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    Title page of a publication of the Code Noir

    Featuring a caricature of a Black person

    Le Code Noir (transl. The Black Code), was a decree passed by France's King Louis XIV in 1685.

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  • 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...

  • A look at the history of Caribbean cuisine

    A blog for Code Noir

    Whether culture, tradition or simple sustenance, food is a central part of human life. It also carries great symbolic value. To share a meal goes beyond the food itself; it extends to an experience...

  • European Period

    Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz

    Here lies the fruit of my invaded womb. This is what is left of me. There are pieces of my body scattered around looking for its way back to a home that no longer exists. Home is now wherever you...

  • Take a seat and lean in: The poetry of Code Noir

    Reflecting on representation and language with Rachel Rumai Diaz

    Following the end of the Code Noir dinner series, I had a chat with Rachel Rumai Diaz-- the spoken word artist behind the poetry that breathed life into the culinary journey of our latest Neo

  • Indigenous Period

    Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz

    My land welcomes you. The mountains told us you were coming. The trees whispered you were close. It was written in the smoke. We have been expecting you. There are no maps to lead you to what you...

  • Asian Period

    Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz

    Double the dough to hold the door to travel from India to Trinidad and Tobago. I can take a trip anytime because home is wherever Curry Channa and Tamarind Sauce coat my fingers. I know I have...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop, 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...

  • The culinary journey of Code Noir

    Told by Lelani Lewis

    “Code Noir”  is a project that guides its audience along the culinary journey of the cultivation of Caribbean cuisine. The namesake of the immersive dinner is the 17th century manuscript defining the...

  • African Period

    Told by Rachel Rumai Diaz

    I come from far far away I come from conquered soil and enchanted tongues I want to tell you where I’m from But I’m not sure my body remembers I am all the lost girls searching for their bodies to...

  • Elficological know‑how

    A take on fictional knowledge by Mediamatic artist in residence Pauline Rip

    How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature  through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? To what extent can fictional knowledge and cultures explore the...

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Teun Castelein

    Rederij Lampedusa

    11
    Sep 2015
    - Refugee boat in recreational boating

    Amsterdam has a new shipping company; Rederij Lampedusa, located in the harbor of Mediamatic. The shipping company consists of a fleet of two North African boats, which were used by refugees to cross...

  • Krakersmonument

    Jeremiah Day / SMBA in het kader van MyNameIsSpinoza

    In samenwerking met het Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam realiseert kunstenaar Jeremiah Day (VS, 1974) zijn concept voor ‘Krakersmonument’, een kustwerk in de openbare ruimte.

  • Proposal by: Viviana Selene M. Calderon de la Barca

    Inclusive Patching.

    Project proposal: Textile & Sustainability

    It's not news. We're running out of time to save our natural world and resources. So this two in one, workshops + inclusive and diverse get togethers, aim to be informa(c)tive and inspiring to spread...

  • Mediamatic protesteert in stijl op Uitmarkt

    "Minister en Kamer: houdt Mediamatic niet klein"

    31 augustus 2008. Protest van Mediamatic tijdens de Uitmarkt met de Burka Big Band van Sietske Tjallingii en de lompen Fashion show met Martin Butler en Andrea Crews . Inzet: zorgen dat het positieve...

  • Garri

    Yuca, Macaxeira, Mandioca, Aipim, Agbeli or Cassava 'Bread'

    “Cassava was a root vegetable indigenous to South America and the Caribbean, and it was directly available to the Indigenous people in the Caribbean. So they subsisted on the food of their land, and...

  • Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS

    Over Datum Eetclub 1

    Shells and Crusts with Tinda van Smoorenburg

    The first in our series of weekly dinner parties kicked off on Tuesday July 19th to a hungry crowd filling Mediamatic bank. It resulted in the successful resistance against the demonization of...

  • TINKEBELL. saves the girls in Manila

    SAVE THE WORLD #5

    Every day the cousins Mitch and Cyris (18 and 20 years old) dance on stage at a bar in a touristy part of Manila (Philippines). In exchange for extra 'support' they go home with Korean, Chinese, and...

  • project:

    Verrijkt wandelen

    NS Wandeltochten met mobiel en sociaal internet

    Van een dubbelzijdig A4-tje naar interactieve, mobiele toepassingen met tekst, beeld, geluid en spelelementen voor dan 600.000 gebruikers.

  • Laat de crisis onze kunst niet verschralen

    Artikel van de wethouders van Groenlinks

    http://tweedekamer.groenlinks.nl/node/44905

  • Andere Achterhuizen

    Verhalen van Joodse onderduikers - Gastblogger Marcel Prins vertelt over zijn project

    Iedereen kent het verhaal van Anne Frank. Elk jaar staan er voor het Achterhuis bijna één miljoen mensen in de rij om te zien waar en hoe zij zat ondergedoken. Haar boek is een van de meest gelezen...

  • Giorgio

  • سارق الدرَّاجة

    كنت منكبًّا في الليل في المناطق القريبة من بيتي على كتابة الشعارات الحائطية «جرافيتي»، وكانت الساعة تشير إلى نحو الثالثة صباحًا، وكنت أرتدي ملابس سوداء حتى لا تجذب الانتباه... فجأة، ‫جاء رجل كبير...

  • Virtueel Verzet

    Wat te doen wanneer Nederland wordt bezet?

    Gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog was het woord een krachtig machtsmiddel dankzij nieuwe mediatechnologieen waarmee dit woord kon worden overgebracht. Het verzet had veel baat bij de radio, terwijl de...

  • 1 Jan 2003

    Bilwet

    mediatheoretici

    Bilwet, stichting ter Bevordering van Illegale Wetenschap, is een collectief van vijf kunstenaars/schrijvers/theoretici: Geert Lovink, Arjen Mulder, Basjan van Stam, Lex Wouterloot en Patrice Riemens.

created Taylor Early modified Anne Lakeman

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