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A look at the history of Caribbean cuisine
A blog for Code Noir
Whether culture, tradition or simple sustenance, food is a central part of human life. It also carries great symbolic value. To share a meal goes beyond the food itself; it extends to an experience...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Smelling Blue
with Caro Verbeek
The sense of smell; a sense that is rarely discussed by scientists and scholars in relation to synaesthesia, but that is often explored by artists, as early as 150 years ago. The extraordinary...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Pride
18Jul 2020- MediaMasquerade & Queer Currents2Aug 2020There is no parade this year, but we still think it is important to celebrate identity in all its facets. That is why Mediamatic has a program during the pride week that gives an ode to the...
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Diversity mission
As a progressive public cultural institution, we find diversity, in all its facets, essential. We actively strive to raise awareness and implement a more transversal and integrated way of thinking...
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Regulated Sex
Sex advise from the National Institute for Health and Environment
Just when we thought the 1.5 meter rule had completely fucked up our sex lives, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport released a set of rules and regulations for safe sex. Solo sex or sex with...
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The Self and Solo Sex
Celebrating International Masturbation Month
Sexual discovery and self-pleasure, that’s what May is about. This month we honour solo sex and break the stigma surrounding human sexuality, masturbation and self-love.
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Distant Secretopias
Rethinking intimacy in isolation
During times of quarantine and social distancing, we face an unprecedented shift in society that highlights the volatile nature of what makes us social beings. We encounter new challenges in the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Giulia Soldati, Tommaso Buresti, Willem Velthoven
Dinner concept testing Serres Séparées
Second test of our new dinner concept
We are almost there! What is better than to play dress-up again! Better days are insight, we are preparing ourselves to serve again. We will open our restaurant after two months of renovation to you...
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Mediamatic 2020
Here you will find an overview of our highlights, go here to see the full overview of our 2020 program or who we worked with this year .
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We Are All Human
Een artistiek onderzoek naar verbonden onverbondenheid
Modeontwerper en beeldend kunstenaar Jade van der Mark (1990) onderzoekt via haar ontzagwekkende portretten de relatie die mensen hebben met elkaar.
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Marna Slappendel
Marna Slappendel is verhalend fotograaf. Met de beelden die ze vastlegt toont ze een narratief dat zich volgens haar vlak onder onze neus afspeelt. "De kunst is het te zien en het op het juiste...
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Pum Dunbar
Architect van de afbeelding
"I believe the art making process is the product of our human organic intelligence, it is therefore both emotional and imaginative and most essentially it is communicative" - Pum Dunbar
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Peter Matthews
De kunstenaar die spreekt met de zee
“It is important in life to pauze momentarily and to reflect on the journey we are taking as humans” (Peter Matthews, 2019)
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Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…
Thuisopdracht #3.2: Rare dingen koken (en opeten)
Mediamatic mist alle enthousiaste, nieuwsgierige en leergierige bezoekers ontzettend! Ook kunnen we ons goed voorstellen dat het thuis doorleren en samenwerken best uitdagend kan zijn... De...
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Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…
#2.1 Thuisopdracht: Klimaatfictie (Cli-Fi) voor striptekenaars
Mediamatic mist alle enthousiaste, nieuwsgierige en leergierige bezoekers ontzettend! Ook kunnen we ons goed voorstellen dat het thuis doorleren en samenwerken best uitdagend kan zijn... De...
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Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…
#1.1 Thuisopdracht: Het Parlement der Dingen
Mediamatic mist alle enthousiaste, nieuwsgierige en leergierige bezoekers ontzettend! Ook kunnen we ons goed voorstellen dat het thuis doorleren en samenwerken best uitdagend kan zijn... De...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Willem Velthoven
Keep Out!
Corona Closure | Help to Flatten the Curve!
We are ok but our exhibits and our bar/restaurant are closed until further notice. This started on Sunday march 16, 2020. We'll stay closed for public at least till April 6 whilst following the...
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Kees Wabeke
I was trained as a biology and handicraft teacher for the secondary school. I’m loving nature since I was a child and in my work I have always tried to be outside as much as possible. I started my...
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Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…
#4 Denken, voelen en doen in de Garden-Based Approach
In de serie ‘Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit?’ schrijf ik blogs over uitdagende theorieën uit de ecofilosofie. Ik introduceer de ideeën, ter informatie of inspiratie. Daarna zullen er...
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Anna Berry
Anna Berry is een maker die de constructie van de realiteit onderzoekt en tevens ondermijnt. Ook is zij de eerste gastcurator van een artistiek programma dat streeft naar artistieke emancipatie van o.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
POSTPONED | Face Nature: Redefining Human…
- Face Mask Art through the ages with Madeline Schwartzman16Apr 2020Madeline Schwartzman will give a presentation on her book, See Yourself Sensing. The book explores the relationship between design, the body, technology and the senses over the last fifty years.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
The Bitter Essence
- Odorama 39 with Caro Verbeek, Kees Wabeke, Bas Visser, Sarojini Lewis and Sabien Poutsma16Jul 2020Remember your first cup of coffee? All those times you had to finish a plate of Brussel sprouts? Although gruesome to most kids and allegedly an indication of poison in plants, grown-ups have...
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Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…
#3 Global weirding, waarom Dennis raar is
In de serie ‘Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit?’ schrijf ik blogs over uitdagende theorieën uit de ecofilosofie. Ik introduceer de ideeën, ter informatie of inspiratie. Daarna zullen er...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Law & Odor – Illegal Scents
- Odorama 41 with Frank Bloem, Inger Leemans, Ton van Harreveld, Gwen van der Zwan and Laura Burgers16Sep 2020Smell is a powerful tool that can tell us when we should mistrust a situation, or when we should suspect something. Often you can literally smell if a case is not amiss, or when your neighbor is...