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  • Image: Simone Schoutens

    The audience

    People listen to the presentations at Ignite Amsterdam 16.
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  • 37 Pavilions

    First ‘user generated’ biennale

    Here we have collected the proposals for the city pavilions in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 that were sent to us by the curators. We also show what each pavilion looks like after it was built. Find...

  • Symbolic Table: 100% interface-free media player

    Mediamatic Atelier RFID project. Not only for children and geriatrics.

    Symbolic Table is an interface-free media player. A cultural tool for those who want to work with media without any hassle. It is not an appliance, but a simple table. There are no buttons, no knobs.
  • performance: Maria Mavridou, Sayaka Akitsu

    Gracefully Entangled in a Whirlpool of Exchange

    Performance by Sayaka Akitsu and Maria Mavridou

    Sayaka and Maria included different manners of expression in their performance. They drew, sung, made rules for new games, and danced symmetrically, depending on the situation.
  • Maurice Nio 1 Jan 2002

    Infect the Soft

    What is really wrong with euclidic geometry? Which objections can really be lodged against integers, straight lines and orthogonal structures? Why are mechanical and mechanistic principles put in the...
  • 1 Jan 2003

    What does it mean?

    The etymology of the term "Korsakow"

    The expression syndrome is a medical term, which describes a serious damage of short time memory, typical of very heavy alcohol abusers. Korsakow syndrome patients often compensate their lack of...
  • Old Information Barbara Revelli

    Sustainable materials

    Every first Tuesday of the month, few Amsterdam based organizations organize a meeting about sustainability. Every time a different aspect of theme of this matter are discussed by a small but...

  • Plotting Time

    Research on timelines for digital stories

    Mediamatic, Lava and our clients RVU and NHM are working to enhance digital storytelling through time-based visualizations. How can we better see and understand our history? How can we add our own...

  • Second Plenary Meeting

    July 27, Noord hq.

    Egyptian artists, Lebanese designers, and local experts and editors talk about their work. The perfect way to stay updated on the making of the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands.

  • Mushroom Design

    A miscellaneous products collection

    How many objects have been designed with a clear reference to mushrooms? This is has been collected until now. If you have more, add it to the bucket and we'll share the pleasure.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Bert Mulder 1 Jan 1992

    Alexander

    Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language, Oxford University Press 1977

    We build information systems: hundreds of people sitting in front of screens that glow and that, interconnected, create an environment supporting their works and desires.
  • workshop: Tanja Baudoin, Michel Langendijk

    Workshop Coffin for your Beloved

    Work together with a contemporary artist

    A coffin with poetic ribbons, graffiti or textile? A robe or something more conceptual? As part of the Ik RIP exhibition on death and self-representation Mediamatic organized workshops for surviving...
  • Tobias Huelswitt 1 Jan 2003

    Sachte wird das Schaf gemolken

    On Florian Thalhofers world

    In 54 Episoden berichtet der dreißigjährige Medienkünstler Florian Thalhofer auf der CD-ROM welt von seinem Heimatort Schwandorf in der bayerischen Oberpfalz.
  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Invisible Collection

    Have you ever wondered what it’s like to not be able to look at art? With this auditory collection, we discover art with all our senses except sight. How do you experience art without looking at it?

  • Post-Google food

    Martí Guixé talks about Food Facility

    Martí Guixé is a notorious deconstructor of traditional reality. Among his many designs are a liquid piece of furniture consisting only of a puddle of gin and tonic, an ordinary green tape simulating...

  • Project proposals

    Participating artists and the design team

    Mapping for Tourists resulted in Noord. These pages are snapshots of the artists' progress, as documented in July of 2010. Visit the Noord web space for the final results.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1992

    Famous Artists School, Famous Writer Tool

    or: the hankering after a configurated system for the Apple and other rhetorical reflections

    In Mediamatic 6#1, Paul Groot reported on his first experiences with a word processor and his struggle with the McHugh. As a sequel to these first impressions, he will review here MicroSoft's Word5...

  • Ganzeer

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Noordelijke Character(istics): A neighborhood is defined by its inhabitants. Ganzeer puts a face to the 'hood.
  • 1 Jan 2004

    Interactive Video at World Wide Video Festival

    Workshop in Amsterdam for European Video Artists from 10 to 14 June

    Five intense days of exploring, discussing and building interactive video projects with international video artists during the World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam from 10 to 14 June 2004. Get...

  • The Definition of Conceptual

    somewhat of a review concerning a debate on the value of concept.

    In the invitation Premsela sent out for their New Year's reception was the following: "Concept and Conceptual; the most used and especially abused words in the jargon of art, design and architecture.

  • Denk klein

    Dictators waren ook niet altijd van deurformaat

    De macht van de grote dingen verschrompelt als is ze gemaakt van broze doorschijnende huid. De eerste blik doet een kijker lokken slikken blozen schrikken maar het geval proportie snijdt zichzelf...

  • Interview with Ziv Ben Gal

    Framing the frame

    Ziv Ben Gal grew up in Tel Aviv and moved to Eindhoven in 2007 to study design.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Minne Buwalda 1 Jan 1994

    Voyager

    The expanded Book Toolkit, Voyager Company

    Compared to the printed word, digital media offer a number of advantages: entire libraries can be conveniently stored and the information in the books is more easily accessible. Texts can also be...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Adilkno 1 Jan 1994

    Virtual Writing

    Everyone is a designer.
  • book: Christopher Alexander 1 Jan 1977

    A Pattern Language

created Simone Schoutens

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