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Chewing Gum Vs. Dna Kit
What happens if you are chewing gum while doing research about human secretions? Well, this ordinary piece of chewing gum has just become my inspiration for Secretopia. I suddenly wondered if you...
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Phase one: Experimenting with Jellyfish
How do you start a project with jellyfish? By experimenting on them. We were lucky to receive a number of jellyfish from the fisherman who usually supplied Mediamatic ETEN with oysters, and the next...
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Better 36,000 cyclists with AirPods than 1 deaf…
Update: Ok, 22 cyclists on e-bikes if you're more strict about it.
I was worried about my recent purchase of a set of wireless earbuds. The news tells me it was a bad idea to buy Apple's new gadget. Airpods are evil because they are hard to recycle and even...
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Lemon & scurvy
An ironic antidote
Imagine a state whereby every sensory experience you came to offended your senses. Trees smelling of fecal matter. The taste of poultry almost poisons you. Greenery from vegetation is so disagreeably...
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The Nutritional Value of Acorns
What can acorns bring to the table?
Acorns - the fruits of the oak tree - have a remarkable nutritional profile that have great potential health benefits
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Weekend van de Wetenschap
5Oct 20196Oct 2019We dagen je uit om tijdens het Weekend van de Wetenschap op onderzoek te gaan. Loop over ons terrein en leer over eigenschappen van verschillende planten, struin het Oosterdok af opzoek naar Haeckel...
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Organization:
Alan Turingschool
Het concept van de Alan Turingschool is geworteld in de wetenschap, waarbij de leerkracht een centrale rol speelt bij het begeleiden van het leren van leerlingen in hun eigen tempo. De leerkracht...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Magdalena Thur
The resomation of fungal tissue
Could mushrooms provide the future fabric for death shrouds?
Mediamatic's search for a vegan cloth which can be used in Resomation – an environmentally friendly alternative burial method – lead to testing fungal material.
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Dora Goldsmith
Dora Goldsmith is a PhD student of Egyptology at the Freie Universität Berlin. The topic of her PhD project is the sense of smell in ancient Egypt, the exact title of her research being The...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Our Labs
Here at the Biotoop, you have access to our Bio Clean Lab, where you can work with microorganisms, and our Aroma Lab, where you can deepen your understanding of scents. Both can be rented.
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33 m2 / 1- 12 people
Aroma Lab
The Aroma Lab at Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark offers a compact, well-equipped workspace for designers and artists that are exploring scent as a medium for art, or those interested in distillation. Of...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
We Make The City 2019
17Jun 201923Jun 2019This year Mediamatic is participating in We Make The City, the festival that aims to make cities more liveable, more sustainable, more accessible and safe. Join one of our Open Tours, learn about...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Resomation, Saponification and Taxidermy
- Still Life 02 - with Sabrina Franken, Amber Veel, Liza Witte and Susanne Duijvestein26Jun 2019Looking for a more eco friendly alternative for burying or cremating a dead body? How about dissolving it? Alkaline hydrolysis – also known as water cremation, aquamation or resomation - was...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
CleanLab
Floor plan, Standard Set Up, Optional Set Ups, Furniture Inventory and Technical Inventory
The Clean Lab at Mediamatic is a sterile laboratory workspace that facilitates the growing requirements of designers and artists who want to expand their work into biological fabrication. It is a...
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"I steal DNA from strangers"
Heather Dewey-Hagborg creates portraits from discarded DNA.
Picasso once said that “ bad artists copy, good artists steal ”. It appears that New York artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg has taken this literally. Her project "Stranger Visions," fashions...
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Black Market Pudding by John O'Shea
Artist John O’Shea is responsible for the “Black Market Pudding” project. This piece documents the process and final result of a sausage he made by harvesting the blood from a living pig, bypassing...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Composing Fragrance
- with Frank Bloem10Nov 2019In this workshop, you will learn the basics of scent composing. Artist and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. At the end of the workshop you will have theoretical...
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Sending bugs to BGB Nijhof
The procedure for sending samples to BGB Nijhof is as follows: Take a pest-infested leaf sample and place it in a clean Petri dish. If there is no Petri dish in the aquaponics greenhouse, get one...
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Water Kefir
Information about Water Kefir
Here you can find some basic information about Water Kefir. There are also many PDF documents attached, as well as presentations for Workshops.
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Mediamatic Eten Marie-Claire Springham
Making Scents
Let's change the way we look at body odour.
Love poet Pablo Neruda described how “better than any word, is the pulse of your scent.” When polishing and perfuming ourselves for a first date, are we missing a trick?
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Gob in the Machine
Spit and Posthumanism
I’ve spoken about spit and discovered art in which it is the primary material. It has been used as a motif and even as a cleaning fluid to restore historical works ( check out how Moma uses it to...
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Organization: Marie-Claire Springham
Burton Nitta
The London-based Anglo Japanese duo comprising o Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta describe themselves as “an interdisciplinary art and design studio collaborating with science and technology to...
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Lea Pauzner
Aquaponics Intern
Fishfarmer & aquatic systems ecologist
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Celebrating Spit
dribble, slobber, sputum, drool...
A weapon, a balm and a data bank, when used respectfully saliva brings us passion and healing.