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  • Was Hildegard von Bingen Autistic?

    A summary of 'Ruminations on Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) and autism' by Patricia Ranft

    Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th century German nun, and one of the most influential women of her time. She wrote several scientific treatises, composed music, and invented her own language, all of...
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  • The Ins and Outs of Stimming

    Sensing Self through Movement roundtable

    Before the public event Sensing Self through Movement , we invited our three speakers for a roundtable dinner with the A/Artist team and artists from our network. We talked about a number of topics...

  • Using autism to imagine alternative worlds

    A/artist discussion round with research duo Liminal Vision

    Liminal Vision is a creative research duo consisting of artistic maker Victor Evink and film maker Emilia Tapprest. Victor is open about his autism diagnosis, while Emilia is not on the spectrum.

  • Making 'Penny for your Thoughts' more accessible

    A/artist roundtable about funding applications

    During this roundtable, we talked about Mediamatic's open call for project proposals, 'Penny for your Thoughts' . What thoughts do the neurodiverse artists around the table have about the application...

  • Can an Artwork be Autistic?

    Using keywords to identify autistic characteristics in artworks

    Repetition, extreme consistency, radical truth, cataloging, systematising,   questioning, over- and understimulation. All of these words are part of a list the A/artist team brainstormed last year...

  • Book Club: Visual Thinking

    A/artist roundtable about Temple Grandin's newest book

    Temple Grandin is a famous American academic, animal behaviourist, and autism spokesperson. Her new book, 'Visual Thinking', published in October 2022, is the latest in her series of books exploring...

  • The Idea Becomes the Machine that Makes the Book

    A/artist roundtable with Annelies Wina Doom

    During our latest A/Artist discussion round, artist Annelies Wina Doom took us on a journey through her art work "Please do not touch, even clean hands can cause damage", from its conception to its...

  • Tools for Flourishing in Art Education (and Life)

    Public A/artist symposium with Jenny Konrad

    During this second public symposium on neurodivergence in art education, The Hague-based German artist and designer  Jenny Konrad talked about the tools they have created to manage time, energy and...

  • Processing Stimuli through Drawings

    A/artist discussion about art, self-perception and inclusion

    Visual artist Ida (name changed for privacy) gave a presentation about her work and her artistic process. Ida's work consists of drawings of impressions from her daily runs, which she constructs...

  • Words, randomness and rules

    A/artist roundtable with Arjan van Amsterdam

    Arjan van Amsterdam is an artist and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. During this round table discussion, he introduced us to his work, from his application to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy up...

  • 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...

  • Inspiring confusion with photographs

    A/artist discussion round with Marna Slappendel

    Marna Slappendel is an Amsterdam-based visual artist. Since she received her autism diagnosis five years ago, she has evolved from knowing nearly nothing about it to researching and learning about...
  • Becoming magnesium Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link

    Becoming magnesium

    Through scrunching & draping tinfoil: can I transform into magnesium?

    Through researching costume ideas for the Inhuman Carnaval, I came across the mineral magnesium. The rock and metal like texture reminded me of the scrunched up tin foil around the sandwiches my mum...

  • 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...

  • Is ChatGPT autistic?

    A Diagnostic Interview with an AI

    My autistic friends love using ChatGPT ; an AI that generates text. Is it possible that ChatGPT is autistic? In this blog post, I aimed to diagnose ChatGPT with autism spectrum “disorder”.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link

    How is smell used as a disguise in beings?

    Exploring smell as a disguise. And how your nose is one of your most powerful faculties.

    This article explores how your nose is one of your most powerful senses and how in our new workshop "Smelling like a species" you can investigate smell in other beings and compose your own disguise...

  • How do you imitate scents from nature?

    Frank speaking on NPO Radio 1 about Smelling Like Another Being

    Listen to our resident parfumier Frank Bloem as he talks about his recent workshop Smelling Like Another Being , developed here at Mediamatic, on NPO Radio 1.  
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Our Labs

    Here at the Biotoop, you have access to our Bio Clean Lab, where you can work with microorganisms, and our Aroma Lab, where you can deepen your understanding of scents. Both can be rented.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Nour Akoum

    Aroma Lab's Kids Workshop

    Fruity Birthday Cake version

    Need a way to show kids how to make their own Fragrance but in a fun and relatively easy way? Here is your solution!

  • Henriette Waal, beer woman in a man's world.

    Interview with the beer curator for Bio-me

    Henriette Waal (1982), who graduated from the Eindhoven Design Academy, ‘Man and Public Space’ department, is an artist and designer - but also a beer brewer. She’s beer curator for Mediamatic’s Bio

  • Designing for Motivation

    designing products to increase motivation

    motivation explained in 5 different levels.

  • The real story behind natural perfumery

    Natural vs synthetic. Is it really eco?

    "Natural is always better" a sentence we often hear, but is it really? Well, in perfumery, it is not as simple, and there is a twist to what is commonly known and followed. Chemistry came to add...
  • The Sin Eaters Research Suzana Orsolic

    Sensorial Brainstorming

    From tricking our senses to the magic of Hildegard von Bingen

    As the world slowly but steadily seems to be opening up again, we have been busy preparing one of this year's Neo Futurist Dinner concepts. Artist Martin Butler gathered a team of six people from...

  • We grew a new project nursery: Penny for your…

    Project Nursery

    There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended.  Penny for your Thoughts  is our project nursery

  • Language used to discuss autism

    Which is correct: an autistic person or a person with autism?

    I was spending the first week of my internship reading blogs, scientific papers, or articles. Things were going well, I was easing myself into the structure of a 9 to 5. 

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