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The placenta as a guidance tool
'Haem' by Cecilia Jonsson
Cecilia Jonsson is an interdisciplinary artist, who is exploring different forms of iron in her art works. Her project ‘Haem’, that she developed in cooperation with the scientist Rodrigo Leite de...
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A must-smell exhibition at VU
Aromatic Art (Re-)constructed: In Search of Lost Scents
Co-curated by the mind behind our Odorama series, Caro Verbeek, the exhibition entitled Aromatic Art (Re-)constructed: In Search of Lost Scents on view in the main building of VU is an extensive...
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Gayil Nalls
Gayil Nalls, Ph.D. (born 1953, Washington, DC) is an artist, philosopher, and theorist. Her work explores the individual’s internal wilderness within greater ecological and social systems. Nalls’...
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We Colonised the Moon
Sue Corke (London, UK) and Hagen Betzwieser (Stuttgart, Germany) met by chance in 2008 at a bus stop whilst conducting artistic field work in Norway. Working for the last seven years as WE COLONISED...
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Bert Brouwenstijn
VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Arts, Faculty Member
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Éva-Marie Lind
Éva-Marie Lind is a scent designer and aroma therapist. She has been active in organic and natural product formulation, with a specialty in the field of sensory perception, scent and aromatic...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet Klara Ravat
30Mar 2017Meet Klara Ravat, olfactory artist and distiller of scents. Klara will be artist in residence here at our Biotoop where she will be hosting a series of scented workshops, talks and other related...
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Tobias Mouritzen
Beer brewing and automation
I am currently working as a brewer in the Myco Insulation Brewery at Mediamatic. After brewing tasty beer, the "waste" grains are used by the Mycelium team to produce a versatile material...
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(ir)Relevant Matter
Thursday, 15 December 20:00
What can artists, designers and scientists do to cope with issues of extreme drought, rising water levels, pollution, and waste? An evening with swarming robots by Ivan Henriques , plant-root '
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Mediamatic Biotoop
We Are Public - Art of Deception
6Jan 2017- Inner Beauty, Bio-Art and Nature8Jan 2017Mediamatic invites members of We Are Public to take a closer look at the exhibition Art Of Deception and join us on a walk through the wondrous world of living art and bio-design. What happens if...
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Let's Eat & Meet
Festive Dinners at X-mass and NYE
In the last two weeks of 2016 we invite you to join us for a festive (almost) vegan dinner special. Come and eat and drink amidst the beautiful artworks of Zeger Reyers and Ernst Haeckel , warm...
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Tonight: Regeneration-Biotalk
Thursday, 15 December 20:00
What can artists, designers and scientists do to cope with issues of extreme drought, rising water levels, pollution, and waste? An evening with swarming robots by Ivan Henriques , plant-root '
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Regeneration - Biotalk
- Gionata Gatto, Olaf Schuiling, Diana Scherer, Ivan Henriques15Dec 2016With the Co2 particles in the air reaching the magical 400 ppm , and the fact that we have only 60 years of crop harvesting left, it is time for another way of dealing with our polluted environment.
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Regeneration - Biotalk
Thursday, December 15th. 20:00
With the Co2 particles in the air reaching the magical 400 ppm , and the fact that we have only 60 years of crop harvesting left, it is time for another way of dealing with our polluted environment.
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: Caravel with Ivan Henriques
- Using autonomous robots to clean our poluted waters15Dec 2016Caravels are autonomous waterrobots that feed on the micro-organisms living in local waters. By harvesting electricity from anaerobic bacteria and organic components (via Microbial Fuel Cell...
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Take care of your Waste
Zuursalon: Friday 9 December 20:00 - 22:30
The estimated global food wastage is at 1.6 billion tonnes per year. 1.3 billion tonnes of that wastage was still edible when thrown away.... Let's change this discours, reduce our footprint and...
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Eat Future no. 5 Review
What is a superfood?
“He who controls the spice controls the universe” - We used David Lynch's Dune as a starting point for a discussion about superfoods, drugs and supplements
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Xandra van der Eijk
Van der Eijk investigates natural processes and elements, where the concept of time is a recurring theme. Through many experiments and thorough theoretical research these processes develop in...
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Zuursalon: Koji Edition
Friday 11 november, 20:00 - 22:30
In Mediamatic’s Bio Clean Lab we use fungus to grow new bio-materials, but in many food production systems molds are used to re-design ingredients and alter flavours. The Koji, or Aspergillus oryzae
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Mediamatic Clean Lab Abel Jansma
Distillation 101
Using physics to extract smells
Throughout the fall and winter, I will be distilling some of the liquids that are produced in and around Mediamatic. Distillation is a technique, mostly used in chemistry, to separate components of a...
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Alice de Jong
Sinologist and Asian cuisine chef
Alice is a researcher and a professional in China studies. She teaches at the Humanities faculty at the Leiden University.
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Jasper Swierstra
Jasper is a microbiologist at the University of Utrecht. He studied biomedical sciences and is currently doing a PhD at the Erasmus Medical Centre.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Adorning the Internal
- Biotalk with Isaac Monté, Toby Kiers and Mandy den Elzen27Oct 2016Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but we are all squishy and messy on the inside, aren't we? In this edition of Biotalk we will listen to two visual artists who challenge that perception.
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Tessa Bouzidi
Education team
Creating education programs at Mediamatic to let children explore the art in science.