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Jenny Konrad
Artist and Designer
Jenny Konrad is a visual translator of information who researches and appropriates methods, medias, tools and application to transform raw content into experience.
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Playful Jewelry for the inner world
26Aug 2022- Weimin Zhu30Oct 2022'Playful Jewelry for the Inner World' is a collection of silver jewelry that invites the wearer to move meditatively. The rhythmic movements bring you closer to your inner world, make you more aware...
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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
Making Myco-clay
Turning rotting mycelium into moldable material
RECIPE 2 parts rotting mycelium 1 part hay/pink oyster mushroom mycelium A giant bucket A large tarp to lay out material 2+ feet/hands to stomp, turn, squish and mix
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Isaac Monté , In4Art
Prosthetic X
29Apr 2022- by Isaac Monté and In4Art12Aug 2022“True beauty comes from within”, a statement that transcends the test of time and often grows stronger as we age. In parallel to this growing sense of beauty is the universal need to nurture...
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Artist Residencies
Overview of artists that have been a resident at Mediamatic.
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Participants
Here we share stories and insights from the Mediamatic bio-art community about our current research projects, workshops and events. Have a look to find out what keeps our network busy, and connect...
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Project proposal: Margherita Soldati
A human microplastography
Finding microplastics in the human body
How do microplastic particles alter the human landscape by travelling through it? An abstract raised-relief 3dimensional map showing the traces and impact microplastic has on the human scape
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda
Tumulus Venushill
6Nov 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Nov 2021Tumulus is an enclosed garden installation that functions as a natural ruin, compost heap, soil sculpture, seedbed, earthwork, dyeing source, and dunghill. Over the course of several seasons from...
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Bebe Melkor-Kadior
Bebe Melkor-Kadior is a pluridisciplinary performance artist and pro-choice afro feminist author. From fire breathing to sword swallowing and adult films performances, she works with her body as to...
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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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Laura van Zuylen
Laura van Zuylen (1988) has been working as a film journalist for, among others, De Filmkrant for almost fifteen years. Her pieces have a feminist slant and she is specifically interested in gender.
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This Pussy Has Claws
Vagina Dentata Myths of Empowerment and Horror
Who would have thought that apart from lips, vaginas and mouths share even more? Vagina dentata, Latin for toothed vagina, bears the idea that a vagina with teeth or claws can devour a man. She can...
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Sam Nemeth
Artist and scientist
Sam Nemeth (Rotterdam, 1962) is a filmmaker, journalist, designer, and scientist who conducts research in the field of tangible interfaces: a tangible alternative to the mouse, keyboard, and computer...
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Julia Schmitz
Filmmaker
Julia Schmitz (1993) is a filmmaker with a great fascination for the process of imaging and the construction of stories. In her associative films, she often explores complex subjects, such as sexual...
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Lizette van Hecke
Storyteller
An original generalist from the metropolis of Rotterdam with a deep love for words and threads. She likes to play with expectations and loves strong stories. Experienced in multi-platform projects...
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Gian van Grunsven
Journalist and maker
Gian has been conducting artistic-journalistic research into sexuality in all its facets for seven years. This previously resulted in the successful show ' SEXIETY' in collaboration with Gehring&...
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Clarissa Smith
Professor
Clarissa Smith is Professor in Media at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Her research has focused on sexual media and representations and she is particularly interested in the ways in which...
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Bert Sliggers
Art historian and curator
Bert Sliggers was curator of Teylers Museum for much of his life and thus responsible for a large number of exhibitions and accompanying books. As guest curator he is now associated with the Museum...
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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 Frank Bloem, Lydia Schouten, Olga Middendorp, Nelke Mast, PISSWIFE
Feminism
- Odorama 46 with Pisswife, Olga Middendorp, Nelke Mast, Lydia Schouten and Frank Bloem18Nov 2021Let's dive into the relationship between smell and female empowerment. BEFtival curator Olga Middendorp and multi-disciplinary artist Nelke Mast wonder why vagina smell is still a taboo. Performance...
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Annika Hagen
Artist
Annika Hagen or 'Kaatje' (b. 1997) is an artist who is based everywhere and nowhere. She wants her art to caress you, shock you, make you shiver or do all that at the same time. The College of Arts...
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Lana Prins
Photographer
Lana Prins explores, questions and visualizes topics such as love, lust, gender and the female body through her photography.
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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...