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Healing, desire and breast milk
Curdle by Zoo
Breast milk is the "embodiment" of human nurture, of healing and nourishment of the newborn. It is well documented to contain vital immunological and medicinal replenishing qualities as...
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Isabelle Griffioen
Isabelle Griffioen werkt als advertising creative. Voor Mediamatic leidt zij het Fountain Consultatiebureau tijdens Museumnacht 2017.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Squirt DING
4Nov 2017- Museumnacht 20175Nov 2017Vrouwelijke ejaculatie is nog steeds een ding. Is het normaal? En wat is het eigenlijk? Voor Secretopia , Mediamatic’s programmalijn over lichaamsvloeistoffen, hoeven we het niet eens te worden over...
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Wearable Fluids: Turning the Body Inside Out
Body Fluids by Zane Cerpina
What if you were able to wear some of your most intimate bodily fluids, such as menstrual blood, breast milk or semen, as jewellery? Visual artist Zane Cerpina created a collection of jewellery made...
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Getting Drunk From Saliva
Anivor - Alcohol made of saliva by Sydney Schaefer
Saliva contains an enzyme called Amylase. When Amylase is combined with starch, which you can find in for example rice, it creates sugar. To create alcohol one only needs to combine sugar and yeast.
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop
wASH Laundrette
9Sep 2017- Site-specific laundry detergent installation20Dec 2017Caroline Jacob tackles common preconceptions of food, waste and hygiene in her latest work wASH. Using waste materials left over from Mediamatic’s food production, she creates a site-specific laundry...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Crying Out Loud: Tear Donation
- Donate your tears for the sake of art11Oct 2017WE NEED YOUR TEARS. During this free crying session Mediamatic provides you with the space to shed some tears in whatever way you feel comfortable. Donate your tears and have artist Karolina Ferenc...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Smell Transplant Workshop
- Find out what it's like to smell like someone else25Jun 2017Olfactory artist Klara Ravat investigates with you how human interaction changes after you have swapped body odours with another person. By doing this, she hopes to get an insight in how big of a...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Cut the Crap met Conny
1Jun 2017- Join us in creating an amazing textile installation31Aug 2017Together with designer Conny Groenewegen and the FAMA (Fashion Machine) team here at Mediamatic, you can help us knit giant fleece banners that will slowly engulf our headquarters! Collaborate with...
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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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Connecting The Menstruation And Food Cycle
"Cyclus" a video performance by Cecile Hübner
While menstruation blood is seen as waste, food is almost seen as the opposite, a necessity that’s always present and welcome. How can these two be brought together? Cecile makes it happen in her...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Secretopia: sexual liberation and bodily taboo’s
- Wetlands movie discussion13Feb 2017During this night we covered some feminist angles on the movie Wetlands. When the book, and later the movie, came out a lot of people were shocked by its explicit and convention-breaking content.
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Food Futurism
- Odorama: with Marije Vogelzang, Garmt Dijksterhuis, Dr. Sanne Boesveldt, Karin Post, Caro Verbeek8Dec 2016If it is true that people ‘think, dream and act according to what they eat and drink’, one should also say that this is true for what they smell. After all, it is our olfaction that guides most of...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
The body odour edition
- Odorama with: Claudia Mannigel, Jasper de Groot, Marit Mihklepp, Caro Verbeek3Nov 2016Without us even being aware our bodies silently communicate with each other. We can communicate through our body odours, pheromones and even with odorless molecules. We transmit information about...
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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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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Odorama: The Anthropology Edition
- With: Job Koelewijn, Daan Kamps and Dr. Yolande van Ede6Oct 2016Our perception of scent is culturally determined. If you think how your childhood smelled it would probably be lily-of-the-valley whereas for South Americans it would be the smell of lemons. Sensory...
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop
Are all lives equal?
- Live performance: Soot-o-Mat by Špela Petric16Jul 2016Do you value some lives above others? Špela Petric's Miserables Machine: Soot-o-Mat is an artistic installation which questions the notion of equality between living organisms. Coming Saturday...
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The Psychology of Smell: RESULTS
Findings of Prof. Dr. E.P. Köster
Results of the experiment on the memory of incidentally learned odours presented in two artistic vessels at the beginning of the Odorama talk May 12th, 2016.
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet Agi Haines
- Discuss your work, ideas and obstacles with the Bio-Artist.6May 2016As well as attending Agi Haines' Prototyping Bodies masterclass, you can now sign up for one of her monthly consultation sessions. During these meetings you can discuss anything from project...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Masterclass: Prototyping Bodies
- Design the future 'you' with Agi Haines28May 2016How will environmental pressures impact our malleable body? And what can we do to guide human evolution? Join in the masterclass with Bio-artist Agi Haines (winner 2015 BAD award) and prototype the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Smell-blind: Anosmia
- Odorama with Kirsten Jaarsma, Dorien Scheltens and Sanne Boesveldt7Apr 2016Whether derived from nature, or chemically constructed, odourant molecules have the ability to profoundly effect our behaviour, emotions and associations. But what happens when you completely lose...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Masterclass: Prototyping Bodies
- Design the future 'you' with Agi Haines2Apr 2016How will environmental pressures impact our malleable body? And what can we do to guide human evolution? Join in the masterclass with bio-artist Agi Haines (winner 2015 BAD award) and prototype the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet Agi Haines
- Discuss your work, ideas and obstacles with the Bio-Artist10Jun 2016As well as attending Agi Haines' Prototyping Bodies master-class, you can now sign up for one of her monthly consultation sessions. These meetings are designed to give you the opportunity to...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet Agi Haines
- Discuss your work, ideas and obstacles with the Bio-Artist17Mar 2016Agi Haines' (winner 2015 BAD award) works focusses on designing physical enhancements for the human body with insights into the potential our bodies have as a design platform. What enhancements...