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  • Image: Mediamatic Biotoop Andrea Valdivia

    Alice serving Gluttony

    Get to know the master minds behind Sin Eaters Dinner!

    Alice Héron is one of our chefs who curates our Sin Eaters dinners along with Martin Butler.  Here, Alice is serving the dish Gluttony as part of our February 2022 Sin Eaters dinner.  The Sin Eaters...
  • Digestive system
  • Food
  • Gastronomy
  • Storytelling
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Abhay Villa 5 Aug 2021

    Is it an alien? Is it a sex toy? No, it's Sopropo!

    procuring, growing and cooking this intriguing fruit

    You may have come across Sopropo on your travels, at a Surinamese/Asian restaurant or maybe even at home. Read on and learn about our journey procuring, growing and cooking this intriguing fruit...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Sin Eaters through the eyes of Hildegard Von…

    By Alice Héron and Martin Butler

    The Sin Eaters is a culinary experience created by chef and artist Alice Héron and the director Martin Butler. During 9 evenings in February 2022, participants were immersed in the incredible world...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Cemre Kara

    FAQ Skin Hunger

    What kind of food do you serve? The breakfast is composed of 5 bite-sized dishes. All of them are plant-based, prepared by chef Alice Heron. For allergy information, please send an email to...

  • The green gold

    Celebrating our Wasabi's 2nd birthday

    After some cold and rainy months in aquaponics, we were overjoyed to see the first aquaponics plant in bloom. This early bloomer has got to be a bit of a diva, as most plants are not showing any...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Vera Catalano, Doudouce Knol

    What does a day in the Aquaponics greenhouse look…

    Morning The first thing we do in the morning is to check the pH in the subtank. The pH, a measure of how acidic the water is, determines the health of the fish, the creation of bacteria in the system
  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten Naomi Tidball

    Skin Hunger

    Looking into the artistic imagination of our upcoming event

    In our current health-crisis, the feeling of loneliness, or the lack of physical contact can be pressing. The term 'Skin Hunger,' derives from our necessity for physical touch. We compare this need...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Story behind Skin Hunger

    A reminder that our need to eat is as fundamental as our need to be touched

    What happens if we can’t touch each other? The answer is Skin Hunger - the biological need for human touch. It’s why babies in neonatal intensive care units are placed on their parent’s naked chests.
  • Proposal by: Yorke Mulder-Bhangoo

    Krachtvoer

    Project Proposal: Eten wat je eten eet.

    Als je uit het treinraam kijkt naar het prachtige platte Nederlandse landschap zie je, gras, mais, bieten en af en toe tarwe. Allemaal veevoer. We produceren op het schaarse Nederlandse landbouwgrond...
  • 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.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop June Yu

    Bodemdrang

    A Neo Futurist Dinner in retrospect

    Four days in late November, every evening, Suzanne Bernhardt and Chef Thor invite guests to a journey through various “earth”: from hardened rock, grainy sand, molten “lava” to burnt clay, crumbly...

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Scarlet Pimpernel

    Anagallis arvensis

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Summer Savory

    Satureja hortensis

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .

  • Slovak Cabbage Traditions

    Cabbage in the Slovak culture and everyday life has a strong tradition, dating back centuries ago. It´s roots lay deep in the folklore, proverbs, superstitions, festive customs and of course...
  • Proposal by: Maria Jimena Ricatti

    Post-pandemic tasting experience

    Project Proposal: Exploring sensory diversity and holistic wellbeing

    As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people experienced some degree of smell or taste impairment in the short and long term. However, there are also people who deal with these kinds of...
  • Proposal by: Miku Sato

    Book and Fire

    Project Proposal: Reading cookbooks and the back side of recipes: food culture, politics and feminism

    Based on the research of the old cookbooks of the Soviet Union and Japan, the project depicts food culture , politics , feminism , and how they are interrelated. Recipes can be considered stories.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Sneezewort

    Achillea ptarmica

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Elise Chalcraft

    7 kilos of Happiness

    The ins and outs of weighing our fish

    Every 6 months, we weigh our 128 African catfish. This is done to get a snapshot into the growth rate of the catfish and check on their general wellbeing. The Aquaponics Greenhouse currently has five...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks

    Gentle

    Oct '20 – Pigeon Tower 04

    The blocks of mycelium from mushroom grower John Verbruggen that we used to build are wide and heavy, and so they give us more security when stacking than in previous towers. Because we wanted to...

  • Brew Your Own Beer: Taste Notes

    MABJeR - Gordita - Motor Oil

    The final fermentation is over and the beers brewed in the workshop 2 months ago are finally ready to be tasted.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten Magdalena Thur, Nadja Nolte, Clara Casal, Elnaz Assar

    Acorn Bitterballen Recipe

    Exploring the culinary potential of wild plants surrounding Mediamatic

    Inspired by the variety of wild weeds surrounding Mediamatic, the Clean Lab Team set out to investigate the culinary potential of the resources which are locally and seasonally available.  

  • Another Futurist Dinner?

    Neo-Futurist Dinners is a new programme line at Mediamatic, in which the world of food, art and science are brought together. During these gastronomical experiences, you will be engulfed in a multi
  • Proposal by: Paolo Bosca

    Food Utopias

    Project Proposal: A different geography of taste

    Food Utopias is a performative and theoretical research which investigates the power exercised by map on space, specifically in gastronomy. We use maps every day. The most common maps see the world...

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