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Proposal by: Margot Domart
Bionomics sound
Project Proposal: How can we contribute together in reconnecting with our surroundings in a new era?
In our western society, we learn to connect images and concepts with words. We are living in the culture of the "eye", rather than the ear. I observe an atrophy of sensual and bodily intuition. With...
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Proposal by: Natascha Nanji
Welcome to Studio Swan
Project proposal: An interpersonal, speculative fiction proposition
Welcome to Studio Swan is a speculative proposition that asks what conditions would be appropriate for us to temporarily become with plant or animal? And why would this be something desirable or...
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Proposal by: Aya Yoshida
Music Pairing
Project Proposal: Eat Music Listen Dining
Music Pairing is the process of pairing food and dishes with music to enhance the dining experience in a similar way to wine pairing.
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Maria Jimena Ricatti
I am a Medical Doctor and Neuroscientist living in Italy and pursuing an ideal future: to connect people with nature through a deep exploration of human senses by showing how to use them to make more...
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mediamatic Camilla Calamai
Becoming a Pigeon
What I learned from Donna Haraway’s book “Staying with the Trouble, Making Kin in the Chthulucene” and String Figure Theory
The Inhuman Carnival train us to see the world from a non-human perspective, specifically from the one of a pigeon. How do we change the gossip surrounding pigeons, and empathise with them so that we...
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Organization:
MONO JAPAN FAIR
Japanese Crafts & Design Fair
MONO JAPAN Fair: More than 70 Japanese participants have exhibited since the first MONO JAPAN Fair in 2016, taken place at the Lloyd Hotel Amsterdam. Most of these Japanese exhibitors were introduced...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Space, Spirit, Souvenirs
- Penny for your Thoughts Project Presentations with Mandy den Elzen, Lucie Majerus and Margherita Falqui18Aug 2022How can we capture the essence of a place? Three artists reflect on how we can use our senses to understand, connect with– and even archive places. Tickets / Facebook
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Piss, Death, Stress
- Penny for your Thoughts Project Presentations with Arthur Guilleminot, Jennifer Kumer and Irina Birger28Jul 2022Piss, waste, sex and the pondering of one’s mortality: these can all be quite uncomfortable and difficult topics. But, what if we could turn the uncomfortable into something nourishing and productive?
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Aya Koné
Meeting Mycelium
First Encounters at Dutch Design Week
The material is strange, thick, sometimes oozing, with an odor that rises up just after you break open the plastic.
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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...
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Proposal by: Arthur Guilleminot
Piss Soap
Project proposal: Ecodeviant Research
My project of Piss Soap is an ecodeviant product aiming to regenerate our local urban environments, while questioning our social conditioning about disgust. Piss soap is made entirely out of human...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
An Afternoon on Ruins
- With backyard artist Arne Hendriks and Ruchama Noorda3Mar 2022Arne and Ruchama are both building structures in the backyard of Mediamatic with natural material. Structures that are build-to-collapse, and transform into ever-changing cycli. In this afternoon the...
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Proposal by: Simon Niedenthal
Creative Reinterpretations
Project proposal: Scents & Computers
Scented interactive media like the web games of DigiScents, Inc. have largely vanished from the internet despite archival efforts of the time, only leaving behind hints at what these experiences...
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Bef-tival Explained
beffen: verb, to lick pussy
Going down on, eating pussy, carpet munching, muff diving, cunnilingus; these are some of the ways we refer to the act of female oral sex. But something seems to be missing from our sexual vocabulary.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Francesca Nicchiotti
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Nelke Mast
Multidisciplinary Artist
'Nelke Mast (alias NELLY DANSEN) is a 23-year-old multidisciplinary artist currently studying for a Master of Artscience at KABK. Nelke’s practice is primarily characterised by researching erotic...
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Amber Rahantoknam
Multidisciplinary Artist
Amber Rahantoknam, also known as AMBIGOU, is a multi-disciplinary maker mixing text and image through illustration and poetry.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Beftival
6Nov 2021- Museumnacht Amsterdam 202113Nov 2021The act of licking pussy is still surrounded by shame and red ears, but not everywhere! Partly influenced by social media, society seems to become more predatory, but at the same time, female...
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Dr. Brian Hare
Physicist
Dr. Brian Hare is a physicist who studies lightning at the University of Groningen.
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Sewers, Technology and the Senses
With the sewage network, our poo and pee disappeared from our sensory perception - just as the technology that made this possible. Inside walls and underneath the surface, this vast infrastructure co
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Redolent of the Past
Smell, Memory and Affect
The viscerality and embodiedness of olfactory experience are unrivaled by other senses. We introduce to you the role of smell in the formation and recall of memories and its affective powers in our...
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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...
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The Sweet Scents of Ecstasy
Heliotropine, the diffusing scent in Brabant (NL)
The region of Brabant in The Netherlands is not only known for its extensive farming industry, but also for the production of designer drugs. ‘Snoepjes’ is the local nickname for the pills that are...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Opening Light Observatory #2
- by Natali Blugerman and Santiago Brignardelli10Jul 2020The mind creates images, and therefore we can experience the world around us visually. What we see is just the result of a complicated process of interpretations, defined by several axes that meet...