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  • Party Natlab

    Inhuman Carnaval Party

    21
    Oct 2021
    - Free beer for Non-Humans!

    Party in biodiversity costumes with DJ Wannabeastar and Shirley Macholina. Make sure to pass by in the costume lab before to make your outfit. Free beers from Oedipus Brewery for non-humans!

  • Dutch Design Week
  • Inhumane Carnaval
  • biodiversity
  • Nature
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  • We’re serious about mocking!

    On the theory of carnival

    Whether at the Rio Carnival in Brazil, the Mardi Gras in New Orleans or the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival - Carnival is celebrated all over the world. In fall 2021, Mediamatic will also join the...

  • We all know turtles and kangaroos - but what…

    A reinterpretation of Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals

    “We cannot describe the cries of admiring joy let loose by an enthusiastic public. In the immense oeuvre of Camille Saint-Saëns, The Carnival of the Animals is certainly one of his magnificent...

  • Dutch Design Week 2021 Mediamatic Biotoop

    Credits

    Thank you!

    We would like to thank the following people, organizations, sponsors, and participants.

  • presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meet-a-Maker

    23
    Jan 2026
    19
    Feb 2026
    - with Lynn Shore

    Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our restaurant by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspires you. Lynn Shore is open to...

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Maria Ilieva, Matilde Calamandrei, Laura Sanz Rosal

    Oosterdok Sensory Tower

    21
    أيار / مايو 2025
    21
    أيار / مايو 2026

    This exhibition invites you to journey through time, exploring the layered history of Mediamatic's waterfront location. Here, where the scent of the water blends with the lingering echoes of...

  • Activities Mediamatic Biotoop

    Boat Tours with Rederij Lampedusa

    De rederij bestaat uit een vloot van twee Noord-Afrikaanse boten waarmee vluchtelingen de overtocht naar Lampedusa, Europa hebben gemaakt. De boten zijn bij hoge uitzondering geschonken door de...

  • presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meet-a-Maker

    6
    Mar 2026
    - with Laura A. Dima

    Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our restaurant by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspires you. Laura A. Dima is open to...

  • Rattle that lock

    Looking at rats from a different point of view

    Rats are everywhere and hard to get rid of. This is probably the main reason for them being unwanted in big cities - and at the same time the best reason to rethink your own perspective: rats are...

  • Let's stitch!

    From sewing to species: An interview with Inge Naaimachines

    During Dutch Design Week we will be collaborating with various artists, makers and scientists. Inge Naaimachines is a creative business based in Eindhoven who will be providing the sewing machines to...

  • project: Natlab Annelies Wina Doom 16 Oct 2021

    More like this: Schubben / Scales

    Annelies Wina Doom @ Dutch Design Week

    For the Inhuman Carnaval Costume Lab at  Dutch Design Week DDW Eindhoven, Mediamatic asked A W Doom to help our participants gain some inspiration. She made a series of recorded explorations of the...

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Arne Hendriks

    Mycelium Pigeon Towers

    1
    Oct 2021
    1
    Oct 2031
    - by Arne Hendriks

    New  pigeon   towers emerge as old ones slowly collapse into fertile soil at the Biotoop. These structures are an ongoing experiment to build with living mycelium waste from oyster mushroom farms.

  • Inhuman Carnaval Blog

    Research, updates and interviews for Inhuman Carnaval

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  • Opening Night: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Hydrocommons

    20
    Feb 2026
    - with Enora Cressan, Marjolijn Boterenbrood and Silke Riis

    Join us on Friday, February 20th, to mark a new chapter for Mediamatic! This evening, we explore the idea that we are not separate entities, but porous beings in the same water. When will we begin...

  • Understanding salinity units and conversions

    What are the units for salinity? Can they be converted into one another, to homologate research data?

    Salinity is the concentration of dissolved salts in water; it is a critical parameter in various fields, including oceanography, environmental science, and water quality monitoring. Salinity plays a...

  • The Breedrs

    Breedrs is an interactive installation running a social game created for a conference environment. It consists of an artificial life environment, a digital ecosystem, in which creatures survive in...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Beaujolais Nouveau 2015

    225 liter wijn drinken in de Sluisdeurenloods

    Vleck wijnen, restaurant Choux en Mediamatic slaan de handen ineen om het onmogelijke te presteren: 225 liter van de mooiste Beaujolais Nouveau van Nederland opdrinken in één avond.

  • De Faun

    Ooghoogte

    16
    Dec 1983
    - Live/Videopresentatie

    An evening with live performances, video and light installations and video art screenings at the Artotheek venue in Groningen. This was the second event that Mediamatic organized in its founding year...

  • Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno

    Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno exhibited in Nature's Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention .  Nature's Toolbox  is an exhibition exploring the wonders of biodiversity. The exhibition perceives...

  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks

    Cartier

    Sept '20 – Pigeon Tower 03

    The third tower was build inside the Clean Lab . Two previous attempts to build a sturdy, living tower had failed. Time to take a step back. We did not know whether our principles were correct.

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Zeger Reyers

    Hard Water

    18
    Sep 2015
    - by Zeger Reyers

    Is it plates growing in between plants, or plants growing in between plates? Hard Water is an installation that consists of a thousand plates, soil and plants 'growing' on the exterior wall of...

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Six-Winged Chicken and other mythical…

    1
    Sep 2020
    - by Anne Kamps

    Where does the meat we eat actually come from? On what scale is it produced? And, what is real news and what is fake news? A few years ago, the phenomenon of the six-winged chicken was written about...

  • festival: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Japanese Knotweed Festival

    Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.

  • The Taste of Elder

    Together with  Brouwerij Oedipus   and artist   Zeger Reyers , we follow the seasons with the elder tree. We brew four different seasonal beers with local ingredients from this everyday shrub in...

  • 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...

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