advisor and consultant at V2. As the artistic director of V2_he was also responsible for the DEAF bi-annual festival one...

  • Insulating a 3D Print House

    Rob van der Burg works with a 3D printed column by DUS Architects

    In the north of Amsterdam DUS Architects started their 3D Printed Canal House. The Roommaker (Kamermaker) is printing parts of the house, testing its construction and usability. Mediamatic got a hold...

  • A jacket to solve your social awkwardness, a bag…

    An overview of the projects from the Hybrid Wearables Workshop

    I do not need my laptop to be merged with my overcoat. I do not want to receive email on a tiny screen mounted on my eyeglasses. I do not have enough attention to distribute to real and virtual...

  • Gob in the Machine

    Spit and Posthumanism

    I’ve spoken about spit and discovered art in which it is the primary material. It has been used as a motif and even as a cleaning fluid to restore historical works ( check out how Moma uses it to...

  • Intimate Currency

    Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim

    With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...

  • Building Bacteria in Second Life

    after the lecture by Matt Biddulph

    Joshua Kauffman is a world citizen searching for reasons while based in Amsterdam. He writes about urban planning, media, sustainability, usability, presence and community, and does consulting for...

  • Lab-specific Recipes

    How to feed and treat your micro organisms

    Working on a lab is a lot like cooking. You can prepare the food for your little pets, the micro organisms. There are a couple of rules involved; like extreme cleanliness. But if you practice a bit

  • Boy with Toy

    A fascination with technology

    From my early childhood I have been fascinated with technology. When I was only 4 years old, my uncle gave me a "motortje", a little electro engine screwed to a small wooden board with some gears...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Hein Masseling 1 Jan 1998

    Tierra

    Artificial Evolution in an Artificial World

    Until recently, one of the most frustrating problems for evolutional biologists was the fact that the process of evolution could not be directly perceived as a process. With the recent development of...

  • Kick off!

    Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07

    RFID Hackers Camp kicks off at Westergasfabriek , the PICNIC 07 location. With a group of great hackers, designers and engineers the camp aims to bring together creativity, knowledge, and skills from...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol.1#1 Frits Maats 23 Feb 1986

    The Painting as a semi-manifactured Article

    A painting that is finished is hung on the wall. A statical image, a resting point amidst everything that moves. All that manifests itself to the painter, like his ideas, the physical actions, the...
  • book: Florian Rötzer 1 Jan 1991

    Digitaler Schein

    Aesthetik der Elektronischen Medien

  • Time Pilot, Konami, 1982

    Time Pilot is an addicting shoot ‘em up

    What's in a name? In Time Pilot the player shoots his way through several time lines. From biplanes from the 1910s to the next millennium's UFOs: Time Pilot is a highly addicting shoot 'em up (also:...
  • 1 Jan 2003

    Mieke Gerritzen

    Multi Media Designer

    Founder of NL.Design, an Amsterdam-based design company, which produces designs for all media and collaborates with many different designers, writers and artists.

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