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  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, 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 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 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...

  • 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...

  • WatSpinoza? op het Damrak

    Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf voor het gooien van kauwgom op straat?

    Op 7 mei 2009 werd de eerste WatSpinoza? vraag aan het Amsterdamse publiek gesteld. Aan het Damrak, vlak voor het Centraal Station, worden voorbijgangers gevraagd: 'Wat is er mis met gevangenisstraf...

  • 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...

  • 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...
  • Proposal by: Sophia Schullan

    Form Follows Fun

    Project Proposal: Form Follows Fun – Finding Fun In Everyday Life

    ‘Form Follows Fun’ would be a talk hosted in the Mediamatic facilities. Its goal is not only to spread fun and entertainment but more importantly to give others the tools to create fun and...

  • 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...

  • Infographics: Are the budget cuts necessary or…

    The Dutch budget for arts & culture institutions is relatively small. The above average cuts will produce below average results.

    In 2011 the budget is € 490 million to support the cultural infrastructure. That sounds like a lot, but it is only a third of what we spend on holidays. It's 1,5% of the annual costs of the State...

  • Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…

    #1.1 Thuisopdracht: Het Parlement der Dingen

    Mediamatic mist alle enthousiaste, nieuwsgierige en leergierige bezoekers ontzettend! Ook kunnen we ons goed voorstellen dat het thuis doorleren en samenwerken best uitdagend kan zijn... De...

  • Diversity mission

    As a progressive public cultural institution, we find diversity, in all its facets, essential. We actively strive to raise awareness and implement a more transversal and integrated way of thinking...

  • 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...
  • project: Marieke de Lange,

    Think Tanks Connected *

    Idee ontwikkeling bij kinderen

    Ubuntu Theatre Organisation wil graag de katalysator en kweekvijver zijn van een nieuwe generatie idealisten die hun talent, creativiteit en denkkracht in willen zetten voor een mooiere wereld.
  • Katja Novitskova 17 Oct 2011

    New Order: a list of Usefull and Useless…

    Links, images, videos and other materials enough to immerse any outsider into energy-based realities of our existence and potential collapse

    This info-matter stream is a collection of things we keep finding online in relation to the main themes of New Order project. Mostly they are about energy, ecology and 'green' economy. Some of it is...

  • SAVE THE WORLD

    Door TINKEBELL. i.s.m. Mediamatic

    TINKEBELL. geeft met twaalf wereldverspreide interventies inzicht in situaties die kunnen ontstaan wanneer ons wereldbeeld in andere culturen wordt geplaatst. Hiermee stelt zij onze (hulp)norm ter...
  • 1 Jan 1997

    Community with an Object

    Developing Business in Developing countries

    Mediamatic Lab built a cool web 2.0 community network for Dutch Development Aid organisation NCDO. BiD Network uses semantic web, FOAF and tagging to help entrepreneurs in developing countries build...

  • Swap Up Shop

    A platform to exchange objects and question the notion of value in relation to design

    The Swap-Up shop started sometime ago as a collective of Kali Nikitas, Florian Pfeffer and Rick Vermeulen

  • Disruptive nightlights

    A fluorescent stand against public urination

    Putting a rather lustrous spotlight on a seemingly unnoticed problem in Madrid, Luzinterruptus took it upon themselves to draw attention to some people's use of the public spaces as personal...

  • Aquaponics at Mediamatic Fabriek

    Cultivating our own food

    Mediamatic Fabriek, Mediamatic’s new location, is situated in the Van Gendthallen, old ship building halls on the Oostenburgereiland east of the center of Amsterdam. They are huge, and are surrounded...
  • Tolhuistuin (cultural organisation)

    Soundtrack City

    Sound walk through North

    Soundtrackcity is an invitation toto go and rediscover the city through walks soundtrack created by artists in collaboration with local communities. On July 25 at 14:30 starting from Tolhuistuin a...
  • Proposal by: Lucia Babina

    Nodes

    Project Proposal: An international mutual aid hospitality network and practice for mid-career artists: menopausal women, queer and more-than-strange humans

    The NODES PROJECT is an artistic output focused network of inhabited homes/live-work spaces providing hosting for artists who, due to the precarious conditions we experience in our careers, require...

  • Pirate Cinema

    The true world currency now seems to be energy and not the Dollar, Pound or Euro

    Energy is based on actual assets whereas currencies appear to be have become virtual money and inspire little long term confidence. Let's swap our energy.

  • Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…

    #1 Leren luisteren naar niet-mensen is een politieke aangelegenheid

    In de serie ‘Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit?’ schrijf ik blogs over uitdagende theorieën uit de ecofilosofie. Ik introduceer de ideeën, ter informatie of inspiratie. Daarna zullen er...

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