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Mediamatic Biotoop
Workshop: How to wASH?
- Create detergent from ash9Jul 2017Ash is the remainder left after the combustion of wood. The lye obtained by leaching ashes is a highly concentrated solution, containing properties for washing and for making soap. Designer Caroline...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Sungaze
- DJ Zutzut (N*A*A*F*i, Mexico) + local support18Jun 2017Listen and dance to the best tunes tracks songs rhythms beats and sounds from all over the world. With Mexican DJ Zutzut and local support acts. Facebook
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Crying Out Loud!
- Donate your tears for the sake of art6Jul 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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Mediamatic Biotoop
Smell Transplant Workshop
- Find out what it's like to smell like someone else25Jun 2017Olfactory artist Klara Ravat will investigate 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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Spit on Art
How conservators make use of what's in their mouth
Spit cleaning isn’t just for shoeshiners. Documentation of spit cleaning as an art conservation technique goes back as far as the 18th century , and today it is used worldwide by conservators in a...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Secretopia: Shedding Tears
- Reflecting on crying and visualising the beauty of tears6Jul 2017Together with artist Karolina Ferenc, photographer Maurice Mikkers, designer Yi-Fei Chen and professor Ad Vingerhoets, we will bring you a night filled with tears. Normally, crying is associated with...
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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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Future Scenario: Microwaving Your Poo To Generate…
Poo is rich in carbon, and carbon is used to generate energy. So why doesn’t anyone retrieve this carbon from our poo? Truth is that poo is a nasty product; no one wants to have anything to do with...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Secretopia: Andy Warhol's Dracula
- Movie Discussion10Apr 2017In this Secretopia session we discuss the outrageous cult classic Andy Warhol's Dracula (1975) exploring sexuality, immortality and classism. Paul Morrissey’s moralistic take on modern values, co
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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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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: Drugs and the Body
- Trainspotting movie discussion27Feb 2017In our second edition of Secretopia movie discussions we looked at drugs and their effect on the body by considering human secretions in Trainspotting [1996].
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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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SECRETOPIA movie discussion
Wetlands (2013)
Meet Helen, an unusual girl with unusual tastes. SECRETOPIA's first event!
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Nagelstudio Schiedam , Nail Salon Schiedam
Nail Art And Beauty
best Nail Studio have ever seen
A visit to a nail studio is a must during your holiday in Schiedam city. Don’t be put off by the smell of burnt plastic or the bright pink interior, but take a seat on that leather couch and read the...
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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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Love, Sweat, Love
Smell dating on Museumnacht
We use all of our senses when searching for love in the wild. However, modern dating platforms are generally bad at reproducing this animalistic setting, and leave some senses unstimulated. Least...
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Jasper de Groot
Jasper de Groot (1989) followed his Research Master’s in Social & Health Psychology at Utrecht University (cum laude), and went on to obtain a Research Talent Grant (from the Netherlands...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Foundation
Opening: The Art of Deception
- Exploring the artistic and creative value of synthetic biology27Oct 2016Where is the line between ultimate deception and perfection? Join us on October 27th in Mediamatic's Sluisdeurenloods for the official opening of The Art Of Deception - a collaboration between...
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Pauline de Melo
"One eye sees, the other feels" - P. Klee
Student in Art Trade, History of Art and Culture Management in Icart Bordeaux, France. Currently looking for an internship in Amsterdam.
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Siddy
Green juices are power-packed with nutrition. Green vegetables have the ability to transform sunshine into the food that all creatures consume. True to their nature, greens produce chlorophyll, which...
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Debora Dax
For designer Debora Dax, the body is inspiration and source for her work. She is fascinated how our body is shaped by our surrounding - and how the body reshapes it.
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Workshop: Biotoop Dijkspark
Public Intimacy: the Masterclass
- Pissing in the Park, 2nd Edition with Agi Haines and Bettina Möllring1Jul 2016The body has an amazingly intricate system for eliminating waste. In the animal kingdom some creatures use urination as a powerful form of communication, but we humans have become increasingly...