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    The 271 dead baby catfish in a bucket.
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  • Disaster Strikes

    Power outage kills babies while oysters fruit

    Last thursday our 1000 catfish fingerlings arrived and now two of our towers are inhabited by the little creatures. In the night of saturday22—sunday23 there was a power outage. More than 250 baby...

  • One more reason to grow your own fish

    Mekong-catfish toxic and hazardous

    Belgian newspaper De Morgen wrote an article about the panga fillet you can find so cheap in the supermarket's freezer. Not a very appealing bite after you read this: Pangasius: de waarheid over de...

  • A Silly Beast

    Choked in his friend

    On the morning of Friday's workshop, we found this floating around in Tower 2:

  • Fungal Disease

    New tank proves too cold for our African Catfish

    The fish that have been placed in the greenhouse with the last workshop unfortunately all died of a fungal disease. Last wednesday 28th may the first fish got sick and showed some cottony-white...

  • Catfish Holiday

    European catfish move to summer residence

    Our second attempt to populate the greenhouse fish tank after a false start.

  • Painting White

    New Catfish home at Dijkgracht, 6

  • Back in circulation

    A change of scenery in two weeks

    Whaaaaat! So much can change in two weeks, it's unbelievable! When Saro and I entered the tent today after Christmas family visits, surprise after surprise greeted us.

  • Prevention rather than cure

    Old saying true for us

    Fish are like humans. They have all kinds of slumbering diseases and they have an immune system that helps them defeat the pathogens. Just like us.

  • Sharkviewer

    To view our monsters

    Here's an idea! Let's make a shark viewer so we can make nice pictures of our little monsters. Or we could hook up a webcam!
  • From our Faraway Friend Wendy Monroe

    Release of Channel Catfish

    Richmond Aquaponics farm receives inhabitants

    The Channel Catfish for the Richmond aquaponics farm have arrived! This video shows their release.

  • New baby fish at the Fabriek

    Clarias gariepinus | African sharptooth catfish

    After the deaths of around 400 of our fish due to a power failure, we were sadly left with two empty systems. Time to take action, before the bacteria in the systems would die as well.
  • interview Bart Krieger 22 Jun 2007

    Interview met Soheila Najand - directeur Interart

    'Mijn personeelsbeleid is gericht op het zoeken van niet gelijken'

    De Raad voor Cultuur heeft cultureel burgerschap als een van haar speerpunten van cultuurbeleid in haar advies ' Innoveren en participeren! ' opgenomen. Hoog tijd om eens langs te gaan bij de...

  • Fish, plant, rack

    Quasi symbiotic environment for machine, fish and hydroponics

    Andy Gracie's work allows the electrical discharges of the virtually blind elephant fish to instruct the actions of a robot whose task is to monitor the development of plants in a hydroponic system.

  • A 'Sister System' for the Mediamatic Aquaponics…

    How similar is a system of almost the same design... in a very different climate?

    For family reasons, I am leaving Amsterdam and returning to my native San Francisco. … Just as things are getting interesting with the system at Mediamatic's Urban Farm... A 'sister system' system in...
  • book: Anna Maria Smith 19 Aug 1998

    Laclau and Mouffe

    The radical democratic imaginary

    Laclau and Mouffe is the first introduction to the work of these two key thinkers. Anna Marie Smith brings out the main themes of their work, showing how they have used the perspectives of Gramsci...

  • All about the siphon

    Everything you need to know to build an autosiphon

    How does it work? First of all, here is a nice animation to show you how the auto-siphon functions so you can integrate it to your eb and flood system like aquaponics. Found on youtube, made by...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Thibaut Counot

    Serving our fish a special rat-atouille

    Turning pests into fish food

    Amsterdam is facing an increasing rat population. Can we turn this to our advantage?
  • From our Faraway Friend Wendy Monroe

    Trial and Error

    A photo essay

    Our system with the five half barrel beds is up and running now, the plants in the beds have taken root and we will be taking delivery of 30 Channel Catfish next week. We will be getting them from...

  • Workshop

    with new system design

    Mediamatic wanted an aquaponics system in their greenhouse office at the Fabriek, so during the workshop we built one upstairs. It's a new design, because the tower wouldn't fit underneath the glass...
  • project

    Coaching in de Cultuur

    Coaching in de Cultuur is een intensief coachings- en trainingsprogramma voor vrouwen die de ambitie én mogelijkheid hebben om binnen drie jaar een invloedrijke positie in te nemen in het culturele...

  • Miniponics succes

    Many people want it at home

    After two days of workshops using the miniponics as a demonstration model, we can say it's a big succes.

  • Pruning tomatoes

    Light and air

    My father has years and years of experience growing tomatoes. The first thing I learned from him was pruning. 'The most important thing', according to him.
  • From our Faraway Friend Wendy Monroe

    Those Oesterzwam bags

    Unknown here in the States

    At a presentation given by Jim Wheeler, founder of the Sonoma County Mycological Association ( of Northern California )

  • Fabriek Research

    Project research for the Fabriek

    This is the research that the Mediamatic staff has been doing for the Fabriek. Each of the items in the set are a different topic, and research on that topic is listed there. Want to add something?

created Wendy Monroe modified Els Engel

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