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  • Private workshop Mediamatic Biotoop

    Foraging for Mental Health

    with Lynn Shore

    Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...

  • Shrinking Sustainability

    Experimenting with making bioplastic

    Designer of the Herbal Thai Sauna, Waew, is currently in the process of experimenting, she was able to make numerous different kinds of bioplastic, in an attempt to see if they would be able to...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Building With Mycelium

    with Arne Hendriks

    Pigeon towers used to exist everywhere to produce extra fertiliser needed to support growing populations. When artificial fertiliser was discovered most towers became neglected, as did their...

  • a/Artist Project

    Neurodivergence in the Arts

    Platform for neurodivergent artists and designers. Primarily those who identify as/with the ASD (Autism) and ADHD spectrum. How can we better value the contributions of makers on "the spectrum" and...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Foraging for Mental Health

    with Lynn Shore

    Did you know that many plants that grow in the city can help to boost your mood and support mental health? In this workshop Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session around Dijkspark and...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meme Therapy

    with Lucie Chateau and Holly Foxton

    How are you feeling about climate change? Are you a doomer or a bloomer? Whatever you feel, you are probably not alone. Countless memes are made and posted onto the internet that express emotions...

  • 'Adults also want to play'

    An interview with Ignacy Radtke

    We met with artist Ignacy Radtke ahead of his talk at our upcoming A/artist event to ask him a few questions about his latest work 'Why do hoodie strings taste so good?', his personal experience with...

  • Fear of the Unknown

    What are you most afraid of?

    Fear of the unknown is a common phenomenon.  Throughout history we can find a lot of evidences of how much destruction this fear can create.  However, we are not only afraid of each other. For...

  • The Links between Tattoo Culture and Autism

    Beautiful stimming; the experience of getting a tattoo and giving a tattoo as an autistic person

    Our latest interest within the A/artist Project is researching the link between the tattoo culture and autism. The idea came up when I mentioned in my interview at Mediamatic that I am enthusiastic...

  • “Anxiety is the Japanese knotweed of mental…

    Presumably, anxiety is a challenge we all have dealt with at one point in our lives. Be it caused by the pandemic, wars, our fast paced lifestyles, our own personal challenges, or… THE JAPANESE...

  • Crafting Joyful Wellness

    A closer look at our Hildegard von Bingen's Herbs of Joy workshop

    In a world constantly seeking answers to balance our modern minds, the wisdom of the past can often provide profound insights. Hildegard von Bingen's Herbs of Joy with Lynn Shore is a workshop that...
  • book: Walter Ong 1 Jan 1988

    Orality and Literacy

    The Technologizing of the World

    Ong pulls together two decades of work by himself and others on the differences between primary oral cultures, those that do not have a system of writing, and chirographic (i.e., writing) cultures to...
  • 1 Jan 2003

    Debra Solomon

    artist

    Debra Solomon (US/NL) creates experiential interventions aimed at breaking down the barriers between art and viewer. She is also a superfoodie and blogs at culiblog.org

  • My Burglar and I

    Investigation into the burglar

    Kaweh Modiri lived in an abandoned factory in Amsterdam-Noord. One night a burglar stole his laptop. Miraculously, he retrieved the laptop. But that is only the start of the story. He found four...

  • Been there, got the techie T-shirt

    Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009

    Hacker (dress) code update

  • 'Auto participative' choreography

    SOUSVEILLANCE @ TodaysArt 08

    A public choreography performed by (random) passersby near The Hague CS during the TodaysArt festival 2008
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Brenda Laurel 1 Jan 1995

    Imagery & Evolution

    Are we forcing people to evolve?

    At SIGGRAPH'94 in Orlando a forum was held with the theme 'Computer Graphics – Are we forcing people to evolve?'
  • 1 Jan 2002

    Peggy Ahwesh

    artist

    Peggy Ahwesh creates a kind of renegade arte povera ethnography of the everyday, approaching culturally complex issues and individuals with disarming simplicity and intelligence, and with risk-taking...
  • book: Howard Rheingold 1 Jan 2000

    The Virtual Community

    Homesteading on the Electric Frontier

    Cyberculture authority Howard Rheingold was the first to write about online communities in this style that is part-travelogue and part-anthropological guide. This groundbreaking classic explores the...

  • 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’. 

  • Commentary Kiki on Steroids! exhibition

    Originally collected on post-its

    Below some comments left behind by the visitors of the Kiki on Steroids! exhibition.

  • ...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...

  • Greater Plantain

    Plantago major

    Find this plant on Wikipedia .

  • An interview with Engy Aly

    "There are much, much more Arabs and Muslims than I have ever seen in my life outside of an Arabic country."

    July 2010. Engy has been living and working in Amsterdam-Noord for a few weeks. She was kind enough to share her first impressions, and tell us a little bit about her background.

created Iines Råmark modified Alessandra Avanzi

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