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  • Nadine Jarvis: Challenging Post Mortem Traditions

    Designer Nadine Jarvis has produced some very thought provoking art work using cremated remains. But before you say, "Oh, I've seen those paintings and glass sculptures with the ashes mixed in"...

  • Death
  • Fine Art
  • Design
  • Participation is Powerful

    Participation is powerful. Often, children lack an opportunity to truly participate in the funeral services for their loved ones. When I was 8 and my brother 9, our father died after a few months of...

  • Miktor & Molf workshop

    Coffin for your beloved

    Together with the relatives Miktor & Molf work on a coffin that will be a homage to the deceased. As a starting point the family members bring along an archive of images of the loved one.

  • Bio Clean Lab Rules

    The agreement to sign before starting your work in the lab

    Anyone understands that a workplace as special as the laboratory comes with a couple of do's and don'ts. Mainly for safety, but also to keep the whole thing manageable. It is very important that you...

  • Memento mori profiel

    Van online profiel naar herdenkingsplek

    Met het maken van een online profiel op Mediamatic.net, Hyves of Facebook proberen veel mensen expressie te geven aan hun individuele identiteit. Er kan allerlei persoonlijke informatie worden...

  • necrid

    poems and dreams

    joy of agony Apr. 24th, 2008 | 07:19 pm i dont want to think no time to reflect wisdom came starring smile awakes a distance... miles and miles between us loneliness ends gently when you say nothing...

  • 26 Bathrooms and 6 Apartments

    Cinematography notes on the Toilet

    ''It was an affectionate, ironical, critical look at bathroom design - it is not only what people put in their bathrooms, but also what people do in their bathrooms, which is the secret room of the...

  • Together Forever

    When I was an apprentice, the directors told me a story that has shaped the way I view funerals and family requests to this day. Sometimes it happens that two people who are very close die at nearly...

  • Project

    Shrinking Cities

    Cities are shrinking all over the world!

    Shrinking cities are a cultural challenge to us. In the Shrinking Cities project, architects, academics and artists investigate recent developments in Detroit, Ivanovo, Manchester / Liverpool and...

  • Funeral Rites in Chinatown

    "The clear, melodic notes of a brass band marching along Chinatown's Stockton Avenue catch the attention of an Asian woman picking over produce at a sidewalk vegetable stand. As the band turns the...

  • Review Amsterdam Biennale in Volkskrant

    Internet travel agency for the freshest art

    By developing an online do-it-yourself travel agency, Mediamatic had added a new chapter to the blessings of internet, writes Marina de Vries in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. Read her review of...

  • The Cremains of the Day

    A look at Words in Funeral Service

    Euphemisms abound in funeral service. As Hugh Rawson explains in one of my most favorite books, Euphemisms & Other Double Talk (Crown Publishers NY, 1981), words that are used to describe unpleasant...

  • Edwin Oudshoorn workshop

    Coffin for your beloved

    Edwin Oudshoorn works on a coffin that is covered with multiple fabrics that each signify a memory of the loved one.

  • Gypsy Graves

    Gypsy graves have a life of their own in Portland, Oregon

    In Portland Oregon's beautiful Rose City Cemetery, there is a section of Gypsy graves. The monuments on these graves are interesting enough during most of the year because of the photographs of men...

  • Ashes to Ashes

    Part 1

    For many, the idea of returning our bodies to the earth is a sacred and appealing concept. Those of us with a special bond to a particular patch of earth have found ways of making this return even...

  • workshop: Tanja Baudoin, Michel Langendijk

    Workshop Coffin for your Beloved

    Work together with a contemporary artist

    A coffin with poetic ribbons, graffiti or textile? A robe or something more conceptual? As part of the Ik RIP exhibition on death and self-representation Mediamatic organized workshops for surviving...

  • 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...

  • Workshop Melanie Bonajo

    Coffin for your beloved

    For Melanie Bonajo designing the coffin is a communal process with much room for rituals and stories about the deceased.

  • 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...

  • Jarr and his Finish Flag

    What have people been bringing to our resistance archive?

    In this ongoing series, Objects and their People, we'll be writing about our favourite resistance objects, anecdotes and people. Keep up with what is happening in the Pièce de Résistance exhibition...

  • 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.

  • The Future of Plastic

    An exhibition by Maurizio Montalti

    Maurizio Montalti, partner of our Myco Design Lab, just opened his solo exhibition called "The Future of Plastic" in Naples. The exhibition will present some of the latest research and grown products

  • ...and beyond workshop

    The workshop of fashion designers ...and beyond is aimed at working together on a shroud for the deceased. On this shroud drawings will be applied with stitches, as a final farewell and in memory of...

  • Etalagemoorden

    Over gladde koppen en het feit dat de guillotine nog in werking lijkt te zijn.

    Mistroostig word ik van de talloze onthoofde paspoppen in mijn blikveld. Ik begrijp het niet, waarom al die doden in etalages? Is DEATH SELLS de nieuwste leus? Sigaretten verkopen beter sinds erop...

  • Zedz workshop

    Coffin for your beloved

    Together with the relatives Zedz designs a coffin that expresses the individuality of the loved one.

created Patrick McNally modified Willem Velthoven

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