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    Makers4all

    Non-profit help organisation

    This is a collective of 'makers'. These makers have 3D-printers with which they make help-items for contact workers ( like nurses, doctors,...) This production is for the betterment of society, free...

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  • Science
  • Technology
  • Form
  • Machine
  • How can our Experience of Intimacy be changed by…

    Throughout the Covid19 lockdown, there has been a 47% increase in the use of the internet as the world has turned to technology to connect with loved ones. This has made the research of Lancel/Maat...

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Future Affair

    17
    Dec 2025
    15
    Jan 2027
    - by Laura A Dima

    What forms can touch take when bodies are separated, and technology becomes the mediator? At our renovated Haptic Lab, we welcome artist Laura A Dima's Future Affair, an interactive installation...

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    TACTimat

    17
    Dec 2025
    15
    Jan 2027
    - by Laura A Dima

    TACTimat is part art, part therapy tool for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), utilizing haptic stimuli to address the needs of hyper and hyposensitive children. TACTimat is a...

  • 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...

  • Piss or get off the pot!

    New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system

    It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...

  • 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...

  • Celebrating Spit

    dribble, slobber, sputum, drool...

    A weapon, a balm and a data bank, when used respectfully saliva brings us passion and healing. 

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

    Rheingold

    Howard Rheingold, Virtual Reality, Secker & Warburg, 1991

    The second half of the memorable year 1989 saw not only the 'velvet revolution' that swept Eastern Europe, but also the presentation of virtual reality to the world. Two developments that will occupy...

  • 37 Pavilions

    First ‘user generated’ biennale

    Here we have collected the proposals for the city pavilions in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 that were sent to us by the curators. We also show what each pavilion looks like after it was built. Find...

  • Arcade Portraits

    My favorite handheld

    Mediamatic crew playing their favorite handheld game. Pictures made by Marina Uhrig. The portraits are part of the Arcade exhibition .

  • Ms. Pac-Man, Midway, 1981

    Perhaps the most simple and effective sequel ever. The design and drawings featuring on the oldest Ms. Pac-Man coin-ops are hand-painted. Later they switched to stickers, which wrongfully spread the...

  • Centipede, Atari, 1980

    This game was developed in collaboration with Dona Bailey, at the time one of the few women in the gaming industry.

    In this shooting game you control a laser pistol with a trackball. You have to try to kill a centipede, which gets faster and faster by eating its way through a mushroom field. If you shoot it right...

  • Visiting Hours

    Every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday between 14.00 and 16.00, you are very welcome to step by our Open Aroma Lab. Smell our selection of aroma-molecules, learn about working with scent as a...

  • Sexualitech

    Exploring erobotics, digisexualities and the future of sex

    The study of e robotics and digisexuality explores the intersections between sexuality and technology and how tech is evolving our understanding of t ouch, intimacy and sex.

  • 1 Jan 2004

    Interactive Video at World Wide Video Festival

    Workshop in Amsterdam for European Video Artists from 10 to 14 June

    Five intense days of exploring, discussing and building interactive video projects with international video artists during the World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam from 10 to 14 June 2004. Get...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Bart Ellenbroek

    Building a geodesic dome

    My experiences during my third week at Mediamatic

    Exploring the possibilities of a geodesic dome built from mycelium.

  • 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...

  • book: Chris Hables Gray 13 Aug 1998

    Postmodern War

    The New politics of Conflict

    Postmodern War provides a sweeping vision of the history of war and the emergence of its specifically late 20th-century form.

  • Summer 2018

    Overview of our all our Art Olfaction Amsterdam events

  • Open call: CYNETART Competition 2012

    Media Art & Digital Culture

    The international CYNETART competition is open to artists, designers and scientists who dedicate themselves in their artistic and reflective discussion; in particular, to interdisciplinary and hybrid...

  • Workshops Art Olfaction Amsterdam

    During Art Olfaction Amsterdam, we host a series of olfactory hands-on workshops. Join us for an intensive perfumery class, or learn how to make hand-made soap from Scratch. 

  • Shopping Lists

    Dev Camp Day 3

    Hayo together with Machiel are in charge of getting the right equipment. They have compiled a list of the numerous hardware shops in and around Amsterdam and get the parts essential to make the...

created Branko Kleynen modified Branko Kleynen

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