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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft
Duckweed taste testing 2.0
Using duckweed as an alternative food source to feed our fish
Let me tell you about an aquatic plant I have come to love... Duckweed is a floating aquatic plant commonly found in ponds, lakes, and other still-moving bodies of water. Duckweed is commonly seen...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft
Elderflower Champagne 2.0
Popping champagne straight from the garden!
The first fermentation step for making Elderflower champagne started last week with a trial test of 20L! Here you can find the process, recipe, and some great action shots of the flowery business!
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Elise Chalcraft
Tasting before wasting
Optimizing our African Catfish feed
My project for the past 8 weeks has been to look at how we could use waste streams from both the aquaponics greenhouse and the kitchen to feed our catfish to make the system as circular as possible.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark 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...
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Narrow-leaved ragwort
Senecio inaequidens
Author: Ekenitr
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Plate 10 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Ophiothrix Ophiodea. / Schlangensterne.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 10 from Kunstformen der Natur. Ophiodea: Brittle stars, closely related to starfish. Characterised by a small round like body and five long, thin arms.
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Plate 9 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Maeandrina. / Hexacoralla. Sechsstrahlige…
Litho van Ernst Haeckel en Adolf Giltsch
Plate 9 from Kunstformen der Natur. Hexacoralla: Subclass of corals, which include sea anemones, stony corals and soft corals.
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Plate 8 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Desmonema. / Discomedusae. Scheibenquallen.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 8 from Kunstformen der Natur. Discomedusae: Subclass of Scyphozoa (jellyfish)
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Plate 7 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Epibulia. / Siphonophorae. Staatsquallen.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 7 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...
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Plate 6 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Tubuletta. / Tubulariae. Röhrenpolypen.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 6 from Kunstformen der Natur. Tubulariae: Genus of Hydroids, animals related to jellyfish and have strong visual similarities to them such as a compact, mostly round body with long strings...
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Plate 5 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Ascandra. / Calcispongiae. Kalkschwämme.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 5 from Kunstformen der Natur. Calcispongiae: Marine sponges with c alcareous skeletons
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Plate 4 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Triceratium. / Diatomea. Schachtellinge.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 4 from Kunstformen der Natur. Diatomea: Single-celled organisms also know als algae
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Plate 3 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Stentor. / Ciliata. Wimperlinge.
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 3 from Kunstformen der Natur. Ciliata: Complex single-celled organisms with a short hairlike surface. Hence the name that comes from the Latin word Cilia which means eyelash.
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Plate 2 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Globigerina. / Thalamophora. Kammerlinge. (test)
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 2 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...
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Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks
Cartier
Sept '20 – Pigeon Tower 03
The third tower was build inside the Clean Lab . Two previous attempts to build a sturdy, living tower had failed. Time to take a step back. We did not know whether our principles were correct.
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Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Arne Hendriks, Nehis Osagie, Andy Cartier
Jute
June '20 – Pigeon Tower 02
We put the remains of the collapsed tower from the first experiment in a long burlap tube. Burlap is a biodegradable textile, and provides structure and nourishment for the mycelium. We rolled up the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Abhay Villa 22 Mar 2021
We are Growing Edible Flowers
15 meters from farm to plate
Mediamatic ETEN and the Aquaponics Farm together are aiding the growth of a project that started "rooting" its way into Mediamatic's collection a couple of years ago; and now with the arrival of this...
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Growing In & Out with Artist Minji Choi
Plant, Something that (Doesn’t) Love a Wall
Born in Seoul, South Korea and based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Minji Choi has a transboundary persona. As an artist, she devotes herself to reexamining ‘belonging’ and ‘nativeness'. In her body of...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Looking back at "Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots"…
with Dominik Einfalt and Doudouce Knol
Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots workshop was a culmination of the research and collaboration between interns from Mediamatic Clean Lab and Aquaponics Greenhouse. We're not hosting this workshop anymore
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Porpema. / Siphonophorae. Staatsquallen. (test)
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 17 from Kunstformen der Natur. Siphonophorae: Subclass of Hydrozoa, sea animal related to jellyfish and corals.
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Plate 1 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Circogonia. / Phaeodaria. Rohrstrahlinge. (test)
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch
Plate 1 from Kunstformen der Natur. Phaeodaria; (Radiolaria) single-celled organisms also known as zooplankton.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Messages from the Myco-Assemblage
- Arne Hendriks & Dominik Einfalt talk about their attempts to construct pigeon guano towers with living mycelium waste.11Dec 2020Friday afternoon, Arne and Dominik will discuss their attempt to build structures with living mycelium waste. What have they learned? What are the challenges? And what stories have emerged so far?
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Is it an urban mushroom farm? Is it a pigeon…
What are those structures outside the barn at Mediamatic?
Because these structures are made from living mycelium WHAT you call it probably depends on WHEN you encounter it. At first they are horizontal mushroom farms, and many of our neighbours have...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots
- with Dominik Einfalt and Doudouce Knol2Dec 2020It's obvious that we should re-think our destructive consumption behaviours, and mycelium could be the answer. The living organism can be shaped into various shapes to create products that are 100%...